Amorphis was/is a Finnish Death metal band formed in 1990, by a few ex-members of another Death metal group :Abhorrence, The band recorded the demo "Disment of Soul" in 1991, and got immediately signed to Relapse ( greatly due to the PR made by Abhorrence ). a single and and their first full-length "Karelian Isthmus" was released in 1992. The album was recorded in 1992 in Sunlight Studios of Stockholm and with assistance of Tomas Skogsberg. The songs recorded in 1991 in Helsinki were featured on the "Privilege of Evil" EP released in 1993 ( the EP was originally ment to release as a split-album with Incantation but due to some problems, Incantation's side wasn't released until 2008 ). The second album "Tales from the Thousand Lakes" released in 1994 represented the new musical world of Amorphis, with more extensive use of keyboards, melody and folk music influenced guitar riffs. In 1995, all the rest of the songs ,that didn't fit on the full-length ,were released on "Black Winter Day" EP . "Tales from the Thousand lakes" has also been considered one of the founding stones of Melodic Death Metal. The lyrical themes of the band also changed during the "Tales . . ." album, and the songs have been inspired by the tales of Finnish epic Kalevala ever since. In 1996 released third album of the band "Elegy" had fallen even deeper to progressive experimenting both in guitars and keyboards and the music had more folk tendencies.

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This is from their "Privilege of Evil" EP of 1993

Lyrics :

Your fear, your flesh
Cruel horror, your fate

Cursed shroud, your void
Dust to dust, you're feel harm

In your eyes we shall fall
Torture of death

Punishes to life shame of chaos
Awaking them its bound of chaos

Locked in pain your flesh
Tearing horror of pain

We arise, rise in tomb
To terror in your eyes

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