Amorphis base most of their songs on an ancient scripture from Finland called the Tuonela if I'm not mistaken. As far as I can remember this song is about a king who died in battle and his mother called the bee from the cosmos and the bee started a colony in the kings skull, and the honey brought the king back to life...
I quess i cannot put links, so google this "The Mother, the Bee, the River’s Edge: A Story from The Kalevala" A cartoon of the story 🙂 "This comic strip is an adaptation of part of the first Lemminkäinen cycle in the Finnish epic, The Kalevala. The Kalevala is an adaptation of the oral folklore of Karelia and Finland written by Elias Lönnrot and is considered a major cornerstone of Finnish identity and culture. I started reading The Kalevala to get a better context for some of the metal music I listened to and found myself drawn to the women in these narratives. To me, they were as interesting (if not more so) than the male heroes. Lemminkäinen’s mother, in particular, is my favorite character, despite not being given a name herself. In this comic, I hoped to capture her own heroic journey and how her son’s happy ending did not necessarily lead to her own."
@@punkjay4681his mother is a boss. "Cold troops of Tuoni cannot stand in my wake, untouched I shall walk by the river of the night" always gives me goosebumps
Amorphis is from Finland, with 4 members, and was pure growls & death metal. The third album, Tales From The Thousand Lakes came out and sparked an entire genre by incorporating clean vocals. Each album is different (hence amorphous) and they currently use one vocalist, started with one vocalists (he shifted more to playing and now only does any vocals live as appropriate) but they did two for a while. Then this vocalist joined and they went with one guy who does both growl & clean (other guy i mentioned growls on stage when cleans are also going). I've been listening to this band since 1994, seen them live 4 times, and have a TON of autographed stuff, including a 6-string Dean bass. If they pass your way, go. You won't be disappointed.
This was a fantastic reaction fellas! To give you the lowdown here. Amorphis consists of Tomi Joutsen, Esa Holopainen, Tomi Koivusaari, Santeri Kallio, Jan Rechberger, and Olli-Pekka Laine. The general narrative of their songs comes from the Finnish national epic known as "The Kalevala", which weaves an epic tale about the Earth's creation. It describes the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the mythical wealth-making machine Sampo. This particular song is based on a piece of a piece of that story known as the Lemminkäinen Cycle. Lemminkäinen is killed while hunting for the "Swan of Tuonela", and he falls in. Tuonela is the river of death. His mother goes searching for him and pulls the pieces of Lemminkäinen out of the river with a rake, and stitched him back together, but he would not return to life. So she beseeches the sky god, Ukko, to return her son to life. When she receives no answer, she asks a bee to fly to heaven and retrieve the honey from Ukko's halls. The bee returns with the honey, and Lemminkäinen is thus revived. I have seen these guys love multiple times, and would very highly recommend doing a track from their "Live at Helsinki Ice Hall" album. It will give you a chance to hear just how talented their vocalist Tomi Joutsen really is. I would personally pick "Black Winter Day", "Bad Blood", or "Sampo".
You only forgot to mention the "seventh member" of the band, lyricist Pekka Kainulainen. There's no Amorphis today without Pekka writing their masterpieces.
Pekka Kainulainen himself has said: "Hi, this text is not a Finnish folk tale. Who know's if there were this kind of a tale somewhere...but it just came to my mind during the writing session when making lyrics for the album. Inspiration or dreaming. The Silent Water, the Skyforger and the Beginning of Times... the lyrics for these albums are more or less connected with the tales of Kalevala but the rest of my Amorphis texts are from my mind and pen. To concentrate on writing may get you into surprising mood." So this is not a Kalevalan tale or even connected to those. A great song still and maybe my favourite album from the group! I think I saw the band first live in ´98 and after that tens of times. Always a good live set as well!
This is awesome!!!!! I am definitely going to add this band to my Playlist. I love paytreon requests!!! Its actually my favorite episodes of the week. Some of the music they have requested has blown me away and ipened my mind to a whole new folder of new music.
Tomi joustan is a beast on vocals. He is extremely versatile. He has done a ton of side projects, too. one of my favorites is hallatar the song My mistake is a duet with one of the vocalists of draconian. It's an amazing goth/doom tribute to the guitarsts late wife (the vocalist of trees of eternity).
These guys have been around since early 90's and they sound as well as in studio. :D The vocalist seamlessly switches between scream and clean and I'd definitely recommend listening to the live version of this song. Great rxn as always!
