Amorphis
| Amorphis | |
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 Amorphis - Berlin 2009 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Helsinki , Finland |
| Genre (s) | Metal |
| founding | 1990 |
| Website | www.amorphis.net |
| Founding members | |
| Tomi Koivusaari (vocals: until 1996, guttural singing: until 1999) | |
guitar |
Esa Holopainen |
| Olli-Pekka "Oppu" Laine (1990–2000, 2017-present) | |
| Jan "Snoopy" Rechberger (drums: until 1995 & since 2002, also studio keyboard: 1992 on The Karelian Isthmus ) | |
| Current occupation | |
Singing, guttural singing |
Tomi Joutsen (since 2005) |
guitar |
Tomi Koivusaari (vocals: until 1996, guttural singing: until 1999) |
guitar |
Esa Holopainen |
Electric bass, backing vocals
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Olli-Pekka "Oppu" Laine (1990–2000, 2017-present) |
Keyboard |
Santeri Kallio (studio keyboard: on Tuonela 1999, keyboard: since 2000) |
Drums |
Jan "Snoopy" Rechberger (drums: until 1995 & since 2002, also studio keyboard: 1992 on The Karelian Isthmus ) |
| former members | |
Singing, guttural singing |
Pasi Koskinen (vocals: 1996-2004, guttural vocals: 1999-2004) |
Keyboard |
Kasper Mårtenson (1994-1995) |
Keyboard |
Kim Rantala (1995-1996) |
Drums |
Pekka Kasari (1995-2001) |
Electric bass |
Niclas Etelävuori (2000–2017) |
| Live support and session musicians | |
singing |
Ville Tuomi (studio singing: 1994, live singing: 1994–1995) |
Background vocals |
Marco Hietala (studio background vocals: 2006, 2007, 2009) |
Background vocals |
Jouni Markkanen (studio backing vocals: 2009) |
Background vocals |
Peter J. Goodman (studio backing vocals: 2009) |
Background vocals |
Tommi Salmela (studio backing vocals: 2009) |
Background vocals |
Netta Dahlberg (studio background vocals: 2011) |
Background vocals |
Mari Multanen (live vocals: Wacken 2013) |
Texts |
Pekka Kainulainen (texts on Silent Waters 2007, Skyforger 2009, The Beginning of Times 2011 and Circle 2013) |
Singing saw |
Antti Halonen (Studio Singing Saw: 2001) |
| Sakari Kukko (studio saxophone / flute: 1999, 2001, live saxophone / trumpet: Wacken 2013) | |
Saxophone, flute, clarinet |
Iikka Kahri (studio saxophone / flute: 2009, studio clarinet: 2011) |
Drums |
Atte Sarkima (live drums: 2003) |
Amorphis is a Finnish metal band from Helsinki formed in 1990 .
The style of the band has been subject to constant change since its inception. At the beginning the band played death metal , which they soon developed further with elements of progressive metal and influences from Finnish and Arabic music . By renouncing growling vocals , the band temporarily turned away from Death Metal completely. It was only on the album Eclipse that Amorphis partially combined growling vocals with the progressive elements of its predecessors. In addition to the music, the lyrics are also inspired by Finnish culture, some of which come from the Finnish collection of poems Kanteletar or the national epic Kalevala .
Amorphis is considered to be one of the most successful Finnish metal bands. In her home country she has been in the top 10 of the charts with almost every release for ten years .
history
Band founded (1990–1996)
Amorphis was founded in autumn 1990 by Jan "Snoopy" Rechberger, Esa Holopainen , Tomi Koivusaari and Olli-Pekka Laine . The first three had played together in the speed metal band Violent Solution at the end of the 1980s , which, however, broke up in the course of 1990. Koivusaari had also been a member of the death metal band Abhorrence since 1989 . After Violent Solution broke up , Rechberger and Holopainen also wanted to start a death metal band. Since Abhorrence had already largely disbanded in late 1990, they asked Koivusaari if he was to them as a guitarist would connect Bass should Olli-Pekka Laine play. Jukka Kolehmainen, the singer of Abhorrence , was supposed to be the singer of the new band, but declined. In the end, Tomi took over the vocals in the newly formed band Amorphis, while Abhorrence broke up.
