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.
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!
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
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.
This is like...Castlevania meets Death Metal. It's awesome, it actually has even more flavors than that, eclectic. But balanced album. Cool ending, too.
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.
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...
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......
Good story. Though kids today have more ways to get to good music, I keep asking myself is there as much good new music to find at all? Internet did make stuff more accessible but also has helped those that create brainwashing garbage music. I hope I do not sound too old for saying this. I bet there were older people having a similar argument in the nineties :D
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!
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.
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! \,,/
Esa is a very kind man :) I met him yesterday! probably the fact that they don't see themselves as influential is what keeps them pushing their boundaries :)
@@carliiuxiiz yes that humbleness makes them more comfortable to let loose and experiment- Queen of Time is fantastic. Im meeting them again in October. Cant wait to meet Anneke, hope she does more collabs with them!
I think they know how much they influenced both Folk Metal and Melodic Death Metal, but in the typical Finnish fashion they want to see themselves as having done nothing special. Finnish culture heavily condemns narcissism, so people sort of downplay their achievements in the hopes that it'll prevent their successes from going to their heads. But I think it's for the best, otherwise they'd stop experimenting and trying to improve.
Which others were such great like these? Bathory? Dissection first? Was a good release. But to me there's only two albuns, later more 30 years listening Metal, albums considerable so great, a really masterpiece to me are To Mega Therion and Tales...
@@johanmauritzvannassau-sieg7878 Dissection - Storm of Lights Bane Amon Amarth - Sorrow Throughout The Nine Worlds Paradise Lost - Draconian Times Tiamat - A Deeper Kind of Slumber
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This masterpiece turns 25 Years Old Today!! Has to be my favorite Doom Metal album ever.
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.
But in my opinion Elegy is just as great in atmosphere as Thousand Lakes. Great melodies and Nordic folklore combined. After that the albums are good too, but no longer create a cold-dark-moody atmosphere
they sound amazing and always did...I can't really say any of their albums sound like another, they all have their quirks. Skyforger, Circle and Under the red Cloud all blasted me away when they realeased. Such great combinations of different styles mixed with melancholic deathmetal. Every album told a story about something with the songs being poems in metal disguise. For example "Shades of Grey" has to be the most beautiful description of a sunset anyone ever has made
@@AgeofJP A downside to that is that they have never written their own lyrics. NEVER. The lyrics to their first 3 albums are taken from Kalevala (a finnish national epic) and for the rest they have had a writer called Pekka Kainulainen. That for me takes away a lot.
@@schade80 Pasi did pen lyrics for three entire albums, following Elegy - (and one by Antti Litmanen, is he another well-known Finnish writer?). I think Amorphis went back to Kalevala material due to the success of Tales and Elegy - good from a marketing perspective. Don't let it bum you out though, the music utterly dominates!
And oh boy did it do exactly that. We got bands like Ensiferum, Moonsorrow, Finntroll, Turisas and Korpiklaani right after this album was released, the "big 5" of Folk metal, all formed in Finland in the mid-90's. All of it ushered in by this single album..
@@wardeni4806 if there's a genre that Tales.. was determinant for, that would be 90s melodic doom/death and not folk metal. If there's a folk reference in Tales, it's limited within a few eastern scales which were very common among melodic doom death bands from the 90s (Septic Flesh, Tiamat, Therion, Katatonia, My Dying Bride etc). Nothing to do with the post 00s happy fest from Finland. And there's no "big 5" of folk metal without the very originators of folk metal.. Skyclad.
I heard itfirst time in 1995... so melodic... so fantastic ... I was 14 years old... and I had just kasetteplayer... but I dreamed always about Karelia and Finland... Hungarian respect from Transsylvania... Nota bene: The melody of the song: "Drowned Maid" is like the same with a Hungarian folksong: "Kocsmára nyílik az utcaajtó..." Respect... I am listening it since 24 years along ... It is fresh and new now also... to fathers cabin... My shelter.... thank you...
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/
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.
