AMORPHIS Re-Sign With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

Nuclear Blast Records has announced that Finnish rockers AMORPHIS have re-signed with the label.

This is what guitar player Esa Holopainen states about the "home-coming": "Last year was quite difficult for AMORPHIS. We went through (another) lineup change as we decided that it's better if Mr. Koskinen leaves the band. We had problems with trying to promote our 'Far from the Sun' album as we were working with partners who rather enjoyed nice cappucinos than would actually work.

"Anyway, finding a new vocalist was tough, it was more difficult than we actually would have imagined. We received about 150 demos from people all around, some of them were really good some not. At that time we noticed that it's impossible mission to find a singer whose sound would mach AMORPHIS and besides of that would give 100 percent for the band. We actually thought about doing instrumental album when one of Mr. Koivusaari's friends told [us] about their singer Tomi who is really talented and would mach AMORPHIS. We listened his demo and his sound was exactly what we were looking for. Koivusaari called him up and he was really interested trying to rehearse with AMORPHIS. The day he came over we were all proved that Tomi Joutsen is next AMORPHIS singer, we went through 'Against Widows', 'Alone' and few other songs including 'Sign From The North Side', which is from our debut album. This is the song we also do live again.

"Besides changing vocalist we changed management and sat down think about how to continue from here. We already composed songs for forthcoming album and started to work with vocals. We thought about different options and all agreed that it's better if we stuck with basics and go back to were we once started. We have been really good friends with Nuclear Blast dudes for over ten years and I remember talking with Markus at Summer Breeze festival over a year ago and he told that we should come back to Nuke Blast. During the past years we have became really cynic with labels most of because 95 percent of all talk is bullshit and they give you promises that they can't keep, We knew that we could allways call up Nuke guys with whatever matter and we knew how they work + which is the most important thing that these guys are true fans of the music what they put out. I quess the honesty for the music what you realease pays you back which has been the case for the Nuclear Blast success. So, we are now ofiicially signed back to Nuclear Blast and I have to say that it feels really good and relieved.

"And for the people who wonder how AMORPHIS sounds today, it's EPIC, HEAVY and MELODIC with a mixture of GROWLING VOCALS!!!

(Thanks: www.all-about-chaos.net)