New HB album

Just received the new album from HB,"Piikki Lihasse". Unlike "Frozen Inside" this one is all in Finnish. You can listen to a new song, "Mina Olen", at the groups MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/hbmetal

My thoughts? Production is superb and the addition of a male vocalist - in the form of a back up role or duel lead vocal approach - brings another dimension to the bands sound.

Yes, all the vocals are in Finnish but lead vocalist Johanna Aaltonen sings with much more confidence in her natural language. The question I have is would anyone here have a problem with the vocals not being in English? Just curious.

I'll be waiting for the English version! I like to know what I'm singing about! Love HB's sound though.

Fundy

Ditto what Fundy said. I have no interest in a Finnish version, but love their sound.

I have all of Jerusalem's Swedish albums and their English counterparts. I have tried to listen to the Swedish albums, but I just cannot get into them as I can't understand them at all. So, with that experience, I would be getting a Finnish HB album.

It's important I think to understand the lyrics of a band.
To know what the words mean.
Yes, I'm having problems to listen to songs in Finnish because I don't speak a word Finnish.
How can you understand the songs in a language you don't speak?

It gives me that same frustrated feeling when I was a girl of 9 years old and listened to English songs on the radio.
I felt very frustrated because I didn't understood the English words.

Hope HB will bring out an English CD too.

Dynamis wrote:

Yes, all the vocals are in Finnish but lead vocalist Johanna Aaltonen sings with much more confidence in her natural language. The question I have is would anyone here have a problem with the vocals not being in English? Just curious.

Not to sound like an American snob, but I just can't get into music without English lyrics. I will go so far to say those lyrics also have to be fairly intelligible. I don't mind if the singer has a foriegn accent, but if it is so thick I can't even understand the lyrics then I'm not really interested.
Just so I don't seem too much like a snob, I won't listen to music with unintelligible extreme vocals either (even if they are in english). And I'm also not much of a fan of instrumental albums either. Give me english vocals, sung capably and melodically or else the music just won't hold my interest.
Nothing wrong with all that other music, it's just not for me.