Thanks for watching! Anything we've missed? Any other recommendations?

Next Amongst Stars or Death of a King by Amorphis

Tomi's vocals are amazing, no matter what style he is using. 🤘

Amophis have many great songs.. silent waters, her alone, amongst the stars...

Thank You guy's. So so much ❤. Amorphis is Band with Flawless musicians and a Singer who is one of the Best " In whole Metal Business". One more time Thank's! I Really appreciate this Choice! 👍✊👊👏

Now that u started ur ride with amorphis...Take a look at more songs of them! Tomi Joutsen does both growl and clean vocals! I suggest you Silver bride, Bad blood or Sky is mine live! Thank you and nice reaction!

Best Album of 2018!

Yeah,i love this Band.Their all time Masterpiece "Tales from the Thousand Lake" from 1994 (their Second Album) got its 25 Years (!) Anniversary this Year !!!!...they were much harder in their early years.They changed imensly.....

Yes, is the same male vocalist,Tomi Houtsen.

Check out Amongst Stars. It features Anneke van Giersbergen who does a bunch of stuff with Devin Townsend.

Amorphis ❤

I think I heard from some where bees were considered as the bringers of life in many other cultures too and that's why people still bring flowers to the graves to try to summon bees over there.

One of my favourite bands. Nice reaction.

This band is amazing. The skyforger album is classic

Amorphis is a death folk progressive melodic metal band :)

Amongst Stars. Catchy earworm with cool vid and one most beautiful voiced ladyvisitor.

Hopefully some people from Finland see this and tell us more about the story behind the lyrics. That would be great!

his is not straight based on the story of Lemmikäinen's death as the song "Silent Waters" is. Rather that in Finnish mythology a bee is seen a healer and a life giver. I gues here you could see also the circle of life; skulls of the dead kings and the bees bring life in to them... Amorphis song are usually based on Finnish mythology and the Finnish national Epic Kalevala From the Finnish Epic of Kalevala; "Honey-bee, thou ether birdling, Fly a third time on thy journey, Fly away to high Jumala, Fly thou to the seventh heaven, Honey there thou'lt find abundant, Balsam of the highest virtue, Only used by the Creator, Only made from the breath of Ukko. God anoints his faithful children, With the honey of his wisdom, When they feel the pangs of sorrow, When they meet the powers of evil. Dip thy winglets in this honey, Steep thy plumage in His sweetness, Hither bring the all-sufficient Balsam of the great Creator; This will still my hero's anguish, This will heal his wounded tissues, This restore his long-lost vision, Make the Northland hills re-echo With the magic of his singing, With his wonderful enchantment."

Amorphis are an awesome band. Their lyrics are steeped in Finnish folklore and are thus, sometimes, hard to grasp, or might sound bizarre to those who don't know that particular piece of lore.

There’s a famous Finnish painting about this. Lemminkäinen’s mother waiting for the bee to bring life back to his son. You find the bee if you follow mother’s eyes.

For the grace of Odin and all the gods, finally here. It is only one vocalist, and amazing musicianship in all the band members and amazing vocals, one of the best i ve seen live and damn entertaining show, again one of the best crowd interacting people i have seen live myself.

I've seen them live once... BLOODY PERFECT!!! I recommend their gigs with all my heart guys!

I believe that the song actually refers the meteor impact of Saaremaa about 1530-1450 BC, which is also mentioned in Kalevala. There is an article titled "Kaali crater" about it in wikipedia. Meteoric iron as a source for steel in tools and weapons might have brought immense wealth for the locals.

thanks for the reaction! This song rocks!!!

Amorphis was formed in 1990 and they have since then released 13 studio albums, of which only one is just mediocre, while the other 12 are great. This is the opening song from their 2018 album "Queen of Time " which was voted album of the year on Metal Storm www.metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=93803&band_id=26&bandname=Amorphis This song, like so many Amorphis songs is (at least loosely) based on "The Kalevala", a 19th-century work of epic poetry from Karelian & Finnish folklore and mythology. This is what Tomi Joutsen (their lead vocalist) has said about "The Bee": "One of the lyrical inspirations is the bee, metaphorically. The tiniest thing can sometimes be the most important thing. A bee can bring life or if we destroy all the bees, life will stop. Also, in some mythologies bees are described that they are not original from this planet at all. You’re right though, story is quite similar with Lemminki’s story in the Kalevala". Lemminki (or Lemminkäinen in Finnish) is a handsome, arrogant and reckless ladies-man. He is the son of Lempi (English: lust or favourite) and he shares a very close relationship with his mother, who revives him after he has been drowned in the river of Tuonela while pursuing the object of his romantic desires. P.S. Both clean & harsh vocals are sung by Tomi Joutsen, except the female voice, that belongs to Noa Gruman.

