Silent Waters - Amorphis

I have been looking through albums of amorhis and cannot not comment on two stars rating that someone is so generously giving to it. I am not the biggest fan (even though I think finnish metal is worth attention in general) but Silent Waters is one of my favourits from this band. Since they changed the lead singer I think today the guy is much more powerful when it comes to separating growling and real singing. I am sorry, but for the band that is pretty much local, does not gig a lot, what these guys play - its of a very good standard. The album has absolute rocking tracks like Weaving the Incantation (what a brilliant opening for the album!!!), Towards and ...  Read the complete review

Silent Waters is the most recent album by Finnish melodic metal band Amorphis. The album was released at the beginning of 2007 on Nuclear Blast, it features a moon lit album cover with a distinctive red swan. The album was largely touted as their "back to their best" album. Not being familiar with any of Amorphis' previous work this didn't really effect me much anyway. With crispy guitar solos and sparkling clear vocals, this should have been rather popular but it just didn't do it for me. This is when I came to the conclusion that I'm a bit of a heathen and it just seems to straight and clean for my liking. Poppy vocals singing through ...  Read the complete review