Korpiklaani announce new album ‘Rankarumpu’

KORPIKLAANI have announced a new album!

Titled Rankarumpu, the upcoming album from the Finnish folk metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Jylhä, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

The upcoming album was executed with recording/mixing engineer and producer Janne Saksa. It seems that the collaboration between the band and Saksa has reached a whole new level with Rankarumpu.

Speaking about the new song, violinist Olli Vänskä says, “I actually composed Saunaan already months before I even knew I would be playing for KORPIKLAANI. I was working on an upbeat folk metal song and less surprisingly KK – Kings of Folk Metal – was definitely one of the influences.

Then, one thought led to another and suddenly I found myself actually playing for KORPIKLAANI and we were talking about material for an upcoming album. One night during a festival van ride I played a couple of demo tracks for the guys and Jonne was immediately giving me thumbs up. We worked with the arrangement a little bit and the end result is a pretty pretty good song!”

Watch the official music video for Saunaan here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Kotomaa
2. Tapa sen kun kerkeet
3. Aita
4. Saunaan
5. Mettään
6. Kalmisto
7. Rankarumpu
8. No perkele
9. Viikatelintu
10. Nouse
11. Oraakkelit
12. Harhainen höyhen

Rankarumpu is set for release on April 5th via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on KORPIKLAANI like their official page on Facebook.