Amorphis - Privilege of Evil

Now, I'll show you the other side of Finnish Death Metal.  Talk about forgotten albums, if there was one, this is it!  And by such a famous band too.  This fits right in alongside those recently reissued Convulse and Purtenance albums: it's just straight, to-the-point Death Metal with super-fuzzy downtuned guitars that'll just bury you under two tons of gravedirt.  I've listened to as much Death Metal as anybody, and this album takes the prize for having the darkest feeling ever captured within the genre (not even Human Waste or any Winter album can match it!).  Everything is here: bass-heavy tones, blast-beats, sludgy slow parts, over-the-top gory album cover, and memorable riffs galore.  For this style, the production is near perfect.  The guitars and drums have an aggressive bite, yet are still very clear, and the vocals have uniquely clean rumbling quality to them.  Plus, all the instruments have been given the perfect amount of delay and reverb, making the album sound like it was recorded in the most acoustically perfect cave ever found.

I'm sure you're all familiar with the snooty, ambient, yuppie Amorphis of later days; so it makes total sense that they would officially disown this first album. With that being said, you know it has to be good!

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