AMORPHIS Guitarist Looks Back On Tales From The Thousand Lakes Album - "It Was More Natural To Follow The Musical Path We Did Than To Put Corpse Paint On And Start Spitting Blood"
March 16, 2014, 10 years ago
The Metal Crypt recently caught up with guitarist Tomi Koivusaari to discuss the 20th anniversary of the band's breakthrough album, Tales From The Thousand Lakes. An excerpt is available below:
Q: As the majority of feedback from people regarding The Karelian Isthmus was positive, did you start thinking that you had done something special or even remarkable on your debut, which kind of opened the door for all of you to see that Amorphis might be on to something and that eventually led to the Tales... album?
Tomi: "I don't think there was any conscious decision on Tales..., it was all about a musical starting point. It was more like an attitude of 'We don't care what people say, we're doing our own thing anyway.' The Karelian Isthmus was a good release, but after that we started to focus on our own thing more and more. I remember that it took a year or so after we finished the Tales... recordings before the album finally came out, and we mostly played those songs at our gigs even though our fans didn't know them yet. We all felt that the new material was much stronger. But yeah, I think The Karelian Isthmus was an important album for us to start thing off and say 'We are here and will kick your butts.'"
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Amorphis recently announced a full set of European dates for 2014.
States guitarist Esa Holopainen: “Just wanted to drop a line and thank everyone who came to see us on our Circle European Tour. The shows were amazing just because of you and the great synergy that we had. So first leg of Circle European Tour is over and I'm also really happy to announce the second part which is planned for March. To delight our fans who seen us this fall and will catch us again, we might do some little changes to our setlist. Shine on, people.”
The Circle European Tour will include the following dates:
March
16 - Budapest, Hungary - Club 20218 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Mixtape 5 Club
19 - Belgrade, Serbia - Dom Omladine
20 - Zagreb, Croatia - Tvornica
21 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Majestic Music Club
22 - Graz, Austria - Explosiv
23 - Nürnberg, Germany - Hirsch
25 - Solothurn, Switzerland - Kulturfabrik Kofmehl
26 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
27 - Hannover, Germany - Musikzentrum
28 - Düsseldorf, Germany - Zakk
29 - Lindau, Germany - Club Vaudeville
30 - Aschaffenburg, Germany - Colos-Saal
Check out the latest music video, for the track 'The Wanderer':
Amorphis‘ current record, Circle was released on April 19th, 2013 via Nuclear Blast.
