Amorphis good or not?

[challenge_everything]

Nobody said anything to the contrary.

That was more directed to HBB who seems to think it is representative of the band.

 

[CiG]

Dammit, you just had to go and ruin the fun didn't you? I was expecting some funny ass response. I am disappoint

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Death metal, doom metal, progressive metal, keyboard music, gothic music. I'm not saying it's New York City but I appreciate the degree of diversity it has.

Death metal vocals, doom/goth riffs, and keyboards, on basically all of the songs. You could call nearly any metal album diverse by those standards. Nothing prog about it btw.

Why the caveat? I already said I thought The Karelian Isthmus was their best. I just thought the comment "entirely shit" was stupid when you were obviously generalising their entire catalogue based on Tales alone.

What I've heard of that one was just boring, but fair enough, I didn't read your earlier post and thought you were defending the band on the basis of the million shit albums they released after Tales, and not the one album they released before it.

That was more directed to HBB who seems to think it is representative of the band.

So the first album is representative?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

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....yea dat's right.

 

[CiG]

Death metal vocals, doom/goth riffs, and keyboards, on basically all of the songs. You could call nearly any metal album diverse by those standards. Nothing prog about it btw.

Also the smatterings of folk elements throughout the album. I mean, you can be that reductionist to the point that literally only a compilation of different bands playing different genres can be called musically diverse. Personally I think that's autistic.

....yea dat's right.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Also the smatterings of folk elements throughout the album. I mean, you can be that reductionist to the point that literally only a compilation of different bands playing different genres can be called musically diverse. Personally I think that's autistic.

All windowdressing fam

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Tales is solid stuff.

 

[CiG]

All windowdressing fam

What.

 

[The Ozzman]

some of their good music (without posting anything from their first album and EP).

 

[CiG]

Elegy is a cool album.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I've heard Elegy more than any of the others because I tried to convince myself that it was a good album, but alas, it wasn't.

 

[CiG]

Such a tr00.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I wish my taste was shittier.

 

[The Ozzman]

I wish my taste was shittier.

Start listening to more black metal and then you'll reach that goal.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Doesn't work that way.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yes, you can't help but see dong everywhere, my big Armenian daddy.

 

[The Ozzman]

Doesn't work that way.

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So basically your meme indicates there's no correlation between listening to black metal and having shitty taste? I was never good at reading these regression analyses.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yes, you can't help but see dong everywhere, my big Armenian daddy.

oh you don't like dongs anymore? I did it for you <3

 

[Einherjar86]

There's definitely a goth vibe to a lot of Amorphis's material, but I tend to hear it as part of the background aesthetic--i.e. they mostly sound like a moody folk metal band with faint flourishes of death and doom metal (this is discounting Karelian and Privilege).

And pretty much everything since Skyforger is unlistenable.