Hard land

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Hard land
Compilation album by
Timo Rautiainen ja Trio Niskalaukaus

Publication
(s)

4th October 2004

Label (s) Cyclone Empire

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

11

running time

50 min 21 s

occupation
  • Guitar: Jari Huttunen
  • Guitar: Jarkko Petosalmi

production

Tuomo Valtonen

Studio (s)

Sundi Coop, Savonlinna

chronology
Kylmä tila
(2004) 		Hard land -

Hartes Land is the second German-language studio album by the Finnish heavy metal band Timo Rautiainen ja Trio Niskalaukaus . It was released on October 4, 2004 via Cyclone Empire .

Emergence

After the band received the offer to play a few concerts in Germany with Sonata Arctica in the opening act of Nightwish , the musicians decided to record another album with German lyrics after In frostigen Tälern . The musicians sat down and chose eleven songs from the two studio albums Rajaportti and Kylmä tila as well as the EP Kuilun partaalla , which in their opinion sound best.

The texts, originally written in Finnish , were translated into German by Professor Pekka Kujamäki. During the recording in the Sundi Coop studios in Savonlinna , the singer Timo Rautiainen was supported by the pronunciation trainer Nina Nieminen. Guest musicians of Nightwish- were keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen , the Apocalyptica - Cellist Toppinen and Pekka Kujamäki and Tapio Wilska in (both vocals). Produced and mixed was hard country Tuomo Valtonen. The mastering was done by Mika Jussila.

Track list

Tracks 1, 3, 4, and 9 are from the album Rajaportti . Tracks 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 from the album Kylmä tila . Titles 2 and 11 from the EP Kuilun partaalla .

# title Original title length
1 Mourning dress Surupuku 4:34
2 Nyt on bad! Nyt on bad! 4:31
3 elegy Elegia 5:07
4th Hard land Kova maa 3:58
5 The good man Hyvä himinen 4:28
6th Cold condition Kylma tila 4:37
7th Time of the rising juices Juoksevan veden aika 4:52
8th Weight Taakka 4:44
9 Snow hikers Lumessakahlaajat 4:45
10 You don't need me Te ette tarvitse minua 4:16
11 Lullaby Kehtolaulu 4:25

reception

Patrick Schmidt from the German magazine Rock Hard praised Hartes Land as a haven in today's musical landscape. Benjamin Dreßel from the online magazine Bloodchamber wrote in his review that Hartes Land is “by no means innovative music”, but the album has “a certain something that binds it very much to you”, for which he awarded eight out of ten points . Stefan Popp from the online magazine metal1.info criticized the fact that the album was “nothing special”, “because too little is happening musically” and awarded 6.5 out of ten points.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b terrorverlag.de : TIMO RAUTIAINEN & TRIO NISKALAUKAUS (NILS URSIN)
  2. ↑ rockhard.de: Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Hartes Land
  3. ↑ bloodchamber.de: Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Hartes Land
  4. ↑ metal1.info: Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Hartes Land