Being in the game for more than 20 years successful melancholic dark rock/metal masters AMORPHIS still manage to surprise, to delight and to step up to their status. With their tenth studio album »The Beginning Of Times« these Finns prove once more that there is no other band if it comes to amazing, natural sounding melodies, deep emotions and a bit of unique sonic darkness – powerfully performed with some more really heavy parts this time around. This album will be your soundtrack for both cosy summer nights as well as the following fall and winter season!

Some days ago I had a chat with Tomi Joutsen, Amorphis‘ singer…

Hi Tomi and welcome to Metal Shock and Italy!

Thank you, Tarja, I answer to you here at home in Lohja, Finland.

I would like to ask first something about the past … Amorphis was born in 1990 in Helsinki. How it all began?

Yeah, I joined the band in 2004, but I tell you all what I know about the band’s early days. It all started as Abhorrence-band, where played Tomi Koivusaari (Guitarist and original vocalist), Esa Holopainen (guitars), Olli-Pekka Laine (bass), and Jan Rechberger (drums). Initially the band played Abhorrence’s songs, so the first publications have songs from that period. But that’s how it went on little by little, when the line-up was established. The genre, of course, has changed a lot over the years, but the guys were young and the band was among the very first Finnish bands in this genre.
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