{"id":8102,"date":"2011-08-21T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:18:21","slug":"amorphis-getaway-rock-festival-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/amorphis-getaway-rock-festival-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Amorphis @ Getaway Rock Festival 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8105\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/283526_10150329288986563_533756562_9410929_2435390_n.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8105\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/283526_10150329288986563_533756562_9410929_2435390_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tomi Joutsen\" title=\"amorphis\" width=\"720\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/283526_10150329288986563_533756562_9410929_2435390_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/283526_10150329288986563_533756562_9410929_2435390_n-250x178.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amorphis at Getaway Rock Festival 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was curious to see Amorphis at GRF. I had heard a few songs of theirs that sounded pretty good. <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_8093trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_8093trim.jpg\" alt=\"Tomi Joutsen of amorphis\" title=\"Tomi Joutsen\" ><\/a>\n<p>Amorphis came on right after a downpour that soaked most of the crowd. I lucked out in that I was eating some Thai food in one of only a few places that provided shelter during the deluge. The rain stopped after just a few minutes, and I headed over to the Bandit Rock Stage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8104\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_8076trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8104\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_8076trim.jpg\" alt=\"amorphis finish metal band\" title=\"amorphis\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amorphis from Finland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amorphis reminded me, a bit, of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/metaltown-2008\/>Nightwish<\/a>&#8211;OK to listen to on occasion but ultimately a bit boring. I have nothing against metal bands going melodic and\/or progressive, but they should vary things more often, with at least some faster riffs, to keep it interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Dream Theater is another band that comes to mind. There are only a couple of DT songs, after their first CD, that I can stand to listen to at this point. I&#8217;m hoping that Opeth isn&#8217;t going this same route. I&#8217;m worried that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004G25V9S\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=rpcman&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=B004G25V9S\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">new CD, Heritage<\/a>, will not have enough heavy elements and be too mellow to keep me awake (or wanting to listen to it often).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly not knocking all bands that evolve into something more progressive and melodic than their early days. Bands that have successfully mellowed over time, IMO, include: Enslaved, Katatonia, Anathema, Mastodon, Dark Tranquility, and Amon Amarth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious to see Amorphis at GRF. I had heard a few songs of theirs that sounded pretty good. Amorphis came on right after a downpour that soaked most of the crowd. I lucked out in that I was eating some Thai food in one of only a few places that provided shelter during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[355,413,336,134,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30150,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/30150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}