New Adventures In The North
Many great bands have a magnum opus: that album that catapulted them to superstardom and, years later, remains a creative apex. Metallica have Master Of Puppets. Nirvana have Nevermind. Rush have 2112.
Amorphis are undoubtedly another great band. They’ve experimented with almost every heavy subgenre under the sun and reaped acclaim time and time again for 30 years. That said, what’s their magnum opus? Is it 1994’s Tales From The Thousand Lakes, which revolutionised extreme metal by integrating Middle Eastern guitar harmonies? How about from 2009: a collection of wonky power/prog metal tracks driven by majestic melodies? Or maybe it’s their last album, 2018’s which danced between death metal, hard rock and synth-prog so fluidly that it lifted their popularity to new levels?
