Headliner #2 Confirmed:

Some of their earlier stuff in the transition from complete death:
Black Winter Day
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Against Widows
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this is pretty cool! Not somehting that I'd expect, but really cool! I Was like "amorphis headlining PP? WTF?"....
I love a bunch of their stuff! I saw them last year in Finland, they kicked ass...

I know I am in the vast minority, but my favorite album (by far) is Tuonela... I fucking LOVE it! And they even played a couple songs from it on the show in finland last year... Hopefully they will keep a couple tracks from it in their set list! :)
 
Hmm, I've always stayed away from "Far From the Sun"; that's the only one I don't have-- perhaps that will change very soon.


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Angrafan said:
this is pretty cool! Not somehting that I'd expect, but really cool! I Was like "amorphis headlining PP? WTF?"....
I love a bunch of their stuff! I saw them last year in Finland, they kicked ass...

I know I am in the vast minority, but my favorite album (by far) is Tuonela... I fucking LOVE it! And they even played a couple songs from it on the show in finland last year... Hopefully they will keep a couple tracks from it in their set list! :)
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I like Tuonela quite a bit myself actually. In fact, it was the first Amorphis album I stumbled upon and bought and then I branched out from there to their other albums. I would hope they'd play a couple of songs from Tuonela at PPIX.
 
zekeyou said:
Black Winter Day
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Oh I hope they play that. .....

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zekeyou said:
Hmm, I've always stayed away from "Far From the Sun"; that's the only one I don't have-- perhaps that will change very soon.


That album didn't grow on me very quickly at all but after several spins I find myself liking it more. I don't think it will ever be one of my favorites in their catalog but it does have some very good moments on it in my opinion, just not as many as I would have hoped. Perhaps I need to listen to it again -- it's been awhile.
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Talk about an oddball.....Amorphis was the last band I would think of as a PPUSA headliner, noting their death metal history. Noting with Amorphis now being a PPUSA headliner, will it open the door for bands like Akercocke to play PPUSA?

Very gutsy choice, Glenn. This is gonna be some event. :headbang::kickass::worship:
 
I have 4 cds by the band...guess I need to see how many more they have.
 
Oh man, oh man! I'm so excited I can barely type!! No effing way!!!!! I absolutely LOVE this band. Wow, now I'm speechless. More later if I regain my verbosity.
 
Nope I do not like death metal. But at the same time I have nothing against it or people who like it. Different strokes for different folks I say. But I guess to fine tune my question, Did Amorphis start out as death metal? When did they go into cleaner vocals and on which albums?
 
I have to say... I'm shocked. For starters, this is the first time I've been a fan of both headliners since PPII. Second, I was sure I would be subjected to the likes of Helloween, Rhapsody, Gamma Ray, or some such Power Metal band that I can't stand. But lastly, I'm shocked Amorphis would be in this spot. First, because I never viewed them as a headliner. But also, because the majority of their vocals are growled. All that said, it's a great selection. Kudos of a great, diverse line-up.

Zod
 
General Zod said:
I'm shocked Amorphis would be in this spot. First, because I never viewed them as a headliner. But also, because the majority of their vocals are growled. All that said, it's a great selection. Kudos of a great, diverse line-up.

Zod
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That is why I am still speechless. Now, I hope that this would bend the long standing prohibition against growls.

Akercocke fo PP X anyone?
 
OH MY FUCKING GOD!!
OOOHHH MYYYY FUCKKIINNNGGG GODDDDDDDD!!!!!!

HELLL YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU GLENN!

I am already dancing to the guitar solo on ON RICH AND POOR!!!

Fuck the haters, Amorphis will slay!!!!
 
rms said:
Because it sounds like you dont like death metal and didn't try to listen to these guys..
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ha, awesome.

After coming up as a Queensryche/Savatage/power metal fan, what was the first album with growls that I ever bought? Amorphis - Elegy. Of course, that was 11 years ago, but hey, it's never too late!

General Zod said:
But also, because the majority of their vocals are growled.
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C'mon, let's not scare people away now! I haven't done the math, but I'd say their last "majority-growled" album was "Tales From the Thousand Lakes", seven albums ago. "Elegy" feels like about 50/50 to me, and then by "Tuonela"/"Am Universum" they only appeared in a song or two. Even with with new singer, though the growls seem sprinkled around a bit more throughout the songs again, the albums are still dominated by clean vocals (though the new guy does sing in several different voices along the clean-growl continuum).

Besides that, I could have written everything else you said in your post myself.

Dragongrrrl said:
Gonna ride the bike again? :kickass:
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Probably not, unfortunately. I just did another cross-country ride last summer, so I don't have much vacation time stocked up. :(

Neil
 
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