Amazing band 🤘🏻❤️ top five for me. Tomi Joutsen is the singer and he sings both growls and cleans. For more songs I would recommend The Smoke The Moon On the Dark Waters Message in Amber Sampo Drowned Maid
Enchanted by the Moon, Nightbird's Song, The Wanderer, My Sun, Brother Moon, Towards and Against, Weaving the Incantation, I of Crimson Blood.... I could go on for ages o.o!!!
I salute you guys from Finland. I just realize I have become fan of u two. Allways sincere, positive and nice to listen and look. I came to answer only one question of yours, that is probably answered already: yeah, singer of the band(not original tho) Tomi Joutsen sang all lyrics in this one, like he do in many other song similarly He is quite talented, and I like his cleaner vocals so much. When he was chosen to be singer of Amorphis, he described in a funny way, and said something like "how lucky I am, I am just another amorphis fan, and now I am singer of the band" 😅 Keep content coming guys. Take my likes and subscribe. All the best
Amorphis can be labeled as progressive Death Metal.They started out as a pure Death Metal band. Nowadays they mix a variety of styles into their concept and almost everything these guys touch turns into gold! The lyrics are largely about Nordic mythology. This is also the case with this one. You should definitely check out more of Amorphis because, as I said, almost everything of them is extremely creative!
Finnish mythology. In Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Norway they believed in the Norse mythology (Asgaard, Thor, Oden etc.) but Finland was different and they had their own beliefs. Just some fun facts :)
One of the few bands that have released albums constantly for three decades, never repetitive but still always recognizable sound. From the early brutal death metal tracks to melodeath to folky prog rock and mixing all these and more 😊
@@thewildhealer541 hey thanks for that info. As a matter of fact my son eirik and I were just talking about that very thing the other day...about the Finnish having their own separate beliefs. Funny you mention that
@@thewildhealer541 Finnish ancient mythology is quite murky and not well known, but Finland is talked in many Nordic mythologies and sagas. There is also possibility that some Nordic mythologies stem from Finnish mythologies especially from characters like Fornjot, who was the "King" of Finland and Cajania (region in Finland).
One same guy does both clean and growling. The bee is sacred in Finland it shows that even the smallest things matters. This bee comes from our Epic poem Kalevala.
Amorphis are easily my all-time favourite band, and it's always fun to see people experience them for the first time. I've always referred to them as "psychadelic metal" as well, whether it's an "accepted term" or not, lol. Their 2nd album Tales From The Thousand Lakes was the soundtrack to my first psychadelic experience, and it was fkn perfect, man 🦅🌌
The lyrical inspiration is a bee, also in a metaphoric way. The tiniest thing can sometimes be the most important thing. A bee can bring life or if we destroy all the bees, life will stop here. It’s a very beautiful animal, that’s why you can find it on the album cover too.
Not many bands I can think of either. Opeth are probably still the gold standard and I'd also throw in Soilwork if we're talking about one vocalist who does both growls and cleans.
They are the godfathers of Finnish Folk Metal. Their themes often originates to Finnish mythology. Couple of their earlier songs with a different vocalist: "Black Winter Day" (1994) and "My Kantele (acoustic reprise)" (1997). The latter is a Finnish Folk song. The story behind "The Bee": "Stories of Finnish Art - Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Lemminkäinen's Mother, 1897".
Pekka Kainulainen himself has said: "Hi, this text is not a Finnish folk tale. Who know's if there were this kind of a tale somewhere...but it just came to my mind during the writing session when making lyrics for the album. Inspiration or dreaming. The Silent Water, the Skyforger and the Beginning of Times... the lyrics for these albums are more or less connected with the tales of Kalevala but the rest of my Amorphis texts are from my mind and pen. To concentrate on writing may get you into surprising mood." So this is not a Kalevalan tale or even connected to those.
@@mattituthats suprising because reading the lyrics, its easy to connect to it "on the banks of TUONELA" & "when the tiny one from heaven comes, summons the others.." etc
@@DrBitchcraft. but theres also a lot of differences. In that tale from Kalevala there was only one bee, no others. No skulls, no honey, no kings or princes. At least that I can remember, it's been a while.
@@mattitu I'm also finnish. Its been a while for me too to read kalevala 😄 I do like that even if its not about kalevala, they still use finnish mythology in the song!
@@DrBitchcraft. They've done so many albums with Kalevala that to me it's even cooler to have Pekka's own tales and mythology as the stories. They have their own folk poet!
