AMORPHIS - Tales From The Thousand Lakes (Full Album Stream) 

1994, cassette, walkman, teenage girl walking to take the bus to school, and this amazing album in the ears!!!!! Amorphis literally made me fall in love with black metal 😍 and this was their best album period.

2024 and 47 years old, 30 years passed away and listened this album again and again, this makes me adolescent in ever song.

Forgive me, I'm old and just love the "old" of Amorphis.

I was in my second year of college in November 1994 where my staple diet consisted of Kreator, Sodom, Metallica and Slayer. One Thursday night when a few friends and I were too broke to go out we scooped together whatever coins we could muster and bought a few cans. After a couple of hours one of the group produced a cassette recording which included Black Winter Day and Drowned Maid. I was bowled over as I'd heard nothing remotely like this in my life. Over a quarter of a century later I've their entire discography on CD and have caught them six times in concert. Little did I realise that cold night in Limerick this would be one of the greatest albums I'd ever have the privilege of listening to. Untouchable then. Untouchable now. Cheers for the upload and the trip down Memory Lane.

I still remember hearing this for the first time back in 96 on my local late night college radio station. I had no idea who they were so I called in asking the DJ who this band was and when I explained the highly melodic death metal band that had prominent keyboards playing with a few clean sung croons added in. The DJ tried to tell me it was Morbid Angel. I argued with him because I knew it was not Morbid Angel and because of a fledgling internet with next to no sources for heavy metal info at the time it took me another year before I was able to find out that it was Black Winter Day by Amorphis that I had heard that one late night......

Best melodic/death album ever. Every track is an immortal masterpiece.

Heard this album for the first time in the 90s. 3 years ago I met the band at the airport in Helsinki. Had a little talk to one of the band members. Those guys were just 17 / 18 years when they record this masterpiece. Incredible.

THOSE DRUMS, THOSE RIFFS, THOSE VOCALS, THOSE COMPOSITION STRUCTURES.... UNBELIEVABLE

In nineteens of last century was a gold time of doom metal bands, such as:Paradise Lost "Gothic"(1991),Tiamat "Clouds"(1992)/"Wild honey"1994, Crematory "Just Dreaming..."(1994), Amorphis "Tales from the thousand lakes"(1994),Septic flesh "Mystic places of down"(1994)/"Future belongs to the brave"(1997),Lake of Tears"Headstones"(1995),Cemetary of scream"Melancholy"(1995),Anathema "Pentecost III"(1993),Theater of tragedy"Theater of tragedy" (1995),My dying Bride - "Turn loose the swans"(1993),Type O'Negative"Bloody kisses"(1991)/"October rust"(1996), Edge of Sanity "Crimson"(1996)/CrimsonII"(1997) Therion "Theli"(1996),In the woods" Heart of the Ages" (1995),Katatonia - "Brave Murder Day"- (1996).All are they were a masterpieces albums of that time till our days and forever...

The intro is incredibly beautiful. Takes me back to 90s. Miss that time.

This album changed/shaped Finnish metal music in a way no album has ever changed it since. Absolute classic and still sounds great.

Black Winter Day is such a masterpiece!!! Almost 30 years have passed and it's still lovely!

One of the greatest albums of the 1990s and of all time!

I was 14 when I bought this album and now 40 still listening to this masterpiece. This album shaped me immensely as a person.

Про Amorphis впервые услышал в шикарной ночной программе Севы Боронина: Рок-интенсив!Передачи Севы были как глоток свежего воздуха,почти 30 лет прошло,а как-будто вчера было?Спасибо тебе огромное-Боронин!Где он сейчас и чем занимается?А финны просто классная банда!

I remember this album when it came out, a Kid in San Jose, CA. imagining the wild wilderness of Finland. Changed my life.

The second that first note hits on the piano i am transported back to the 90's when i was a teenager discovering some great metal music.

The keyboard in Black Winter Day blows me away, even to this today. Incredible.

I believe that I bought this album back in 1998. This album was introduced in Korea at comparatively price, amazingly. The dark melody, touching deep down abyss of my soul was....floating around in my head all days long. Now I am listening to this song, taking myself back to 20 years back to the past. Thanks for the posting!

True metal classic, still holds up really well

the best Amorphis' album EVER

best amorphis album ever ! pure magic !

Old Amorphis is just awesome! This is indeed their finest album!

Amorphis may sound different now, but this is one of the best metal albums from any band

Black Winter days.. can not beat it... Writning this from dark autumn days in Poland... absolutely beautiful.... one of the best metal songs of any genre ever

This masterpiece turns 25 Years Old Today!! Has to be my favorite Doom Metal album ever.

