Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 |
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Karelia | 0:43 | 28,709 | ||
| 2 |
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The Gathering | 4:12 | 26,189 | ||
| 3 |
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Grail's Mysteries | 3:02 | 17,655 | ||
| 4 |
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Grails Mysteries | 3:04 | 8,024 | ||
| 5 |
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Warriors Trial | 5:04 | 16,225 | ||
| 6 |
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Black Embrace | 3:38 | 24,571 | ||
| 7 |
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Exite Of The Sons Of Uisliu | 3:46 | 3,457 | ||
| 8 |
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Exile of the Sons of Uisliu | 3:56 | 28,468 | ||
| 9 |
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The Lost Name of God | 5:32 | 22,199 | ||
| 10 |
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The Pilgrimage | 4:40 | 18,790 | ||
| 11 |
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Misery Path | 4:17 | 21,779 | ||
| 12 |
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Sign From The North Side | 5:03 | 20,469 | ||
| 13 |
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Vulgar Necrolatry | 4:21 | 24,931 |
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About this album
Although The Karelian Isthmus took its name from a historic Finnish battleground, Karelian Isthmus, its lyrics focus on Amorphis’s well known epic themes from the history of Finnish warfare and religion, but drawing more into celtic mythology rather than the later traditions of Amorphis’s own native land. The epic side is sometimes broken up by the occult lyrical themes in tracks including “Pilgrimage”, “Misery Path” and “Black Embrace”. In recent years, songs from this album have been receiving more play during Amorphis’ live performances, despite being of a different style than their later works.
The album was re-released in 2003 with all the songs from the “Privilege of Evil” EP added as bonus tracks.
Released: 1993
Genres: death/doom, folk metal, black metal
Label: relapse records
Track listing:
1. “Karelia” (instrumental) (Tomi Koivusaari, Esa Holopainen) - 0:43
2. “The Gathering” (Koivusaari) - 4:12
3. “Grail’s Mysteries” (Holopainen) - 3:02
4. “Warriors Trial” (Koivusaari, Holopainen) - 5:04
5. “Black Embrace” (Koivusaari, Holopainen) - 3:38
6. “Exile of the Sons of Uisliu” (Holopainen) - 3:43
7. “The Lost Name of God” (Holopainen, Koivusaari, Rechberger) - 5:32
8. “The Pilgrimage” (Koivusaari) - 4:39
9. “Misery Path” (Holopainen, Koivusaari, Rechberger) - 4:17
10. “Sign from the North Side” (Holopainen, Koivusaari, Olli-Pekka Laine) - 4:54
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Shouts
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Codera It's really good, although it's not really what fell in love with Amorphis for. I like the album's heaviness and old school style, but I think the band's music is much more spellbinding when Amorphis adds keyboards, folk instruments, and their melodic style, but hey, they had to start somewhere. \m/
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harnessing_ruin This is the only Amorphis album I have heard .This is such a massively intense album.I mean,the riffs,the leads ,everything ! One of my all time favorites !
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AldoCorpse fucking great!
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DARKZSOU7 Absolutely amazing work I dont know why this isn't one of their most listened.
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noo_dog It does combines some folk influences, but this is indeed old school death metal. Sensational stuff.
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neoxx07 @Doomdominus boring? wtf men. you need to listen more old school death metal to talk, you dont know anything.
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hammerstrikebg nice :)
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mastersword666 @Doomdominus: You're wrong on both accounts. It's definitely not a boring album and Privilege of Evil is the most brutal Amorphis album.
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mouritsdebeer How the fuck is this "boring"? Absolutely AMAZING album.
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LordsOfTheStorm @Ahmad: Death Metal is a musical style, not a lyrical theme.
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Cruztitucion bored? c´mon ....that´s riffs are hard drugs!!!
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Doomdominus It has some boring moments, but it's the most brutal album by amorphis
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Sameh93 AhmadMetallica knows nothing about Metal.
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Global_Carnage ...because it's the lyrics that define the genre, amirite?
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AhmadMetallic I no longer know what death metal is, if you call this death metal.. It's about epic battles and religion, no mention of death whatsoever, how is it death ?
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smilingcorpse The masterpiece!
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Wisker The best.
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CountFenrir ABSOLUTELY their best by far.
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summoning89 not their best by far
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Hippie_Scum Wow, this is actually not bad. Wonder why they decided to turn into shit...
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Recent Activity
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ToSeethernity wrote about The Karelian Isthmus in My CD / DVD / tape / Vinyl collection 2. P-Z. last week
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ToSeethernity wrote about The Karelian Isthmus in My CD / DVD / tape / Vinyl collection 1. A-O. last week
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ToSeethernity wrote about The Karelian Isthmus in a deleted journal. last week
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spojanen wrote about The Karelian Isthmus in Album collection building blocks in 2012. March 2012
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Sonic_Surfer_ tagged The Karelian Isthmus with ‘death doom metal’. March 2012
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nomiemie tagged Amorphis – The Karelian Isthmus with debut album, death doom metal, 1993 and 2 other tags. February 2012
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INROK wrote about The Karelian Isthmus in a deleted journal. January 2012
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hammerstrikebg tagged The Karelian Isthmus with ‘melodic death metal’. December 2011
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