Tales from the Thousand Lakes
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Publication |
July 12, 1994 |
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| Label (s) | Relapse Records | |||
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CD, LP, cassette |
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Title (number) |
10 (re-release: 14) |
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running time |
39 min 53 s (Republication: 51 min 54 s) |
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Amorphis, Bill J. Yurkiewic, Matthew F. Jacobson, Tomas Skogsberg |
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Studio (s) |
Sunlight Studio |
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Tales from the Thousand Lakes is the second studio album by the Finnish metal band Amorphis and was released in July 1994.
Creation and publication
Tales from the Thousand Lakes was recorded in September 1993 at Sunlight Studio in Stockholm . Ville Tuomi contributed as a guest musician, the clear vocals that appeared for the first time. After the recordings he played a few concerts with Amorphis. Kasper Mårtenson was the first keyboard player in the band's history, he also composed all keyboard parts on Tales from the Thousand Lakes .
Tales from the Thousand Lakes was released on July 12, 1994 by Relapse Records , in Europe by Nuclear Blast and in Finland by Spinefarm Records . On September 1, 1994, Tales from the Thousand Lakes was released on vinyl by Nuclear Blast. The EP Black Winter Day was supposed to be released before the album, but the release was delayed and so it was only released on January 31, 1995.
Track list
- Thousand Lakes (Holopainen) - 2:03
- Into Hiding (Holopainen, Laine) - 3:42
- The Castaway (Koivusaari, Holopainen) - 5:30
- First Doom (Holopainen) - 3:49
- Black Winter Day (Mårtenson) - 3:48
- Drowned Maid (Koivusaari, Holopainen, Laine) - 4:23
- In the Beginning (Holopainen, Laine) - 3:34
- Forgotten Sunrise (Holopainen) - 4:50
- To Fathers Cabin (Holopainen, Laine) - 3:47
- Magic and Mayhem (Holopainen) - 4:27
- Folk of the North - 1:17
- Moon and Sun (Koivusaari) - 3:39
- Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son (Koivusaari, Traditional) - 5:12
- Light My Fire ( The Doors Cover) - 2:53
The lyrics are from Kalevala , First Doom and Forgotten Sunrise were written by Pasi Koskinen, Light My Fire by The Doors. The last four tracks were included on the 2001 re-release and come from the 1995 EP Black Winter Day , the first three of these bonus tracks were also released in 1995 on the Japanese version of Tales from the Thousand Lakes .
style
music
On Tales from the Thousand Lakes Amorphis combines style elements of death metal and doom metal with folk elements. Amorphis was one of the first death metal bands to experiment with clear vocals, and the band also made increasing use of synthesizers and piano . The clear vocals are sometimes referred to as "unsuitable" ( All Music Guide in the review of Tales from the Thousand Lakes ), but often also as the "perfect mix of clear and death metal vocals." ( Silence in the review of Tales from the Thousand Lakes )
Texts and covers
Amorphis took the texts of the Kalevala translation The Kalevala by Keith Bosley from 1989.
Successes and criticism
Tales from the Thousand Lakes is often referred to as the best Amorphis album. The fansite Thousand Tales - The Gathering writes about Tales from the Thousand Lakes :
“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 indulged in the Gothenburg sound . "
Ville Lamminaho of the Finnish death metal band Noumena calls Tales from the Thousand Lakes "one of the best records of all time that defined an entire genre" ( Ville Lamminaho in an interview ) Tales from the Thousand Lakes is still considered the most important amorphis today Album. 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 zu Am Universum on Vampster ) The album was sold more than 250,000 times worldwide by 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnoud Helmantel: Interview with Amorphis ( Memento from February 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) in The Inferno Zine (accessed June 12, 2007)
- ↑ Tordah: Tales From The Thousand Lakes. NocturnalHorde.com, October 1, 2005, archived from the original on February 1, 2012 ; accessed on June 16, 2007 .
- ↑ Vincent Jeffries: Review: Tales from the Thousand Lakes in the All Music Guide (accessed June 16, 2007)
- ↑ Silence: REVIEWS: Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes on Finnish-Metal.net (accessed on June 16, 2007)
- ↑ Thousand Tales - The Gathering (German, accessed July 28, 2007)
- ↑ Marcus Italiani: Interview with Ville Lamminaho, Hannu Savolainen from Noumena at Metalnews.de, May 29, 2005 (German, accessed July 29, 2007)
- ↑ Gino Filicetti: The Alteration of All Norms on ChroniclesOfChaos.com (accessed June 12, 2007)
- ↑ Gabriel Gose: Tales From The Thousand Lakes (9/10) on Metal-Observer.com (accessed on June 16, 2007)
- ↑ Andrea Veyhle: You shouldn't think music to death !! ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Vampster.com, March 23, 2001 (German, accessed June 16, 2007)
- ^ Jone Nikula: Rauta-aika: Suomimetallin historia 1988-2002 . Johnny Kniga Kustannus, 2002, ISBN 951-0-27367-8 , p. 130
