Nuclear Blast have announced that Finnish Metal Band Amorphis have resigned to Nuclear Blast, and are now offically back with the label.
Guitar player Esa Holopainen said this about the "home-coming":
"Last year was quite difficult for Amorphis, we went through (another) line-up change as we decided that it's better if Mr Koskinen left the band. We had problems with trying to promote our Far From The Sun album as we were working with partners who rather enjoyed nice cappucinos than would actually work.
Anyway, finding a new vocalist was tough, it was more difficult than we actually would have imagined. We received about 150 demos from people all around, some of them were really good some not. At that time we noticed that it's an impossible mission to find a singer who's sound would match Amorphis and besides of that would give 100% for the band. We actually thought about doing an instrumental album when one of Mr Koivusaari's friends told us about their singer Tomi who is really talented and would match Amorphis' sound. We listened to his demo and his sound was exactly what we were looking
for. Koivusaari called him up and he was really interested trying to rehearse with Amorphis. The day he came over we were all shown that Tomi Joutsen should be the next Amorphis
singer, we went through Against Widows, Alone and few other songs including Sign
From The North Side which is from our debut album."
He went on to say:
"Beside changing vocalist we changed management and sat down think about how to continue from here. We all ready had composed songs for forthcoming album and started to work with vocals. We thought about different options and all agreed that it's better if we stuck with the basics and go back to were we started. We have been really good friends with the Nuclear Blast dudes for over ten years and I remember talking with Markus at Summer Breeze festival over a year ago and he told that we should come back to Nuclear Blast. During the past few years we have became really cynical with labels
mostly because 95% are all talk and bullshit and they give you promises that they can't keep. We knew that we could always call up the Nuclear guys with whatever matter and we knew how they work, which is the most important thing that these guys are true fans of the music what they put out. I guess the honesty for the music that you
release pays you back which has been the case for the Nuclear Blast success. So, we are now officially signed back to Nuclear Blast and I have to say that it feels really good and a relief.