Originally written for About Heavy Metal.
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Tenhi are a Finnish band that have been around since 1996. the band’s name means wise man or seer, someone akin to a shaman. They play minimal, dark, pagan-influenced neofolk with a distinctly depressive, almost doomy melancholia about it. Their last two releases have been compilations and retrospectives; Saivo is their first all-new material since 2006. This new effort characterized by plaintive compositions and simple, minimalist melody lines executed by a …