Silent Waters is the most recent album by Finnish melodic metal band Amorphis. The album was released at the beginning of 2007 on Nuclear Blast, it features a moon lit album cover with a distinctive red swan. The album was largely touted as their "back to their best" album. Not being familiar ... Read review
Advantages: Some good melodical riffs Disadvantages: Too wet
Silent Waters is the most recent album by Finnish melodic metal band Amorphis. The album was released at the beginning of 2007 on Nuclear Blast, it features a moon lit album cover with a distinctive red swan. The album was largely touted as their "back to their best" album. Not being familiar with any of Amorphis' previous work this didn't really effect me much anyway.
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1. Weaving the Incantation
2. A Servant
3. Silent Waters
4. Towards and Against
5. I of Crimson Blood
6. Her Alone
7. Enigma
8. Shaman
9. The White Swan
10. Black River
11. Sign - Amorphis ... more
Silent Waters is the most recent album by Finnish melodic metal band Amorphis. The album was released at the beginning of 2007 on Nuclear Blast, it features a moon lit album cover with a distinctive red swan. The album was largely touted as their "back to their best" album. Not being familiar with any of Amorphis' previous work this didn't really effect me much anyway.
With crispy guitar solos and sparkling clear vocals, this should have been rather popular but it just didn't do it for me. This is when I came to the conclusion that I'm a bit of a heathen and it just seems to straight and clean for my liking.
Poppy vocals singing through an album that is based on a Finnish poem compiled of Finnish and Karelian folklore in the 19th century called "Kalevala", educated it may be but it just appears to be pretentious arty twaddle to my ears and belongs in the theatre rather than on the shelves of a heavy metal section in a music shop!
Fortunately for me there were some slightly brutal vocals but they didn't really work as my mood had been dampened by the clean and cheerful poppy sound to Joutsen's regular vocals. Unless you want to dabble with the realms of artistic mediocrity - I'd steer clear of this one.
1. Weaving the Incantation 2. A Servant 3. Silent Waters 4. Towards and Against 5. I of Crimson Blood 6. Her Alone 7. Enigma 8. Shaman 9. The White Swan 10. Black River 11. Sign - Amorphis
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Product details
Title
Silent Waters
Performer
Amorphis
Genre
Heavy Metal
Release Date
03/09/2007
Original Release Year
2007
Label / Distributor
Nuclear Blast / Plastic Head
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
727361188122
Additional notes
Album Notes
Amorphis: Tom Joutsen (vocals); Tom Roivusaari, Esa Holopainen (guitar); Santeri Kallio (keyboards); Niclas Etelavuori (bass instrument); Ian Rechberger (drums). Additional personnel: Tanya Kemppainen, El Goodman, Kai Kaarnainen, Jofa 'Singin Manager', Marco Hietala (vocals). By the time Finnish band Amorphis--former kings of speed metal-- recorded this eighth album in 2007, their sound had evolved into melodic, bass-heavy metal that draws inspiration from grunge, pop, and symphonic rock. The songwriting on SILENT WATERS is top-notch and shows a marked improvement from even their 2006 entry, ECLIPSE. The highlight here is the title track, an exhilarating power ballad with a haunting piano intro and convincing vocal by lead singer Tomi Joutsen (replacement for long-standing vocalist Pasi Koskinen, who left the band prior to this album).
Album Reviews
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.47) - "Newcomer Tomi Joutsen lends himself to the clean singing...adding a hollow croon that echoes Pete Steele and tackling the death growls like a bear trapped in a well. Lovely stuff."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Her Alone
2.
Weaving The Incantation
3.
Servant
4.
Silent Waters
5.
Towards And Against
6.
I Of Crimson Blood
7.
Enigma
8.
Shaman
9.
White Swan
10.
Black River
11.
Sign
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