Amoral In Sequence

Amoral is a metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They play technical, progressive, melodic, hardrock oriented metal. The band's 4th album was an about-turn, replacing the dominance of quirky death metal with an exemplary display of riff-driven, heavy, yet melodic power groove and the occasional sing-along chorus. Amoral has performed extensively in bars, clubs, festivals and other venues in Finland, Europe, Japan, China, Philippines and USA.

In April 2014 Amoral started the pre-production of their 7th album and the studio work started 13 February 2015. March 26, 2015 the band announced that Niko Kalliojärvi returns to the band, both as the 3rd guitarist and for singing growling vocals. Amoral performed at the end of June 2015 at Tuska after party in Helsinki, where they played one song "Rude Awakening" from the upcoming album.

At the end of November 2015 the album called In Sequence will come come out in Japan January 29, 2016 through Ward Records, and global February 5, 2016 through Imperial Cassette (Gordeon Music, GSA / Nightmare Records, North America). The album will continue the progressive metal style of "Fallen Leaves & Dead sparrows" but heavier. Beside the 6 members there are also some quest musicians featuring in the album, as percussionist Teho Majamäki, Indica singer Jonsu and Amine Benotmane from Acyl. The first single "Rude Awakening" was published in December 2015 on Youtube. and the second one "The Next One To Go" end of January 2016. Ben Varon was telling about the album concept widely in the interview made by the German metal page Negatief.de at the end of January 2016. He told among others: "...in general we wanted to keep the focus on clean vocals, even though Niko is back in the band. I think the melodic side of Amoral is such a big part of us nowadays. I didn’t wanna go all the way back to growling. Niko’s vocals are more a special effect that we use when it’s necessary and brings that “extra something” to the song. Then again Niko also came back as a guitar player... The album is obviously heavier because of Niko. Ari sings super clean. There is no rock’n’roll in his sound on the new album. Niko does all the aggressive parts and when Ari comes in it’s really smooth and deep." - Wikipedia

1. In Sequence (A Prologue)
2. Rude Awakening
3. The Betrayal
4. Sounds of Home
5. The Next One to Go
6. Helping Hands
7. Defuse the Past
8. From the Beginning (The Note, Pt. 2)