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voxmelodia
this band sucks, why did i used to like them so much. they suck live too, i saw them twice both times their openers were better.
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eifersuchtengel
THIS SHIT FUCKING SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT
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Nick-Valentine
Don't hate the player, hate the game. Enjoy your seat on my black list, tool.
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eifersuchtengel
You’re a quirked up white boy that’s prob 30 sitting in his moms basement with the mindset “just cause it’s pop or rap it’s bad 🤓”
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WoomyVeemoLord
Thousand Lakes really is something else! Not sure it's still my favorite, hard to choose from any of the 1994-2001 albums, as those 4 are all so great. New stuff's amazing too, especially from Circle onwards (+ Skyforger), but not quite on the level of this stuff!
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PussyRipper
I never heard all discography of Amorphis, but all album that I heard of them, I loved it.
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Angry1nc
Unpopular opinion: IMO Tuonela and AM Universum are the greatest Amorphis albums, far superior to early material and more eclectic and dark/alternative than the post 2007 albums. Eclipse was the last album of this kind, it's because the music was composed before Tomi Joutsen arrived. Pasi Koskinen is my favourite Amorphis vocalist.
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Borreh
I have a soft spot for Tuonela and Eclipse, that era seemed far more imaginative and daring than the current slog of by-the-numbers releases. Silent Waters and Circle are very good while Under The Red Cloud and Skyforger are classics, but the rest (and especialy the recent albums) feel very hit or miss while being extremely predictable in style and execution. You can rehash the exact same formula only for so long before even good releases start to sound bland. Up until early Tomi era they seemed to reinvent themselves constantly and I miss that dearly.
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MosherSam13
New album sound so rich, epic and stunning it makes me want to throw up silver & gold.
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NoWayOut
I suppose so, there's probably someone out there whose favourite Maiden record is Virtual XI too. It's just that Eclipse was such a total copout of a record, a half-arsed attempt to return to a past sound with a new singer with a totally generic voice. An end to a period where Amorphis were a truly interesting band, pushing genre boundaries and writing more interesting music than their peers. And then... Eclipse.
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pestcommando
Last 3 songs are the highlight of the album and are top tier tracks of their career!
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Googolplex57
Amorphis can do no wrong, every album since Eclipse has been great with the exception of TBoT
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Brandon_Exylum
I legit don't understand the hate for TBoT. To me its banger after banger haha.
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Borreh
I’m utterly baffled. They're trying way too hard on this one, too much "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks", too much out of place complexity for compexity's sake (and it's not even complex to begin with, it just feels cumbersome), too much heaviness for heaviness' sake and out of place growls, overall the album feels like rambling gibberish at times (which makes it oddly monotone). But I didn't hate it and some parts I do like a lot, I think the second half is waaay better than the first one, and the few times they legit try something new out (e.g. black-trashy-stoner-ish The Wolf which is a show stealer) it does kinda' work out. But overall it feels like they're lost at sea and desperately need a new sound. Again. 7/10 I guess I liked it.
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dragothica
Totally, this album is so inconsistent and also boring at the same time. For example, they throw orchestrations in the mix just to have it without any consideration and it just sounds bad. Like random orchestral section out of nowhere. I don't even hate orchestrations in general, at all quite the opposite, but on this album they just don't fit in. On Pyres of the Coast the orchestrations built upon already amazing track and they clearly had a place there at the end of the album. Also, this album has so many tracks that just simply flow past you with any point of grasping them, unlike on Queen of Time where every single track was jamming, rocking and overall easier to grasp. I'm not even a new Amorphis listener, started somewhere with AM Universum days and believe or not this is simply their worst album especially of Joutsen-Era.
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WiseParanoia
I really felt it as the "too much album". It's not bad in itself, but the melodies, the riffs, the choruses, I really feel like I've heard them 150 times before. And it gets even more easy-listening and quite easy to apprehend, yet very uninspired this time.
