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Tales From the Thousand Lakes

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They got the title wrong, this is actually Tales From The Thousand Lakes. It is heavily melodic with folk elements added. It features the bands best work, including Drowned Maid and Black Winter Night. The vocals are some of the best in black/death metal, very grand-sounding and powerful. The guitars are heavy with very catchy rhythms and the drums complement perfectly, changing tempo at the perfect moment. This is not speed or thrash metal in any way and is not brutal as other metal ie: deicide/at the gates, but invokes a feeling of being very small and insignificant, which seems to be the artists intent. The sound quality is high, and the album uses the full range of frequencies perfectly.

The early 90s saw the emergence of Death Metal on the international scene, and was a period of great creativity.

This album is an absolute masterpiece of Melodic Death Metal. Building unto the fantastic Karelian Isthmus first album, Amorphis benefit this time from a more clean production.

They also add a clear vocal from time to time, and a keyboard player joins the group.

The result is the listener feels he is in the country of the thousand lakes, this album is a remarkable journey. I hesitate to call it "epic" because it is not grandiloquent and very much a "hard on" album, but the melodies are omnipresent.

I for one thought that the death metal voice married perfectly with the heavy guitar riffs, but most media thought otherwise, and the band themselves progressively suppressed death metal vocals althogether... before returning recently!