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Elegy is the point where Amorphis began to show what their name really means. "Amorphous" - having no definite shape. What all started with death metal now becomes more melodic, gothic,
psychedelic-like. With Elegy you can find a transition to their new style which is fully developed with the following album "Tuonela" and they even used their new logo on this album for
the first time. This album shows us both sides and it seems like they don't know which path they should choose. Especially the vocals differ from death metal grunting to clean vocals sometimes within one song e.g. in "Against Widows" and "Weeper On The Shore". Some people may like this new style but others who like the previous album "Tales From The Thousand Lakes", which was indeed an excellent death metal album, may curse this new style. To me it seems like they made a good
decision to bring more clean vocals and melodic guitar parts into their songs. "Elegy" is just a try which appeals to both sides of fans. Songs of this album that are worth mentioning would be "The Orphan", "On Rich And Poor" and a nice acoustic version of "My Kantele". It was definitely a good idea to choose this new path even though some fans of their old death metal style might be disappointed. Love it or hate it!
| Tracklist |
| 1. Better Unborn |
| 2. Against Widows |
| 3. The Orphan |
| 4. On Rich And Poor |
| 5. My Kantele |
| 6. Cares |
| 7. Song Of The Troubled One |
| 8. Weeper On The Shore |
| 9. Elegy |
| 10. Relief |
| 11. My Kantele (Acoustic Reprise) |
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