Old school Amorphis, Kalmah, and Moonsorrow reignited my passion for metal. Thank you, sirs.

An masterpiece that forever will be at my top 10 of all time records!! Music from the Gods!!!

An absolute classic.

One of the greatest albums ever made. Absolutely perfect.

Back in '95 I was listening to everything extreme metal I could find, I was searching for something but with no idea what it was, then when I heard this album I knew I had found it. Amorphis kept making music (and some of it is good) but Thousand Lakes and the accompanying Black Winter Day EP are a perfect moment in time, like they are both a maiden flight and swan song, there'll never be anything like them again. I don't know how but somehow I felt that at the time, it made me so happy and so sad at the same time.

That sound of the intro... Pure magic!

Every riff on this album is simply perfect! Alltime classic!

This album is so huge you can't even describe it. Game changer from the start to the end. You can just say thank you to the musicians that gifted us this. It's one of those albums so perfect you don't even need any more of it. It's perfect.

It still sounds as good as it did in 1994 :-)

My heart broke down when I saw this upload. This album never gets old. I love the oriental touches and the beauty of melodies. Just another musical world

My very first metal cassette. Liked the cover art, bought it and changed my life...

Cant describe in words what this album makes me feel, it's part of my life story not just music. I bought it at random cause it looked "metal" from the cover. I was literally blown away and it's my no1 ever since

The synths are so epic on this album! Every time i listen to this album and hear the synths it makes me smile :)

Old Amorphis ruled. This album is a masterpiece.

They're very humble dudes. When I met Esa I told him he's my fkn hero and he was like "what?!", he seriously gushed like he was so embarrassed. I told them all they're legends and they just shyly brushed it off and smiled politely. Like come on I'm sure they're aware of how influential they are and how many people love them. Esa imo is one of the greatest riff makers and metal songwriters of all time vastly underrated but to me he is a huge influence. And they only get better with time! \,,/

Drowned Maid still hits the spot after all these years🤘

I've been listening to this album for almost 25 years and it still sounds great. It never gets old. A true masterpiece.

I discovered this album just this year... (sorry, metalheads...) Unbelievable, that there can be something soooo beautiful, sooo powerful, sooo perfect... Thanks, Amorphis! This is no doubt one of my TOP3 metal albums now, and will be for long time.

Im so glad to be alive, thanks life for giving me the opportunity of listening this music, one of my favorite albums.. Life bless AMORPHIS...

That piano is so pretty.

Top 10 metal album of all time. From all styles of metal.

I love how high the bass is in the mix. Clear as a bell.

Вы обогнули время, я помню вашу музыку года с 98-го, и мне было просто прикольно, сейчас мне 34, я случайно наткнулся на этот ролик, и я в восторге!! Парни вы обвели время сквозь пальцы, вы очень актуальны, и первичны сейчас спустя 20 лет, спасибо, это восхитительно, буду слушать вашу музыку ещё 20 лет \0/

Always special to listen to Tales From the Thousand Lakes in the land of a thousand lakes.

My favourite Amorphis album by far

the best album Amorphis . I have been listening to him since the beginning and never got bored with me

Amazing classic. One of those capable to shape a genre.

This takes me back to my high school years. What a beast of an album.

My favourite album of all time.

Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994) is without question one of the coolest and most ground breaking Albums/CDs of all time! Even though it was the second studio Album by the Finnish Death metal band AMORPHIS this Album based on the classic Finnish national epic 'Kalevala' from the opening instrumental intro then to such classics as Into Hiding, The Castaway, Black Winters Day etc. There is not one bad song on the whole Album and to me it is what makes it so wonderful even in 2020 . Up until this time death metal was mostly Napalm Death, Death, Obituary etc. which is still very cool, BUT this New Finnish death metal sound was completely new and unique, and AMORPHIS has continued to put out the coolest best Progressive Death metal even to this day. i.e. 'Queen of Time' RESPECT

Bought the album in casette format when it was just released. I keep coming back to this album time to time. It never gets old.

Considering the era this was written in, its gotta be one of the greatest melodic death metal albums of all time. It formed my music taste in the 90's and kept it there. Love it

I do my top20 album lists ever from time to time. This one and Elegy never miss the top20. It's easy to skip songs these days when listening to albums, you dont do it with these masterpieces.

This Is100% Real Amorphis

25 years old album, a classic one. Bought it right away when it was available at our local store. After so many years still great...

Please old amorphis came back.we need you.we need this.

I love to come back to this album around winter solistice.

Crazy that back when they made this they were still kid's in high school. The talent they had for their age was incredible.

Just EPIC!!! One of the best metal albums of 90's! The winter is coming....

