Amorphis was/is a Finnish Death metal band formed in 1990, by a few ex-members of another Death metal group :Abhorrence, The band recorded the demo “Disment of Soul” in 1991, and got immediately signed to Relapse ( greatly due to the PR made by Abhorrence ). a single and and their first full-length “Karelian Isthmus” was released in 1992. The album was recorded in 1992 in Sunlight Studios of Stockholm and with assistance of Tomas Skogsberg. The songs recorded in 1991 in Helsinki were featured on the “Privilege of Evil” EP released in 1993 ( the EP was originally ment to release as a split-album with Incantation but due to some problems, Incantation’s side wasn’t released until 2008 ). The second album “Tales from the Thousand Lakes” released in 1994 represented the new musical world of Amorphis, with more extensive use of keyboards, melody and folk music influenced guitar riffs. In 1995, all the rest of the songs ,that didn’t fit on the full-length ,were released on “Black Winter Day” EP . “Tales from the Thousand lakes” has also been considered one of the founding stones of Melodic Death Metal. The lyrical themes of the band also changed during the “Tales . . .” album, and the songs have been inspired by the tales of Finnish epic Kalevala ever since. In 1996 released third album of the band “Elegy” had fallen even deeper to progressive experimenting both in guitars and keyboards and the music had more folk tendencies. MORE INFO CAN BE FOUND HERE : www.amorphis.net This …
@rockprogmetal the singer reminds me of Dethklok singer Nathan Explosion
Amorphis ruled ad the 90s now they just sucks and sound lame
This album is like Bolt Thrower meets Paradise Lost.
a pretty unique hybrid.
@rockprogmetal Do not Comparate the essence of Death Metal…. Respect the Good.
for me the best lp of the guys!
old amorphis is awesome
Reminds me of Entombed a little bit, which is awsome. I love both old and new Amorphis tho theyre just really different. What they did was only get more and more progressive after tales of the thousand lakes and even more so on elegy, which are both my favorite albums by them as well
my favorite instrumental!!!
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You are damn right, this reminds me of days spending in the record store, just to find that album. I found it, in 1992 and 1994. The owner of the shop must still frown at me when i come along. Spending days in a record store got me alot of more and better music, but the first 2 albums of amorphis are still amazing.
Sounds like a mix between Death and Doom. This is incredibly similar to Tales from the Thousand Lakes record. You can almost hear the roots from what they once were.
so fuckin great song and a cool and gloomy clasick!
Like listening to Grave
@XysmicExecration lol @ your respons to lastday….
I’m glad you added the lyrics to the description, because it’s one of the few songs where the music really puts you right where lyrics are. You can feel all the twists and turns of this battle, and certainly sense the cold steel. Shame Amorphis changed their style, they really had something going here.
@xxxhentaikingxxx: I think it does make sense. See I don’t like atom boms either, but from a scientific point of view it was a genius achievement. Or for a music related example I can appreciate that Bach was a musical genius but I don’t like his music. And that’s the case here I simply don’t like the voice of this singer, no matter how genius the music is. So I’m not saying it’s not good music, I’m just saying I don’t like it.
Why the fuck wouldn’t you like something that’s genius? That makes no sense…
Hard to think they only went downhill after this. One of the greatest opening riffs ever.
Hehe
I am one quarter Karelian myself.
Quite a great feeling to be a Karelian when listening to this…
Indeed. I’ve listened various types of metal and plenty of artist through the years, and this is one of those albums, I always get back to.
Timeless masterpiece
One of the greatest albums ever written
So what? Black Sabbath was also unique when they started (or so I’ve been told, I’m too young to know) out, does that mean I have to like Black Sabbath because they were unique? IMO not. I will not deny they are a pioneers of metal and all that, but that doesn’t mean I have to love their music. Same with Amorphis. And dynamite IS a poor weapon compared to atom bomb, but that doesn’t mean that the invention of dynamite wasn’t genius. But you don’t have to like something because it’s genius.
You’re wong wrong wrong. You had to be there and buy Tales of Thousand Lakes when there are no bands that makes music like that in the world. Unlike Skyforger, where 10 thousands of bands makes keyboard metal and they are good at it. Tales from the Thousand Lakes was unique. You could say “Dynamite is such a poor weapon compared to atom bomb”, but when Nobel developped it, it was unique and caused great things in mining/construction in addition to war. You dont compare albums to 15 years ago
what a fine day to…DIEEE!
its death/doom metal but a few songs have a few little melodic parts, their next album is more progressive/doom/folk/melodic death metal