In January 1991, Amorphis took the demo Disment of Soul in TTT Studio by Timo Tolkki on. It took two days to work on the three pieces, but the band was quite dissatisfied with the sound of the recordings. In the summer of 1991 Disment of Soul was already sold out. Shortly after the recordings, Tomi Koivusaari was offered a recording contract for Abhorrence by the US record label Relapse Records . As a replacement for the disbanded band, Koivusaari sent back a demo of Amorphis, which convinced the label to sign a five-album deal with the band. In May 1991 Amorphis recorded another six tracks for a split CD with the American death metal band Incantation , which however never appeared because both bands wanted to release full albums. One of the six pieces was Vulgar Necrolatry , a song by Abhorrence . Here Jukka Kolehmainen, the former singer of Abhorrence , appeared as a guest singer. Two tracks from the session were released on the 7 "single Amorphis in July 1992. The entire recordings were released in 1993 on the Privilege of Evil CD .
After a few concerts, the debut album The Karelian Isthmus was produced in May 1992 at Sunlight Studio in Stockholm . Nuclear Blast took over the distribution in Europe for this as well as for the four following albums . In July 1994 the second album Tales from the Thousand Lakes was released . The guest musician Ville Tuomi took over the clear vocals used for the first time. With Kasper Mårtenson Amorphis had the first keyboard player in the band's history, for the debut album Jan Rechberger had recorded the few keyboard tracks. The single Black Winter Day was supposed to be released before the album, but the release was delayed so that it finally appeared some time after the album. The band recorded their first video for the song. In 1995 Jan Rechberger and Kasper Mårtenson left the band. They were replaced by Kim Rantala and Pekka Kasari. After recording Tales from the Thousand Lakes , singer Ville Tuomi played a few concerts with Amorphis in Europe before he left the band. He was replaced by an unnamed singer, who left the band after a concert and, according to Tomi Koivusaari , had sung in the power metal style of the German band Helloween . In late 1994, Amorphis opened for Entombed for the first time in the United States . Shortly thereafter, a tour with Tiamat led through Europe.
Commercial success (1996-2004)
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Tuska Festival 2006
March 5, 2008 at Tavastia in Helsinki.
The recordings for the third album Elegy were delayed because Esa Holopainen injured her arm in a fall and moved the studio in which the pieces were to be recorded. With Pasi Koskinen , a permanent second singer was found during the recording, who should take over the melodic vocals, while Tomi Koivusaari continued to sing the growls . Elegy was released in June 1996 , with which Amorphis entered the top 10 of the Finnish charts for the first time. As after Tales from the Thousand Lakes , the band played many concerts for almost a year and a half, including a European tour with Therion and Hardware in autumn 1996 and with EverEve in spring 1997. The EP My Kantele was also released . In August 1997 Amorphis performed for the first time at the Wacken Open Air . After the tour, Amorphis took a creative break to think about further musical development. In addition, Kim Rantala left the band again.
In 1999 Tuonela was released, on which the guest musicians Santeri Kallio keyboard and Sakari Kukko played the saxophone and flute , thus expanding the band's instrumentation. After Tomi Koivusaari had already less part of the singing on Elegy , he finally said goodbye to Tuonela . At concerts, Pasi Koskinen took on Koivusaari's growling in addition to his own singing tracks. Both the album and the accompanying single Divinity reached the top 10 in Finland. For the ten-year anniversary, the best-of compilation story was released in 2000 . At the same time Olli-Pekka Laine left the band and was replaced by Niclas Etelävuori. With Santeri Kallio, who had already worked on the last album, a new keyboardist was added. Shortly thereafter, Amorphis played in the United States for the first time since 1994, this time with Moonspell and The Kovenant .
