Name: The Beginning Of Times
Brand: Amorphis

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2023-09-22

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2022-09-23

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2011-05-27

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Amorphis

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Atomic Fire Records

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Metal

Atomic Fire is a German independent label, specializing in metal and related music styles. Founded in 2021 by Markus Staiger, the label has quickly established itself as a prominent player in the industry. With a focus on discovering and promoting talented artists, Atomic Fire is dedicated to delivering high-quality music to metal enthusiasts worldwide.

With an impressive roster of *artists* spanning various subgenres of metal, Atomic Fire offers a diverse range of musical experiences for fans. From heavy and thrash metal to death and black metal, the label showcases the best that the genre has to offer.

Driven by passion and expertise, Atomic Fire provides a platform for emerging talent while also supporting established acts within the metal scene. By nurturing creativity and encouraging artistic freedom, the label ensures that its *performers* have the opportunity to create groundbreaking music that resonates with audiences around the globe.

Atomic Fire

Amorphis is a progressive metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 1990. Originally starting out as a death metal band, they quickly evolved and created their own unique blend of heavy metal, progressive rock, and folk music. The name Amorphis was derived from the word "amorphous", meaning 'no determinate form or shape'.

The current line-up of *Amorphis* consists of Esa Holopainen on guitar since 1990, Tomi Koivusaari on guitar since 1990, Jan Rechberger on drums from 1990 to 1995 and again from 2002 onwards, Olli-Pekka Laine on bass from 1990 to 2000 and again since 2017, Santeri Kallio on keyboards since 1999, and Tomi Joutsen on vocals since 2004.

*Amorphis* has been highly successful in their career and has influenced many other bands in the genre. Some similar artists include Dark Tranquillity, Norther, Sentenced, Eternal Tears Of Sorrow, Insomnium, Before The Dawn, Wintersun,
Kalmah,
Omnium Gatherum,
Scar Symmetry,
Mors Principium Est,
Paradise Lost,
Be'lakor,
Hypocrisy,
Poisonblack,
Dark The Suns,
Charon,
Pain,
Moonspell,and Soilwork

Newest Listed Items

Pretty much from the very start, <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amorphis-mn0000022590">Amorphis</a>' career has been about constant reinvention (hence the name, hello!), and so the Finnish group's albums have traversed the realms of death, folk, progressive, electronic, and psychedelic rock and metal over the past 20 years -- never looking back along the way. Until now. <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-beginning-of-times-mw0002132980">The Beginning of Times</a> isn't entirely correct in its billing because it doesn't quite bring <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amorphis-mn0000022590">Amorphis</a> full circle to their brutal death metal debut of 1992, <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-karelian-isthmus-mw0000123661">The Karelian Isthmus</a>, but rather to its highly influential sophomore successor, 1994's <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/tales-from-the-thousand-lakes-mw0000124775">Tales from the Thousand Lakes</a>, which first proved they had something original to say -- something heavily indebted to their country's folk music traditions and tales, yes, but original nonetheless for taking such daring license in blending those exotic, elegant melodies with "vile" extreme metal hallmarks to fascinatingly contrasting effect. So <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amorphis-mn0000022590">Amorphis</a> obviously sacrifice the element of surprise by going back to the well on this, their tenth studio album, but not the sense of excitement resulting from once again hearing this particular, familiar yet still fresh, combination of unrelated styles, darkness and light, as clean and crude vocals, raw guitars, and swirling keyboards joust playfully all over tracks like "Battle for Light," "You I Need," and "Beginning of Time." Guest vocalist <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/netta-dahlberg-mn0002607194">Netta Dahlberg</a> also adds a feminine touch to "Mermaid" and "Soothsayer," and a progressive rock thread reminiscent of the band's latter-day albums is maintained across many tracks, including the <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jethro-tull-mn0000850692">Jethro Tull</a>-like vibes of "Song of the Sage" and the all-binding thematic umbrella that sees <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amorphis-mn0000022590">Amorphis</a>turning yet again to their trusty Kalevala for a story cycle, here inspired by the legendary hero Väinämöinen. Déjà vu, anyone? Certainly there will be listeners disappointed at <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amorphis-mn0000022590">Amorphis</a>' creative about-face on <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-beginning-of-times-mw0002132980">The Beginning of Times</a>, but there's no denying its entertainment value and the fact that most of the band's longest-serving fans were probably ready for a nostalgic exercise like this right about now.

The Beginning Of Times

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