'Tuonela' the title of the 1999 album this song is from, means he realm of the dead in Finnish mythology. I believe this song is about Kullervo who is an ill-fated character in the Kalevala (a Finnish national epic). Kullervo (son of Kalervo) while growing up in the aftermath of the massacre of his entire tribe comes to realize that the same people who had brought him up, the tribe of Untamo, were also the ones who had slain his family. He vows to get his revenge on the tribe from that day forward.
'Tuonela' the title of the 1999 album this song is from, means he realm of the dead in Finnish mythology. I believe this song is about Kullervo who is an ill-fated character in the Kalevala (a Finnish national epic). Kullervo (son of Kalervo) while growing up in the aftermath of the massacre of his entire tribe comes to realize that the same people who had brought him up, the tribe of Untamo, were also the ones who had slain his family. He vows to get his revenge on the tribe from that day forward.