Surrounded bybeer and friends, the idea of founding a northern Viking/folk metal band grewup strongly. On February 2007, David (guitar), Juan (bass) and Miguel(keyboard) started playing and composing our first pieces. As thrill andexpectations grew up, we felt it was time to look for new colleagues to share ourexciting adventure. While we try to find new members, Juan had to leave the banddue to his studies. During those months, Pimeä Metsä was lucky to have metgreat musicians and friends like Vladimir, Dima, Ernesto or Antonio (bassplayers), Alex (vocalist) or Domingo and Laura (drummers). The current line-upstarts working on July 2008, when Ángel arrived to the band as singer. The sameyear, in autumn, Hugo and Pablo joined Pimeä Metsä crew to take charge of leadguitar and drums, respectively. Finally, at the end of 2009, Juanto startedplaying his role at the bass. And the clan of the dark forest was completed

Duringthis first period of changes and searching, the founding members of Pimeä Metsädidn’t waste time. We improved our musical skills, composing new songs andarranged the previous ones. Then, with newest incorporations playing theirrole, the band made its debut on 23rd January 2009 in Silikona (Madrid) formore than 170 people. Along this year, Pimeä Metsä gave other shows withErnesto and Antonio (a good friend of David and Miguel) as live bass players.Finally, Juanto was brought in as resident bass player and gave his first showwith them in Sala Live (Madrid). Our energetic shows and surprising staginggave us a good growing reputation.



After several weeks of hardworking, gigs and rivers of beer, the clan decided to record a demo CD. Sothen, “Beneath the northern lights” appears as home-made demo on February 2010(with a little help of Dani from Canalla Records making the final mix). Thanksto this, the name of the band began to sound strongly throughout the media,getting good critics of the demo and giving the chance of sharing stage withbig bands like Kathaarsys (May 2011), Arkona (June 2011, in their first visitto Spain), Korpiklaani and Trollfest (April 2012) or Northland andRavenblood (January 2013).

With a name that was knownincreasingly and the support of our families, friends, and fans, we decidedthat the time had come to record our first self-produced album at New LifeStudios, in Madrid. Previous weeks of homeworking and hours of practice finishedon March, 4th of 2013 with the first drums recording sessions at thestudio. José Garrido and Daniel Melián are co-producers and recording engineersand the mixing will be done by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios. After somemonths of huge working, “Legacy of the Heathen North” was released as our firststudio album, offering a high quality jump in production and a musical andcompositional evolution.

We continuing growing up as aclan, a family, to show the world the heathen spirit of the ancient gods isstill alive. Welcome to the dark forest… welcome to Pimeä Metsä. See you soon at ourgigs. Until then… KEEP ON VIKING!!!