Amorphis is a Finnish metal band whose music combines beautiful melodies, clean- and growling vocals, some really heavy guitar riffs and lyrics from Finland's national epic Kalevala. The Kalevala was written by Elias Lönnrot. The Kalevala begins with the creation of the world and it ends when Christianity arrives. It's a poetic story about events between the characters and there are basically three heroic characters: Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen and Lemminkäinen.
The band was founded by the drummer Jon Rechberger and the guitarist Esa Holopainen. Besides them, the band includes the singer Tomi Joutsen, another guitarist Tomi Koivusaari, the keyboardist Santeri Kallio and the bassist Niclas Etelävuori. The band's name comes from the word amorphous which means something unnatural or formless.
Now I'll introduce their song Sampo to you. Sampo is a forged, machine-like object which can produce tou endless amounts of money and flour. I finally ended up with this song because it gives you a great picture of their music. It has some beautiful melodies, a great piano intro, heavy metal riffs, growling vocals and very beautiful clean vocals. So in fact this song summarises all the genres of Amorphis. The song Sampo was released in their Skyforger album in the year 2009. Skyforger album tells many stories about different parts of the Kalevala but all stories are from the Ilmarinens point of view. Ilmarinen is the blacksmith in the stories.
Amorphis is one of the most popular Finnish metal bands outside Finland and a couple of their albums have reached the first place on the top ten list around the world.
Here's the link to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXvf2UMk4AA
Joni Ahokas
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