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Elegy | 
| Artist: Amorphis
Label: Relapse
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 83752
Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 766635
UPC: 781676663521
EAN: 0781676663521
ASIN: B0002LQWY0
Release Date: August 17, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Better Unborn | | • | Against Widows | | • | Orphan | | • | On Rich and Poor | | • | My Kantele | | • | Cares | | • | Song of the Troubled One | | • | Weeper on the Shore | | • | Elegy | | • | Relief | | • | My Kantele [Acoustic Reprise] | | • | Better Unborn [Live][*] | | • | Against Widows [Live][*] | | • | Castaway [Live][*] |
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If you love melodic metal, you need to own this February 8, 2006
Anthony Lambiris (Boston, MA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This disc isn't just another Amorphis album, it's a full listening experience. The whole album is inspired by Finnish folk tales, both lyrically as well as musically. It's been out for a decade now, and I still listen to the disc in it's entirety on a regular basis. This disc will grow and grow on you. You will not have a favorite track, you will fall in love with the entire disc. As far as I'm concerned, the best Amorphis disc ever released.
"Under The Sand My Sweet One..." June 21, 2006
OzzyApu (Seattle, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The album that raised Amorphis to the top. The fusion of Tomi's signature cookie monster growls and newcomer Pasi's pure voice is phenomenal. With the addition of second vocals, the songs actually structure better and the feeling of a complete group takes form. Although Melodic Death Metal really doesn't require two vocalists, that's where this cuts that rule. Tomi, Pasi, and each song goes so smoothly that the album would be utterly destroyed if you made Pasi's voice absent.
Favorites:
Better Unborn
On Rich And Poor
My Kantele
Song Of The Troubled One
Weeper On The Shore
Elegy
Relief
"Better Unborn" shines a very adaptive Middle Eastern tune, which everyone always enjoys. Over a minute later the entire group takes it on again instrumentally, and its quite catchy. Tomi starts doing his part fabulously with those great vocals of his. After this Pasi let's loose what he does best. The lyrics aren't bad either.
"On Rich And Poor" shoots instantly with a solid riff while Tomi performs his duty, with Pasi on entrance afterwards. This song has pure instrumental power in it, full of great folk riffs and solos. Probably the fastest and catchiest at the same time.
"Elegy" is truly the albums masterpiece. Pasi begins amidst the beautiful piano with his voice to touch even space. Very folkish during Esa's solos. This song, as touching as it sounds, is about the loss of a loved one. Tomi performs his last growls on this track, and the piano takes care of the rest. The guitars at the end are wonderful.
While an epic altogether, there is no doubt in saying that Pasi...softened...Amorphis. This is the album, though residing at Amorphis' peak, was more of an experimental album and trailed from the typical Melodic Death sound. This does not go without saying that it is one of the greatest albums ever created in the genre. To me, -Elegy- sits close to Amorphis' previous work -Tales From The Thousand Lakes-. I would strictly recommend picking up both albums for the sole privilege of enjoying them. If you want laden with catch riffs and solos atop great instrumentation and vocals, both albums are necessities.
The Band's (and possibly Genre's) Best Album February 7, 2005
Dan Solera (Chicago, IL USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Following in the footsteps of their previous album, the hybrid Tales From the Thousand Lakes, Amorphis continues to blend staple death-metal fanfare with melodic Scandinavian folklore and melody. With new "clean" singer Pasi Koskinen, the band expands their sound to acoustic guitars, spacey keyboards, and a beautifully clean production.
The opening track (though the weakest, still impressive) is no doubt inspired by Middle-Eastern melodies (a la Therion) with an aggressive touch. "Against Widows" is a gem; Esa Holopainen's harmonizing guitars, changes in pitch and a double-bass rhythm throughout make this a stand-out track among a unanimously impressive selection. "The Orphan" is exceptional: an atmospheric keyboard/guitar intro and not a single grunt in the song's 5-minute run, half of which is instrumental. The album is stunning. Like its predecessor, the album was inspired by the Finnish companion to the Kalevala, the Kanteletar (?).
Even with the new additions and expansions, the album is never soft or mainstream. Powerhouses "Song of the Troubled One" and the instrumental attack of "Relief" keep the death-metal in Amorphis (without, of course, ignoring the amazing sonic keyboard accompaniments). Signs of musical evolution are, no doubt, apparent. The keyboard interludes in "Cares" and the all-acoustic "My Kantele (reprise)" foreshadow the radical shift in sound that Amorphis would undertake in subsequent albums.
As a band whose albums are clearly individual and unique (much like Ulver), Amorphis peaked with Elegy, a perfect union between the power of guitars and the keyboard's sonic edge. An instant classic.
See also: Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes, Vanitas - Das Leben ein Traum
One of the greatest metal albums ever April 14, 2007
Justin Gaines (Atlanta, GA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Where do I even start with this one? How about this - Elegy is one of the greatest metal albums of all time. I know that's a bold statement, but once you hear this album you'll probably agree with me.
Amorphis began their career as a fairly straightforward death metal band. Sure, drawing inspiration from Finnish folk legends was an interesting touch, but the band wasn't really breaking new ground with their debut album The Karelian Isthmus. Their follow-up album, Tales From the Thousand Lakes, was a big step forward in that the band got a little more experimental, but it was still primarily a death metal album. With Elegy though, the band took a quantum leap forward and gave us a career-defining album nobody could have expected.
Part of the change was bringing in Pasi Koskinen to provide a "clean" vocal counterpart to the death metal growling. This added a whole new dimension to Amorphis's music. The other major change is that instead of just releasing another death metal album, the band incorporated new sounds like powerful melodies and exotic instruments. The album draws on bands like Hawkwind and Pink Floyd as much as it does Death, and the result is a metal album that is aggressive, progressive, psychedelic, and gothic all at once. It's somewhere between Paradise Lost and Opeth, but Elegy is such a unique and innovative album that I really don't feel it has any peers.
I could talk all day about this album and still never do it justice, so I'll close by recommending Elegy to every single metal fan. Seriously, there's something about this album that should appeal to virtually everyone that is into metal.
NOTE: Elegy was reissued in 2004 with three live bonus tracks. There's also a version out there that includes the whole My Kantele EP as bonus tracks. Buy whichever version turns you on the most.
 Going Mainstream? November 30, 2008
Bonaparte (france)
I was a huge fan of Amorphis' first two albums, The Karelian Isthmus and Tales from the Thousand Lakes. The latter has widely been hailed as one of the best Death Metal albums ever.
What I particulary enjoyed with Amorphis, on top of their "Nordic sounding" melodies, is the way in which heavy riffs would mix with guitar melodies and death metal vocals.
On Elegy, Amorphis decided to change the recipee: they hired full time a clean voice singer to sing on the album, with death metal vocals appearing only on few of the songs. Also, the album sounds lighter (as opposed to dark, not heavy). That's why I do not agree with the label 'doom metal' album that some people put on it.
Personnally I prefered the death metal approach.Also, building on the sucess of "Thousand Lakes", this album sounds actually quite clean, with the keyboards becoming an ever more important part of the band.
Still, this is a great album, which rocks. The energy of the band is still there. Songs like Better Unborn and Against Widows are classics, and more melodic songs like Elegy and My Kantelele work very well.
Later on Amorphis would abandon death metal altogether (for 10 years). Elegy captures the band at a crossroads, going for success but maintaining their energy without selling out.
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