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We Can See the Stars from Our Snow Tombs

by Tulikettu

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morboforbo
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morboforbo This album settles you in with a beautiful acoustic track, and then plunges you into some awesome high tempo, raw, atmospheric, blast-beat goodness that’ll keep you coming back. If this gets a physical release, you already know I’m picking that up, too. The fact that this is their debut album makes it all the crazier.
Matthew Hamill
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Matthew Hamill This is seriously good. Please do yourself a favour and check this out if you are a fan of raw black metal. Soaring riffs and excellent vocals. Favorite track: Black Dog of Tuonela.
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killallcops Really nice feeling of sorrow on the opening acoustic track. Makes a beautiful contrast with the sound of the next. You can really feel this album. Favorite track: Nightly Darkness, Torn by the Enchanting Majesty of the Fox Fires.
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barleybase Magnificently epic in its storytelling this album is wonderful. Evoking feelings of bleak winter mixed with triumph and loss. Massive riffs offset black metal runs and the guitar and drums drive these tracks forward through the night. Heavier on the keyboard in a welcoming way, drawing the listener further in. Favorite track: Nightly Darkness, Torn by the Enchanting Majesty of the Fox Fires.
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"Käreitär! Kettunen emuu! Käreitär! Olen täällä!" Night sky is tinted with sparks of fire Spirits look amazed at her fiery walking Through the forests and the snow-covered lands Her passing is marked, in the celestial sphere Arctic enchantments infesting the realm of Ukko And the eyes of the dead, rising from the ground It's the vision born from the black fox's tail And even cruel Kalma and Tuoni, surrender to the Bliss "Käreitär! Kettunen emuu! Käreitär! Olen täällä!" Upon the Hiisi Castles, veiled in snow Trees chant the apparition of the endless flying flames Dancing in strange harmony with the stars And among them the eyes of Mother Käreitär stand She watches her lonely daughter, the Tulikettu Howling and shooting her fires in the night Revontulet, the enchantment of the fox fires A thousand swords of burning light dissolving the dark! "Käreitär. Mother. You blessed me with solitude... Käreitär. Mother. You blessed me with cold... Käreitär. Mother. You blessed me with magic... Käreitär. Mother. Watch me blessing the night." Whispers resonate and echo in the air It's the silent voice of trees and leaves, watching The nightly magic, evolving in the sky They witness as it illuminates a new figure standing A man it is, walking through the winter night He's struggling against the fury of ice and wind He's firmly holding a spear, its blade is shining By the cold crystal light of the Revontulet He's a hunter, standing before the fox's den Created and hidden by her in warm earth, under snow Now she comes out, woken by the man That stands in front of her, with the spear held high in hand AAAAAHHHH!! In her heart! Came the blade! Of the spear! He's so proud! Skinning her corpse! Under moon! Shining now with funeral light! Silently in the woods, snow begins to burn emanating a strange glow. It melts, it moves, it merges with earthen flesh, forming a strange hole. It is a womb, powered by the magic of the Hiisi, standing at the birth. Flesh, entrails and fur generate from the fire womb. Finally, she's born, again, laid in a bed of leaves and ashes. The new cycle of the Tulikettu... yes... "Käreitär... mother. You blessed me with death!" "Olen täällä! Olen täällä! Käreitär... äiti..."
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Many years ago, a wise man living in the woods Travelled through the realms, from Tuonela to Pohjola and back Once he came back to his home, he was not alone For he was carrying a black creature, breathing steam and fire It was an iron-haired hound, made of iron and copper The wise man took it from Tuonela, saying with a warm voice "You cannot scare me, o' fiery iron hound For you will be my friend and guard, against the coldest dark" Eggs I'll feed you, so you'll grow strong In chains I'll teach you to eat flesh and bones Of the ice witches, and all of my foes My fiery friend born in the Underworld! With the passing of the days, nights and seasons He teached the iron dog to guard him and to hunt Walking through the way of the shamans Marking the passage with its burning thorns and its fire breath Through the woods, the caves, the mountains and the earthern valleys covered with grass, or snow, or bloody bones The wise old shaman defeated solitude and fear For he now has the faithful hound, his friend and guard, against the coldest dark! Eggs I'll feed you, so you'll grow strong In chains I'll teach you to eat flesh and bones Of the ice witches, and all of my foes My fiery friend born in the Underworld! The Moon Goddess slowly covered the land of the Finns with her nightly veil, and sweetly illuminated the snow and the forest, hissing by the voice of the cold wind. Mother Kuutar couldn't know that the wind was covering a ghastly presence, and the trees, blinded by the snow, couldn't see that this horrible being was standing before the house of the old shaman. A daughter of cold I am Spawn of the tenth child of Loviatar Spectres breathing ice Queens of the darkest witchcraft Bleak howling winter wind Conducted me before your nest O' old man, alone and weak For I will triumph and take your life! "You're wrong, o' ugly witch! For I a black dog own, a hound of iron hue by him I’ll have the eater eaten I’ll have the biter bitten Its mouth is burning with fire its throat is glowing with flame its teeth resemble cinder-rakes with a tongue shoved in between of iron is its heart composed of copper the entrails in its paunch It has eaten already a hundred men destroyed a thousand full-grown men By it I’ll have thee eaten up!" It will bite thee bones and all! It will crunch thee bones and all! Till thou canst not shake thy head! Till thou canst not draw thy breath!
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Call her moonchild, dancing in the shallows of a river Lonely moonchild, dreaming in the shadow of the willow Talking to the trees of the cobweb strange Sleeping on the steps of a fountain Waving silver wands to the night-birds song Waiting for the sun on the mountain She's a moonchild, gathering the flowers in a garden Lovely moonchild, drifting on the echoes of the hours Sailing on the wind in a milk white gown Dropping circle stones on a sun dial Playing hide and seek with the ghosts of dawn Waiting for a smile from the sun child
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Siitä Ahti Saarelainen lykkäsi venon vesille kuni kyyn kulon-alaisen eli käärmehen elävän. Läksi luoen luotehesen tuolle Pohjolan merelle. Silloin Pohjolan emäntä Pakkasen pahan lähetti tuolle Pohjolan merelle, ulapalle aukealle. Itse tuon sanoiksi virkki, sekä käski jotta lausui: Pakko poika pienokainen, oma kaunis kasvattini! Lähe tuonne, kunne käsken, kunne käsken ja kehoitan! Kylmä veitikän venonen, pursi lieto Lemminkäisen selvälle meren selälle, ulapalle aukealle! Kylmä itseki isäntä, jää'ä veitikkä vesille, jottei pääse päivinänsä, selviä sinä ikänä, kun en pääsne päästämähän, kerinne kehittämähän! Pakkanen pahansukuinen ja poika pahantapainen läksi merta kylmämähän, aaltoja asettamahan. Jopa tuonne mennessänsä, maata matkaellessansa puut puri lehettömäksi, heinät helpehettömäksi.
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Our debut album, our first little compendium of stories and legends from the cold land of the Finns.

Behold the Firefox.

Behold the Tulikettu.

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released December 25, 2021

Tulekahju (2021 - present): vocals, guitars, lyrics and concepts

Piva (2021 - 2022): guitars, drum programming, bass and synths

Guest vocals on "Black Dog of Tuonela" by Black (Rejekts)

Logo by Tornis

Cover painting: "Revontulet" (or "Aurora") by Werner Holmberg (1849)

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Tulikettu Italy

Raw Symphonic Black Metal band from Italy, born in October 2021 from the ashes of Hautaaminen, and lyrically based on finnish mythology and folklore.

We stand against NSBM and all other kinds of political ideology.
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