Today we're looking back at the first 3 Moonsorrow demos: "Thorns of Ice", "Metsä" and "Promo" (and if you thought they had only two demos, you should go back to the music-only episode we released back in February and listen to the first 5 minutes — then you'll understand. Spotify deleted it but it's on the other podcast platforms).

Lots of stories about their formative years, when their roles in their own band weren't yet consolidated. Including words straight from the horse's mouth, taken from the interviews featured in the book "Home of the Waves: Conversations with Moonsorrow", now on preorder. We obviously couldn't go straight to the point and started the conversation discussing what we call a demo, how the concept has changed over the years and whether demos still matter.

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Participants: Thomas from France, Sasan from the US, Francesco from Italy and Abel/Grilo do Demo from Hungary.

Other song fragments used:

Extremoduro - La hoguera.
Emperor - Inno a Satana.
Burzum - Tomhet.
Emperor - Intro from Nightside.
Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon.
Amorphis - Castaway.
Amorphis - Black Winter Day.
Finntroll - Vätteanda.
Mayhem - Silvester Anfang.
And that Demoniac intro.