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Staff review by
Demonic Tutor
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Finland's Amorphis have mutated from a cherished 90s death/doom act into a new wave of heavy metal type of phenomenon in the early 2000s. Having successfully redefined their sound with albums such as Eclipse and Silent Waters, the band journeyed through time with two more releases made of the same cloth with Skyforger and The Beginning of Times. Now facing the challenge to either continue on the same path or deviate to a different sound, will the band make the right decision? All the answers can be found in the release of one of this year's most anticipated albums entitled Circle.
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| published 16.06.2013 | Comments (14)
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Written by metrockicka on 27.04.2013 at 11:03
I'm just curious , since when Heavy Metal Albums Have HARSH vocal Styles on songs like "Shades Of Gray"?;D
someone explain it to me.
honestly,i believe it's not heavy metal in a way ,at least it's not that kind of heavy metal i know and i live with it. i can hear progressive elements on some of these songs.
or maybe,im wrong....I dunno.???
only hopeless days track is close enough to my taste.
i think 5/10 is fair enough.
I guess this is your first encounter with Amorphis, right? They're not Heavy metal, actually, no one would call them that. They're "metal"¸ simply because it's hard to categorize their sound. They started as a doomy kind of death but now mix melodeath, prog, folk, gothic, etc. MS calls them "Heavy metal " just because they never write "Metal" in the genre section, I think...
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| Rating: 10 |
Catchy as the F word!
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| Rating: 9 |
Again really good album from Amorphis!
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| Rating: 9 |
Heavy as announced and still including some of the old Amorphis melo-death vibes, excellent! 
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| Rating: 9 |
Loving it. Exactly what I hoped for after "The Beginning Of Times" which was less heavy but also excellent. There's a lot of different influences, I especially like the black metal influence in "Nightbird's Song" although it's hard for me to pinpoint a favourite yet. I'm glad with the overall heavier approach for a bit of variety, but without harming the characteristic Amorphis soundof the Tomi Joutsen era. He's doing an excellent job with the vocals, as usual.
I can understand some of the comments that Amorphis doesn't bring anything "new" to the table but for me that's not a con at all. As with some other bands (like for example Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, etc.) the current characteristic sound Amorphis produces is very much to my liking and hence I wouldn't want them to stray too far from that path. I rather really enjoy getting my hands on new material and finding the subtle changes and/or improvements that the band has created. In this case, that which I described above.
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| Rating: 7 |
This albums contains some nice songs, such as Shades Of Gray and Hopeless Days. At the the same, I have nothing against Santeri Kallio but I can't bring myself to like the songs he wrote for this album. I also need to mention that more than once, while listening to this album, Amorphis reminded me of their compatriots Battlelore (Nightbird's Song, Enchanted By The Moon). Overall, "Circle" is a nice album but it's far from being my favourite Amorphis work so far. Well, maybe it will grow on me. Hopefully. 
P.S. Oh, and, curiously, I found the bonus track Dead Man's Dream much better than most of the album tracks.
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