No BS Reactions: Prog Dude Reacts to Amorphis - Sampo!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Returning to Amorphis for another reaction requested by viewer @karirytkonen5811! Going deeper into the Amorphis rabbit hole!
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Sampo is magical device forged by smith Ilmarinen according to Finnish national epic Kalevala. It grinds/produces salt, grains and wealth. It's kind of a horn of plenty.
Ilmarinen himself was apparently sky god in earlier folktales, but in later poems he was supposed to be mortal. Anyway he forged a lot of magical stuff like the whole sky, Sampo and wife to himself. Gods/heros in Kalevala are very human, and it is kind of amusing to me how much they have problems with finding wives. 😅 Ilmarinen had to forge wife as he couldn't find one, the main character Väinämöinen looses wife, as she rather drowns herself than lives with him and Kullervo looses his life and is chopped to pieces while trying to earn wife. He is later revived though. That story is in the Amorphis' song The Bee. Moreover the story gave inspiration for Tolkien to write the story of Children of Hurin.
Amorphis' main inspiration has been Kalevala. I love how you can make epic song about forging some device, as forging Sampo was not just another day at the office, but very demanding, time consuming, epic and even dangerous. 🤟
Wow! That's amazing! I did end up forgetting to Google that, so thank you for the education! Anything that influenced Tolkien is good with me, even if it's pretty much the most depressing story ever in Middle Earth! LOL
Not true I had the poems and illmarinem had a wife but she was killed. So he made a wife out of silver and gold which he wasn't satisfied with.
Tolkien got a lot of inspiration from Kalevala and Finnish language. Elvish language Quenya has even same words.@@BleedingEdgeProg
Doesn't mean it's not true just because he once had wife.@@amonn12
@@karirytkonen5811 you said he couldn't find a wife. Which is false because he went north and found a wife and only made the silver bride after his wife's death to resemble her.
The last break from the last instrumental part to the clean vocal end of the song feels like a prog transition sped up. It seems half of the instruments wants to keep the old rhythm but are dragged during a few seconds into the new and final rhythm. It kind of reminds me of the short time between dreaming and the alarm clock. Or in an awake state when we get an epiphany. It is a bit of a scramble for a few seconds between those states.
That is a fascinating description! Love it!
Should of listened to the live version of this at oulu forging the land of a thousand lakes. Their live music is even better.
I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
You should check out something from am universum one of their older albums i guarantee you will be suprised by the difference
Making a note of it! As long as they've been around, I have no doubt I could mine their catalog for months!