Amorphis' fifteenth studio album, Borderland, was released on Friday, September 26th. To celebrate this milestone release in the band's 35th year of existence, founding member and guitarist Esa Holopainen ...

Mark Menghi certainly didn’t take the traditional route to prominence in the rock and metal world.  In fact, if you look back at his story, it might sound pretty familiar.  For starters, he worked at a record store he frequente...

Throughout his spectacular career, Gene Hoglan has been involved with some of the biggest names to ever play heavy metal.   From his earnest beginnings as a lighting tech with Slayer, that led him to be featured doing backing...

When Dan Briggs joined Between the Buried and Me in early 2005, the band was at a bit of a crossroads.  After releasing The Silent Circus in 2003, an album that showed flashes of their future progressive sound, the g...

When founding members Tomi Koivusaari, Esa Holopainen, and Jan Rechberger named Amorphis in 1990, they must have had a view to the future of the band.  A play on the word amorphous, which means having no definite form ...