Nice🤘🏼I probably wouldn't listen to this band often but i like their sound. I'll have to check out more from them. The background I've read about them in the other comments have me interested. Using ancient text to inspire their music. I'm all about that🔥
😊So glad you guys finally checked this AMAZING band out! You guys should check INFLAMES-When the world explodes it's a live video I believe you guys will enjoy it!
When I first heard this song the story intrigued me. Like others have said its Finnish lore. The bee is revered and at one point it was believed that the bee could be used to send messages between the living and the dead. There is other references or stories of bees being considered to be stronger than a lion and as in this story when great people or "kings" came up with world changing ideas they were implanted in there heads by the gods via the bee that would bury in there skulls and give them inspiration. Bees were also revered because honey was the first form of sugar and with its discovery it was possible to make the first beers (ale,mead). Wild stuff thanks for jamming this one!
Amorphis is a band that has changed so much over their career. Their first album was pure death. Then they progressed and changed but only got better. Also, Tomi Joutsen doesn't growl. He fucking roars.
Amorphis doesn't mean anything.. the guys were young (16-18 yo) and not so well versed in the English language. The first iteration of this band was called Abhorrance. Amorphis was just sounding and looking "cool" :D The correct form for the word would've been amorphous. :) Amorphis is one of the "foundation bands" of Melodic Death Metal in the early '90 along many Swedish OGs like In Flames, Edge of Sanity, Dark Tranquillity, etc But they've evolve and changed their sound A Ton. 1st album is more direct melodeath, but then Tales of Thousand Lakes and Elegy album brought a lot of that eastern folky vibes, (we call it kebab metal :) ) and their lyrics were taken from the Finnish National epic "Kalevala" from which J.R.R. Tolkien also took inspiration for the Lord of the Rings. This track is from Amorphis' new and latest era with the singer Tomi Joutsen, yes only one singer doing both styles.
Agree must of it that but there are beasts like Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth, Jonas Renkse from Katatonia, Mikael Stanne from draco tranquility, Nick Holmes from Paradise lost just to mention some that could pull off cleans and growls flawlessly
Amorphis is my favorite band ever. You should check out more other stuff. I literally have an Amorphis T-shirt on right now! I travel to Finland regularly to see them.
Guys Amorphis is yet another still active bands in Finland. But i would love you to react to band called Sentenced. One of Finnish metal scenes more popular bands that quit making music after 20 some yrs. I hope someone throws you a link to some performances Sentenced did.
The thing is, smokey is absolutely spot on with the meaning of the word "amorphis". The band themself says they can't be categorized in a specific subgenere/style of metal, since they use so many different styles of metal and other generes in their music, so they have "no shape".
Yep, that's the one guy singing and growling. They started as pure death metal band, but in mid 90's they were referred as doom death metal band, now it's just called extreme metal with progressive folk elements. Try Amongst Stars or My Kantele live version
The song is about death and rebirth in the realm of death Tuonela in Finnish mythology. As it's mentioned further down in the comments here a King died in battle and was decapitated, and his mother in grief brought the pieces of him to the banks of Tuonela where he was brought back to life. This is a story in the Kalevala, a Finnish national epos written in 1849.
One of if not my absolute favorite groups ever. Though this is not the track I would have chosen, it's still really good. Skyforger is in my opinion the best of Amorphis.
Considering how far off your metal genre definitions usually go, psychedelic death metal is a very good assessment 😊 although I'd replace psychedelic with progressive. Yes, the same guy does all the vocals and he's insane!
GUESS WHO'S BACK BOYS!!! It's me it's me that do double g. What up boys. Well I think it's way past time for another Fear Factory reaction. How about Powershifter or Self Bias Resistor!! Come on fellas lets go!!! Head1 is ghost!
You guys have to do more Amorphis.. And its only one singer. They from Soumi/finland. This song is about a guy wehom torned to death dying.. and the bee came from heaven and put him back to life., while his mother was mournbing his death.
Love this band, met them occasionally at shows, listened to them since the late '90s. Amorphis deserves the love. One of so many northern European bands that need more love - in this instance Finnish. Arcturus, Ulver, Solefald, Borknagar ... too many to name. Keep playing lesser-known metal bands, please!
The Bee is by far Amorphis' greatest song but they have several other bangers as well. Amongst Stars, Empty Opening, and Alone come to mind as good songs to react to.
