"Virtus" is the second part of the "Neofolk Finland" trilogy that started with "Patria" in 2012. This time, after the gloomy and bog-stenched "Noitanaama", Tervahäät takes a leap towards more traditional Neofolk... but quickly sidesteps to krautish industrial psychedelia and takes a cover in the trenches of futurism or even visions of 100 years old modernism.

The album has been in the works on-off for a decade now and some parts were originally composed in 2010 in the same session as "Patria". A cocktail flavoured with gunpowder and diesel oil, electrocuted to add a twist... something you haven't heard before. It's the sound of crude machines bowing to sophisticated minds and crude minds bowing to sophisticated machines. The muted explosion, the slow crumbling of the marble statues under time and pollution, the warm feeling of a flash grenade on the face of an blind man, a auditive representation of a comparison of a cut from a surgical steel knife to a cut from a rusty bayonet under a microscope or a kaleidoscope.

To add a suitable finishing touch to this opus the mastering work was made by the master masterer of all masterers, the archmagus of sound, Dennis Blackham of Skye Mastering. Ltd x 400 copies in an 8-panel digipak.