Victory Songs

Victory Songs
Studio album by Ensiferum
Released	April 20, 2007 March 23, 2007 (in Finland)
Recorded	November - December 2006 at Sonic Pump Studios
Genre	Folk metal, Melodic death metal, Symphonic metal
Length	50:00
Label	Spinefarm
Producer	Janne Joutsenniemi
Ensiferum chronology
Iron (2004)2004 Victory Songs (2007) From Afar (2009)From Afar2009

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Victory Songs is the third full-length album by the Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on April 20, 2007 by Spinefarm. It would be the first full-length Ensiferum album to feature the new members Petri Lindroos, Sami Hinkka and Janne Parviainen, and the last to feature Meiju Enho.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Ad Victoriam"		M. Enho, S. Hinkka, M. Toivonen	3:10
2.	"Blood Is the Price of Glory"	S. Hinkka	M. Toivonen, J.P. Miettinen	5:17
3.	"Deathbringer from the Sky"	S. Hinkka	S. Hinkka, M. Toivonen	5:10
4.	"Ahti"	S. Hinkka	M. Toivonen	3:55
5.	"One More Magic Potion"	S. Hinkka	M. Toivonen	5:21
6.	"Wanderer"	S. Hinkka	M. Toivonen	6:32
7.	"Raised by the Sword"	M. Enho	M. Enho, M. Toivonen	6:11
8.	"The New Dawn"	P. Lindroos	P. Lindroos, M. Toivonen	3:42
9.	"Victory Song"	S. Hinkka	M. Toivonen, S. Hinkka, J.P. Miettinen	10:42
Total length:				50:00

Limited Edition bonus track
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
10.	"Lady in Black" (Uriah Heep cover. The actual song length is 5 minutes; afterwards, there is a few minutes of silence followed by acapella parts of the songs, "Wanderer" and "Victory Song".)	K. Hensley	K. Hensley	10:00
Total length:				60:00

Limited Edition bonus DVD
No.	Title	Length
0.	"Ensiferum photoshoot featurette & The Iron tour featurette"

Personnel

Band members

• Petri Lindroos – harsh vocals, guitars, banjo
• Markus Toivonen – guitars, clean vocals, acoustic & 12-string guitars, banjo, shaman drum, backing vocals
• Meiju Enho – keyboards
• Sami Hinkka – bass, clean vocals, harsh vocals on "Ahti"
• Janne Parviainen – drums, bodhran

Session/guest musicians

• Johanna Vakkuri - flute
• Euge Valovirta - acoustic guitars
• Petri Prauda - bagpipes
• Vesa Vigman - mandolin, bouzouki, saxophone
• Kaisa Saari - tin whistle, recorder
• Aleksi Parviainen - additional lead vocals (on Deathbringer From the Sky), backing vocals
• Lassi Logren - nyckelharpa
• Timo Väänänen - kantele
• D.P. - backing harsh vocals