On the one hand, it was about time for them to release a new live record. On the other hand, I don't dig the setlist. Two of the albums (Beginning of Times and Circle) they released since their last live record have no song on this. Under The Red Cloud - their best in my opinion - has only two songs. Personally, I could have done without Sampo, Silver Bride, Black Winder Day and My Kantele and would have liked to see maybe Dark Path, Into the Abyss/Nightbird's Song/Enchanted By The Moon, Battle For Light/Crack In A Stone. Also, I don't like The Golden Elk and Pyres On The Coast that much. And: Why nothing from Silent Waters? Since it's Amorphis, I'm sure it will have great production and performance. But the song selection is meh, in my opinion.

Same here - as I remember it's basically the same tracklist as the one they did at their "The Queen of Time" tour. And since I don't really enjoy this record that much I am a bit disappointed as you.
I won't mention the fact that - as usual - almost all Pasi era songs are omitted. The only thing I like in it is the new tshirt design.

Written by SchrödingersDog on 20.03.2021 at 11:09

On the one hand, it was about time for them to release a new live record. On the other hand, I don't dig the setlist. Two of the albums (Beginning of Times and Circle) they released since their last live record have no song on this. Under The Red Cloud - their best in my opinion - has only two songs. Personally, I could have done without Sampo, Silver Bride, Black Winder Day and My Kantele and would have liked to see maybe Dark Path, Into the Abyss/Nightbird's Song/Enchanted By The Moon, Battle For Light/Crack In A Stone. Also, I don't like The Golden Elk and Pyres On The Coast that much. And: Why nothing from Silent Waters? Since it's Amorphis, I'm sure it will have great production and performance. But the song selection is meh, in my opinion.

With such a short set-list like this, Amorphis will always have this problem no matter what they select. Their discography is so large and so strong that its just impossible to please everyone.

My biggest issue with Live albums is bands rarely release them and when they do, they tend to focus very heavily on the most recently released record. 5 of the songs on this release are from their new record, for example. I can understand why they would want to promote their most recent release... but from a fans perspective, this kinda sucks. I wish more bands would do a special concert for a live album with a set-list that features a greater diversity of the bands whole catalog. Something like that would excite me to buy it and would hold up really well in a bands catalog. Something like this just feels like its too heavily focused on marketing their most recent release. If bands did this for every album it would make more sense, but they don't. Instead we look back at discography's and instead of seeing 1 really special live album which covers everything, we see 1 or 2 small ones with a limited focus. meh.

The best example I can think of where a band did a live album right is Evergrey's A Night To Remember. It was 1 extended show so they could cover more of their discography and it felt very complete. That's the kind of Live album we need more of!

For such iconic album for the band, they could choose better set list, to many songs from last album. Wrong direction could so, then put some older ones, make it real best of live, we all know music recons the kantele, if you knoe lucky feel....

to the expectation of such material.....