Amorphis - Intro: Karelia / The Gathering

Amorphis was/is a Finnish Death metal band formed in 1990, by a few ex-members of another Death metal group :Abhorrence, The band recorded the demo "Disment of Soul" in 1991, and got immediately signed to Relapse ( greatly due to the PR made by Abhorrence ). a single and and their first full-length "Karelian Isthmus" was released in 1992. The album was recorded in 1992 in Sunlight Studios of Stockholm and with assistance of Tomas Skogsberg. The songs recorded in 1991 in Helsinki were featured on the "Privilege of Evil" EP released in 1993 ( the EP was originally ment to release as a split-album with Incantation but due to some problems, Incantation's side wasn't released until 2008 ). The second album "Tales from the Thousand Lakes" released in 1994 represented the new musical world of Amorphis, with more extensive use of keyboards, melody and folk music influenced guitar riffs. In 1995, all the rest of the songs ,that didn't fit on the full-length ,were released on "Black Winter Day" EP . "Tales from the Thousand lakes" has also been considered one of the founding stones of Melodic Death Metal. The lyrical themes of the band also changed during the "Tales . . ." album, and the songs have been inspired by the tales of Finnish epic Kalevala ever since. In 1996 released third album of the band "Elegy" had fallen even deeper to progressive experimenting both in guitars and keyboards and the music had more folk tendencies.

MORE INFO CAN BE FOUND HERE :
http://www.amorphis.net/?page_id=2

This is from their first full-length "Karelian Isthmus" of 1992

Lyrics:

[lyrics: E. Holopainen]
[music: T. Koivusaari E. Holopainen]

"The sound of thousand warriors
The fields of thousand battles
Still, in our hearts we can hear
the great hymn of Karelia."


The Gathering

[lyrics: E. Holopainen]
[music: T. Koivusaari]

As I sense their steel,
As I see the mighty one,
As we all gather once again
the gods of war summon us...
summon us

North wind blows to our valley
men with ships, with swords, with honour

Their horses between flames,
their dogs eating enemy childs,
Our heavenly father, what is this mortality,
do you see my mortal agony

Look, I see the shield up high
this must be the sign from my lord
this can be my death - sentence
what a fine day to die

Taste of blood comes up high
Wind blows hard, our men fall...
one by one
This oath claims me
I must bleed for my generation

Strong is the enemy,
strong is my sword
the hammer is rising
I feel their cold steel

Now when I leave this world
I shall open the mighty oaken gate
and we all shall gather once again

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• Amorphis
• Karelian
• Isthmus
• The
• Gathering
• old-school
• death
• metal
• finnish
• finland
• Karelia

[BioHazard1Fin1]

Quite a great feeling to be a Karelian when listening to this...

[XysmicExecration]

Hehe

I am one quarter Karelian myself.

[FabianDemonic]

One of the greatest albums ever written

[XysmicExecration]

Indeed. I've listened various types of metal and plenty of artist through the years, and this is one of those albums, I always get back to. Timeless masterpiece

[lastdaysofhumanity6]

This is insane! Why they are so gay now?

[XysmicExecration]

No. I think they still are straight men, despite their change of style in music.

[JustRealDubstep]

i like both amorphis

[Metalwilly1]

@rockprogmetal the singer reminds me of Dethklok singer Nathan Explosion :D

[Metalwilly1]

Amorphis ruled ad the 90s now they just sucks and sound lame

[lamentate07]

This album is like Bolt Thrower meets Paradise Lost.

a pretty unique hybrid.

[Hartatemiverga]

@rockprogmetal Do not Comparate the essence of Death Metal.... Respect the Good.

[909thx]

for me the best lp of the guys!

[sneworse]

old amorphis is awesome

[rockprogmetal]

Reminds me of Entombed a little bit, which is awsome. I love both old and new Amorphis tho theyre just really different. What they did was only get more and more progressive after tales of the thousand lakes and even more so on elegy, which are both my favorite albums by them as well

[shiller41cbg]

my favorite instrumental!!!

[Kolenschopper]

@Sorgutentarer

You are damn right, this reminds me of days spending in the record store, just to find that album. I found it, in 1992 and 1994. The owner of the shop must still frown at me when i come along. Spending days in a record store got me alot of more and better music, but the first 2 albums of amorphis are still amazing.