I love Alone. Went to a WWE event and got there super early. When they started the house music I guess it was in alphabetical order and that song came on. I heard the first piano strike and was like, did I hear that? Then the 2nd... no, it can't be... 3rd... holy shit it is! Amorphis being played on the PA of Wellss Fargo Arena before a WWE event! I was so excited to hear that because they don't get the playtime they deserve
I dont know, but I read a book where was told Petri Walli bent the name. Amorphis->Amorphysical-> Physical Amor, amor is cupid in some languages-> Physical Love. Or something like that
Amorphis sings exclusively about Finnish national epic Kalevala, so it's mythology most are not that familiar with with metaphors that deviate from Central European. Tomi Joutsen is the sole singer and extremely capable melodic death metal singer. Amorphis is one of the bedrocks of Finnish extreme metal starting as death metal in 1990s and slowly going more melodic and progressive.
You guys really should look at another song of theirs called Godforsaken - has the wife of Nightwish maestro Tuomas singing, Johanna Kurkula. Absolutely amazing song.
I would love to take a vacation to Nepal. And try everything they have to offer.. If you know what it mean.😉🍃🤯 I have heard they some of the best green, Oil, and everything in between.😊 I definitely want to try some of that honey.😊
I'm not sure how to suggest a song to be reacted to- but there's an old school band named Hurt and a song of theirs called rapture. I would do a lyrical video if you review it. I think you'd like it. It's a bad @ss song. You guys rock!❤
Finnish pioneers of death metal from early 90´s. About the same time came other band Sentenced that were harder Death metal as Amorphis has some folk & proge vibes. I liked those both at the time as they came. So i would recommend to check out Sentenced. This is song from the early era called Nepenthe. th-cam.com/video/j55oEnYKhVM/w-d-xo.html
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This song blew me away. I will need to check out more Amorphis.
Try Sampo & Under A Soil And Black Stone
Amorphis base most of their songs on an ancient scripture from Finland called the Tuonela if I'm not mistaken. As far as I can remember this song is about a king who died in battle and his mother called the bee from the cosmos and the bee started a colony in the kings skull, and the honey brought the king back to life...
The epic is called Kalevala. Tuonela is the afterworld.
The hero who dies is not a king, but an arrogant character who causes all kinds of trouble 😊
Their 5th album was called, and about Tuonela. = Death's domain.
I quess i cannot put links, so google this
"The Mother, the Bee, the River’s Edge: A Story from The Kalevala"
A cartoon of the story 🙂
"This comic strip is an adaptation of part of the first Lemminkäinen cycle in the Finnish epic, The Kalevala. The Kalevala is an adaptation of the oral folklore of Karelia and Finland written by Elias Lönnrot and is considered a major cornerstone of Finnish identity and culture. I started reading The Kalevala to get a better context for some of the metal music I listened to and found myself drawn to the women in these narratives. To me, they were as interesting (if not more so) than the male heroes. Lemminkäinen’s mother, in particular, is my favorite character, despite not being given a name herself. In this comic, I hoped to capture her own heroic journey and how her son’s happy ending did not necessarily lead to her own."
@@punkjay4681his mother is a boss. "Cold troops of Tuoni cannot stand in my wake, untouched I shall walk by the river of the night" always gives me goosebumps
This is one of my favourite song from Amorphis. They come from Finland and the Bee is related to old Finnish epos Kalevala. Great reaction as always.
Amorphis is from Finland, with 4 members, and was pure growls & death metal. The third album, Tales From The Thousand Lakes came out and sparked an entire genre by incorporating clean vocals. Each album is different (hence amorphous) and they currently use one vocalist, started with one vocalists (he shifted more to playing and now only does any vocals live as appropriate) but they did two for a while. Then this vocalist joined and they went with one guy who does both growl & clean (other guy i mentioned growls on stage when cleans are also going). I've been listening to this band since 1994, seen them live 4 times, and have a TON of autographed stuff, including a 6-string Dean bass. If they pass your way, go. You won't be disappointed.
Actually Tales from the thousand lakes is the second album and Elegy is the third.
This was a fantastic reaction fellas!
To give you the lowdown here. Amorphis consists of Tomi Joutsen, Esa Holopainen, Tomi Koivusaari, Santeri Kallio, Jan Rechberger, and Olli-Pekka Laine.
The general narrative of their songs comes from the Finnish national epic known as "The Kalevala", which weaves an epic tale about the Earth's creation. It describes the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.
This particular song is based on a piece of a piece of that story known as the Lemminkäinen Cycle. Lemminkäinen is killed while hunting for the "Swan of Tuonela", and he falls in. Tuonela is the river of death. His mother goes searching for him and pulls the pieces of Lemminkäinen out of the river with a rake, and stitched him back together, but he would not return to life.
