AMORPHIS — Elegy (review)

AMORPHIS — Elegy album cover Album · 1996 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
After Tales From the Thousand Lakes, Amorphis underwent a substantial gear change, shifting from the melodic death metal that had been the foundation of their sound to a more progressive and folk-oriented metal sound. Elegy is the sound of that gear change in progress, with the clean vocals provided by Pasi Koskinen being one of the more obvious symptoms of it; the jarring nature of the shift is exacerbated by lead-off track, Better Unborn, showcasing many of the more accessible elements of Amorphis' new sound.

There's an interesting mingling of influences in here, with the folk stuff extending to a sudden outbreak of polka at the midway point of the album on Cares. But precisely because the band are juggling so many different new ingredients of their sound, they end up producing something which sounds a bit jumbled and incoherent. They certainly no longer sound like the Amorphis of their previous two albums, but they aren't quite the Amorphis of their future career yet, leaving them in limbo.
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