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Tales From The Thousand Lakes - Amorphis

Amorphis' second album is a refinement of the first and one of the classics of melodic death metal, and sadly remains their last predominantly metal achievement before deviating into other areas foreshadowed by the clean vocal touches and electronic aspects of this album. As with 'The Karelian Isthmus,' the music is gloomy, a tad epic and uniquely exotic, the guitars seemingly taking influence from the Finnish folk tradition or at least something that marks them out as distinctive from the other, mostly Swedish melodic death pioneers. While the vocals continue to growl in a less aggressive way than many death metal bands, this is enhanced by the addition of distinctive clean singing in ...

The Karelian Isthmus - Amorphis

metal, you re bound to run into some coincidences. As one of the pioneering melodic death metal bands of their day, before disappointingly leaving the metal world far behind, Amorphis take on the blended style incorporates interesting and enjoyable nuances of the local folk tradition, though thankfully this mainly extends to the catchy rhythms of the drums and lead guitar rather than the more oppressive and daft excesses of polka metal a la Finntroll. This exotic flair, enhanced by the folkloric themes, would be more successfully realised in the second album, as The Karelian Isthmus is still essentially rooted in a traditional death metal formula, consciously ...

Privilege Of Evil - Amorphis

the subsequent album, but this takes a drastically opposite direction in reaching firmly for the violent and brutal side of early nineties death metal. The speed here varies between Amorphis typical slower tempo and a more aggressive, thrashy direction, and the songs are about as different as can be in the band s early style, even veering into a gore direction with the tellingly titled Vulgar Necrolatry, featuring a guest vocal performance Abhorrence s Jukka Kolehmainen. The band is at its very best here from a technical point of view, Tomi and Esa s guitars conveying a wide range of styles and emotions with more success than most death bands, and Tomi s vocals ...