So she beseeches the sky god, Ukko, to return her son to life. When she receives no answer, she asks a bee to fly to heaven and retrieve the honey from Ukko's halls. The bee returns with the honey, and Lemminkäinen is thus revived.
I have seen these guys love multiple times, and would very highly recommend doing a track from their "Live at Helsinki Ice Hall" album. It will give you a chance to hear just how talented their vocalist Tomi Joutsen really is. I would personally pick "Black Winter Day", "Bad Blood", or "Sampo".
They are so good live! They should be touring arenas, their stage presence beats most bands I've seen live. And I've seen plenty 😂
Silent good to see you. Thank you for reminding me of this story (in some way, it reminds me of the myth about Osiris).
The whole band is so talented.
You only forgot to mention the "seventh member" of the band, lyricist Pekka Kainulainen. There's no Amorphis today without Pekka writing their masterpieces.
@@diego_meira This is a very good point!
Pekka Kainulainen himself has said: "Hi, this text is not a Finnish folk tale. Who know's if there were this kind of a tale somewhere...but it just came to my mind during the writing session when making lyrics for the album. Inspiration or dreaming. The Silent Water, the Skyforger and the Beginning of Times... the lyrics for these albums are more or less connected with the tales of Kalevala but the rest of my Amorphis texts are from my mind and pen. To concentrate on writing may get you into surprising mood."
So this is not a Kalevalan tale or even connected to those. A great song still and maybe my favourite album from the group! I think I saw the band first live in ´98 and after that tens of times. Always a good live set as well!
Love Amorphis. Another good song by them is Death of a King.
I was going to suggest this song, too. A lot of interesting things happening with the instruments, and Tomi's vocals are, like always, amazing.
@@ninnik The song is just great in itself. A lot of melodies and the vocal changes as well.
Absolutely hands down one of the best reactions to this song, thanks guys!!! I'm a Finn and a fan, of both you and Amorphis 😁
This is awesome!!!!! I am definitely going to add this band to my Playlist. I love paytreon requests!!! Its actually my favorite episodes of the week. Some of the music they have requested has blown me away and ipened my mind to a whole new folder of new music.
Never heard of these guys. Gonna have to check more out! Thanks for the introduction. Great reaction as always!
Morning guys! That was badass! I never heard of these guys before! I definitely enjoyed this!!!! Great sound!!!❤❤
Tomi joustan is a beast on vocals. He is extremely versatile. He has done a ton of side projects, too. one of my favorites is hallatar the song My mistake is a duet with one of the vocalists of draconian. It's an amazing goth/doom tribute to the guitarsts late wife (the vocalist of trees of eternity).
First time hearing this band but it won't be the last. Awesome!
Yeeeees!!!! Finally someone to react to this great band!! I recommend Divinity!
These guys have been around since early 90's and they sound as well as in studio. :D The vocalist seamlessly switches between scream and clean and I'd definitely recommend listening to the live version of this song. Great rxn as always!
Amazing band 🤘🏻❤️ top five for me.
Tomi Joutsen is the singer and he sings both growls and cleans. For more songs I would recommend
The Smoke
The Moon
On the Dark Waters
Message in Amber
Sampo
Drowned Maid
Amonsts Stars is beautiful too, with Anneke❤
Enchanted by the Moon, Nightbird's Song, The Wanderer, My Sun, Brother Moon, Towards and Against, Weaving the Incantation, I of Crimson Blood.... I could go on for ages o.o!!!
When I thought we would get no more reactions to this song... Boom. Kiitos!
I salute you guys from Finland. I just realize I have become fan of u two. Allways sincere, positive and nice to listen and look. I came to answer only one question of yours, that is probably answered already: yeah, singer of the band(not original tho) Tomi Joutsen sang all lyrics in this one, like he do in many other song similarly He is quite talented, and I like his cleaner vocals so much.
When he was chosen to be singer of Amorphis, he described in a funny way, and said something like "how lucky I am, I am just another amorphis fan, and now I am singer of the band" 😅
Keep content coming guys. Take my likes and subscribe.
All the best
Never heard them… Fn SLAMMIN!! You guys rock at bringing some of us some shit we’ve never heard!! Rock on fellahs!
Bro ya'll just stepped in a band rabbit hole, and this is one that deserves some ears. I recommend anything off Skyforger personally!
