Style: Folk Metal
"As a whole, the album deftly executes a sound that is hard for me not to love; it’s fast and furious, it’s accessible and memorable. Tuoppitanssi has the added benefit of being in Finnish... Does Verikalpa sound like Finntroll? Yes. Is that bad? No. Not every band can be expected to break barriers with their sound and Finntroll is a great band. Verikalpa does us all a service by showing up here on the day of your daughter’s wedding with energetic and fun music to drink to. They avoid the pitfalls of bands like Korpiklaani, whose silliness and lack of imagination outweigh their talent, and they are making music that almost exists in a vacuum in 2020. Following the explosion of folk metal in the 2000s, the genre has gotten stale, for sure. But Verikalpa’s contribution is to carry the accordion of tradition to the sauna of the metal gods, so that we might have something new to listen to while we drink. And isn’t that all a folk metal band really wants?" angrymetalguy.com