Very nice reaction! I've only just discovered Amorphis a couple of months and they are excellent, I really like this whole album, very prog metal-y! I feel like you guys would also like Horizon Ignited, also a band I've discovered recently. They're very much like Amorphis, with a bit of In Flames in the mix. PS: I'd love to see you guys react to Eluveitie - Rebirth. It's a Swiss folk metal band with about 7 or 8 members; it's got violin, hurdy-gurdy, and flute solos on top of guitar solos! It'll blow your minds!

awesome pick.

Queen of Time is a great album indeed. A comparison of their latest works to their old school death metal roots from the early 90s would make interesting content, too. To that end, a good song to react to would be The Gathering.

A fire in the sky Ablaze the spark beyond the stars Its gleaming wings will cut their way Through the silent paths of space Planets whirl, suns are lit Mountains fly, stars are dimmed Its golden sabres tear through time In the night of the river of death Fly the silent prince electors On the banks of Tuonela Bleach the skeletons of kings Their skulls of sugar sickly sweet Their bones piled up on the shore On bed of mottled rocks Amid flowers cold as ice Pray the weak, the old, the poor And when the tiny one from heaven comes Crawls inside the chosen skull And when the tiny one it summons the others To crawl inside the chosen skull They build their castles in the heads of kings Bring life to the empty halls They build their castles in the heads of kings And honey will flow once more, once more In the night of the river of death Fly the silent prince electors And when the tiny one from heaven comes Crawls inside the chosen skull And when the tiny one it summons the others To crawl inside the chosen skull They build their castles in the heads of kings Bring life to the empty halls They build their castles in the heads of kings And honey will flow once more, once more

Saw them live with delain awesome show

Black Winter Day

I think the girl in the song is Anneke van Giersbergen she has her own band, and does a lot with Devin Townsend,.

I really love "Message In The Amber" and "We Accursed" from this album (you could react to any of these two as well), but all the songs are quite awesome!

Amorphis are about to go on tour supporting Delain. It'd be a good show to check out 🙂

About the Kalevala there is a painting about Lemmikäinen's death with his mother: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmink%C3%A4inen%27s_Mother

Amorphis has been around since 1990 and it's in the top ten of the most respected metal bands in Finland (we have over 3000 of them). I'm not qualified to say if Bee is one of their best songs but I think generally it's considered to be a good one. It was released in 2018 on album Queen of Time which got great reviews everywhere, like metal album of the year kind of stuff. In my opinion Amorphis would still be more famous if their songs weren't only about Kalevala.

I heard from an interview that the idea of bee here tells about how even a small one can do big things. And the King was dead already: the skulls are on the shore of the river of death. It was Congrats on your Finnish pronunciation - pretty good. Joulu is said like 'Yolu'. You said it correct before the song, but forgot the J value after the song :) Tip: it's said English-like only in languages based on English spelling. In Europe east and north of French language j is said like y. Romanian is an exception, they imitated their distant relative, French - the flag reminds of that. Only real oddity in your Finnish I recognized was the haltiness, which is understandable when the word is not comfortable in the mouth. So, excellent, even the long Lemminkäinen was correct, and it was a good place to halt to be able to say the rest - that's where we Finns pause, if we need to figure out the end.

