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    Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 12:17am
Anyone here is such a big fan of this amazing Finnish band as I am? After DT, they are my favorite metal band ever.
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Around the time when Tales... and Elegy came out I was a big fan of the band, but I lost interest in them after that. I�ve started picking up the albums I haven�t listened to in the last couple of years though and I�m enjoying what I�ve heard so far. I�ll never be a giant fan, but Amorphis are one of those rare acts with a signature sound and that�s always admirable.
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They're a band I need to explore, I only know the odd handful of songs from them.
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Knowing your "usual" taste Adam, I�d recommend that you listen to the last 4 albums. The albums with TJ as the lead vocalist.
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A band I only know in name Cry
I have a lot on my plate to digest but I'll throw em on, what can I expect?
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Depends on which albums you are planning to listen to. The band have gone through quite a few eras and two rather significant lead vocalist changes in their career. The first album is more or less old school Scandinavian death metal while Tales...incorporate a lot of melodic leads and ethnic Scandinavian atmosphere. It�s the album that put them on the map. Elegy takes a progressive turn...and I hope Teo will continue from hereSmile.

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they are awesome, i listen to them when I shower, and when im not in the shower, and they use FANTASTIC mellotron lines that melts my heart.
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Originally posted by The Angry Scotsman The Angry Scotsman wrote:

A band I only know in name Cry
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epic melodic metal, but also growls (like Opeth), mythical themed lyrics and soundscapes, scandinavian type metal with some klassikal inlfuenced melodies, great guitaring and drumming, and wonderfull intros to the songs. i love them actualy and if you like Opeth Wink Amorphis is highly didjestable, if you married the brutality of Opeth with the melodic agression of In Flames you will get an Amorphis (to my deff ears Embarrassed)
the first album was released in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010, so they have been around as long as Opeth also,


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Hmmm interesting.
Well...I'm iffy with melodeath, all depends on how they do it though you know I am a huge Opeth fan.
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IMO Amorphis has very little to do with melodeath. I like the term epic melodic metal betterThumbs Up.
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but Amorphis melodies are muuuuuuuuch deeper and though out then any (of the few) melodeaf bands I have heard, it is very dence and 70s ish, progish, so its not like suggarcute melodies with raspy growls but layerd melodies with awesome varied singing from a rich tenor voice to a deep growler, and some intence riffing along the lines, (shuggara shuggara shuggara riffs. they are MUCH more sofisticated then In Flames ( and In flames is kinda sofisticated but not right thar). Amorphis melds the molodies with 70s richness

i can give uno example monsiour, some wonderfull vocal arrangement in the choires,


i also must show thee the majestic brootal side of (the only album I have of them for the moment, since their earlyer albums are much more death metalish)




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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

IMO Amorphis has very little to do with melodeath. I like the term epic melodic metal betterThumbs Up.


that is comforting LOL
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The only Amorphis album I own is The Karelian Isthmus.  It's not bad, but not all that memorable.  It only cost like 3 dollars so I can't complain.  I could see myself eventually getting the next few albums in their discography.
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The first one is probably their least interesting album IMO.
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i think the T 666 forgott his thread since he have not responded yet Stern Smile
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I�m sure Teo will pop in when he has the time and if not this thread spawned a bit of forum activity and that�s always positiveThumbs Up
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yeah

i need to buy some of the earlyer Amorphis albums, I like their use of Kalevala mythologie and it gives it a spessial vibe to the music.

i really would have hoped that Norway had a normal non-black metal band that were as fresh as Opeth is for Sweden and Amorphis is for Finland, (I was on a Enslaved concert last week and the music is good, but it is still got that BM sound, and I would really like to hear a metal band that is nether copying the American metal core scene nor revamping the Black Metal sound but are daring enough to play eclectic and mysterious metal (it can have the folk elements of the more folkish side of BM, but not  only restrict to that. a band that make music from Norse mythology but are not pure black or 70% black or such. but show eclecticism like Amorphis, Opeth and Mastodon, Isis, and other bands with layers and free minds)




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Block Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:10pm
Sounds like a good band, I'll have to look into them. ^Those videos you posted before where pretty cool, too.


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