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Double album on green marbled vinyls with gatefold cover

During the difficult years of the pandemic, Finland’s dark metal masters Amorphis seized their time at home to record this energetic live album Queen Of Time (Live At Tavastia 2021). This is the Finnish veterans fourth live record, but the first to focus exclusively on one album. Released in 2018, Queen Of Time is notable for featuring the original Amorphis line-up for the first time since the seminal Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994), but also for being one the strongest records in the band’s largely flaw-free catalogue. Performing it live in its many-splendored entirety and to an audience of devoted acolytes in Tavastia, Finland, Amorphis sound enraptured by their own material and the collective experience of bringing it to life. This is a fans-only affair, but it’s a righteous and joyful one. Queen Of Time boasts some of the finest songs Amorphis have ever written, and thanks to immaculate performances and a huge, venue-filling sound, this front-to-back odyssey practically roars from the speakers. Genuinely great live albums are few and far between, but Queen Of Time (Live At Tavastia 2021) presents a truly worthwhile moment in time, captured for posterity.

Track list:
1. The Bee
2. Message In The Amber
3. Daughter Of Hate
4. The Golden Elk
5. Wrong Direction
6. Heart Of The Giant
7. We Accursed
8. Grain Of Sand
9. Among Stars
10. Pyres On The Coast