Amorphis

The evolution started with the Tales From the Thousand Lakes album in 1993; a theme album based on the Finnish national Pole book Kalevaia, a book of tales and folklore. This album could be described as the future of Metal, one could even go so far as to say "genius". The EP Black Winter Day (1995) continued this trend but with a major line-up change now featuring Pekka Kasari (ex-Stone; drums), Pasi Koskinen (vocals) and Kim Rantala on keyboards. They would continue in this style on their follow up Elegy, which saw the growl vocal almost abandoned completely. Elegy (1996) was also a recording with cascading music based on a book of folklore, this time it was the Kanteletar, an 1840 compilation consisting of 700 Finnish poems and ballads; some many hundreds of years old. Amorphis proved once and for all to the critics that the extreme forms of Metal were capable of having melody and was growing up. With each album they improved their sound and changed their style to the point where their Black and death metal growls and deep bass have been replaced with a more standard metallic style. My Kantele EP (1997) was an attempt to cash in on the success of its sister album.

Tuonela (1998) and Am Universum (2001) saw the line-up of Pasi Koskinen (vocals), Tomi Koivusaari (guitar), Esa Holopainen (guitar), Santeri Kallio (keyboards), Niclas Etelävuori (bass) and Jan Rechberger (drums) featuring more shouting but nonetheless smoother vocals.

Story - 10th Anniversary compilation followed in 2000.

In 2003, 'Relapse' released the retrospective Chapters, which included a DVD featuring the band's videos from Black Winter Day to Alone.

Tomi Joutsen would take over from Koskinen for their critically acclaimed 2006 Eclipse album, an album that was seen as a return to form for the band.

Skyforger (2009) was a rare case in the music world. The disc suffered a recall when it was discovered that there were mastering errors in the recording (errors in the recording that affected playback that made it to mass production) that prompted 'Nuclear Blast' to issue replacement CDs. Nonetheless, the album went gold in Finland.

In 2010, Amorphis released Magic & Mayhem - Tales from the Early Years, a re-working of a dozen tracks from their first three albums with slightly different arrangements, better audio quality and featuring the band's current lineup, plus a cover of Light my Fire as a bonus track. The Beginning of Times (2011) and Circle (2012) followed.

On August 4, 2014, Amorphis announced on their website and through social media that they would be playing a number of special Tales From the Thousand Lakes 20th Anniversary shows where their 1994 album would be performed in its entirety.

Under the Red Cloud arrived in 2015 with Queen of Time (2018), Halo (2022) and the The Moon & More EP EP (2022) following. Queen of Time - Live At Tavastia the next live set would come in 2023.