AMORPHIS — Tales From the Thousand Lakes (review)

AMORPHIS — Tales From the Thousand Lakes album cover Album · 1994 · Melodic Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
It took me more than the usual number of listens before I really felt I grasped what Amorphis were doing here, but Tales From the Thousand Lakes has really grown on me. Amorphis offer up here an interesting blend of death metal with folky passages and occasional outbursts of progressive rock. What really stood out to me was that, to my ears at least, it sounded like the particular brand of prog they were dabbling in here is in the vein of classic-period Jethro Tull - an unusual choice for a prog metal band, but one which I think pays strong dividends here. In the early tracks the band risk straying into cheesy territory, but over the course of the album the brutal death metal aspects of their sound gradually assert dominance, until by the end they have pushed nearly everything else out - a clever way of depicting a situation of escalating violence and desperation. On the whole, a very successful album which demands - and rewards - repeated hearings before it unlocks its secrets.
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