Career
Markus founded the band in 1995 and is the sole original member to have lasted the distance to Ensiferum"s present incarnation. His role in the band is guitarist and primary songwriter. He has always contributed backing vocals and since the departure of Jari Mäenpää in 2004 has taken up a greater role behind the microphone, sharing the clean vocal parts with new bass player Sami Hinkka, with Mäenpää"s replacement Petri Lindroos handling the harsh vocals.
The band Scent of Flesh also had a guitarist called Markus Toivonen, but the two are not to be confused as the same person.