Nuclear Blast haben die finnischen Rocker von AMORPHIS wieder zurück in ihre Reihen geholt.

Hier ein Statement von Gitarrist Esa Holopainen:
„Last year was quite difficult for Amorphis, we went through (another) line-up 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 who’s sound would match Amorphis and besides of that would give 100% for the band. We actually thought about doing an instrumental album when one of mr. Koivusaari’s friend told about their singer Tomi who is really talented and would match Amorphis. We listened to 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 the 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.
Beside changing vocalist we changed management and sat down thinking about how to continue from here. We allready 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% 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. So, we are now ofiicially signed back to Nuclear Blast and I have to say that it feels really good and reliefed.
And for the people who wonder how Amorphis sounds today, it’s EPIC, HEAVY and MELODIC with a mixture of GROWLING VOCALS!!!“