History Music / Korpiklaani

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Their origins are rather unique in the genre: most folk metal bands started as metal bands that added folk later; Korpiklaani started off as a folk band and added metal. Specifically, they started as Shamaani Duo, a Sami folk band employed by the Hullu Poro ("Crazy Reindeer") restaurant in Lapland. Jonne Järvelä then retooled the band into Shaman, playing the same folk music as before but with metal instruments and a synthesizer. After recording two albums (and playing as a guest musician for Finntroll), Jonne retooled the band again: they incorporated more metal influence into their songwriting--and Jonne switched from Sami yoiking to metal-style rough vocals in Finnish and English--while simultaneously replacing the synthesizers with traditional acoustic instruments. They also changed their name to Korpiklaani ("Forest Clan"), mainly to [[NamesTheSame avoid confusion with the Brazilian band also named Shaman]]. It was as Korpiklaani that their popularity outside Finland really took off.

** Sometimes a stylistic choice, as Jonne is well-versed in a traditional form of finnish singing called "Joiking", which rarely has cohesive lyrics.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: "Wooden Pints" is about "little men" who live in the mountains and "really know how to party" (given that this is Korpiklaani, that means that they drink a lot..

!Korpiklaani provides examples of:

* BrokenRecord: A definite qualifier for this is "Rauta". During the chanting sections alone, the word "Iske!" ("Strike!",) is repeated ''thirty-nine'' times. If you add in everything outside the chanting and include its use in Finnish grammatical cases - "Teidat iski Ilmarinen!" (''You were struck/forged by Ilmarinen!''), "iskemällä", "iskeäkseen", "iskuista" and so on), the number of utterances of something related to that one word swells to just over ''ninety''.

* BrokenRecord: "Rauta". At one point, the word "Iske!" ("Strike!") is repeated ''thirty-nine'' times.
** "Vodka" uses, well, "vodka" pretty much every other word.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: "Vodka" asserts that "Drinking is good for you!" and "You will feel awesome!".

* AccentUponTheWorongSyllable: "Keep on Galloping" uses Ga-lopping.

** Recently, "Rauta", with the repeated chorus of ''"Isku!"'' ("Strike!") chanted by the audience.

* WanderlustSong: "Journeyman".

Korpiklaani are a Finnish FolkMetal band. They, along with {{Finntroll}}, are generally credited with the explosion of popularity that the genre has seen since the 00's.

* AudienceParticipationSong: "Vodka", whose {{ear worm}}y call-and-response lyrics seem tailor-made for audiences to shout along.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: "Wooden Pints" is about "little men" who live in the mountains and "really know how to party".

* DrunkenSong / OdeToIntoxication: At ''least'' one per album.

* EpicRiff: The violin in "Wooden Pints".

Common themes in their lyrics include drinking and partying, stories from Scandanavian mythology and folklore, and characters from Scandanavian mythology drinking and partying.