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1) Falconer is Stefan Weinerhall’s (the former guitarist of Mithotyn) Swedish Power Metal project with strong folk influences aimed at being similar to Mithotyn, but with clean singing.
Created in May 1999 the project started unnamed. Their (first) self-titled album was released in March 2001.
Since then, they’ve released 5 other albums: Chapters From a Vale Forlorn (2002), The Sceptre Of Deception (2003), Grime Vs Grandeur (2005), Northwind (2006), and Among Beggars And Thieves (2008).

Singer Mathias Blad, who performed on the first two albums and also on the third album as a guest vocalist on few songs, returned for the recording process of the 5th album, Northwind .
On albums The Sceptre Of Deception and Grime Vs Grandeur vocals were performed by Karl Kristoffer Göbel.
With the addition of the new singer FALCONER`s music also changed and became faster and more aggressive.
Many fans thought that with these two albums and a new singer`s style FALCONER moved too far away from their folk influences, which was their trademark from the very beginning, so eventually the decision was made to have Mathias Blad back on the vocals.
Mathias` unique, melancholic, mid-range voice, untipical for Metal music, was also one of the FALCONER`s trademarks that most fans considered to be irreplacable.
With Mathias back on vocals, their album Northwind (2007) also marked the return to more folk influenced music, in the vein of the first two albums.

Current line-up:

Mathias Blad - vocals, keyboards
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Wings of Serenity full track
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  • No_Name56 wrote:
    11 hours ago
    fucking amazing

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  • Labiel_69 wrote:
    20 hours ago
    Charon on `Songs for the Sinners`... Ride on Tears is a song from their peaks.

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  • Labiel_69 wrote:
    yesterday evening
    One of the most unique bands in metal thanks to great technical riffing of Stefan and beatiful musical-like voice of Mathias. Also notice that lyrics are always a story about something and they avoid being cheesy at any time. They have very little in common with bands mentioned before - if you want to hear something close try out CHARON. Thumbs up for bari-tenor vocalists!!!!

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  • Stamborg wrote:
    yesterday afternoon
    Don't put a label on their music at al, people wont know what they sound like until they hear them anyway. And, their music's like any other... go 'no labels'!, love Falconer ;)

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  • AndresCampuzano wrote:
    Friday evening
    Hi friend, I'm Andres, I want to invite you to listen to my musical project. (new folk, medieval, symphonic, celtic, epic...) If you like please add us to your collection. http://www.lastfm.com/music/An+Danzza I autoproduce all songs and give themo to you. FREE download :) (if you want add tags or say to me which is your opinion about my music ) thank yooooooooooouuuuu!!!

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  • Quispiam wrote:
    last week
    Tuomasp: Nothing should be too cliché. That a band sounds exactly like another band is never good, no matter the genre. I don't mind power metal, I simply feel there are too many bands/composers making the same album/score twenty times.

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  • Tuomasp wrote:
    last month
    Why is Falconer being less power metal a good thing? Do people need to be able to say "I don't listen to power metal but I listen to Falconer because they are so little power metal" ? @Quispian: Why is it a good thing they're not as power as Strato, Rhapsody or BG? Anyway, the real thing why I wanted to shout was that the debut album is simply amazing: If you carefully listen to songs like Mindtraveller, Wings of Serenity, Substitutional World and Enetering Eternity you'll discover that debut is astonishing and very original piece of folk influenced power metal.

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  • doublecross256 wrote:
    last month
    Mathias Blad's voice.

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  • Quispiam wrote:
    last month
    I do concider them power metal, but they are not as power metal as Stratovarius, Rhapsody of Fire or Blind Guardian. And yes, that is a good thing :)

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  • JunglemanchiId wrote:
    last month
    Quispiam - I wasnt aiming my comment at you, someone else said they were unoriginal and cliche. I agree with you about the last album, it's a great piece of work and I look forward to the next one. Songs like Mindtraveller are always going to be the Falconer "Power Metal" classics but they arent like many other Power Metal bands around, I didn't even really consider them Power Metal.

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  • Tuomasp wrote:
    last month
    Actually their first album was greatly inspired by previous Mithotyn albums, and hence the tasty, folkish guitar melodies on "Falconer". While being maybe "pure power metal" in some essence (frequent use of double bass, (mostly) fast songs), the guitar melodies on the album combined with Blad's vocals make this album truly stand out from the endless ocean of power metal albums. But I'm still glad that Stefan is pushing the band towards new direction, and not producing the same album over and over again. It's has always been interesting to buy the latest Falconer album because you never know exactly what you'll get ( well you know that you get quality) .

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  • Quispiam wrote:
    last month
    Junglemanchild: The earlier albums were much more "pure power metal and that's it". Among Beggars had so many more influences and thus is much more interesting to me.

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  • JunglemanchiId wrote:
    last month
    Falconer are cliche? That doesnt make any sense. Cause so many metal bands have singers like Mathias dont they..........

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  • NisforN wrote:
    last month
    Dunno I personally love it. But you know sometimes fans hate new stuff from bands [insert here any of them]. That's pretty weird.

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  • metalegghead wrote:
    last month
    Who didn't like Among Beggars?

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  • NisforN wrote:
    last month
    Their latest album is good there's nothing wrong with liking it.

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  • metalegghead wrote:
    last month
    @Quispiam: haha no, you're not the only one.

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  • Kriss- wrote:
    last month
    Falconer is so fucking awesome

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  • Quispiam wrote:
    October 2009
    Am I the only one who really loves their latest album? It's not very high in the tracks. I'm not a die hard fan but my impression is that earlier albums were much less inspired and fell much more upon clichés. Am I wrong?

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  • tyiori wrote:
    October 2009
    when do we have the honour of seeing them live?

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19 Jan 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/falconermusic

Stefan (the mastermind behind Falconer) is selling off a lot of his gear, to make room for more.ESP LTD MH400NTBought new in 2004.Used to record all falconer albums from 2005 and up until the newest o. …

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