UUugggghhhhhhh
Amorphis's last four albums have all sounded the same, and this is not a good thing.
Eclipse is one of my top ten favorite albums of all time. The ideas and passion are both incredible.
Silent Waters was a very nice sequel. About half the tracks are just as good as the best of Eclipse, and the rest are at the very least interesting and/or solid.
I honestly don't remember anything off Skyforger except Sampo (which sounds too much like a lesser version of I of Crimson Blood, but is at least solid), Sky is Mine (awesome song), and Majestic Beast (also awesome).
With The Beginning of Times, like, yeah it's more interesting as a whole, but even the good songs have structures, progressions, and licks that remind me too much of moments from the past three albums. I like these guys, I really do, but they've beaten the dead horse of the Eclipse sound into ground meat. Enough is enough.