This is a modern classic . Absolute quality as is reaction
Amorphis can be labeled as progressive Death Metal.They started out as a pure Death Metal band. Nowadays they mix a variety of styles into their concept and almost everything these guys touch turns into gold! The lyrics are largely about Nordic mythology. This is also the case with this one. You should definitely check out more of Amorphis because, as I said, almost everything of them is extremely creative!
I knew it! I was thinking Nordic! Very kool
Finnish mythology. In Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Norway they believed in the Norse mythology (Asgaard, Thor, Oden etc.) but Finland was different and they had their own beliefs. Just some fun facts :)
One of the few bands that have released albums constantly for three decades, never repetitive but still always recognizable sound. From the early brutal death metal tracks to melodeath to folky prog rock and mixing all these and more 😊
@@thewildhealer541 hey thanks for that info. As a matter of fact my son eirik and I were just talking about that very thing the other day...about the Finnish having their own separate beliefs. Funny you mention that
@@thewildhealer541 Finnish ancient mythology is quite murky and not well known, but Finland is talked in many Nordic mythologies and sagas. There is also possibility that some Nordic mythologies stem from Finnish mythologies especially from characters like Fornjot, who was the "King" of Finland and Cajania (region in Finland).
One same guy does both clean and growling. The bee is sacred in Finland it shows that even the smallest things matters. This bee comes from our Epic poem Kalevala.
Amorphis are easily my all-time favourite band, and it's always fun to see people experience them for the first time. I've always referred to them as "psychadelic metal" as well, whether it's an "accepted term" or not, lol. Their 2nd album Tales From The Thousand Lakes was the soundtrack to my first psychadelic experience, and it was fkn perfect, man 🦅🌌
I don't know about psychedelic. They are hard to put into a genre, but folk, death metal and progressive rock are definitely strong elements.
Symphonic death metal I think they’d be listed under
The lyrical inspiration is a bee, also in a metaphoric way. The tiniest thing can sometimes be the most important thing. A bee can bring life or if we destroy all the bees, life will stop here. It’s a very beautiful animal, that’s why you can find it on the album cover too.
One of my top favourite bands, Amorphis has a huge discography, not a bad album in there.
I can’t think of a band that mixes the cleans and growls quite as seamlessly as they do
Tomi Joutsen is da man!
Not many bands I can think of either. Opeth are probably still the gold standard and I'd also throw in Soilwork if we're talking about one vocalist who does both growls and cleans.
Amorphis is great ❤
Glad you liked it!
Wow 🤯 that was badass ✌️
They are the godfathers of Finnish Folk Metal. Their themes often originates to Finnish mythology. Couple of their earlier songs with a different vocalist: "Black Winter Day" (1994) and "My Kantele (acoustic reprise)" (1997). The latter is a Finnish Folk song. The story behind "The Bee": "Stories of Finnish Art - Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Lemminkäinen's Mother, 1897".
Pekka Kainulainen himself has said: "Hi, this text is not a Finnish folk tale. Who know's if there were this kind of a tale somewhere...but it just came to my mind during the writing session when making lyrics for the album. Inspiration or dreaming. The Silent Water, the Skyforger and the Beginning of Times... the lyrics for these albums are more or less connected with the tales of Kalevala but the rest of my Amorphis texts are from my mind and pen. To concentrate on writing may get you into surprising mood."
So this is not a Kalevalan tale or even connected to those.
@@mattituthats suprising because reading the lyrics, its easy to connect to it "on the banks of TUONELA" & "when the tiny one from heaven comes, summons the others.." etc
@@DrBitchcraft. but theres also a lot of differences. In that tale from Kalevala there was only one bee, no others. No skulls, no honey, no kings or princes. At least that I can remember, it's been a while.
@@mattitu I'm also finnish. Its been a while for me too to read kalevala 😄 I do like that even if its not about kalevala, they still use finnish mythology in the song!
@@DrBitchcraft. They've done so many albums with Kalevala that to me it's even cooler to have Pekka's own tales and mythology as the stories. They have their own folk poet!
Nice🤘🏼I probably wouldn't listen to this band often but i like their sound. I'll have to check out more from them. The background I've read about them in the other comments have me interested. Using ancient text to inspire their music. I'm all about that🔥
Never heard this one..Great song and great reaction🤘
dang guys,this kinda music and reactions always helping when sick,more than actual medicine :) thanx to great reaction and have wonderful new week.
😊So glad you guys finally checked this AMAZING band out!
