Tales from a thousand lakes is an excellent album, it isnt the typical boring death metal, or the i sound the same melo death ive listened to it over and over, and the variety of this album is amazing
Amorphis is an okay band. Some of their new stuff sucks, like the new album. Eclipse was pretty awesome. Amorphis are probably the most un-folk folk metal there is.
I was really into Tuonela a few years ago, great album. I don't think I've heard any metal quite like it - its kind of like atmospheric folksy synth metal. I'm not much of a death metal fan though, so I never really listened to their earlier stuff.