The Shift - Eye of the Enemy. A MUST guys! HAVE to do it! :)

You can also see the bee in this classical painting about Lemminkäinen's mother fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmink%C3%A4isen_%C3%A4iti#/media/Tiedosto%3AGallen_Kallela_Lemminkainens_Mother.jpg Now you need to check out some live performance from Amorphis! 100% quarantee that this one will give you serious goosebumps and chills kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lc9pZrWlz8XXZn0.html

Nice. Next Avatar Smells Like a Freak Show live at Wacken. (I'll see if that works ;-) )

That's okay your boys Young it's all good he'll understand that all when he's old and maybe you yourself get it because you're older and I'm glad you introducing your son to more different type of albums and songs and whatnot it's very good of you to do that just continue to do what you do and what will be the listeners will definitely watch yes

unleash the archers tonight we ride

The Black Dahlia Murder- Deathmask Divine Time to start a new begging haha

You missed a bit in the lyrics when you said it sounds painful when the bee crawls inside the chosen skull. The skulls of kings are dead already, when the bees come. Notice, the lyrics say they bring life to the empty halls. The funny association this brings to me is that this time there might be more useful stuff going on in that skull, than when the king was alive :)

Another suggestion, which no one else will propably suggest. A melodic death metal band, which outplays most in the same category (not insomnium), Belzebubs - Cathedrals of mourning. And btw, band is based in comic strip and doesnt really exist at all. See the vid and I promise your day will be a bit better after that. And if you think this is bs, their album was shortly at the top of finnish official charts.

You might want to check out Akseli Gallen-Kallela's classic painting "Lemminkäisen äiti" to get an idea what Tuonela (The Underworld/Land of the Dead) looks like. The bee is included in the painting (it is very small, though). fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Gallen_Kallela_Lemminkainens_Mother.jpg

If you have a chance, go see them live - they are awesome! Here is a good live version of this song from last summer (not by me, though): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMpgjdSW08CtdIE.html. And yes, all the vocals are by the same man, Tomi Joutsen.

Try doing Black Winter's Day from back in the day. They were still an all out Death Metal band back then with a heavy folk influence. That was the song that got me into them back in '94.

Amorphis is on tour with Delain in the us this fall🤘😈🤘

Alestorm - Drink!

You should listen Amorphis - winter's sleep its a huge song

At last... I think I have been asking this couple of times as Joulu Pukki has. 😉 I have to mention... Joulupukki means Santa Claus in finnish 😂 Next you probably should try Amongst Stars from the same album Queen of Time which is great overall. Tuonela is basicly kingdom of death like Hades in Greek mythology... so kings who are lying there are already dead. Bees are bringing life into them (empty skulls) and mother of Lemminkäinen hopes that bees wakes his son back into life.

Best melodeath album 2018!!!

Your son pronounced Lemminkäinen almost 100% correctly! Good job! He said the letter Ä as it should!

Great reaction guys. I love this song and this album. Just about everything by this band is excellent !!! Please check out Lauren Hart on Metal Maiden Monday with her band Once Human.

Amorphis: Song of the Troubled One, Goddess (of the Sad Man), Drowned Maid, The Smoke

Had to subscribe! More and better Finnish metal: Check out Insomnium and their song While We Sleep!

Are you going to start selling those shirts you got on?

Amongst Stars, silent waters, brother and sister, you I need, Sampo, Golden elk, wrong direction...

Need to react to Silver Bride

Please! ....Amongst stars!!!!

try some O*keefe Music Fondation, No more Tears from Ozzy, kids playing metal, epic

Do Amorphis black winters day they were only about 16/17 when they wrote it most long term Amorphis would have that as their favourite

Kamelot- Elizabeth parts 1,2,3 live. Please and thank you.

angra - nothing to say

Please react to Fury of the storm - Dragonforce

I think the bee is travelling betveen heaven and the underworld. Not this "normal" world?.

You should check out Leo Moracchioli. He does metal covers of non metal song. He's really good and a lot of fun.

Do a heavy song like thy art is murder reign of darkness of oceano district of misery

You commented on the lyrics about the Kings when you had missed why the bees could build their castles in the heads of Kings in the first place. They were empty skulls. Not painful for them. Life and serving purpose returned to the empty halls. Don't know when they were there the last time.

Great song, their first two albums are amazing but I doubt you will be getting many requests from their early 90's work.

Dominia- The Elephant Man kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p79lo9l5xr_OdZc.html

Zakk wylde/black lable society bleed for me

The album is great, stil one of my favorites. This is in my opinion the weakest song of the album so a reaction to any song from that album is fine by me.

Are these kids clones?

It sounds like they combined several of my least favorite subsets of metal into one song.

That's a silly thumbnail

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Did you just assume none of them are female?

You have no idea what this song is about. You might as well have listened to Britney Spears. When you do a reaction, at least have the courtesy to pay some respect to the band. The dishonour rests well in the Chemmy House.