With the album Am Universum , for which the recordings were stopped at the end of 2000 and which was produced by Simon Efemey , Amorphis was able to rise to number 4 in the Finnish charts in 2001. The single Alone reached number 1. In 2001, Amorphis toured the United States again with Opeth as the opening act. Pekka Kasari left the band after the tour for family reasons and was replaced by drummer Jan Rechberger, who returned to the band. At the end of 2002 Amorphis released Kuusamo , her only piece in Finnish . The cover version of a pop song by Ilkka Lipsanen from 1976 appeared on the soundtrack of the Finnish road movie Menolippu Mombasaan by Hannu Tuomainen . Besides Amorphis, other well-known Finnish bands such as Nightwish , HIM and Apocalyptica were represented on the soundtrack. In 2003 the film was nominated for the Jussi Award “Best Music”. In 2002, the collaboration with Relapse Records ended, which released another best-of compilation, Chapters .
The next album was called Far from the Sun and was recorded and produced by Amorphis itself. The release in March 2003 took over the major label Virgin Records . In October 2003 Amorphis gave some concerts with Paradise Lost in Finland, at which Atte Sarkima from Ajattara represented Jan Rechberger who was unable to attend . In the spring of 2004, Amorphis recorded a few demos for new pieces in the CPCC studios . It wasn't until September 2004, more than a year after its release in Europe, that Far from the Sun was released in the United States. A USA tour with Type O Negative was planned for October 2004, but it was canceled due to an illness of Peter Steele .
Present (from 2005)
Even before the US tour was canceled, Pasi Koskinen announced that he would leave the band after having been a singer in Amorphis for nine years. On August 21, 2004 he played his last concert with Amorphis at the Kontu Rock Festival . In an interview, Niclas Etelavuori says: "Pasi no longer felt motivated and happy to sing with 'Amorphis', there were no conflicts or arguments and we are still good friends." ( Niclas Etelavuori in an interview with The-Pit. de ) For the USA tour, Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto from Charon was supposed to take over the vocals temporarily . After the tour was canceled, the members of Amorphis started looking for a permanent singer. The band listened to around 150 demos of singers, but none of them could convince.
“We wanted a fronter who could sing in the new as well as the old tracks, and that seemed impossible. We started to write the songs for the fresh album and were even ready to simply record an instrumental disc. "
Via Markku Mäkinen, the guitarist of the rock band Sinisthra , Tomi Koivusaari got to the Sinisthra singer Tomi Joutsen from Lohja , who had also sung in death metal bands and was a fan of Amorphis. Markku Mäkinen recommended Tomi Joutsen as the new singer. About the first rehearsal with Tomi Joutsen, Esa Holopainen later said: "We got along well with each other quickly, and when he started singing our pieces we knew he was the right person for the job." ( Esa Holopainen in an interview with the music magazine Orkus ) In March Amorphis played with him on a seven-week tour through the United States with the supporting bands Into Eternity , Beyond the Embrace and Bullet Theory . In July 2005 the album Eclipse was recorded, which was released on February 24, 2006. Since Amorphis was not satisfied with Virgin Records, the band switched back to Nuclear Blast, which had already taken over distribution in Europe. Eclipse reached number 1 in the charts in Finland, as did the first single House of Sleep . Following the release of Eclipse , the band played a few concerts, including in August 2006 at Summer Breeze .
The successor Silent Waters was recorded in January 2007 in Sonic Pump Studios , production was done by Mikko Karmila in Finnvox Studios . The single of the same name was released on June 27, 2007 and entered the Finnish charts at number 2. Amorphis played at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in May and at Wacken Open Air in August. The album was released at the end of the month, followed by a tour of Finland in September, an appearance at the Loud Park Festival in Japan and a tour with Swallow the Sun and Insomnium through the rest of Europe in November. In February 2008 the band received the first gold records for 15,000 units sold in Finland for the albums Silent Waters and Eclipse . In 2009 the successor Skyforger was released and in 2011 the album The Beginning of Times .
On August 22, 2012, Amorphis confirmed on their Facebook page that the recordings for the eleventh studio album would begin in September at Petrax Studios in Helsinki. The lyrics would again come from Pekka Kainulainen, who already participated on the band's last three albums. The new album, entitled Circle , was produced by Peter Tägegren (Abyss Studio, Hypocrisy, Pain et al.) And released worldwide on April 19, 2013 by Nuclear Blast.
