It was a great gig, as expected!
This was my fourth time seeing Amorphis and quite possibly the best, thanks in no small part to the setlist:
1. I of Crimson Blood
2. Born from Fire
3. Better Unborn
4. Crack in a Stone
5. Mermaid
6. Silver Bride
7. Mehtä (working title, new song)
8. The Smoke
Karelia
9. Sign from the North Side
10. From Earth I Rose
11. Silent Waters
12. Her Alone
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Thousand Lakes
13. Into Hiding
14. You I Need
15. House of Sleep
16. Black Winter Day
About half the songs were stuff I hadn't heard live before - it was great to finally hear some of my favorite songs like Crimson Blood, Better Unborn and Into Hiding live. And while I love My Kantele, Sampo and Sky is Mine, it's good that those songs get out of the setlist for a while. Now if only they could drop The Smoke, I'm a bit tired of hearing that song every time and it's not even a hit like HOS and Silver Bride.
From Earth I Rose was excellent, I'm glad they finally corrected the mistake of never playing that song live! Mehtä ("forest" in an Eastern dialect of Finnish) is pretty heavy, probably even more aggressive than My Enemy. The main riff of that song is at least in the first studio report and you can hear a live version from Oulu
here. April can't come soon enough!
All in all, I'd say this was the best Amorphis gig I've seen due to the amazing setlist (they could've thrown in something from Tuonela or Am Universum, but oh well) and atmosphere. I was in the second row, the best place I've had in any gig thus far, so compared to Provinssirock last summer, where the setlist was pretty safe and I was far from the stage, this was a whole different experience. On the top of all that, after the gig I bought a shirt and also got a free tourbook!