ENSIFERUM: Footage From India Available

A short video clip of the Finnish folk-influenced melodic death metal act ENSIFERUM performing the song "Ahti" live in Mumbai, India on December 20, 2008 can be viewed below. Also available is a brief video greeting from the band before entering the studio.

ENSIFERUM had its first two albums made officially available in the U.K. for the very first time. The records in question — "Ensiferum" (2001) and "Iron" (2004) — were released on March 30 via Spinefarm Records. Both albums come with bonus material.

After entering the studio for the first time in the latter part of the '90s, ENSIFERUM has been constantly sharpening its sound, dispensing epic music heavy in both atmosphere and attack, with its most recent "Victory Songs" opus (reissued in the U.K. last year as a two-CD set with the "Dragonheads" EP) taking "folk/viking melodic metal" to a whole new level of grandeur.

The band will shortly be starting work on studio album No. 4, with September 9, 2009 already cast in steel as the day of release.

ENSIFERUM vocalist/guitarist Petri Lindroos was forced to miss the group's shows in Russia last November "due to serious illness," according to a posting on the band's web site. Former ENSIFERUM member Jukka-Pekka Miettinen played guitar on the Russian dates and vocals were "growled" by Sami Hinkka.