I do agree with you on the use of Anneke. Whenever they had the contrast of the harsh vocals and Anneke's voice I could see the smile it brought you - it's exactly the smile it brings me too. I wish they had used it more, or had at least made them combining a 'bigger deal' in the track
As far as female guest-vocals are concerned, on the latest album, Halo, there is an absolutely heart-melting song called "My name is Night" featuring Petronellla Nettermalm from the Swedish band Paatos. I would rank that song a notch above "Amongst Stars" even.
Grain of Sand is such a Kingston Wall-ish song! Though Esa Holopainen (the lead guitarist) has said in an interview that Amorphis would never exist without Kingston Wall. Kingston Wall had and still has alot of influence in rock/metal music. 😊They also shared a practice room in Helsinki in the 90's
Too busy to listen to this yesterday (medical reasons - don't ask) so I gave all 3 parts a go today. Took me a while to assess it fully as you were obviously very keen and it presented itself as proggy/deathy/metally/Opethy all of which piqued my interest but...you mentioned a word in part 2. "It's so...melodic" and that was ultimately the problem. The melodies were so predictable and unadventurous, even allied with the death-metal vocals. Some of it did indeed verge into Viking metal and Power metal, neither of which interest me. Ms van Giersbergen stood out, as always, but even then was let down by the material. It gets a thumbs up as I always like to listen to something new (to me) but Opeth did the proggy/deathy/metally stuff so much better and didn't have to don the viking helmets to do so.
Totally understand your comment, but come on, no reason for not visiting other bands just because there's a better one out there. Queen of time has indeed very homogenized melodics, it's a run to listen to it fully as an album. But there are so much more to discover...tales of a thousand lakes, elegy, skyforger, eclipse... Awesome work you could try if you don't know yet!
The brutality mixed with the beautiful melodies is what makes Amorphis great. The comparison to Opeth is not appropriate... Amorphis are not a prog band and are not trying to be Opeth. They are a melodeath/folk metal with progressive elements.
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I do agree with you on the use of Anneke. Whenever they had the contrast of the harsh vocals and Anneke's voice I could see the smile it brought you - it's exactly the smile it brings me too. I wish they had used it more, or had at least made them combining a 'bigger deal' in the track
As far as female guest-vocals are concerned, on the latest album, Halo, there is an absolutely heart-melting song called "My name is Night" featuring Petronellla Nettermalm from the Swedish band Paatos. I would rank that song a notch above "Amongst Stars" even.
Grain of Sand is such a Kingston Wall-ish song! Though Esa Holopainen (the lead guitarist) has said in an interview that Amorphis would never exist without Kingston Wall. Kingston Wall had and still has alot of influence in rock/metal music. 😊They also shared a practice room in Helsinki in the 90's
The start of Turn To Stone really reminds of Nightwish too👍 spot on
We Accursed is the title fyi
100% agreed on your critique for Amongst Stars. I do like the song, but the best parts are the contrast between her and the harsh vocals.
You forgot to mention AYREON 🤣🤣🤣 Anneke is on many studio albums and part of all 4 Live Events 🤘
Too busy to listen to this yesterday (medical reasons - don't ask) so I gave all 3 parts a go today. Took me a while to assess it fully as you were obviously very keen and it presented itself as proggy/deathy/metally/Opethy all of which piqued my interest but...you mentioned a word in part 2. "It's so...melodic" and that was ultimately the problem. The melodies were so predictable and unadventurous, even allied with the death-metal vocals. Some of it did indeed verge into Viking metal and Power metal, neither of which interest me. Ms van Giersbergen stood out, as always, but even then was let down by the material. It gets a thumbs up as I always like to listen to something new (to me) but Opeth did the proggy/deathy/metally stuff so much better and didn't have to don the viking helmets to do so.
Totally understand your comment, but come on, no reason for not visiting other bands just because there's a better one out there. Queen of time has indeed very homogenized melodics, it's a run to listen to it fully as an album. But there are so much more to discover...tales of a thousand lakes, elegy, skyforger, eclipse... Awesome work you could try if you don't know yet!
The brutality mixed with the beautiful melodies is what makes Amorphis great. The comparison to Opeth is not appropriate... Amorphis are not a prog band and are not trying to be Opeth. They are a melodeath/folk metal with progressive elements.