She later became a permanent member of the band during the recording of the From Afar album.Įnsiferum headlined the Paganfest tour in Europe and North America in 2008. The band used Emmi Silvennoinen of Exsecratus as a touring fill-in. This was posted in a bulletin on their MySpace page and later confirmed on their website. On 10 September 2007, it was announced that keyboardist Meiju Enho would leave the band. The video was released after the album release due to video filming problems. Following the album's release, the band released through the producer's MySpace page, a music video for the song "Ahti," which included all band members featured as extras. A single titled "One More Magic Potion" (after the track of the same name) was released on 7 February. The recording of the third studio album, called Victory Songs, took place between November 2006 and early 2007, and was released on 20 April 2007. Victory Songs and Meiju's departure (2006-2009)
As well as the title track, it also contained two reworked demo songs an Amorphis cover and a short rendition of the Kalevala melody, as well as a medley of three traditional Finnish songs.In June 2006, Ensiferum released their live DVD, 10th Anniversary Live, which was recorded in Nosturi, Helsinki, on 31 December 2005. The new Ensiferum line-up entered the studio later that year to record an EP to be called Dragonheads, which was released in February 2006. Oliver also left in 2005 to be replaced by Janne Parviainen. In December 2004, Jukka-Pekka left the band and was replaced by Sami Hinkka (Rapture). For the tour with Finntroll, Petri Lindroos from Norther replaced Jari on guitar and as singer, and became a member of the band after the tour. In 2004, after the work was completed on the second album, Iron, Jari left the band due to conflicts between scheduled studio work on his side project Wintersun and touring with Ensiferum. Iron, Line-up changes, Dragonheads and 10th Anniversary Live (2003-2006) In the same year, Meiju Enho joined them as a keyboard-player. In 2000, the band went into the studio to work on their first album, Ensiferum, which was released in August 2001. The logo that appears on all the bands releases was designed for the third demo by Tuomas Tahvanainen, who also designed the logos for the earlier demos. In November 1999 a third demo, "Hero in a Dream", was recorded, which was successful in obtaining a record deal with Spinefarm Records. In January 1999, a second demo was recorded, which although it did not produce a recording deal, boosted the band's confidence.
In 1998, Sauli and Kimmo left the band and were replaced by Jukka-Pekka Miettinen (Kimmo's little brother, then 14 years old) and Oliver Fokin. In 1997, the first demo was released, containing three songs. In the next year, Jari Mäenpää was taken into the band as singer and second guitar-player. For the band's name, they took the Latin adjective ensiferum, Ensiferum was founded in 1995 by Markus Toivonen (guitar), Sauli Savolainen (bass) and Kimmo Miettinen (drums).
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