Amorphis - Halo
| Release date: | 11 February 2022 |
| Style: | Folk metal, Progressive metal, Melodic death metal |
Owners: |
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01. Northwards
02. On The Dark Waters
03. The Moon
04. Windmane
05. A New Land
06. When The Gods Came
07. Seven Roads Come Together
08. War
09. Halo
10. The Wolf
11. My Name Is Night [feat. Petronella Nettermalm]
12. The River Song [Japanese bonus]
Top 20 albums of 2022: 15
02. On The Dark Waters
03. The Moon
04. Windmane
05. A New Land
06. When The Gods Came
07. Seven Roads Come Together
08. War
09. Halo
10. The Wolf
11. My Name Is Night [feat. Petronella Nettermalm]
12. The River Song [Japanese bonus]
Top 20 albums of 2022: 15
Reviews 
Lyrics Tomi Joutsen - vocals
Santeri Kallio - keyboards
Tomi Koivusaari - guitars, backing vocals
Esa Holopainen - guitars
Jan Rechberger - drums
Olli-Pekka Laine - bass
Guest musicians
Petronella Nettermalm - vocals
Noa Gruman - additional vocals
Additional info
Recorded by Nino Laurenne, Jens Bogren and Jonas Olsson at Fascination Studios, Isolla Music and Sonic Pump Studios between January-August 2021.
Grand piano and hammond organ recorded by Miiro Varjus at Sonic Pump Studios May 2021. Church organ and keyboards recorded by Santeri Kallio at Church of Paavali and Studio Kreatine June 2021. Percussion recorded by Jan Rechberger at NGB and Moon Unit Studios July/August 2021. Additional recording and drum tech by Miiro Varjus.
Produced and mixed by Jens Bogren. Editing and mixing assistance by Linus Corneliusson and Ricardo Borges.
Mastered by Tony Lindgren.
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Rating: 4.5 |
A mediocre effort from a good band. Poorly composed, with little thought into what ideas to include and how long to dwell on them. A collection of B-sides that haven't made it on past records? Read more ›› |
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Comments page 3 / 3
Comments: 71
Visited by: 1189 users
| terroriser Posts: 60 From: UK  |
I made an effort. I really tried. And i am not impressed... Don't take me wrong in really like Amorphis. Ever since their first album I am with them on sort of on and off relationship. I absolutely loved their Bee album. And I think this is where the problem is. Would I never heard QoT, most likely I would fall in love with Halo. As it is now in every track on new album I hear echos of one of the tracks on previous album. To make matter worse some of those new tracks are inconsistent, they fell like three different songs amalgamated into one. I got the feeling that some material on Halo is actually leftover staff from Queen
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| Tuonelan Posts: 134 From: USA  |
More than anything else, this album reminds me of The Beginning of Times as a moment in Amorphis' creative cycle when the creative energy of collaboration starts to turn into comfort and familiarity, and they "settle in" a bit too much in a particular mode of writing and playing. I don't think that Bogren has anything more that he can drag out of the band by pushing them to explore new ground. The ground they are on, though, is still higher than it was for TBoT, and far above their low point on Far From the Sun. Hoping that they find someone else as opinionated as Bogren to work with on the next album, who can unsettle things once again and spark some fresh experimentation and new ideas.
---- Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy
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| JoHn DoE Posts: 3734  |
Rather average TBH, nothing special. 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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| tintinb Posts: 1077 From: India |
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| doez Hallucigenia Posts: 735 From: France  |
Thoroughly confused as to what people enjoy in this
---- An album rated 6 is an album I enjoyed
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| F3ynman2000 Nocturnal Bro Posts: 1842 From: Germany  |
Written by doez on 06.06.2022 at 21:18 Yeah. It sounds very very generic to me. Like an AI was given instructions to create a prog metal album. I miss the innovation and diversity of Tales From The Thousand Lakes and Elegy 
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| bgcasio Posts: 109 From: Bulgaria  |
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| Folkbill Posts: 41 From: Mexico  |
I did not feel this so attractive, still trying though
---- --Non So Bill.
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| b0sse Posts: 92 From: Sweden  |
Wasnt very impressed at first, but after several listens, it has grown on me. "A New Land" is pretty fire.
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| sergiod099 Posts: 8 |
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| Ball Fondlers Posts: 475 From: Australia  |
The intro part to "The Moon" sounds like the jingle to the evening news 
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