Amorphis
On Tour
Play Radio
Listen to Amorphis Radio,
featuring artists like Sentenced, Insomnium, Before The Dawn, Dark Tranquillity and more…
-
Search on Spotify
Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more
18,721,562 plays (330,624 listeners)
Helsinki, Finland (1990 – present)
Amorphis is a Finnish Melodic / Progressive, and formerly Death/Doom metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in Helsinki, Finland 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.
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.
Shouts:
3,493 shouts
Featured Tracks
See all tracks
Top Albums
-
Skyforger
Amorphis
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $8.99
- 7digital $8.99
- iTunes $7.99
- Buy Album
- Nuclear Blast Online Shop €14.99
- Amazon $14.99
- eBay Search
-
Eclipse
Amorphis Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $8.99
- 7digital $8.99
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $13.99
- eBay Search
-
The Beginning of Times
Amorphis Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $8.99
- 7digital $8.99
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $13.99
- eBay Search
-
Silent Waters
Amorphis Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $2.97
- 7digital $2.49
- iTunes $2.97
- Buy Album
- Amazon $8.99
- eBay Search
Shoutbox
-
Velimirius wrote:
awesome sound!
-
godlessRatz wrote:
elegy is the best for ever.
-
Papavida wrote:
muito boa... xO
-
InfinitiProject wrote:
For once Sony did something right, and that was turn me on to this band.
-
KZBRZ wrote:
My Favorite Finland band
-
Acid_XenomorpH wrote:
You don't know what dinosaurs' voices sounded like anyway ;P
-
mastersword666 wrote:
if the post below me was on Facebook I'd 'like' it
-
Claymaan wrote:
Well he has a voice of a dinosaur.
-
lconoclast wrote:
lol @ the picture, looks like a dinosaur head from far away
-
Bolthorn79 wrote:
Amorphis made our MSRcast 121: 2011 Rewind Part 2 http://www.metalinjection.net/podcasts/msrcast/msrcast-121-2011-rewind-part-2 SUBSCRIBE!
-
K------- wrote:
I miss the Pasi Koskinen' era
-
SilvaJennifer wrote:
best concert of my life ♥
-
AntonellaM95 wrote:
they're a great band!!
-
hybicker wrote:
best band ever, long live finnish metal
-
Thifanny wrote:
Amorphis' concert tomorrow *-*
-
Killerdwarf wrote:
one of the best metal-bands ever
-
Poltergeist_MX wrote:
Los veo el Sábado en el Circo Volador :D
-
alfre1420 wrote:
Aunque por momentos sus canciones llegan a sonar iguales, son un buen grupo
-
intru_negru wrote:
anyone remember back in '08 when they had, like 6 mil. plays?
-
cauldronborn86 wrote:
the beginning of times is very nice piece of work !
Videos
See more
Events
-
Apr
20
Amorphis
Virgin Oil Co., Helsinki, Finland
7 going
-
Apr
21
Amorphis
Tampere-talo, Tampere, Finland
4 going
-
Apr
27
Amorphis
Logomo, Turku, Finland
3 going
News
Support acts in Europe
20 Sep 2011 | from www.amorphis.net
On the upcoming European Tour, Amorphis will be supported by
Leprous (NO), which will be featured on all shows, plus Nahemah
(ES) during the first leg from November 2nd to 27th and The
Man-Eating Tree (FI) during the second leg from December 26th to
…
-
Tour updates
19 Sep 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/amorphis -
Tour updates
19 Sep 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/amorphis -
Amorphis in Dubai
11 Sep 2011 | from www.amorphis.net
Listening Now
Top Listeners
See more
Recent Activity
-
akobets and Taedeh added Amorphis to their libraries. 1 minute ago
-
Maquina_Muerte tagged Amorphis with ‘need to see this live’. 9 hours ago
-
Dedmecz, BeautyOfTrees and 10 other people added Amorphis to their libraries. 9 hours ago
-
DarthVandeRx wrote about Amorphis in 2012 - Q1. yesterday morning
-
Black_Trauko, darkseirios and Pain_God added Amorphis to their libraries. yesterday morning
-
Arek_lawb, Fra1lty, AzzEsm and 9 other people added Amorphis to their libraries. Tuesday evening
-
Arek_lawb tagged Amorphis with metal, doom metal, melodic death metal and 2 other tags. Tuesday evening
-
CannibalCleef tagged Amorphis with ‘melodic death metal’. Monday evening
-
Obscuredmanity, Offensio, Small_BlueThing and 8 other people added Amorphis to their libraries. Monday evening
-
Kindross tagged Amorphis with finnish, melodic death metal and progressive metal. Sunday evening
Related Journals
-
2012 - Q1
by DarthVandeRx |
22 Feb 2012
-
2011's CD Ranking
by habuzou |
14 Feb 2012
-
Amorphis | 3 Feb. 2012 | Roxy Live
by DreamXime |
6 Feb 2012
| 1 comment
Groups (422)
-
Tomi Joutsen
87 members
-
Tuomas Saukkonen
145 members
-
Amorphis
772 members
-
Anger, Hate And Fury
30 members
-
Spinefarm Records
135 members
More Information
- Links
- Band Members
- Labels
