Iron is the second full-length album by viking/folk metal band Ensiferum. This is the last album featuring Jari Mäenpää before he formed Wintersun the same year.
Lemonade choir on "Sword Chant" and "LAI LAI HEI": Miska Engstrom, Frostheim, Jukka-Pekka, Markus and Jari.
Digipack and Japanese bonus track:
11. Battery (Metallica cover) (5:13)
(followed by a period of silence are some of the group shouts from the recording of this track, the total length is 10:43)
"LAI LAI HEI" is supposed to be written in all-caps. It's also printed like that on the CD's booklet.
Engineered and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios in Cobenhagen, Denmark during July-December 2003.
Mastered at Finnvox Studios.
All acoustics, folk instruments and female vocals recorded at Beyond Abilities Studios by Janne Wirman.
Some of the vocals recorded by Jari in Finland with his own equipment.
Line-Up:
Jari Mäenpää − vocals, guitars
Markus Toivonen − guitars, backing vocals, shaman drum
Meiju Enho − keyboards
Jukka-Pekka Miettinen − bass
Oliver Fokin − drums, percussion, bombo, tinja, tambourine
Session musicians:
Vesa Vigman − bouzouki, mandolin, saz, and dulcimer, saxophone
Eveliina Kontio − kantele
Kaisa Saari − female vocals on "Ferrum Aeternum" and "Tears", tenor and soprano, recorders and tin whistles