Under the Red Cloud's twelfth studio album was released on September 4, 2015 via Nuclear Blast and received an unanimously positive response from the specialist press. It was the sixth album in a row that was “Album of the Month” at the German Metal Hammer. The Rock Hard magazine emphasizes that the band is on the one hand increasingly letting its death metal roots shine through, but on the other hand processing numerous influences from progressive, death, black, symphonic and folk metal into coherent songs. The online magazine laut.de also praised the band for how they interweave their different facets.
style
music
Many, especially early band titles are characterized by the guitar riffs , power chords and drum rhythms that are common in the genre , as well as other common stylistic phrases. Often - as in the songs Black Embrace , Grails Mysteries ( ) or Warrior's Trail, sluggish riffs , often reminiscent of Black Sabbath through semitones , alternate with extremely fast 16th note runs in single notes accompanied by double bass .
Slower, ballad-like tracks like Grieve Stricken Heart or Veil of Sin ( ) - of which there is an acoustic version with saxophone on Am Universum - refer to the minor mid-tempo songs on Metallica's later albums .
Other tracks, on the other hand, are structured by memorable, mostly melodic guitar figures. Examples are Under A Soil And Black Stone , or Tuonela . The latter reminds (if you disregard the metal elements like power chords and drums) in its instrumental part ( ) even remotely of Spanish folklore.
Completely non-metal parts are then, for example, the beginning of the title Alone , which is reminiscent of U2 in guitar and drum processing , or the differentiated - in the metal sector usually relatively unusual (reminiscent of Rush ) - drum work in the title Same Flesh .
Shortly after the formation, the band members began to deal with traditional Finnish music. This influence becomes clear , for example, in the instrumental intro Karelia from The Karelian Isthmus and is still a formative element today. Oriental music is also an important inspiration for the band. In an interview from 1999, the band said: "We have always been interested in oriental music and there is a lot of this 'kebab stuff' on the new album [ Tuonela ]" ( Olli-Pekka Laine and Esa Holopainen in an interview on Vampster )
For example, the introduction to the title Withered from the album Tunoela consists of a rhythmically relatively free e-guitar improvisation ( ) on the oriental-looking Phrygian-dominant scale (here C - Db - E - F - G - As - Bb - C ).
For the instrumentation of the band, in addition to the usual rock line-up consisting of electric guitar , bass and drums, the polyphonic guitar and keyboard set and the frequent use of the piano and Hammond organ are typical. The originality of their melodies is often emphasized. The guitar tracks are often alienated with tremolo and flanger effects or underlaid with echo . Although the band works with folk influences, hardly any instruments were used on the albums. Only on the song Rusty Moon from the album Tuonela does a flute appear, which brought the band references to Jethro Tull . The title Brother Moon integrates - as already practiced by Thin Lizzy or Gary Moore - elements of Irish folk music into metal music. This is clearly audible based on this typical figure performed by the electric guitar ( ) from the folk. The band also used a sitar (on the Elegy album ) and a saxophone (on the Tuonela and Am Universum albums ) on additional instruments .
Amorphis often combines guttural and clear male vocals and was one of the first death metal bands to try this mix in 1994 on Tales from the Thousand Lakes . On the album Elegy from 1996 the clear vocals already took a dominant position over the guttural, on the next album Tuonela guttural vocals only appear in one piece. After two albums without growling vocals, the new singer Tomi Joutsen mixes clear and guttural vocals again.
Another characteristic of Amorphis since the album Tales from the Thousand Lakes is the use of themes that are usually introduced at the beginning of a song and are taken up again by various instruments in the course of the song, and sometimes varied . One example is the song Black Winter Day by o. G. Album in which a mini-moog with piano accompaniment first presents an eight-bar melody consisting of an opening and closing sentence . In the aftermath, the guitar takes up the theme and repeats it twice, varying. This is followed by an eight-bar secondary theme of the guitar, which also varies and is finally taken up by the keyboard. In the further course of the piece, the thematic material is used and varied, including a keyboard solo. Amorphis mainly used such a compositional technique on the album Elegy , but on the following works up to and including Am Universum the use of such structures declined again. On more recent works by the band, such as Far from the Sun and Eclipse , this technique was increasingly used again.
