A critically-acclaimed metal masterpiece, "Tales From The Thousand Lakes" perfectly combines elements of heavy metal, doom, death metal and progressive rock into a talented and extremely tasteful historical tribute based on Finland?s national pole book The Kalevala. Recorded in 1994 at Sunlight Studios, "Tales From The Thousand Lakes" showed AMORPHIS crafting songs of the most epic proportions, producing a classic metal album that stunned not only the band's followers, but the entire metal underground. Even today, "Tales From The Thousand Lakes" continues to be an obvious influence on many metal acts.