You guys should check INFLAMES-When the world explodes it's a live video I believe you guys will enjoy it!
When I first heard this song the story intrigued me. Like others have said its Finnish lore. The bee is revered and at one point it was believed that the bee could be used to send messages between the living and the dead. There is other references or stories of bees being considered to be stronger than a lion and as in this story when great people or "kings" came up with world changing ideas they were implanted in there heads by the gods via the bee that would bury in there skulls and give them inspiration.
Bees were also revered because honey was the first form of sugar and with its discovery it was possible to make the first beers (ale,mead). Wild stuff thanks for jamming this one!
Amorphis- On the dark waters 🤟🤟
Amorphis ❤️🇫🇮❤️❤️❤️🇫🇮
The song totally fits into my style of music..😊😊😊😊
Amorphis is a band that has changed so much over their career. Their first album was pure death. Then they progressed and changed but only got better.
Also, Tomi Joutsen doesn't growl. He fucking roars.
More Amorphis songs I'd recommend: Drowned Maid, Song of the Troubled One, Goddess of the Sad Man, The Smoke, Death of a King and Amongst Stars.
Amorphis doesn't mean anything.. the guys were young (16-18 yo) and not so well versed in the English language. The first iteration of this band was called Abhorrance. Amorphis was just sounding and looking "cool" :D The correct form for the word would've been amorphous. :)
Amorphis is one of the "foundation bands" of Melodic Death Metal in the early '90 along many Swedish OGs like In Flames, Edge of Sanity, Dark Tranquillity, etc
But they've evolve and changed their sound A Ton. 1st album is more direct melodeath, but then Tales of Thousand Lakes and Elegy album brought a lot of that eastern folky vibes, (we call it kebab metal :) ) and their lyrics were taken from the Finnish National epic "Kalevala" from which J.R.R. Tolkien also took inspiration for the Lord of the Rings.
This track is from Amorphis' new and latest era with the singer Tomi Joutsen, yes only one singer doing both styles.
Agree must of it that but there are beasts like Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth, Jonas Renkse from Katatonia, Mikael Stanne from draco tranquility, Nick Holmes from Paradise lost just to mention some that could pull off cleans and growls flawlessly
Thanks!!! Next Amorphis Amongst Stars 🙏🏻✨🇫🇮❤️👊
This band has everything from pure DM to MDM, to progressive rock. Not dissimilar from Opeth in that respect. Equally talented and diverse..
Amorphis is my favorite band ever. You should check out more other stuff. I literally have an Amorphis T-shirt on right now! I travel to Finland regularly to see them.
Guys Amorphis is yet another still active bands in Finland.
But i would love you to react to band called Sentenced. One of Finnish metal scenes more popular bands that quit making music after 20 some yrs. I hope someone throws you a link to some performances Sentenced did.
The thing is, smokey is absolutely spot on with the meaning of the word "amorphis". The band themself says they can't be categorized in a specific subgenere/style of metal, since they use so many different styles of metal and other generes in their music, so they have "no shape".
Yep, that's the one guy singing and growling. They started as pure death metal band, but in mid 90's they were referred as doom death metal band, now it's just called extreme metal with progressive folk elements. Try Amongst Stars or My Kantele live version
Love me some Amorphis! Their song The Smoke is one of my all time favourite bestest songs ever in the history music!
I love to watch people that never heard Amorphis before. It's always Mind blown
They definitely take you on a musical journey that never disappoints
The song is about death and rebirth in the realm of death Tuonela in Finnish mythology. As it's mentioned further down in the comments here a King died in battle and was decapitated, and his mother in grief brought the pieces of him to the banks of Tuonela where he was brought back to life. This is a story in the Kalevala, a Finnish national epos written in 1849.
One of if not my absolute favorite groups ever. Though this is not the track I would have chosen, it's still really good. Skyforger is in my opinion the best of Amorphis.
Considering how far off your metal genre definitions usually go, psychedelic death metal is a very good assessment 😊 although I'd replace psychedelic with progressive.
Yes, the same guy does all the vocals and he's insane!
Check out their cover of Hawkwind's Levitation. It´s trippy and quite awesome!
That my friends is Finnish Folk Metal. Greetings from here, Finland.
nice!
Such a rabbit hole... Hail from Normandy. My 3 one. Amorphis 5 times lives, never désempointé
GUESS WHO'S BACK BOYS!!! It's me it's me that do double g. What up boys. Well I think it's way past time for another Fear Factory reaction. How about Powershifter or Self Bias Resistor!! Come on fellas lets go!!! Head1 is ghost!
