LABEL: AFFILIATED RECORDS
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2/11/2022
VARIANT: BLACK VINYL LP

The vibrant, lively, and touching beauty that is Halo highlights their musical and storytelling mastership on a once again soaring level: Its a progressive, melodic, and quintessentially melancholic heavy metal masterwork plucked from the fickle void of inspiration by original guitarists Esa Holopainen and Tomi Koivusaari, bassist Olli-Pekka Laine, drummer Jan Rechberger, longtime keyboardist Santeri Kallio and vocalist Tomi Joutsen, the bands long-standing lyrical consciousness Pekka Kainulainen and a selected group of world class audio professionals led by renowned Swedish producer Jens Bogren. Considering the bands prolonged journey in the forefront of innovative metal music, its difficult to grasp how Amorphis manages to raise the proverbial bar time and time again, presenting a more than worthy finale to the trilogy begun with 2015s Under the Red Cloud followed by 2018s Queen of Time.

With Halo, they deliver an astonishing album that deserves to be played everywhere, transcending the realms of metal and rock by its sheer profoundness and musicality.