Amorphis – ‘Far from the Sun’ Vinyl

‘Far from the Sun,’ it is their sixth album and the first to feature drummer Jan Rechberger since 1994’s ‘Tales from the Thousand Lakes,’ replacing Pekka Kasari who had quit the band to spend more time with his family. It was their last album to feature Pasi Koskinen on vocals.

Amorphis is a Finnish progressive and melodic metal act, formerly death doom band, started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in Helsinki, Finland, in 1990.

Amorphis absorbed and incorporated influences from many metal genres, and with time passing, their sound evolved dramatically. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but with time they have evolved into making music that is more classifiable as doom metal with folk influences and, more recently, progressive metal and hard rock, utilizing increasingly complex arrangements and a less brutal sound.

Amorphis is also well known for their use of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, as a source for their lyrics.