Amorphis
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The 5th full length Amorphis album, like in Tounela, Amorphis continued to use more prog and psychedelic rock elements. It's solid album, which the opener song "Alone" is one stand out song, one of the best in Pasi's era. There's few other good song's, so it worth buying.

I have a general feeling of the album can be described as "not bad, but nothing special." In terms of style, the disc in some places resembles Tuonela nicely, but much weaker than the latter. Alone opens the disc - of course 100% hit, Godard (Of The Sadman), The Night Is Over and (more) Shatters Within are also very good. And then the guys, in my opinion, began to suffer frankly, trying to really get into progressive. Don't misunderstand me, I really like progressive, but Amorphis just tried not to get into his incarnation ... In my opinion, nothing particularly outstanding was on this basis for them. So what do we have? One mega hit plus three very strong things ... and the ending is almost failed. Although ... maybe I was just expecting to hear the sequel to Tuonela. I do not want to say that the disk is weak, but I will not call it strong either. So ...