It's time for the usual wrap up post, where I talk about the bands that didn't fit in any of the previous posts.
This post also ends the part of this European tour where we travelled through the Nordic landscapes, rich in Metal bands and musicians. We now enter in the much more arid landscapes of Eastern Europe. No more five parts chronicles will await you until the end of our journey.
But let’s go on with the music, and starting with a personal favourite of mine, Amorphis.
Amorphis started as Melodic Death Metal band, in 1990 and in 1994 they release a true MeloDeath masterpiece, Tales of the Thousand Lakes, which served as an inspiration to several Extreme Power and Melodic Death bands from Finland and abroad. In 1997 they dropped the harsh vocals and changed their sound to something lighter, more like a modern Heavy Metal. Their first releases were not great, but in 2005 they hire a new singer, Tomi Joutsen, and their subsequent releases have an improved quality, not very far from their Melodic Death days.
I think some of the songs of their recent works are really great (Silent Waters and House of Sleep pop to my mind) but I couldn't resist to add here a video from their old days, my favourite, Black Winter Days.
It's a rare thing in Finland, but there are bands playing Gothenburg Metal there. The best one I heard is Insomnium, they play great music and the voice of their singer, Niilo Sevänen, is awesome.
Another Gothenburg band, but more heavy than Insomnium, is Mors Principium Est. They were founded in 1999 and have release three full lengths.
I couldn't end the Finnish chronicle without talking about Apocalyptica, one of those bands that have a music genre of their own. I listen to them since their first release, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, and just saw them live two months ago, it's brilliant!
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