Tuonela keeps Amorphis’s heavy guitar foundation while giving greater weight to quiet keyboards, folk-tinged melody and a submerged atmosphere.
Finland Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 1990s
Browse 11 metal and hard rock albums connected to the Finland scene in the 1990s, with detailed artist and album pages.
Albums
Shadowland is Dark Moor’s debut, combining classical keyboards, fast guitar and story-minded melody.
Ecliptica announces Sonata Arctica with rapid rhythm, sparkling keyboards and high, urgent vocals.
All Eternity introduces To/Die/For through heavy guitars, shadowed keyboards and low, emotional vocals.
Inquisition Symphony uses the low end and sharp attack of cellos to translate metal riffs into a different kind of sound.
Oceanborn combines shining keyboards, fast guitar and operatic vocals in Nightwish’s symphonic-metal language.
Angels Fall First is Nightwish’s debut, combining acoustic color, rushing metal and Tarja Turunen’s classical vocal presence.
Elegy keeps the weight of death metal while opening the music to clean vocals, airy keyboards and folk-colored melody.
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos proves how naturally the weight of metal riffs can meet the force of low-register cello.
Tales from the Thousand Lakes finds AMORPHIS in a phase that joins death-metal weight, Finnish folk-like melody and mythic atmosphere with a density that made it a m
The Karelian Isthmus is Amorphis’s debut of sinking heavy riffs, low growls and desolate atmosphere.