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The highly-anticipated, upcoming opus from Finnish melancholic progressive metal unit Amorphis, Halo, will hit the shelves on 11 February via Atomic Fire Records. In advance of its release, today the group has shared the second installment of their accompanying studio documentary.
Keyboardist Santeri Kallio comments: "There's a couple of opinions from producer Jens Bogren’s side that it's more melodic, but for me it's also much heavier than previous Amorphis albums, at least a few. It's definitely more guitar-driven; the guitars are in a main role on this album. There's a few songs where the keyboards are more present, like "The Moon" and "Halo", but mostly it's super massive!"
The vibrant, lively, and touching beauty that is Halo highlights their musical and storytelling mastership on a once again soaring level: It’s a progressive, melodic, and quintessentially melancholic heavy metal masterwork plucked from the fickle void of inspiration by original guitarists Esa Holopainen and Tomi Koivusaari, bassist Olli-Pekka Laine, drummer Jan Rechberger, longtime keyboardist Santeri Kallio, vocalist Tomi Joutsen, the band’s long-standing lyrical consciousness, Pekka Kainulainen, and a selected group of world-class audio professionals led by renowned Swedish producer Jens Bogren. Considering the band’s prolonged journey in the forefront of innovative metal music, it’s difficult to grasp how Amorphis manages to raise the proverbial bar time and time again, presenting a more than worthy finale to the trilogy begun with 2015’s Under The Red Cloud followed by 2018’s Queen Of Time.
Check out below the studio documentary episode of how Amorphis discusses keyboard recordings. The first video documentary about the drums recording is over HERE. Check out also the first single “The Moon” over HERE. Link
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