Story: 10th Anniversary - Amorphis

Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal - Heavy Metal / Artist: Amorphis / Import / Audio CD released 2002-05-28 at Spinefarm / Track ... more

Story: 10th Anniversary - Amorphis ... Listings: 1. Black Winter Day / 2. Against Widows / 3. Tuonela / 4. Grail's Mysteries / 5. The Castaway / 6. My Kantele / 7. The Way / 8. The Brother-Slayer / 9. The Orphan / 10. Exile of the Sons of Uisliu / 11. On Rich and Poor / 12. Divinity / 13. The Gathering / 14. Drowned Maid / 15. Summer's End / 16. Cares (Live)

Newest Review: ... a more or less random fashion, one second with a heavy death metal riff and growling from Tomi Koivusaari, the next light ... more

... atmospheric rock under Pasi Koskinen. Only the most dedicated Amorphis fans will find no flaws with the album, but for everyone else it's likely to be a case of favouring one extreme over the other. In the interests of fairness, whoever compiled the album has tried to ease the transition by taking the most songs from the 'Elegy' album, which wasn't exactly transitional itself but was at least a more honest middle-ground tilted in favour of the newer style, but possessing a few of the metal elements along with the folk as...more

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by - written on 16/01/08 (Very useful, 25 readings)
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Ten years is as good enough excuse for a best-of as any, and with four acclaimed albums and other material under their Finnish belts, the (presumably) belt-wearing Finns of Amorphis provide this little present for the fans of Amorphis who may be wearing belts or not. The whole belt thing isn't really important and I don't want to get dragged into this debate too much, but there's a not a lot else to say about a pretty standard and unexciting compilation such as this. The most commendable thing about this release is the fair overview it provides, stretching as far back as the first album with several choice morsels plucked therefrom, rather than merely ... Read the complete review