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11.03.2010 - Finnish Metal Awards 2009 - The results are in!
The top 10's of the 2009 Finnish Metal Awards has been announced at Imperiumi.net, and we're thrilled to see Amoral getting good positioning in ALL of the possible categories:SINGER OF THE YEAR:
1. Tomi Joutsen
2. Petri Lindroos
3. Antti Hyyrynen
4. Jules Näveri
5. Ari Koivunen
6. Niilo Sevänen
7. Marco Hietala
8. Tony Kakko
9. Timo Kotipelto
10. Ville Valo
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR:
1. Alexi Laiho
2. Tuomas Saukkonen
3. Kai Hahto
4. Esa Holopainen
5. Pekka Olkkonen
6. Ben Varon
7. Tuomas Holopainen
8. Ville Friman
9. Jari Mäenpää
10. Mikko Salovaara
ARTWORK OF THE YEAR:
1. Amorphis: Skyforger
2. Insomnium: Across the Dark
3. Ensiferum: From Afar
4. Swallow the Sun: New Moon
5. Sonata Arctica: The Days of Grays
6. Stratovarius: Polaris
7. Amoral: Show Your Colors
8. Eternal Tears of Sorrow: Children of the Dark Waters
9. Profane Omen: Inherit the Void
10. Black Sun Aeon: Darkness Walks Beside Me
BAND OF THE YEAR:
1. Insomnium
2. Ensiferum
3. Stam1na
4. Amorphis
5. Turmion Kätilöt
6. Amoral
7. FM2000
8. Profane Omen
9. Swallow the Sun
10. HIM
ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
1. Insomnium - Across the Dark
2. Amorphis - Skyforger
3- Ensiferum - From Afar
4. Swallow the Sun - New Moon
5. Amoral - Show Your Colors
6. Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
7. Profane Omen - Inherit the Void
8. Viikate - Kuu kaakon yllä
9. FM2000 - Meibi Bus home
10. Turmion kätilöt - U.S.C.H!
To all of you who voted for us: Thank you so very much! We truly appreciate it. This inspires us that much more to write the best possible follow-up to Show Your Colors that we possibly can!
Cheers everyone, and see you at the shows!
-the Amorals
26.02.2010 - Special offer for Virgin Oil gig
Virgin Oil Co has a special offer for our show on March 5th: bring three of your friends to the show and receive a free ticket! Every group of four will get one admission free of charge. This offer is valid to both tickets bought in advance as well as tickets bought at the door. Welcome!Fri 5.3 VIRGIN OIL
22.30 One Morning Left
23.30 Day Eleven
00.30 Amoral
Tickets: 10 euros
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18.01.2010 - Vote for Amoral at Femmagaala
Femmagaala (Finland's "alternative" music award ceremony) will once again hold a public poll, with every Finnish artist who released music in 2009 as a nominee. So go to www.femmagaala.fi, klick on "Yleisöfemma" and vote for your boys!
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Femmagaalan perinteinen yleisöäänestys (jossa ovat mukana kaikki Meteli.net tietokannan mukaan vuonna 2009 musiikkia julkaisseet 690 artistia)
käynnistyy maanantaina 18.1. klo 15:00 osoitteessa: www.femmagaala.fi. Käy jättämässä äänesi!
14.01.2010 - "SYC" lands on Rumba's 2009 album poll
"Show Your Colors" landed on position 21 on Rumba magazine's readers poll for "Finnish album of the year". Thanks to everyone who voted for us!12.01.2010 - Amoral and Silver Ots part ways
For the past months it has been unclear whether or not Silver would continue in the band, and now he has made up his mind to leave. Apparently he didn't feel motivated enough to be part of Amoral anymore, as well as wanting to concentrate on other things in life.
As bothersome as it is to lose a band member we've been working with since the very beginning, we're not going to let this affect our own enthusiasm and the future of Amoral. Valtteri Hirvonen will be our "permanent stand-in guitarist" for the time being, so he'll be joining us on gigs and helping out with the songwriting process (he did a GREAT job on the European tour by the way, so we're more than happy to have the guy with us).
So, all the best for Silver in the future, and towards new adventures with Amoral!
- Juhana & the guys
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I would like to thank the guys for dedication and determination throughout the years and making things happen. I treasure the experiences and miles travelled. I hope nothing but the best for Amoral and raise my thumbs up to Valtteri Hirvonen for stepping up to the challenge!
- Silver
02.01.2010 - "Suckerpunch" most requested song of 2009!
"Year of the Suckerpunch" was the most requested song of 2009 on Finnish national radio station YLEX! Apparently no other song came even close to the amount of requests "Suckerpunch" got, which is quite amazing. To all of you who voted for it, thank you so very much! What a great note to begin 2010 with!More info about YLEX Himotuimmat (YLEX most requested) in 2009 here.
04.12.2009 - Guitar talk in the new Riffi Magazine
Ben and Silver are featured in the latest issue of Riffi Magazine, a Finnish music mag focused on gear. The guys go through their live gear in detail and talk about playing in general. So check out Riffi 7/2009 for geeky guitar talk!09.11.2009 - Back home / near future plans
Hi folks,We made it back alive! The falling down the stairs, the near-broken ribs, the "t-shirt incident", the breaking into our own van, the 16 000 km of driving in one month. Still, we'd get back on the road tomorrow if that was an option! We wanna thank Amorphis for being the great headliners that they were, and for taking us with them in the first place. Thanks to Before the Dawn for being the best possible co-support act, things have never run smoother. The crew, especially our designated driver Peki and our tour master Joey, you guys rule! Sami-Hannu, the sound engineer, for making us sound good night after night. Tuomas from BTD for stepping up and helping us out in Prague in our time of need. And the thousands of people we had the pleasure to play to this past month: thank you very much for the warm responses, the kind words after the shows and just for showing up in time to catch the first band of the evening! We hope to see you all real soon...
Back home now, we have the rest of the year off. Well, off from playing shows anyhow. The plan is to start working on new songs immediately. A bunch of new ideas have been waiting even before the tour, and new riffs were worked on every day at the backstages across Europe, so we have a lot to go with already. No schedules or deadlines yet whatsoever, but naturally we'll let you know as soon as something comes up.
Cheers,
-Ben & the guys
03.11.2009 - Finnish Metal Awards 2009
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Finnish Metal Awards on täällä jälleen! On aika äänestää vuoden kovinta kotimaista levyä, bändiä, soittajaa, laulajaa sekä kansitaidetta. Ja pikku muistutuksena, muuan "Show Your Colors" -niminen lätty julkaistiin tänä vuonna... Eli käy ilmoittamassa omat ehdokkisi tänne ja olet mukana mm. CD-palkintojen sekä FME-lippujen arvonnassa.
28.10.2009 - Tour blog in Finnish @ Radio Rock website
Just to make sure we don't have any spare time on tour, we're writing a second tour blog (in Finnish) for Radio Rock's website. We'll try to at least have some different pics on there to keep things interesting. Check out the blog here.And be sure to keep following the main blog (updated more frequently) at this location.