Amorphis/Leprous tomorrow

[Dead Winter]

Not impressed so far with Leprous but it could be interesting. Amorphis will rule, of course.

 

[Dead Winter]

Oh yeah, and Nahemah.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Amorphis is almost the worst band ever.

 

[Psychonaut]

Leprous' new album is great.

 

[Dead Winter]

Um, I disagree with both of you.

For some reason I find that funny.

 

[neal]

Tales from the Thousand Lakes and Elegy are pretty rocking. doubt they play any of those songs anymore though.

 

[Dead Winter]

They absolutely do. The show I went to last year played a song from Karelian Isthmus as the encore.

They didn't play much of anything from Tuonela though, which made me sad, and I believe they skipped that Far From the Sun abortion altogether. It was mainly new stuff and old stuff from Elegy and before.

 

[azal]

the new Amorphis stuff doesn't appeal to me. I appreciate that the singer is good, but all of it sounds like watered down Amorphis, sounds more like late Sentenced and HIM than real Amorphis to me.

Leprous new album is absolutely fantastic. They fill the void of interesting, melodic prog that Pain of Salvation left when they turned into a gay Uriah Heep cover band. Easily on of the best albums of the year.

I've seen them live opening for Therion and they were amazing. They are also Ihsahn's backing band and they kill it live with him as well. The singer is Ihsahn's brother-in-law.

I will probably catch this tour in January though.

 

[Dead Winter]

Yeah I'm not so crazy about the new stuff either. The last album I liked from them was Silent Waters.

 

[Frosties]

How are Nahemah live? On album their sound is pretty dense - I was wondering how it'd be in a live setting.

 

[Deb H]

I've seen both Leprous and Nahemah live (well Leprous twice if you count backing Ihsahn), both awesome! Leprous singer/keyboard player is a maniac on stage and Nahemah I found them very captivating. Would love to see both bands again but couldn't make the London show.

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

I fucking LOVE me some Leprous. Bilateral is in my top two of the year, and they absolutely killed it as Ihsahn's backing band at progpower this year.

 

[Dead Winter]

I've seen both Leprous and Nahemah live (well Leprous twice if you count backing Ihsahn), both awesome! Leprous singer/keyboard player is a maniac on stage and Nahemah I found them very captivating. Would love to see both bands again but couldn't make the London show.

Yeah, this. They were the best band of the night.

I don't really like their Pain of Salvation-y approach, and to be honest some of their songs just get bland after a bit, but HOLY FUCKBALLS ARE THEY AWESOME LIVE. Captivating is the key word here. They are the Behemoth of live prog/avante garde metal. The singer has a really strange but powerful voice when he screams...lots of falsetto as well, but very interesting and not at all cliche'. 8 string guitars in some songs as well.

I caught just the last two songs from Nahemah and I'm really sad because I think I would've liked them better. Their singer is fantastic in a more conventional sense, very powerful. I liked the post-metal/melancholia vibe a lot.

Amorphis played very well to an eager crowd, and although they played something from their entire catalogue, they tend to throw in too much new stuff in their shows. I'm not talking new as in the last five years, I'm talking new as in this year. I think they need to pick which newer songs they play live better because they omitted huge asskickers like Two Moons for boring shit like Smoke. However, as for the older stuff, they played:

Greed from Tuonela
A song from The Karelian Isthmus, though I don't remember which
Alone
Into Hiding
Magic and Mayhem
My Kantele

Everything else was Eclipse and forward. Setlist wasn't as good as the one in Graz two years ago but the show was better this time, mainly because Italians like to have fun and Austrians attend concerts like they're in a library.

Still, Pasi is the best frontman ever. His growl in concert is exactly like the albums as well as his clean...that voice...holy shit it's something to behold. He's got this steampunk thing going on with his mic stand and mic that's really cool and adds a different aesthetic to their live show. Their show is definitely a chill, laid back show. Don't go there expecting to get slung around and fuck people up in the mosh because it's not gonna happen. Hell, Tomi looks like he's bored to tears (which he probably is, playing rhythm in Amorphis), but they all seem to have fun. If you like Amorphis, you won't be sorry for going. Just go smoke outside or drink something at the bar for the songs you don't like; they still put on a good show.

 

[azal]

damn, considering I haven't been able to get through a single album since Tuonela, I might reconsider going. I would have expected that the setlist would be more Elegy-heavy. No On Rich or Poor? really?

 

[Dead Winter]

Yeah it seems like they don't like to play much old stuff. I mean, it's included and they play it well, but the focus is definitely on the last six years or so. Classics are just there as crowdpleasers.

I do think, however, that they switch up their songs for different concerts. I remember in Graz they did a medley of Elegy that was fucking awesome. Again, however, don't go there thinking it's gonna be nostalgia night because it's not. They're definitely geared more towards new stuff. I would be fine with that if they'd just include the good songs from the new stuff like Two Moons and Born from Fire instead of bullshit like The Smoke.

Play this



and this



instead of this

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