My first growling vocals ever heard, founded my love for metal...........nice memories........🥰

First time I heard this my friend was getting mail order CDs (lol to think that was a thing)... every month he got a list of cds to buy and this was on one of the lists and Elegy... that was when I first heard Amorphis and still listen to them till now. Amazing band that have survived the times and evolved :)

Highschool years. I had this on a copied tape and I would play it every night over and over again. No other album had such an impact on me back then, only maybe The Gathering's Always and Paradise Lost's Icon.

This album is awesome and still sounds great after all these years! I'm 51 years old and listened to metal from grade school. Yeah I like certain bands that sound good and Amorphis stands out. Aside from the synthesizer and folklore there are heavy and brutal guitar parts that makes this album awesome. For example the last three songs-To Father's Cabin.

Timeless classic!!! A true masterpiece!!! lml

One of my favorite albums since 1994, Tiamat´s wildhoney, Cemetary´s Black Vanity.... as well from 94, miss the 90´s, great era...

Лучший альбом группы!!! Слушаю его уже больше двадцати лет!!! ;)

greatest music album of all modern times, i dare say!

True tale from a thousand years past: I took this with me many places three decades ago -- and I got total non-metalheads into it. Even the conductor of our local brass band, who had studied classical music, he was like: "I don't like these vocals, but WHAT IS THIS?" The mix of prog, death, folklore -- the contrast of Tomi's growls from the grave and the angelic melodies. And of course, the classic Sunlight Sound of making guitars buzz like bumblebees engaging in a mass orgy. This record was special. It's still special -- and I'm far from a metalhead myself these days. Listened to some of the re-recordings they did. Sound far more like a cliche metal band, including the typical GROOOOOOAAWWWLL type of vocals and all the clean overproduction. It's like switching from early John Carpenter to Michael Bay or something: All flash and noise, no nuance and substance. Lighting in a bottle.

Sounds of my childhood, those were the days. They dont do the music like this anymore. I hear this for the first time since like 20 years. Freaking tears haha

Crazy nostalgia glad I came back to this … black winter day still hits different 💯

Best Amorphis Album . Masterpiece

Tales was album of the year on the Berlin radio station "Fritz" in the program "Stahlwerk" in 1994. It blew me away the first time I heard it. It's unbelievable what magic these young musicians have created. You can hear Pink Floyd and Mile Oldfield, you can recognize the seafaring of the old Finns through the oriental sounds. Every note is well thought out, every riff is a work of art. Every good band makes an album where everything fits. Tales is such an album.It's not just music, it's a complete work of art, a truly masterpiece.

So damn good! i remember my friend and I being 8 or 9 and enjoying the metal channel on our satellite tv. It was nice; back in the day you would have channels for a variety of genres at the higher end of the spectrum. And black winter day came on and blew us away. I'm 35 now and occasionally a musician, and this song has stuck with me for the duration! This is my first time hearing the album front to back, however. What an amazing piece of old school melodic black metal! Those delicious harmonies, that prominent bass, drums tight as, well, a drum. I love it! I'm on The Castaway now, and that intro's positively carnivalesque! lol Great stuff.

Was 13 years when this album came out. An instant buy for me. Shaped my whole perception of music

One of the first extreme metal albums I ever bought.

This is pure Magic!

The solo in Forgotten Sunrise is still as amazing as it was back in 94

one of the best metal albums to date

This album deserve a place in the Top 10 Metal Albums of all time. Just mind blowing and game changer.

Best album of all time. Literally every song are perfect and unique. Even better listening when your'e relaxing in a snowy forest.

The very first time I ever heard about Finland was reading a review of this album, soon after it was released. 20 years later, I had the privilege of visiting the mighty Helsinki. Life has its moments.

After 25 years this is still so good - a classic!!! Thank you Amorphis!!! Thank you Relapse!!! \,,/

A black winter day, one of the best songs of all metal.

un grandioso album. the old Amorphis yeah

After all this Years, i am still loving this Album. It has the perfect ballance.

What a great album!! It really took so long for me to find this masterpiece.

A classic album! Still one of my favs!

Klenot od tejto kapelky,stará škola je najlepšia,tento album som mal ešte na kazete ktoru som skoro zodral,išiel dookola....

Best album , band , sound , athmosphere ever .

27 years of good metal.....BLACK WINTER DAY.......Greetings from Estonia!

Отличный альбом. Очень нравиться. Познакомился с этой группой после прослушивания "Black Winter Day" не помню сколько лет назад.

When I listened it first time, I was charmed by unusual for that genre psychodelic keyboard. Solo in Black Winter Day is a classic! So I hooked on Amorphis since then

I've just heard this great album in 2023. If not ,it would be a great miss ever! It's awesome!!!

I never forget this album