Amorphis
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Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but in later albums they have evolved into making songs that are more classifiable as mainstream, but nevertheless with increasingly complex arrangements.
Amorphis is well known for their use of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, as a source for their lyrics.
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History
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 up the death metal band Abhorrence. Violent Solution slowly withered away as the musicians involved 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.
Shortly after the band had recorded their first studio demo tape, Tomi got a letter from Relapse Records offering Abhorrence a recording contract. Since Abhorrence was no longer active, they quickly sent their own demo in the return mail and eventually got signed to a recording deal. The deal would later almost destroy the band, due a very long commitment and poor artist relations. They quickly released a death metal classic Karelian Isthmus and would later release the demo in the form of the Privilege Of Evil EP. The EP featured Abhorrence's original vocalist, Jukka Kolehmainen, as a vocalist on the Abhorrence cover song Vulgar Necrolatry.
The band quickly adopted new ways of making music and started incorporating different styles in with the original death metal aspect, creating a very unique and complex soundscape. Their musical growth has not stopped and the band consistantly strives to excel in the creativity and unique soundscapes which has always been the bands backbone.
The latest release, Eclipse, is the result of this uncompromising attitude and while the band sheds their musical skin, the fans can rest assured that the direction of the music is still in the same distant horizon as it was when they went in to studio to records Tales from the Thousand Lakes.
Line-up
- Tomi Joutsen - Vocals
- Esa Holopainen - Guitar
- Tomi Koivusaari - Guitar
- Niclas Etelävuori - Bass
- Santeri Kallio - Keyboards
- Jan Rechberger - Drums
Former members
- Pasi Koskinen - Vocals (1996-2004)
- Olli-Pekka Laine - Bass (1992-1999)
- Pekka Kasari - Drums (1996-2002)
- Kim Rantala - Keyboards (1994-1998)
- Kasper Martensen - Keyboards (1993-1994)
Discography
Albums
- The Karelian Isthmus (1992)
- Tales from the Thousand Lakes (1994)
- Elegy (1996)
- Tuonela (1999)
- Am Universum (2001)
- Far from the Sun (2003)
- Eclipse (2006)
Singles and EPs
- Disment Of Soul (1991)
- Amorphis (1991)
- Privilege of Evil (1993)
- Black Winter Day (1994)
- My Kantele (1997)
- Divinity (1999)
- Alone (2001)
- Day of Your Beliefs (2003)
- Evil Inside (2003)
- House of Sleep (2005)
Compilations
- Story - 10th Anniversary (2000)
- Chapters (CD and DVD, 2003)
External links
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- Amorphis at Encyclopaedia Metallum
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- Reviews and interviews at Chronicles of Chaos
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