Elegy

Label: relapse records
Release date: 26 Jun 2007
Running length: 15 tracks
Running time: 74:52

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Better Unborn	5:50	35,829
2	Against Widows	4:05	40,456
3	The Orphan	5:16	31,803
4	On Rich and Poor	5:18	35,396
5	My Kantele	5:00	48,037
6	Cares	4:28	28,843
7	Song of the Troubled One	4:07	31,386
8	Weeper on the Shore	4:51	28,440
9	Elegy	7:19	27,371
10	Relief	4:08	24,557
11	My Kantele (Acoustic Reprise)	5:54	25,917
12	Better Unborn (Live)	5:59	1,509
13	Against Widows (Live)	4:05	1,281
14	The Castaway (Live)	4:53	1,750
15	Black Winter's Day (Live)	3:39	152

About this album

Elegy is the third full-length album by Finnish band Amorphis. The album is their first to feature a majority of clean vocals, sung by new vocalist Pasi Koskinen. The music and lyrics are inspired by the traditional Finnish ballads and poems compiled in the Kanteletar by Elias Lönnrot in 1840. The primary genre of the album is progressive metal, with strong folk influence, as well as elements of melodic death metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Many of the albums tracks, e.g. “Against Widows”, have become fan favorites and have been performed in concerts since Elegy’s release.