Silent Waters
are ending deep - who knows this saying, a phrase, where you can put
lots of meanings into it. Whatever the finnish Heavy Metal Band Amorphis
wanted to say with their last record, before the new one, named 'Silent
Waters, is still open. Best thing to do, is, to read the lyrics
carefully and get to your own conclusion. One thing is definately for
sure. Amorphis have got as much to do with Silten Water, as a goldfish
in a tsunami wave. Jes.... you can't talk about a mild summer breeze
here, otherwise we send Amorphis back to Lappland and their elks. - But
this group has established themselves over the years and proved, that
they have their rights for a place in the progressive world of Heavy
Metal. Meanwhile, their latest album 'Skyforger' has been released. And
No. 1 in the finnish charts speaks for itselves. Here in Germany it's
gonne only to 44. But who cares, as they are fighting for their place in
the economy class of the metal train, and not just since yesterday. Next
year the band celebrates their 20th anniversary. And there are still 3
original members left. In addition to that, they have found an excellent
frontman with Tomi Joutsen in 2005, who not only got an exellent voice,
but also is a true focus with his voluminous dreadlocks.
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But stop, first of all,
it's 2 supportacts, who are trying to give the average still calm mood
the right spices to develop the place into a hot chilli pot. Chilly need
young vegetabel, and this is Amoral in the truest sense in the word.
In this band no musician
is older then 26 years of age. And when I read, that Amoral have been
founded 9 years ago, then I can only say - respect. You can never start
early enough, can you?! This youthful metalheads come from Finland too
and have already put out 4 album releases. So you can say whatever you
want about them, but definately not, that they are inactive. You feel
their enthusiasm live on Stage riding the sticky airwaves in this club.
And somebody told me, that singer Ari Kuivonen, who is in the band since
last year, has been winner at Finland's edition of Starmania.
Well, I can imagine
this quite well, as he's got quite a bit aura and stage presence
including a strong voice. 30 minutes unfortunately are much too short to
get to know a band well. But we will see, how much we are gonna hear of
this band in the near future....
http://www.amoralweb.com/
Slowly I get the
impression, almost every Heavy Metal band comes from Finland, well maybe
75 percent. And also the second act here
is from Suomi as well as the following headliner. So this is a pure
finnish package. Hey, at least they don't do hard with their
communication between themselves during this tour.
Before the Dawn celebrate 10 years of existence including 5 albums.
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And they describe their
style as so called Dark Metal. Tuomas Saukkonen, founder and singer/Git.
of the band defines is ever closer as - Scandinavian Melancholic Metal.
Well, I have to confess, I always had a bit of a problem with these
music style definitions. So paint your own pictures and decide, what you
think of every band's individual brand. In this case, I have the feeling,
that Before The Dawn are everything else, but not melancholic. Further
bandmembers are: Lars Eikind on Bass, Juho Räihä (Git.) and Atte Palokangas
on drums.
And there are many live- and session musicians named in their biography,
who took part in the past at the various projects of Tuomas Saukkonen.
What you can watch here, is the fact, that all announcements between the
songs, are done by bassist Lars Eikind, who also takes over some lead
vocals inbetween. And guitairst Juo Räihä takes care for the right
stage air condition by acting as the stage ventilator. Inclusively all
these impressing pearcings on Saukkonens forehead, everything is offered
for the visuall aspect. Acoustically it's more or less a matter of
taste, the sound conditions are great. But the most important thing is,
that this band goes very well down on the audiance here.
http://www.beforethedawn.com/
Last but not least it's Amorphis entering the altar up there
and wauw
– first of all I'm fascinated by these seemingly never ending Dreadlocks
of Singer Tomi
Joutsen
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I always thought, my hair
is long (waist length) but compared to this, I'm a skinhead. He seems
like a Guru, a dancing Rock'n'Roll Derwish and entertainer. Goes down
well indeed. And yes of course, most important is the acoustic
performance, but the eye wants to eat as well, as we say so over here.
And there are quite a few girls in the audiance tonight.
One thing is for sure Amorphis definately didn't make a bad move with
this frontman. Tomi has sung himself into the hearts of the fans within
a very short time, or should I better say - growled. And he is fully
accepted. The 600 - 700 people in the audiance are very enthusiastic and
celebrate a big party. The focus of course is put on the new album 'Skyforger'.
But also with older songs like 'The Castaway', 'Against
Widows' and 'My Kantele'
singer
Tomi has no problem at all. The encore is the ace on top of it, with
'House Of Sleep' ad the last amen is entitled 'Black Winter's Day'.
Yeeessss, we do luv doing our prayer. And not to forget to mention
guitarist Esa Holopainen, who is mainly responsible for Amorphis
Music.
This one again shows some
interesting and even exotic sound structures. And it is actually these
melodies inbetween, which makes the whole concert rather interesting.
And yes, the description - Melodic Deathmetal is truly right, this is
what it seems to me.
It's a fact, that Amorphis don't need to hide. Each of their nine albums
landed in the hitlists yet. And back in Finland the band has
already reached quite a high status. Here in Germany they still swim in
the middle league of these kind of bands. And I'm pretty sure, we don't
have to wait for too long, that the finnish invasion will return.
Congratulation anyway, - it's been quite a success for every Amorphis
fan tonight.
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