I would start with Skyforger, Circle, or Under the Red Cloud, in terms of album. And then work my way forwards. But any album released in the last decade or so is top notch
Amorphis was heavily influenced by prog rock in their early years after their first album that was almost pure death metal and they were involved with Kingston Wall and Petri Walli was supposed to play a sitar solo on one of the tracks on their second album before his untimely demise. They recorded a cover of the Kingston Wall song "And I Hear You Call" a few years after that. The lead guitarist Esa Holopainen is playing some "The Music of Kingston Wall"- concerts with the original drummer and bassist of Kingston Wall this year, among some other musicians like Mikko Von Hertzen. Just thought it's cool how these bands and musicians and their music is all connected.
very interesting, seems like in Finnland the musicians know each other 😆 Amorphis involved with Kingston Wall, which is good friends with my favourite finnish band, Von Hertzen Brothers. Saw and met the brothers last year at Midsummerprog in Netherlands ... just great guys .. too bad they don't come often to the "continent". But there'll be a new album later this year - I'm excited 😄🤘
Very cool that you mentioned Iron Maiden! I always felt Heart of the Giant had some Maiden influence myself. My favorite track, incidentally. That heavy, descending, staccato riff just demands your attention every time.
As I wrote in part 1, I sometimes write notes to my CDs to find songs, when I don't want to listen to a whole album, I also rank them. I realized, that other than other albums, where all the good stuff is in the beginning and it's getting weaker towards the end, Queen of time has 5 real good songs at the end .. incl the bonus tracks 🤘
@@MaraxisArcanist it's sales marketing ... so you can do 2 versions ... I know other bands where the bonus songs are better than some on the album ... Opeth, Trivium etc
Hi Jim, Someone told me to listen to the second song because it only had a little growling at the end. Well, I’m prepared to sacrifice myself😅 for this. Hooray, a nice clean voice, great music. Yes, I like this song. I did survive the last minute😊. I think they could reach a much wider audience if they would ditch the growling. Opeth did it, the Gathering did it, Epica has less of it. Surely this band do it.
React to Tales of a thousand lakes! Their second album but the one they actually began taking form, one of the best! Great example of a pure doom folk melodeath metal! 😂
I start writing before your final comment to side 2: my favourite song on this one surely is Heart of the giant. While listening I did some research (some of it I knew before) 😆 In 2022 Amorphis released album # 14 - Halo - I had read about it, but somehow missed it. The reason might be, that they had no more contract with Nuclear Blast and the new record complany didn't invest to much into marketing 🤨 They have by now 12 Top 10 albums in Finnland of which 6 reached Nr 1 !!!🤘 To compare : Nightwish has 9 studio albums of which 7 were Nr 1 ... so you can say Amorphis plays in the Premier League of Finnish Metal (Children of Bodom have 6 Nr 1 albums, other metal bands less ). My finnish favourite band, the Von Hertzen Brothers have 3 Nr 1 albums plus 4 Top 10 albums and the reason why Red Alert was only Nr 2 was the release of some korean K-pop band (is that even music? 🤣) named Stray Kids ... I think Kindermusik should have their own charts 🤣🤣🤣 In 2023 Amorphis released a live album - Live at Tavastia - does that sound familiar, Jim ? 😄🤘
I lied a little in my last comment on part 1 Jim....im actually getting Silent Waters next as there was bargain- will be my 9th Amorphis cd ...will make sure i get Eclipse after... To me this band have become almost Aha like in terms of lovely melody's in most songs....theres an almost 'pop' sensibility to some of their catchiest songs, especially the later albums....and yes i love Aha!!
absolutely acceptable ... beautiful melodies ... Take on me ... Hunting high and low ...so much fun, if you try to sing it .... and Stay on these roads ... and many more 👍
