Fall of the Leafe

On their 1998 debut album, Evanescent, Everfading, Fall of the Leafe displayed the typical qualities of Finnish heavy metal: a bevy of Scandinavian death and doom metal tricks spliced with folk music and laden with grandiose song titles. Formed in the town of Turku two years earlier by vocalist Jani Lindström, guitarists Jussi Hänninen and Kaj Gustafsson, bassist Juha Kouhi, and drummer Marko Hyytiä, the group had issued a number of demos leading up to their first contract with tiny independent label Defiled, but they were clearly still searching for a comfortable direction to...