Amorphis
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Topic: Amorphis
Posted By: The T 666
Subject: Amorphis
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 12:17am
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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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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 2:16am
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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. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 3:39am
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They're a band I need to explore, I only know the odd handful of songs from them. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 4:11am
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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. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 4:33am
A band I only know in name  I have a lot on my plate to digest but I'll throw em on, what can I expect? ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 4:42am
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 here . ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:04am
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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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Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:14am
 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  )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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The Angry Scotsman wrote:Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:18am
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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. ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:31am
IMO Amorphis has very little to do with melodeath. I like the term epic melodic metal better .------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:33am
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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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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 6:04am
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Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 6:31am
that is comforting  ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 9:04am
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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. ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 9:30am
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The first one is probably their least interesting album IMO. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 11:34am
i think the T 666 forgott his thread since he have not responded yet 
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 12:55pm
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 positive ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 1:55pm
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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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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:10pm
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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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Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 5:13pm
i doo my best to satisfy my friends and followers   
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Posted By: The T 666
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 9:36pm
Well, very nice responses. I guess I'm the only one here who has ALL their albums, from Privilege of Evil to Beginning of Times. I discovered them like 16 years ago, while listening to a death metal compilation by Nuclear Blast/Relapse called "Death III: it's just the beginning". Among dozens of horrendous tracks, a few were quite good, and the best was "Forgotten Sunrise" by this unknown Finnish band with the weird name. As I love Sibelius (in classical music, my favorite type of music since I was a child) I wanted to check how Finnish metal sounded like. A few months later I saw their video for "Against Widows" in MTV of all places and I decided to buy "Elegy". If you want a description of that album, check my incredibly-subjective-and-not-impartial review here in MMA  .
As described, Amorphis has a cold sound, unique of them, a mix of a few styles. Their first album (EP) is quite horrible, but The Karelian Ishtmus shows some promise already. Tales From a Thousand Lakes, where the legendary track came from, is already a little masterpiece of melodic death. But Elegy really changed things. That album is one of my favorites of all time (again, my review shows the love), with enormous amounts of melody and Finnish inspiration. In this album the cold-as-ice vocals of Pasi Koskinen made their debut (I liked them a lot). Tuonela is their best though, a masterpiece with clear Floydian-Hakwind influences, reviewed also by yours truly. Am Universum continues the trend and Far Off the Sun represents the first real slip in quality. Out goes Koskinen, in comes Joutsen, a better singer technically (who can do his own growls) but I still long for Koskinen vocals. Eclipse a d Silent Waters were good albums in typical Scandinavian death metal vein but it was Skyforger (again, reviewed) which brought them almost back to the level of Elegy and Tuonela. Their most recent has failed to ignite the same passion in me but it's a grower, I hope. -------------
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Posted By: The T 666
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2011 at 9:37pm
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Oh by the way their album of re-recordings of songs from the Tales and Koskinen eras with Tomy Joutsen is atrocious. -------------
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2011 at 12:32am
^I hear you there. Don�t go there if you are a newcommer to the band ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: boysmithers
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2011 at 4:36pm
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One of my favourite bands! Also the band that got me into extreme metal.
I'd recommend: 
Tales From the Thousand Lakes (1994) It's got seriously guttural death vocals and VERY catchy tunes, I just can't help gargling along with "Drowned Maid" & "In the Beginning" 
Elegy (1996) Half death / half AMAZING 70S INSPIRED PROG! This is probably the album to start with. 
Am Universum (2001) A strange album! Kind of like The Doors if they were a metal band (???) their most psychedelic album, layers and layers of effects-heavy guitars, awesome Hammond organ and saxophone sprayed liberally over the top. 
Silent Waters (2007) Their second album with Tomi Joutsen singing. More folky than "Eclipse" it tells the story of Lemminkainen from The Kalevala. (Also I quite like the one with the big pike on the cover)  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/c210344/?chartstyle=basic10" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 8:13am
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I'm a big fan of the Pasi Koskinen albums and EPs, I've followed them since 'Am Universum'. I'm not too fond of the first two albums. But ok, I'm not to keen on Death metal in general so that might explain it. I find the Joutsen albums good but somewhat formulaic. Hope the new one will be a clear-cut Prog album, as I can no longer handle the absurdity of Amorphis not being in Prog-Metal on PA. |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 10:55am
^Dream on Karl, Dream on... .------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 1:07pm
A quick peak at the new release shattered all remaining hope |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 1:12pm
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I haven�t heard the album yet, but my guess is, it sounds more or less like the last couple of albums by the band. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |