Amorphis was formed in Finland in 1990, and made a very strong debut with the death metal album The Karelian Isthmus. Finnish people are well known to be good not only in death, folk, symphonic, gothic and whatsoever kind of metal, but also in rally driving, and knife fighting under influence (according to a Swedish guy with Hungarian origin, who grew up in California). Well, they are good in computer technologies too, even if we only count Linus Torvalds, who started the development of the Linux kernel and the Git revision control system.
Back to the music, The Karelian Isthmus is a very appreciated album among the dark death metal community. People say it is an important element of the history of black metal. The inspiration for the album came from the Finnish folk tales.
I like the sound of the whole album, which is so consistent that I hardly notice when the songs end and start. The growling is a bit too much for me, but it seems the death metal fans really enjoy it. You will find fast, brutal death metal with powerful tight drum performance. And these guys were teenagers, 16-18 years old, when they did the record, impressive!
Quite curious to hear their next records where Amorphis (official web page) had evolved into doom metal and even progressive metal and hard rock.
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