Three-part recipe for a good afternoon:
1) A bottle of Komes Poczworny Bursztynowy.
2) Probably my 20th listen through all the modern era Amorphis albums in the past few weeks.
3) Actually getting shit done.
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So much of the old Finno-Ugric shamanic tradition is rendered inaccessible to me because of the language barrier (thanks, Social Darwinism!)
It's a work in progress to correct it, but does a wonderful job of bringing some of the myths to life - in a very Finnish way.
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Their artistic range is breathtaking. Easily one of the most creative modern metal bands (without turning it into some masturbatory exercise in weirdness-as-a-service).
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From your standard, combatative metal - liberally borrowing ideas from any genre - with the Kalevala as leitmotif:
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all the way through to - *checks notes* - reverse viking metal?:
open.spotify.com/track/4D4vcggH
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Anyway, that's my weekly-or-so gushing about Amorphis over and done with.