{"id":2233543,"date":"2026-01-13T21:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2233543"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:38:31","slug":"amorphis-steered-close-to-pop-rock-but-theyre-not-selling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amorphis-steered-close-to-pop-rock-but-theyre-not-selling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Amorphis steered close to pop-rock, but they\u2019re not selling out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finnish progressive metal veterans <\/em>Amorphis<\/em><\/a> are 15 albums into a career like few others. Explaining latest release <\/em>Borderland<\/a>, bassist Olli-Pekka Laine tells <\/em>Prog that the nexus of death metal and neo-prog is a truly strange place to be.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As anyone who has been to Finland will tell you, there\u2019s no other country quite like it. Its native language has little in common with that of its neighbours Sweden and Russia; its topography is bizarre, with more than 180,000 lakes to fall into after too much liquorice vodka; and it\u2019s the most heavy metal<\/a> country per capita in the world.<\/p>\n

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