“The band needed to freshen up and bring something new to the table” – Amorphis reveal more details about the new album

Finnish metal giants Amorphis were interviewed by Blabbermouth.net about their upcoming album “Borderland”, and they were asked what it felt like to change the producer.

I think Jens already said after ‘Queen Of Time’ that he’s going to stop producing and concentrate on the plug-ins, but he didn’t. From my perspective, doing three albums with one producer is enough. ‘Under The Red Cloud’ was kind of the ‘get to know each other.’ ‘Queen Of Time’ was ‘now I know the guys and I’m going to set up the fire.’ After that album was so successful, ‘Halo’ was a more experimental album. I think all the tricks with him were used. The band needed to freshen up and bring something new to the table. It was kind of obvious that one way to do it was to change the producer and find some new winds to push us to the uncomfortable zone, if you know what I mean. We didn’t ask that much about Jacob. We knew a few bands that he had worked with, but we really didn’t investigate them. We thought that he’s Scandinavian and he’s done pretty good sounding metal; everybody likes his sound. We took a leap into the unknown and changed producers, hoping for the best. Let’s see if it paid off. The band is happy with the album. The label and management are happy. To be honest, all I care about is what the people think about it when we release it. Santeri Kallio

Tomi Joutsen was asked if he found this album to be more vocal-oriented.

Maybe it is vocal-oriented. I think the keyboard is a little bit more at the forefront. You can really hear what Santeri is doing. That’s not a new thing, but it’s something you can find in this album. I had to work a lot for this album, but it’s nothing new. It always takes a lot of time and nerves to record a whole album. [Laughs] I did some pre-production here in Finland and recorded all of my stuff here as well. It’s not the wisest or smartest way to work like we do. Pekka wrote lyrics for us, and then we had to translate everything into English, and then we had to arrange the music and lyrics together. I had to practice a lot. I had to compose a lot of things and think about where I should put growls and where I should use clean vocals. It’s fun, but it takes a lot of time. It’s nothing new if you are in a band. You have to work a lot. It’s like a trick. You don’t know where it will go. A lot of things happen when you are using emotions, and you have to be really open-minded or open when everything is happening around you.