Amorphis Circle

2013, It was a moment of rare foresight when guitarist Esa Holopainen came up with a name for his new band: Amorphis. Derived from ´amorphous`, the choice would subsequently prove more apt than anyone could have imagined at the time. It was the fall of 1990, and the band's two founding members, Esa and drummer Jan Rechberger, had recently joined forces with guitarist/vocalist Tomi Koivusaari and bassist Olli-Pekka Laine to leave their mark on the emerging Finnish death metal scene, only to transcend it by far and set their sights on new horizons before that scene even reached the surface of public awareness. At the peak of the second decade of their musical journey, Finnish melancholic dark rock/metal masters Amorphis give birth to their eleventh mind-child named CIRCLE. The total of nine tracks that are contained on CIRCLE once more prove the musicians' ability to intertwine new and established ingredients. CIRCLE is compact, brilliant, fresh and still has all the elements you expect from Amorphis.