“Every album of these Finnish guys is full of undying positive energy. “Tervaskanto” is not an exception and more than successfully establishes the name of its creators.” Less than a year ago I wrote this for the already aged album of Korpiklaani. We’ve expected to receive the next record fast, but so fast is too fast… Logically, “Korven Kuningas” does not give us anything very surprising from the well known metal posse. A little time after the first song, “Tapporauta”, appears the spontaneous question whether there was need for this disc right now. It appears too early after the previous one, with a too aggressive advertising campaign, and a content familiar enough, happy and loud, but not impressing. It is probably a special purposeful trick from the Finns to gather more fans for their cause, but for the current admirers the new record is a bit useless. However, it is not bad to listen carefully to the new songs. Their mood is again cheerful and drunkard’s - they even smell of brew! The melodies are slower and bring a darker feeling in general. The rhythm is clumsy at some places and this happens to be a good decision. Unfortunately, the instruments for making the dish called folk metal remain unchanged. My last year’s enthusiasm can not be repeated. Almost everything is the same as then, when I gave a very good rate for the job of these band members, but that’s the main problem of “Korven Kuningas” (“King of the Wilderness”). Hyperactivity is not always a good sign for the development of a band - Korpiklaani went too far in this paragraph.