Amorphis' musical style has changed frequently over the course of the band's history. In a 1991 interview, Esa Holopainen emphasized that Amorphis would only change their style if they managed to develop something themselves. At the same time he attacks the death metal scene of that time and criticizes that everyone just wanted to play more brutally than the others. The desire for stylistic change is also evident in the choice of name. Esa Holopainen borrowed it from the English word "amorphous", which means "formless" in German . Already on the debut album The Karelian Isthmus, Amorphis supplemented the slow death metal with acoustic sections and atmospheric keyboard voices. The pieces are often described as slow, melodic and clearly not influenced by American brutal and fast death metal. On the next albums the band used synthesizers and piano more and more , the progressive rock of the 1970s became an ever greater influence. On the album Am Universum Amorphis continues the development of the previous albums, this musical change is described by the web magazine Vampster in a review with the words " Am Universum is not a metal record - it is a wonderful rock album" ( Andrea Veyhle in the review of Am Universum ) summarized. Far from the Sun is a bit more straightforward and more Metal-heavy. So here the band renounces the use of instruments (saxophone or sitar) that were used occasionally in the past. The 2005 album Eclipse is also much heavier than the previous albums. According to Esa Holopainen, this change in style is due to the new singer.
Texts and symbols
As with the style of music, Amorphis' lyrics changed significantly over time. On the demo Disment of Soul the lyrics were mainly about death, as was quite common in Death Metal, but the debut album The Karelian Isthmus dealt with Celtic history. The lyrics on the second album Tales from the Thousand Lakes come from the Finnish national epic Kalevala . In an interview with the fanzine InfernoZine from 1994 it says:
“[The Kalevala ] is a great way to say something about Finland because this is where you get the mood. [...] It's [something like] our religion. "
In 1996 the band turned away from the Kalevala for the time being . Since the excerpts - without knowing the Kalevala - were not understandable enough, the band took the texts for Elegy from the Finnish collection of poems Kanteletar . The album cover features symbols inspired by Finnish folk art. Even before Elegy , the band dropped their old, ornate Death Metal-typical logo and replaced it with a simpler lettering, the band wanted to visually support the musical change. The lyrics from the 1999 album Tuonela , named after the realm of the dead in Finnish mythology , no longer come directly from Finnish poetry, but are only inspired by old legends. The lyrics to Am Universum , which were all written by Pasi Koskinen, no longer relate to Finnish mythology, as the band did not want to be limited to the old text bases, neither in public perception nor in their own expression. The CD cover of Far from the Sun shows a reference to the early past of the band with the hammer of the Ukko , which is similar to the Thor's hammer , but the lyrics have no reference to Finnish mythology, as on the predecessor. Only with the new singer and the new musical direction did Amorphis turn to the Kalevala again. The texts of Eclipse come from Paavo Haavikkos Kullervon-Tarina (1982), a theater adaptation of the Kullervo cycle in Kalevala , the album cover is supposed to reflect the mental state of the protagonist. The lyrics of Silent Waters , written by Pekka Kainulainen, a friend of Tomi Joutsen, are also inspired by the Kalevala .
reception
Although Amorphis has moved away from its metal roots in the meantime, the band was still mainly perceived in the metal scene. All of Amorphis 'albums were discussed in major metal magazines, and Amorphis' support bands were all metal bands as well. Amorphis was also well known in the black scene , so the band played as the main band on the metal stage in 2007 at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen and is regularly discussed in magazines such as Sonic Seducer , Orkus and Zillo .
Since Amorphis has covered a variety of musical styles in the course of the band's history, the band is rated very differently. Some death metal fans even go so far as to speak of two different bands. Tuonela , Am Universum and Far from the Sun in particular are often attacked by death metal fans. In contrast, the older Tales from the Thousand Lakes is considered a masterpiece of Death Metal. So writes a fansite that is dedicated to "the old Amorphis":
“In 1993 Amorphis released Tales from the Thousand Lakes, one of the great milestones of death metal. The cult album is considered to be one of the first melodic DM records long before various groups cheered the Gothenburg sound [sic!]. "
The Finnish melodic death metal band Noumena is compared by Metalnews.de with Amorphis on Tales from the Thousand Lakes . After Amorphis is cited by Nuomena guitarist Ville Lamminaho as a negative example of a death metal band that is radically changing its style, he calls Tales from the Thousand Lakes “the best Finnish metal album of all time” and describes it as “probably one of the best records of all times that defined a whole genre. ”( Ville Lamminaho in an interview with Metalnews.de ) Later he names the successor Elegy as another favorite album. Tales from the Thousand Lakes is still called the most important Amorphis album today. In 2001, after several albums that made it into the Finnish top 10 charts, Tomi Koivusaari said in an interview: "The Tales ... has sold better than any other Amorphis album." ( Tomi Koivusaari in an interview to Am Universum on Vampster ) The list of Best of Rock & Metal by the Rock-Hard editorial team leads the album to number 248 and raves about "every piece on this album is a pearl, a deeper musical adventure" ( Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann for Rock -Hard editorial team ).
