Metal Reviews

SAMPLES FROM ECLIPSE

OK, so they have a new singer. He's different. At times he can sound a bit mainstream, "Under A Soil And Black Stone" (huh?) is a clear example, kind of has a Chad Kroeger sound to his voice on that song (at least in the short clip)! :shock: But he's also got a Sentenced quality, as well. Regardless, the death metal vocals are back it appears, and on quite a few songs, too! Wow! Unbelievable.

I can't wait for this album now!

Interesting indeed. I used to like Amorphis through Elegy. I wll check this out.

Not a fan of the proggy stuff, eh? It's damn good music, but quite different, I admit. I'm glad to see them putting more of the growls back into the mix. They've only done it a few times since Elegy.

Not their proggy stuff, that's for sure.

I really liked Elegy though.

Anything before Elegy you'd probably like then, if you haven't heard it already.

Yeah I liked Tales from the Thousand Lakes and Karelian Isthmus. "Black Winter Day" is an awesome track of course, and Karelian Isthmus is really, really heavy.

I listened, it's a definite improvement over stuff like Am Universum. They are channelling mid and later period Sentenced, which I had a pretty mixed opinion of. I might get this sometime. Thanks for the heads up.

Well, I like their proggy stuff. The only time I didn't like it is on the Chapters CD because the old and the new doesn't flow well on one CD. That CD should have been a 2CD set, old stuff and new stuff.

I can't wait for this new one now. High hopes here...

Far from the Sun was absolute crap, I am glad they arn't going that direction any more.

It is rare for a band to make a masterpiece or perfect album, even rarer for a band to do it with entirely different styles.

Tales from the Thousand Lakes and Tueonla (sp? sorry, don't bitch) or both Masterpieces and I judge a lot of albums to those too.

Well, it's official, I just got the promo for this album today and Eclipse is FUCKING AWESOME! This album is much heavier than recent albums, much more old school, Elegy-era Amorphis than recent albums, generally they kind of hover around the Sentenced style, rather than the real proggy stuff they did on the past few albums. Eclipse is much heavier, it does boast some death metal vocals on tracks like "Leaves Scar," "The Smoke" and "Perkele (The God Of Fire)" which makes them very, VERY Elegy-like. The folk elements are there as always and they still retain some proggy elements like the song "Under A Soil And Black Stone" (aka: "Our English Sucks"), but this singer's vocals kind of come off a bit Nickelback-ish at times, he's got a gruff singing voice and this is what it sounds like to me. Don't worry, musically there is no Nickelback present. There are also some new things like the song "Shame Flesh," which almost has a power metal like chorus (you'll have to hear it).

Overall it's a great fucking CD. It should please those who miss the old stuff, but still dug on the proggy shit. A very good balance of the two. This will be one of the best albums of 2006...EASY.

OK, check out this song and tell me when you last heard this band sound like this:

AMORPHIS - PERKELE (THE GOD OF FIRE) (REMOVED)

This song is FUCKING AWESOME!!! Pasi who? Enjoy!

I got the album Eyesore and I must say that it is really enjoyable. I never thought Amorphis would sound like a metal band again. They are certainly channelling latter Sentenced but the rough vocals in places make it heavier overall. The new singer I also find more enjoyable than Pasi, excepting his work in Ajattara. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

It is indeed an excellent album. It will likely make my Best of 2006 list.

I didn't get the song... :(

I had it up here for like a month! Haha. I just removed it like two days ago.

I had some problems with my internet back then and I only just noticed one of your sweet links

Here you go...again.

REMOVED...AGAIN.

merci beaucoup... tu es un véritable ami !

Yo, T.I.E.! What'd you think?