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Heijohpeih
Amorphis have created two great albums. A fascinating combination of Death Metal and Folk at the right time. After that, they never reached that feat again. They were never bad, but since they have never convinced me , although I've tried many times.
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outfield7790
Сейчас они скучные, утратили абсолютно всё, кроме таланта в оформлении обложек и буклетов.
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Borreh
"The Moon" is a weird one, I like where they are going with it, nothing revolutional and they had better singles but I like its' pretty natural flow and neat verse-chorus transitions, those shoehorned in growls be damned. Plus it sounds like their later latest two albums mixed with a bit of Eclipse/Silent Waters and... Circle, maybe?
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Thecondemned
Huh? Why is there a sudden increase in listeners? Not complaining at all, but did I miss something?
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naluinchains
true sigma males only listen to music at concerts. CDS, vinyls, spotify? that’s beta behavior. listening to music on streaming platforms is a feminine trait, real males break into studios, listen to the album as it’s being mastered and reject all other sorts of inferior modern music platforms. youtube? bandcamp? that’s for pussies. you’re not a real music enjoyer unless you experience the real thing up close, the divine sensation of being buttfucked in the middle of a moshpit. females will never truly understand what listening to music is really about because they’re too busy wasting their time creating all these completely futile playlists, categorizing music like it’s a food menu and complying to modern’s society inherent tendency to laziness. be a man. go to a concert. you’ll never understand real music if you just sit around listening to shit online like the loser you know you are. “oh, but the pandemic!” that’s no excuse. unless you want to be a beta forever you can always fin
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Kaksoisnikke
I've also found myself liking the Koskinen era albums more and more lately. I mean, I've always loved Elegy but Tuonela and Am Universum are pure gold as well. Such atmospheric and elegant music.
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AlienMilitant
I totally agree. 90s and early 2000 Amorphis was the golden age. I appreciate Joutsen's albumes but some magik was lost, in many levels i mean, sound and production (that full dynamic range bulshit war), composition, identity and therefore originality. So sad... but it's ok i can live with that haha
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mantikhoras
Too Disney... You telling me Heart of Giant sounds Disney? :o Are you serious? Queen of Time is an amazing album! The orchestra, the ambient, the guitar sequences are more progressive and wholesome, growl/clean exchange are just right... I've been listening to them my whole grown life and Queen of Time has pushed the band in a new direction and I can't wait for the next (you can read this between the lines of songs too...). Personally I was never rly totally fine with Am Universum... some good songs there but it sounded slighty industrial, I don't know, it's like you try to put on some old pants that are way undersized but you still hope you can pull it off. I ain't sayin' it's a bad album, just that it's not authentic to them... but that's just my modest opinion :D
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Kajtek666
Never said, that "QoT" is bad (I consider it as one of their best albums, only Elegy and Tuonela are better), but period between "Eclipse" and latest album is weaker, than all LPs with Koskinen. It's like in the other bands with different vocalists - fans are divided and Amorphis is no exception. Cannot deny, that Tomi is a great vocalist, but Pasi was "THE ONE" imho.
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Borreh
I love Tomi's vocals, and I freaking adore whenever they go down the "Disney metal" route, but I agree that the issue is that the band steadily lost the spirit of the early/mid material (especialy Tuonela era stuff) the heavier (and more formulaic) their sound became. My absolute favs are Eclipse, Skyforger and Circle and all of them are much lighter and more rock-oriented than the other releases. Maybe it's their clean guitar tone that lead songs like "The Way" or "Empty Opening" to glory that's been used less and less. That, and I really don't think their music requires as much growling as Tomi does, often it just sounds forced. Why on Earth is, for example, the "Message in Amber" chorus growled is just beyond me. Or maybe a part of magic was that every new album was wildly different and unpredictable, but now "Queen of Time" is 3rd (?) "Skyforger but different" in a row. And people thought the first 3 albums with Tomi sounded similar...
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eternal_absence
Theyre going to be performing Tales From the Thousand Lakes in its entirety for their next tour. Im going!
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