The Karelian Isthmus debut album is also often described as outstanding. The All Music Guide calls The Karelian Isthmus "one of the best European Death Metal debut albums from the early 1990s" ( Vincent Jeffries in the review of The Karelian Isthmus ), Matthias Herr writes in his Heavy Metal Lexicon :
“With The Karelian Isthmus , Amorphis has succeeded in creating a perfect Death / Doom opera in which neither of the two mainstreams is neglected. A piece of jewelry and a masterpiece at the same time. Recommended. "
Also Markus Toivonen , the last remaining founding member of the Finnish Viking metal band Ensiferum , sees itself heavily influenced by Amorphis. After Ensiferum covered the Amorphis song Into Hiding from the album Tales from the Thousand Lakes on the EP Dragonheads in 2006 , he said in an interview: “Amorphis [are] the main reason […] that I started making music and Ensiferum "( Markus Toivonen in March 2006 at Metal1.info ) He further describes Amorphis as" the roots of melodic death metal and melodic metal ".
Insomnium is another Finnish melodic death metal band that is often compared to Amorphis from the early days. In a review of the album Since the Day It All Came Down , Erik Thomas writes: "Insomnium are essentially what Amorphis should be today." ( Erik Thomas in the review of Since the Day It All Came Down on DigitalMetal.com ) Other reviewers go continue and describe Amorphis as "Pussies" ( "GZ" in the review of Since the Day It All Came Down ) and the album Far from the Sun as "god-awful" ( David E. Gehlke in the review of Since the Day It All Came Down ).
Elegy was the first Amorphis album to enter the Finnish album charts. Also Tuonela reached the Finnish top 10, but disappointed many fans by avoiding use guttural vocals. The band was often accused of a musical sell-out, and only rarely was Amorphis allowed to "[continue] with this album the path they took with Tales from the Thousand Lakes and Elegy " ( Andrea Veyhle in the review of Tuonela on Vampster. com ) Metal.de predicts: “Amorphis should have managed to scare away all old fans with Tuonela . Like various other colleagues who thought they could get more money with softer songs. ”( “ Necrotos ”in the review of Tuonela on Metal.de ) With Am Universum and Far from the Sun it became clear that Amorphis have turned away from Death Metal at the same time they were able to win new fans with their new style.
With the change of singer and some changes in music and lyrics, Eclipse represents another clear turning point in the band's history, but is mostly rated positively. The successor Silent Waters was named album of the month for September 2007 by Metal Hammer . With these two albums, Amorphis is again taking a different path, which is more reminiscent of the style of the first three albums. Although there are still quieter pieces to be found on both albums, Amorphis mainly uses more “growls” again and on both albums there are heavier, more, songs like “A Servant” or “Perkele (the God of Fire)” songs influenced by melodic death metal. The newer albums Skyforger and The Beginning Of Times also largely follow this stylistic line.
