With “Maximalism“ out now, AMARANTHE is celebrating the release of their fourth studio album. I still remember buying their demo back in 2010 after their merch guys pushed it on me when they were opening for LEAVES’ EYES and KAMELOT at Nosturi (when Elize Ryd was the latter’s touring guest vocalist), and getting really hyped on them (even if that hype never took off properly once their first few albums were released). And here we are, a few years later, with these guys headlining an even bigger venue! Though I really didn’t like “Maximalism,” I’ve never seen AMARANTHE live outside of festivals, and with two of my new favorites, BLIND CHANNEL and EMBER FALLS as support, I really couldn’t pass this one up. Check out the full gallery here.
Want to read the full live report? Go check it out here.
Setlist Ember Falls
1. The Cost of Doing Business
2. Falling Rain
3. The Lamb Lies Down in Sacrifice
Track: Welcome to Ember Falls
4. COE
5. Rising Tide
6. One More Time
7. Open Your Eyes (ft. Niko Moilanen)
8. Shut Down with Me
Setlist Blind Channel
1. Enemy for Me
2. My Revolution
3. Bullet (With Your Name on It)
4. Hold on to Hopeless
5. Deja FU
6. Can’t Hold Us (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis cover)
7. Unforgiving
8. Along Against All
9. Darker than Black (ft. Thomas Grove)
d songs juxtaposed against each other live really goes to show how much their sound has changed. Nevertheless, if you don’t have a problem with the way their music has changed these days, I would certainly recommend trying them out in a club sometime.
Setlist Amaranthe
1. Maximize
2. Boomerang
3. Hunger
4. Invincible
5. 1,000,000 Lightyears
6. Trinity
7. True
8. Fury
9. Endlessly
10. On the Rocks
Drum solo
11. Automatic
12. The Nexus
13. Amaranthine
14. Call Out My Name
Encore:
15. Digital World
16. That Song
17. Dynamite
18. Drop Dead Cynical
Written by Bear Wiseman
Musicalypse 2017
OV: 3924
Photos by Kirsti Leinonen
