Amorphis announce new album

Finnish dark metal band, Amorphis, have just announced that they will enter the studio in September to record their yet-untitled 11th album. The follow-up to 2011's highly successful 'The Beginning Of Times' will be produced and mixed by Hypocrisy, and Pain mastermind Peter Tägtgren.

"We had to face the fact that if we want to develop our music and sound we need a producer who has a vision and whom we can accept as an authority," commented Amorphis guitarist and founding member Esa Holopainen. "I know that we're not the most flexible guys when it comes to letting outsiders into our camp for telling us how to do things. We spent one evening at our management office, talking about the right producer and the recording sessions in general. As usual, the best decisions are not far to seek. We've been talking to Peter about him producing Amorphis for ages. I think the first time we spoke about this was when we met first at the Nuclear Blast festival tour in 1994, and it was in Helsinki around a year ago when we last speculated about the idea. We've been following Peter's career - he's developed as a musician and especially as a producer over the years. Plus he's one of the true survivors from the 90's death metal scene who is still around just like us, so we share kind of an old school mental level."

The recordings are set to take place in the famous premises of Petrax Studio in Hollola (Nightwish, Korpiklaani) and 5K Studios in Helsinki. Esa explains:

Amorphis' 11th studio album is planned for a March/April 2013 release via Nuclear Blast Records.