https://vo.rs/tags/kalevala/Recent content in Kalevala on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/amorphis/Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/amorphis/<p>Most bands pick a lyrical theme and abandon it inside two albums. Amorphis found theirs in 1994 in a book of nineteenth-century Finnish folk poetry and have been mining the same seam for three decades, which is a large part of why they still sound like nobody else. The Helsinki band took the <em>Kalevala</em> — the national epic Elias Lönnrot compiled from oral Karelian runes and published in its full form in 1849 — and made it the spine of a career that has run from raw death metal to sweeping, keyboard-lit folk metal without ever once feeling like a costume change.</p>