OFF: Amorphis

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tis 4 maj 1999 11.33 -0400 "Keith Henderson" <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU>
wrote:
> I guess they started out as a really doomy metal band, but have since
backed
> off from that into 'my territory.'
> Are they well-known to folks here or in general?  I'd never
> heard of them until last month.

     More part of the Scandinavian death-metal scene.  Their
earliest stuff is _far_ too much for me to handle.  Their
_Tales from the Thousand Lakes_ album is still too "cookie
monster oriented" IMO, but the superb instrumentation and subject
matter (drawn from the Kalevala) just manage to redeem it for
me.

     Their album _Elegy_ still has some of the death-metal
vocals, but is otherwise *completely* excellent.  This was the
Amorphis stuff I first heard, and it was someone on this list
who recommended it to me, I think!  From that album is the
CDS "My Kantele" which includes a Kingston Wall cover ("And
I Hear You Call") and a Hawkwind cover ("Levitation")!!!

     I have just ordered _Tuonela_ from Henrik :)  (along with
the new Garmarna "Euchari" single).

Cheers,
Carl

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/