Turisas



Turisas is a Finnish Folk Metal band from Hameenlinna. It was founded in 1997 by Mathias Nygard and Jussi Wickstrom and named after an ancient Finnish God of War.

Turisas is a Folk Metal band, incorporating elements of Power, with some influences taken from Symphonic Metal and most recently Death Metal. Turisas is known to play all of their solos on electric violin, as opposed to traditional guitar solos. The album title Battle Metal has given rise to the term "battle metal" being used as a description of Turisas' genre (used mainly by Metal Hammer magazine and its readers) but it is not yet recognised as a canonical metal subgenre.

Current:

 * Mathias "Warlord" Nygard - Lead Vocals (1997 - Present)
 * Jussi Wickstrom - Guitar (1997 - Present)
 * Jukka-Pekka Miettinen - Bass Guitar (2011 - Present)
 * Tuomas "Tude" Lehtonen - Drums (1997 - Present)
 * Olli Vanska - Violin (2007 - Present)
 * Robert Engstrand - Keyboard (2011 - Present)

Past Members:

 * Ari Karkkainen - Guitar (1997 - 1999)
 * Georg Laakso - Guitar (1999 - 2006)
 * Mikko Tormikoski - Bass Guitar (1997 - 2004)
 * Tino Ahola - Bass Guitar (2005 - 2006)
 * Sami Aarnio - Bass Guitar (2006 - 2007)
 * Hannes "Hanu" Horma - Bass Guitar (2007 - 2011)
 * Antti Ventola - Keyboard (1997 - 2007)
 * Janne Makinen - Accordion (2007 - 2008)
 * Riku Ylitalo - Accordion (2008)
 * Wincef Boncamper - Accordion (2008)
 * Netta Skog - Accordion (2008 - 2011)

Releases
CD: (Albums) CD: (Demo's) 
 * Battle Metal - 2004
 * The Varangian Way - 2007
 * Stand Up and Fight - 2011


 * Taiston Tie--The Battle Path - 1998
 * Unnamed Promo - 1999
 * The Heart of Turisas - 2001

Video's: 


 * A Finnish Summer With Turisas - 2008