Amorphis

[Mitch]

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[size=1] I am really starting to love this band. I bought one of their newer CDs, [i]Am Universum[/i], for about 8 bucks...and slowly I've become really impressed.

Supposedly they don't sound like they sound on this CD on their other CDs, though.

But, briefly, the sound is a lot like Pink Floyd's. While not exactly...and far off from them in some ways, the main thing I'd say is that they are heavily instrumental. At least on this album, I mean. I'm not sure otherwise, though. I would definitely classify this as psychadelic rock. They even have a jazz sound briefly in some of their songs...a la Pink Floyd's [i]Dark Side of the Moon[/i].

If you want to download some of their stuff, just start off with "Alone." It's an amazing song and I've been listening over and over to it.

They're definitely an aquired taste, but most good bands are. So this stuff takes a while to finally grow on you.

[url=http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/1305/1305375.html]You can download an .mp3 of "Alone" here.[/url] And their website's at [url]www.amorphis.net[/url].

Here is a brief review of [i]Am Universum[/i]:

[quote]If ever a band defined evolution, Amorphis is probably a good definition. They've moved from being a death metal-ish type band with their early stuff, with growling vocals and all of the expected death metal stylings, to being more of a straight melodic band with clean vocals and only the occasional growl heard on a tune. Tuonela, their last album in 1999, pretty much completed that transformation, being their most accessible album to date. In fact, it was such a transformation that the radio copies were stickered with a tracking primer, that let the faithful Amorphis fans know that track 5, Greed, featured the "old school death vox". I admit I was a bit scared this time around, when the tracking primer listed one of the tracks as "catchy". I expect that perhaps from an NSync CD, but it is nothing that I want with my Amorphis. I never look for catchy hooks when it comes to this band. My fears were needless though. The band has made the album that they tried so hard to make with Tuonela. All of the weak things on Tuonela that made the great record almost great have been fixed. Songwriting is solid throughout, with nary a weak tune in the bunch and Pasi Koskinen sounds great on vocals, and actually, the whole band sounds great as you would expect. There is even a bit of saxophone on the album on several tracks. As albums go, this is definitely a record that holds your focus from start to finish. Too often, an album can very easily become background music, which is something that happened with Tuonela - the album started strong, but never really went anywhere. Amorphis have crafted a very fine album that as soon as it is over, you want to listen to it again. As with all of their albums, it's very diverse too. Goddess(Of The Sad Man), and Crimson Wave are beautifully hard driving tunes with great riffs, while Veil Of Sin has an almost Pink Floyd vibe to it, and definitely brings to mind the two Hawkwind covers they did on the My Kantele e.p. several years ago. Overall, I love this record. I wish that American bands would churn out albums as fast as the Stratovariouses and Amorphises of the world, but that's another topic for another day.
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Yeah. Just check out the band, that's mostly all I'm asking. That's the point of this thread.

If you don't check them out, you suck. That's the bottom line.

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