AMORPHIS - Circle (19 Avril)

Pingouin · Jean-Pierre Elkathrash Inscrit le: 15 Jan 2010 Messages: 5306

AMORPHIS have set "Circle" as the title of their eleventh album, due on April 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. Production and mixing duties for the follow-up to 2011's "The Beginning Of Times" were handled by HYPOCRISY and PAIN mastermind Peter Tägtgren, who has previously worked with such bands as CHILDREN OF BODOM, CELTIC FROST, IMMORTAL and DIMMU BORGIR. The recordings took place at Petrax Studio (NIGHTWISH, CHILDREN OF BODOM, KORPIKLAANI) in Hollola and 5K Studios in Helsinki.

A short summary about the album's concept/story that spreads throught out the lyrics by Pekka Kainulainen, who wrote the lyrics for most recent AMORPHIS albums: "The protagonist has been dealt a bad hand at birth. He’s always felt himself an outsider with strong potential to become marginalized. Through an accident, after a crisis, he finds a connection with his inner powers. A guide is sent to him, from some other time and place. He gets a chance to take hold of his own life and change his destiny. From the past of Carelian Finland he finds his own spiritual tribe and the power to turn the course of his doomed life. This is a story of survival."

AMORPHIS singer Tomi Joutsen adds about the album title: "'Circle' represents integrity. Back in the days, when there was something special to talk about, wise men used to sit in circle. Not everyone was invited to join them. But in this story, the protagonist was invited among the wise men's circle."

Fan-filmed video footage of AMORPHIS performing a brand new song — tentatively titled "Mehtä" (English-language translation: "The Forest") — on December 14, 2012 at Klubi in Turku, Finland can be seen below.

Regarding the band's decision to perform a brand new track during their Finnish tour, Tomi said: "We just wanted to try how it worked, and it went [over] really well.

"We don't want to play too many [new] songs, because people are recording [the shows with their phone cameras] and [posting] it on the Internet, and we don't wanna spoil the album [for everyone].

"I was really nervous, of course, when we played it the first time, but it went over great. I think it's gonna be an awesome live song."

Regarding the direction of the new AMORPHIS material, the band's guitarist and founding member Esa Holopainen said: "While promoting 'The Beginning Of Times', we started to feel that we were giving the same explanations over and over again when people asked about the studio process and how the songs came about. Even though the music was very strong, the making process didn't offer any surprises and appeared to be quite secured. Now the addition of a new dimension to the developing process has inspired us to focus on our material even more. The songs are extremely strong and skull-pummelling."

Et un nouveau morceau : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMF_h6wJwk&feature=player_embedded

Droom · Oslow Inscrit le: 15 Fév 2012 Messages: 3419

Hum, ça à l'air un peu dans la veine de "Majestic Beast", tant mieux. Après, le refrain vient replacer ce morceau à la place qu'on pouvait attendre: au sein d'une discographie de qualité mais horriblement lisse.

J'écouterais par curiosité mais voilà quoi, je sens l'album chiant. Comme le dernier Katatonia, comme le dernier Paradise Lost, comme tout Before The Dawn, comme...

Confused

Dislo · Inscrit le: 03 Sep 2011 Messages: 864

Faudrait surtout qu'il évite de ressembler aux 4 derniers.

Althor · Inscrit le: 31 Jan 2011 Messages: 98 Localisation: Metz

C'est vrai qu'avec le recul, The Beginning of Times était décevant. A espérer que ce coup-ci ils vont remettre un bon coup de collier ! A la Skyforger

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Mitasareru · Posté le: Jeu 24 Jan 2013 18:04 Sujet du message:

J'ai pas aimé le dernier, trop calqué sur Skyforger sans mélodies marquantes, alors j'attends beaucoup de celui-ci mais sans grand espoir.

Pietro · Posté le: Jeu 24 Jan 2013 18:19 Sujet du message:

Pareil, je n'ai même pas acheté le dernier tellement il ressemblait aux précédents. C'est con, ce groupe a tout cartonné avec l'arrivée de Tomi Joutsen sur Eclipse... à tel point que depuis ça ils se sont mis à en faire des copier/coller. Neutral

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Seosamh · Posté le: Jeu 24 Jan 2013 20:46 Sujet du message:

Je vais être à contre courant, mais moi j'aime bien le dernier alors que Skyforger est celui que j'aime le moins de la période Joutsen.
Mais bon, Eclipse et Silent Waters (surtout Silent Waters) sont encore meilleurs.
Pour le prochain, là ça commencerait vraiment à me faire chier qu'ils fassent encore le même album pour la 5eme fois, qu'il soit de bonne qualité ou pas.
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kroboy · Posté le: Ven 25 Jan 2013 11:11 Sujet du message:

pareil, à tous les niveaux
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Droom · Oslow Inscrit le: 15 Fév 2012 Messages: 3419

Bof, le meilleur c'était The Beginning of Silent Eclipseforger finalement.

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Pietro · Posté le: Lun 28 Jan 2013 13:53 Sujet du message:

On a la tracklist !!!

"Circle" track listing:

01. Shades Of Gray
02. Mission
03. The Wanderer
04. Narrow Path
05. Hopeless Days
06. Nightbird's Song
07. Into The Abyss
08. Enchanted By The Moon
09. A New Day
10. Dead Man's Dream (bonus track)

The album's limited digibook version will come with a bonus DVD containing the following:

* The Making Of "Circle"
* Nightbird's Song (video clip)

Apart from the CD+DVD digibook version, "Circle" will be available on CD (without the bonus track), black 2LP in gatefold, brown 2LP in gatefold and as a bulging limited box, including three bonus tracks and a wristband — exclusively via the Nuclear Blast mail order.
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DIVIDEAD (mon ancien groupe) - Sweet revenge (live)