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Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Amorphis absorbed and incorporated influences from many metal genres, and with time passing their sound evolved dramatically. Initially, the band was a Death Metal act, but with time they have evolved into making music that is more classifiable as doom metal with folk influences, and, more recently, progressive metal and hard rock, utilizing increasingly complex arrangements and a less brutal sound.

Amorphis is well known for their use of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, as a source for their lyrics.

In 1989 Jan Rechberger and Esa Holopainen played in a speed metal band Violent Solution, which Tomi Koivusaari had left the previous year to form the death metal band Abhorrence. Violent Solution slowly withered away as the musicians became interested in other things and styles of music. At this point, Jan Rechberger and Esa Holopainen had the idea of putting together a death metal band. In early 1990, Tomi Koivusaari was asked to be the vocalist and Oppu Laine to be their bassist.

During that time the band asked Tomi to pick up the slot of rhythm guitarist as well as singing, which led to the band dumping all original compositions and starting again. With the band starting to move along, Tomi’s other band (Abhorrence) split up and he found himself with much more time to put into Amorphis. The band went into gear and started churning out new brutal music.

1	Silent Waters full track	1,291
2	House of Sleep	1,021
3	Black Winter Day full track	928
4	The Smoke	799
5	Her Alone	763
6	Towards and Against	698
7	Weaving The Incantation	693
8	I of Crimson Blood	683
9	A Servant	669
10	Brother Moon	658
11	Enigma	616
12	Shaman	603
13	Leaves Scar	596
14	Alone	590
15	Black River	575

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Eclipse
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Tales From the Thousand Lakes
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Silent Waters
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Elegy
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ImpleMan wrote:
Wednesday morning

Amorphis rocks!

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Breslau006 wrote:
Tuesday evening

Bless Joutsen! Eclipse and Silent Waters are awesome!

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bengancom wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

Good band. Sucks that alot of the songs cannot be streamed anymore... Damn labels that work against their bands...

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Silence-FIN wrote:
Sunday morning

http://www.last.fm/group/Finnish+Rock+League

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mellohippo wrote:
8 days ago

Big shout for a the best finnish band.. Tuonela is worth grabbing. Big Up Boys, you're the shit. Alone is just off the hook :)))

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kennyzero wrote:
9 days ago

i love " Tales From the Thousand Lakes" and "Silent Waters"...great music !!!!!!

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Wissi wrote:
9 days ago

The Karelian Isthmus was great stuff.

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pauljuly wrote:
12 days ago

i saw you live in Krakov(Mystic festival '99)Tuonela-definitely the best your album

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megantraum wrote:
13 days ago

house of sleep is not a good song for amorphis..

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_Moonshield_ wrote:
13 days ago

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PEiPHatesYou wrote:
15 days ago

I agree, Joutsen is a much more talented vocalist than Pasi. Not really a diss, he's just a great singer as well as a great growler. They really reinvented themselves, although I like most of their CD's besides Am Universum and Elegy (I have it, but it's my least favorite among those I own).

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LoveZombieLove wrote:
19 days ago

I cannot wait until September 27th when I can finally see Amorphis in America!!

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stripedlion wrote:
last month

I introduced myself to Amorphis in '94 buying Black Winter Day EP (or MCD, whatever) and it ruled big time back then! It still rocks but not like it used to. I have to say that since then I have been a fan of both new and old Amorphis. More of a fan of new Amorphis (more clean vocals). Joutsen turned the band to pure gold and major player among other finnish bands... Pasi wasn't bad at all, but Tomi is better, at least in my books. I actually work with Esa or should I say that "our company" makes business with "his company" and I know some of these little details how things generated and built together during the years. Anyways... Amorphis is absolutely great band and the guys are seriously cool.

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dramedo wrote:
last month

First time I listened to new Amorphis (it was the "Eclipse" album) I had the same opnion from PeacefulDemon, but now I know Amorphis is much much better :)

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PeacefulDemon wrote:
last month

I love both the old and new Amorphis. the new version is kinda Opethish but that's not certainly a bad thing.

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Karppaky wrote:
last month

Tales From the Thousand Lakes > All

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Mnemicz wrote:
last month

I personally think that Amorphis with the last two albums have proved that they are better than ever before. Eclipse is definitely one of my favorite albums of all time :)

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MMAKSALAATIKKO wrote:
last month

how can Amorphis be emo if the lyrics are based in kalevala? you ass:D . i didin`t know that kalevala is emo :D:D:D

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InterSeKtion wrote:
last month

I love every album. But if I have to be honest, 'Am Universum' is my all-around favorite.

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z_wieza wrote:
last month

old amorphis \m/

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