Hello again. Do what you doing. Fear Factory need more space on channel. ❤
I’m so glad you guys checked out Amorphis! but you should definetely check out death of a king by them, you won’t regret it!
Check out Wrong Direction!!! The whole Queen of time album is gold
My favorite band ever
You guys have to do more Amorphis.. And its only one singer. They from Soumi/finland. This song is about a guy wehom torned to death dying.. and the bee came from heaven and put him back to life., while his mother was mournbing his death.
Hell yeah \m/
Let's call this music psyche metal.😊
Love this band, met them occasionally at shows, listened to them since the late '90s. Amorphis deserves the love. One of so many northern European bands that need more love - in this instance Finnish. Arcturus, Ulver, Solefald, Borknagar ... too many to name. Keep playing lesser-known metal bands, please!
The Bee is by far Amorphis' greatest song but they have several other bangers as well. Amongst Stars, Empty Opening, and Alone come to mind as good songs to react to.
I love Alone. Went to a WWE event and got there super early. When they started the house music I guess it was in alphabetical order and that song came on. I heard the first piano strike and was like, did I hear that? Then the 2nd... no, it can't be... 3rd... holy shit it is! Amorphis being played on the PA of Wellss Fargo Arena before a WWE event! I was so excited to hear that because they don't get the playtime they deserve
And by the way, it is the same guy singing the growl and the clean part.
Sicksense- Feed Them To The Wolves, please and thank you
Metal song about freaking bees!! 😂😊
Please guys, do some Pain of Salvation...please please please. On a Tuesday is a damn good song to start with. ❤
I also enjoy The Rasmus and Poets of the Fall from Finland
Amorphis - Amongst Stars
I dont know, but I read a book where was told Petri Walli bent the name. Amorphis->Amorphysical-> Physical Amor, amor is cupid in some languages-> Physical Love. Or something like that
Finland had the best metal bands !
Amorphis sings exclusively about Finnish national epic Kalevala, so it's mythology most are not that familiar with with metaphors that deviate from Central European.
Tomi Joutsen is the sole singer and extremely capable melodic death metal singer.
Amorphis is one of the bedrocks of Finnish extreme metal starting as death metal in 1990s and slowly going more melodic and progressive.
You guys really should look at another song of theirs called Godforsaken - has the wife of Nightwish maestro Tuomas singing, Johanna Kurkula. Absolutely amazing song.
I always consider Amorphis as Melodic Folk Death Metal !
This is melodic Deathmetal!!!
Nightwish Tuomas ( keyboard , songwriter) was fan of amorphis and some influence is took there..
I would love to take a vacation to Nepal. And try everything they have to offer.. If you know what it mean.😉🍃🤯 I have heard they some of the best green, Oil, and everything in between.😊
I definitely want to try some of that honey.😊
I'm not sure how to suggest a song to be reacted to- but there's an old school band named Hurt and a song of theirs called rapture. I would do a lyrical video if you review it. I think you'd like it. It's a bad @ss song. You guys rock!❤
same dude
Finnish pioneers of death metal from early 90´s. About the same time came other band Sentenced that were harder Death metal as Amorphis has some folk & proge vibes.
I liked those both at the time as they came.
So i would recommend to check out Sentenced. This is song from the early era called Nepenthe. th-cam.com/video/j55oEnYKhVM/w-d-xo.html
Its the same dude😊
Me at the very start of the song: "what if it's disco?"
Also me once dude starts singing: "okie... that just happened"
I know it’s got like some cool story other than just bees but I think this song is so much cooler just thinking it’s about the common honey bee 😭
Amorphis alone the Oulu show
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Those growls just makes stuff happen in your body.
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i think 80% of the bands or artists you do...i've never heard of😆 and thats saying somethin!
No separete vocalists. Watch the
Amorphis "House Of Sleep" official video - it is great.
You need listen amorphis - house of sleep
I don't like it.... but.... damn... I like it!!! What universe have I been transported to?!?!
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Amorphis towards and against live Oulu (foraging the land of a thousand lakes)
In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect, Sentenced,Bloodred Hourglass
Livin on a chaingang by skidrow please
Van canto falling down
Same guy, same voice live also.
Northen kings please, another hero for first song, i love Amorphis but northen kings are better
Same singer!
Look at the album silent waters
This song is a typical one song child they have better songs. This is hey let's give our all in one song but never show case what that are good at.