Troll Bends Fir (“Troll Gnet El “ in Russian) – Undoubtedly, TBF is a leading Russian band in such genre as “folk-rock-humppa-metal”. The musicians themselves describe their style as “beer folk” and this is also a part of the group’s brand. TBF’s lyrics are full of praise for divine frothy drink and funny stories about characters of pagan Scandinavian and European folklore.
The band have celebrated their 10th anniversary, brought out 4 albums, prepared a new concert program, which will become the 5th album later, and played about 300 gigs, 50-60 per year in the last 3 years.
Live performance, TBF’s strong point, is powerful energy coming from stage, endless joy and dancing people throughout the show, lively direct contact with the audience, several concert costumes of different kinds, magnetism turning ordinary people into loyal fans.
TBF apply a song structure and devices that are specific to “metal” music using light “overdrive” and clear guitar sound, getting dynamic, original “fresh” recognizable sound; of course, there is “distortion” in part of the songs. Another unique thing about TBF is their ability to conform to metal format as well as to ethno, folk and folk-rock formats; the diversity of material allows multiple versions of a playlist for the audiences of different age and taste.
At home TBF have become a recognized classic of their style a long ago and in the last 4 years they have participated in all the largest Russian open-airs and rock-fests such as “Nashestvie”, “Emmaus”, “Vozduh”, which gather thousands of people, as well as beer-festivals, days of cities, St.Patrick’s Days etc; and, of course, they have played many solo gigs and headlined at numerous events. Among famous foreign bands, TBF shared a stage with, are Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Cruachan.

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