Since Tomi Joutsen joined Amorphis as a singer in 2005, Marco Hietala has produced and arranged the vocals for Amorphis. He also supports Amorphis with the backing vocals on the albums Eclipse , Silent Waters and Skyforger .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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 FI
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| 1992 |
The Karelian Isthmus Relapse Records |
- | - | - | - |
First published: November 1, 1992
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| 1994 |
Tales from the Thousand Lakes Relapse Records |
- | - | - | - |
First published: July 12, 1994
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| 1996 |
Elegy Relapse Records |
DE67 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
FI8 (14 weeks) FI |
First published: May 14, 1996
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| 1999 |
Tuonela Relapse Records |
DE46 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
FI8 (7 weeks) FI |
First published: March 29, 1999
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| 2001 |
At Universum Relapse Records |
DE75 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
FI4 (5 weeks) FI |
First published: April 3, 2001
|
| 2003 |
Far from the Sun Virgin Records |
- | - | - |
FI7 (4 weeks) FI |
First published: May 26, 2003
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| 2006 |
Eclipse Nuclear Blast |
DE56 (1 week) DE |
AT69 (1 week) AT |
- |
FI1  (8 weeks)FI |
First published: February 15, 2006
|
| 2007 |
Silent Waters Nuclear Blast |
DE44 (1 week) DE |
AT49 (1 week) AT |
CH52 (2 weeks) CH |
FI3 (13 weeks)FI |
First published: August 29, 2007
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| 2009 | Skyforger Nuclear Blast |
DE55 (2 weeks) DE |
AT74 (1 week) AT |
CH48 (1 week) CH |
FI1 (22 weeks)FI |
First published: May 27, 2009
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| 2011 | The Beginning of Times Nuclear Blast |
DE16 (2 weeks) DE |
AT41 (1 week) AT |
CH32 (1 week) CH |
FI1 (17 weeks) FI |
First published: May 25, 2011
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| 2013 |
Circle Nuclear Blast |
DE13 (3 weeks) DE |
AT24 (2 weeks) AT |
CH57 (2 weeks) CH |
FI1 (20 weeks) FI |
First published: April 17, 2013
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| 2015 | Under the Red Cloud Nuclear Blast |
DE10 (3 weeks) DE |
AT20 (2 weeks) AT |
CH11 (2 weeks) CH |
FI2 (17 weeks) FI |
First published: September 4th, 2015
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| 2018 | Queen of Time Nuclear Blast |
DE4 (5 weeks) DE |
AT11 (2 weeks) AT |
CH3 (4 weeks) CH |
FI1 (28 weeks) FI |
First published: May 18, 2018
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Web links
- Official website
- Amorphis at laut.de
- Amorphis at Allmusic (English)
- Amorphis at MusicBrainz (English)
- Amorphis at Discogs (English)
- Amorphis on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Sami: Interview on Disment of Soul (PDF; 316 kB) in Hellspawn , summer 1991 (English, accessed June 12, 2007)
- ↑ a b c d e f Garry Sharpe-Young : Amorphis Biography on musicmight.com (accessed September 6, 2008)
- ^ A b Matthias Herr: Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 4 , pp. 14 and 15, 1994
- ↑ a b c Arnoud Helmantel: Interview with Amorphis in The Inferno Zine (accessed June 12, 2007)
- ↑ Mjöllnir: An interview with Tomi Koivusaari from Amorphis ( Memento from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in The Inferno Zine # 8 (accessed June 12, 2007)
- ↑ a b c Gino Filicetti: The Alteration of All Norms on ChroniclesOfChaos.com (accessed June 12, 2007)
- ↑ Interview in Rock Hard No. 109, see Rock Hard homepage ( Memento from April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Christopher J. Kelter: AMORPHIS / MOONSPELL / THE KOVENANT / SINGLE BULLET THEORY on RoughEdge.com (accessed June 17, 2007)
- ↑ Christopher J. Kelter: Am Universum (Relapse; 2001) on RoughEdge.com (accessed June 17, 2007)
- ↑ a b Official biography ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed June 10, 2007)
- ↑ Far from the Sun at Amazon.com (accessed June 19, 2007)
- ↑ Stefan Kaufhold: I'm sure that the new stuff will hit you in the face. on The-Pit.de, February 14, 2006 (German, accessed July 26, 2007)
- ↑ Elke Huber: Interview Amorphis - Tomi Joutsen on PowerMetal.de, January 29, 2006 (German, accessed July 27, 2007)
- ↑ a b c d e f Martin Kreischer: Feuerteufel in Orkus 101 , p. 101, March 2006
- ↑ Laut.de: Biography Amorphis (German, accessed on July 28, 2007)
- ↑ ifpi.fi: IFPI (Finnish, accessed March 6, 2008)
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