Noo parempi myöhään kun ei milloinkaan. Itse kuuntelin 30 vuotta sitten tätä ja olin myyty. Ei kiinnostanut enää Mötley Crue tai muut purkka hevit. Tilalle tuli Carcasit, Entombedit yms.
Noo olen vasta 45. Olin onneksi elossa kun Suomessa oli vielä hyviä bändejä eikä mitään wannabe next idol tyrkky bändejä/artisteja. Yrittänyt lapsilleni tuoda esiin musiikkia laidasta laitaan huonolla menestyksellä. Justin Bieber yms. ovat tärkeämpiä kuin vaikka Black Sabbath, YUP, CMX, Carcass, Kingston Wall. Onneksi nuorin 13v. fanittaa Queeniä.
Самое атмосферное - это слушать этот альбом в Норильске (да и в любом заполярном городе) долгой зимней Полярной, мать её, Ночью! ))) Лично проверял! )))
В своё время я дал его послушать одному мэну, а он мне подогнал пласт со старым Tiamat "Clouds" 1992 г и так я начал гонять сначала его, а потом Wildhoney итд. Но вот в 1994 году мне дали Anathema Pentecost III и с анатема я больше не расстаюсь по сей день. И ещё мне подогнали кассетку с Gathering "Always" и он мне тоже зашёл, ибо полностью пропитан духом и атмосферой doom 90 годов.
В мире метала очень мало альбомов, которые представляют из себя просто обойму хитов. Альбом Amorphis “Tales from the Thousand Lakes” является эталоном: нет ни одной неинтересной, скучной песни. Слушаю его с 1996 года и всегда наслаждаюсь.
Поверьте моему многолетнему опыту меломана - таких альбомов, в которых нет ни одной слабой композиции, в мире предостаточно. Вот, только навскидку: Accept - Balls To The Wall Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast King Diamond - 1987 - Abigail Judas Priest - 1990 - Painkiller Gods Tower - 1997 - The Turns Exciter - 1988 - Exciter (O.T.T.) Deep Purple - 1969 - Deep Purple (April) Blind Guardian - 1992 - Somewhere Far Beyond Metallica - 1984 - Ride The Lightning Sentenced - 1995 - Amok ... Список можно продложить...
О вкусах не спорят. Впрочем, вот вам контрвысказывание: «Есть вкус, а есть безвкусица». Кому-то и Малевич за художника сойдёт, с его жалкой малопотентной вознёй.
Some of my friends had a different taste in music, some liked more grindcore like Carcass, Napalm Death... some more thrash metal (Kreator, Megadeth...) other more classic death metal (Obituary, Morbid Angel...)... but this album united all the metalheads, everyone liked this album :) and yes this album still sound good in 2020, thx for the upload
Drowned Maid & in the beginning are my favorites on this LP, but the album entirely is a fucking masterpiece! brings many memories from the 90's when metal, and most of all, extreme metal (Death and Black) had a certain mystic, it was dark and true underground back then, our friends from the neighborhood that didn't liked metal were afraid of us and the music too, and they also thought we were satanic (and we thought so too jaja) reading lovecraft and stuff like that... There was no internet... so there were many stories about the bands (ej.satanic cults), some were true, some dont... oh, and getting new music, was hard back then, at least where i lived, you had to copy the cassette from another cassette, or a CD... buying originals was expensive, especially for a 13 years old with a medium class family... nowadays, the kids that dont like metal make fun of even the more underground and extreme bands, there are memes and stickers on WSP (some days ago my little cousin send me a sticker of gaahl laughing, WTF)... internet fucked up all the mistery and mystic of 80 & 90 underground metal scene.
Это наше время, наша музыка..плюнь ты на этих сопливых .МАЛОЛЕТОК. какую они музыку слушают, не настоящую..один компьютер играет и никакого смысла нет, только дергаются как паралитики ..а их кумиры вообще на музыкальных инструментах играть даже и близко не умеют..дебилы блядь! Беларусь.г.Орша 30.08.2022.
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
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.
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.
