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(1990 – present)

Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Amorphis absorbed and incorporated influences from many metal genres, and with time passing their sound evolved dramatically. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but with time they have evolved into making music that is more classifiable as doom metal with folk influences, and, more recently, progressive metal and hard rock, utilizing increasingly complex arrangements and a less brutal sound. Amorphis is also well known for their use of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, as a source for their lyrics.

History

In 1989 Jan Rechberger and Esa Holopainen played in a speed metal band Violent Solution, which Tomi Koivusaari had left the previous year to form the death metal band Abhorrence. Violent Solution slowly withered away as the musicians became interested in other things and styles of music. At this point, Jan Rechberger and Esa Holopainen had the idea of putting together a death metal band. In early 1990, Tomi Koivusaari was asked to be the vocalist and Oppu Laine to be their bassist.

During that time the band asked Tomi to pick up the slot of rhythm guitarist as well as singing, which led to the band dumping all original compositions and starting again. With the band starting to move along, Tomi’s other band (Abhorrence) split up and he found himself with much more time to put into Amorphis. The band went into gear and started churning out new brutal music.

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death metal, progressive metal, melodic death metal, doom metal, metal
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1	Silver Bride full track	1,750
2	Sky Is Mine full track	1,480
3	From the Heaven of My Heart full track	1,477
4	Sampo full track	1,368
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heronmdb wrote:
8 hours ago

House of Sleep *-*

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Ozz1_M wrote:
Saturday evening

Uusi levy ei oo ehkä ihan niin kova ku Silent Waters ja Eclipse (mikä on kovin ikinä!).

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Tagak wrote:
Saturday morning

Последний альбом то ни чё так...

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MonkeyRaceHorse wrote:
Saturday morning

greatest band of all time

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Nightsan wrote:
Friday afternoon

So so group!

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summoning89 wrote:
Thursday evening

http://www.last.fm/music/Amorphis/+images/29364289

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Mr-Tyler-Durden wrote:
Thursday afternoon

lovin me some SOULFLY!

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cosmoretro wrote:
Thursday morning

ari koivunen is a fucking faggot. [3]

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_tourniquet wrote:
Wednesday evening

I love Sampo :))

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Alasin wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

ari koivunen is a fucking faggot. [2]

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ZeroInSouthPark wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

shaman<3

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Wonderglue wrote:
Tuesday evening

The White Swan <3

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ManWithNoInside wrote:
Tuesday morning

@AlexMalborov, I don't give a shit about opinion of the guy, who considers Samael's Slavocracy as good.

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heronmdb wrote:
last week

recently they plaied here and i wasn't there....=[

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GenesisRisen wrote:
last week

ari koivunen is a fucking faggot.

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SplitneX wrote:
8 days ago

Silver bride<3

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Zarrix wrote:
8 days ago

come to Australia =(

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ewka77 wrote:
9 days ago

skyforger is masterpiece.

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proggirl wrote:
9 days ago

@Balthi,just rated your video,it's fuckin' awesome! :D

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Balthi wrote:
10 days ago

Live Clip with Ari Koivunen @ Z7 Pratteln, Switzerland (22.10.2009) http://balthiswelt.blogspot.com/

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