At the dawn of FINNTROLL’s Heidenfest headlining tour with their label mates TURISAS, the Finnish metal marauders will release a special tour edition of their last album, Nifelvind. The digipak tour edition comes in new artwork by the band’s guitarist Skrymer and an extra CD including three brand-new cover versions: 'Insects' (OINGO BOINGO), 'Can You Forgive Her?' (PET SHOP BOYS) and 'The God That Failed' (METALLICA). The cover versions were recorded and mixed at Sonic Pump Studios in June/July by Finntroll and Nino Laurenne.

Henri ‘Trollhorn’ Sorvali comments on 'Insects' (Oingo Boingo): “Because we don’t know how to play funky horn sections, we replaced them with kazoos and various squeaky bladders. And instead of slap bass, we slapped the crap out of various ethnic percussions. Now - when an uncivilized brute in a Finntroll-shirt will ask you what the living insect is this Oingo Boingo, you can always answer, 'It's the band Finntroll made famous by doing a cover version of one of their songs'. No, there is absolutely nothing else in this band worth mentioning, trust me. No famous composers, orchestrators or anything used to play in this band. No huge world tours, movie soundtracks, stunning videos, incredible visuality, nothing. This band or none of its members other works have never affected Finntroll anyway, and I strongly suggest you to not ever check it out and stick with SLAYER instead.”

Nifelvind tour edition will be released on the following dates:

Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Norway - September 23rd

UK / Benelux / France / Greece / Denmark / Portugal / Rest Of Europe - September 26th

Spain / Italy - September 27th

Sweden / Finland / Hungary - September 28th

Australia / New Zealand - September 30th

Fans in North America can buy their copy at this location.

The Heidenfest 2011 European tour will take place from September 30th - October 23rd, featuring Finntroll, Turisas, ALESTORM, ARKONA, TROLLFEST and SKÁLMÖLD. More extended shows with WINTERSUN, DORNENREICH and TODGELICHTER have been announced.

Check out the second part of the tour trailer below:

The first tour trailer can be viewed below:

Heidenfest 2011 dates include:

September

30 - Geiselwind, Germany - Music Hall *

October

1 - Gieben, Germany - Hessenhallen *
2 - Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
3 - Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
4 - Krakow, Poland - Studio
5 - Hannover, Germany - Faust
6 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
7 - Stuttgart, Germany - LKA Longhorn *
8 - Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle *
9 - Tilburg, Netherlands - 013 *
10 - Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Poppodium
11 - London, England - HMV Forum
12 - Lille, France - Aeronef
13 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
14 - München, Germany - Backstage
15 - Leipzig, Germany - Hellraiser
16 - Antwerpen, Belgium - Trix
17 - Lindau, Germany - Vaudeville
18 - Bologna, Italy - Estragon
19 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Cvetlicarna Mediapark
20 - Budapest, Hungary - Club 202
21 - Wien, Austria - Arena
22 - Linz, Austria - Posthof
23 - Innsbruck, Austria - Hafen

Special guests at extended shows (*) are WINTERSUN, DORNENREICH and TODGELICHTER.

More info at Heidenfest.eu.