Antti Martikainen: With symphonic power fantasy metal release….

Ten days ago the new and twentieth album from Finnish music composer Antti Martikainen has been released, called Carmina Gloria. This new album has been released as an Independent release.

Antti Martikainen (born in 1985) is an instrumental composer from Finland. His trademark sound consists of epic orchestral music mixed with heavy metal, synths, folk instruments and ethnic flavours resulting in some very unique and huge tracks and albums. His music is usually very melodic, rhythmic and simple yet very diverse. He absorbs his artistic inspirations mainly from video game and movie soundtracks. Some good examples include Two Steps From Hell, Koji Kondo, Jeremy Soule, John Williams and Hans Zimmer.

Since 2013 Antti has released 20 original albums each with a unique themes and styles including Nordic folk metal, industrial cyberpunk metal, hybrid space orchestrations, pirate shanties, Celtic hymns and much more. He has also composed for numerous indie video games such as One Finger Death Punch 2, Nine Parchments, Starbase, Ziggurat 2 and arranged orchestrations for bands such as Sabaton.

Discography:

Creation of the World (2013)

Eternal Saga (2014)

Another Saga (2014)

The Last Chronicle (2014)

Throne of the North (2015)

Land of the Brave (Colossal Trailer Music 2015)

Enter Infinity (2015)

Set Sail for the Golden Age (2016)

Synthesia (2016)

Origins (2016)

Adventuria (2016)

The Sound of Courage (2017)

Northern Steel (2017)

Hymn of the High Seas, Vol. 1 (2018)

Hymn of the High Seas, Vol. 2 (2018)

The Heart of Avalon, Vol. 1 (2019)

The Heart of Avalon, Vol. 2 (2019)

Northern Steel Remastered (2020)

Sonic Savior (2020)

Carmina Gloria (2021)

Tracklist:

1 – Divine Alliance

2 – Durandal

3 – Metal Crusade

4 – Terra Sancta

5 – Blood of Glory

6 – Deliverance

7 – Claymore in the Face

8 – Shining Fate

9 – Defenders of the Cross

10 – The March of the Templars

11 – Victoria Ultima

Mikko Salovaara: lead guitars, acoustic guitars

Francesco Mattei: rhythm guitars

Ian Fontova: folk instruments

Ruben Monteiro: oud, saz baglama, hurdy gurdy

Paul Johnson: gaita, gralla, tarota

Natalia Dmukhovskaia: classical violin

Jocelyn Fields: vocals

Angela Schleihauf: Oboe, english horn

Kim Fleuchaus: ney flute

Erkan Erginci: duduk

Max Kerner: Citole

Composed, arranged, mixed and mastered by Antti Martikainen, and additional guitar, bass and drum mixing by Simone Mularoni (Domination Studio). Cover artwork by Kerem Beyit

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