HELSINKI GIG SOLD OUT
Booya! The album release party with Norther was sold out! It was unbelievably heartwarming celebrating the release of our new album with 900 of our closest friends and family. Thank you guys so much! And a big thank you to our pals Norther for the good company. Friday at Inferno, Tampere was also killer, small club packed with crazy moshpitters. This weekend has been the perfect start for the Reptile Ride touring, fo' shizzle...

Below you'll find some pics from Nosturi, courtesy of Valtteri Hirvonen:

JUFFI AND BEN DOING CLINICS IN FINLAND
The dynamic duo will do three clinics together in the near future, Juffi promoting Pearl drums and Ben Jackson guitars. The dates are as follows:

07.09 DLX Music, Tampere
20.09 DLX Music, Kuopio
03.10 DLX Music, Helsinki

All three clinics will start at 4.30pm. Expect demonstrations of some of the new songs, discussion about gear and Q&A. Free entry, welcome!

REPTILE RIDE CONTINUES ON THE FINNISH CHART
Reptile Ride is still hanging tough on the Finnish top 40, now at no. 34. We're positively surprised, as usually smaller metal albums like this spend only the first week in the chart and quickly disappear into oblivion. So again, kudos to all of you who bought it! And if for some weird reason you haven't bought it yet, do so now!

MORE REVIEWS / TOUR POSTERS
And the good reviews they kept a rollin'... Noise.fi gave Reptile Ride a smooth 5/5, declaring it as "one of the best metal albums of the year". Uutislehti 100 (a free Finnish newspaper, circulation 334 000) gave the album 4/5, with quotes like "the band is is tight shape and in a mood to kill... astonishing guitar playing". Some more new ones:

pavillon666.fr (French): 8,5/10
desibeli.net (Finnish): 4/5
passzio.hu (Hungarian): 9/10
MetalNews.hu (Hungarian): "one of the best albums of 2007"

Also, here's the offical posters for the upcoming Norther/Amoral/Drone european tour:

REPTILE RIDE ENTERS FINNISH CHARTS AT NO. 5!
Darn people! We were hoping for a spot in the top 40, but this... this is unbelievable! How the hell did we make it into the friggin' top 5?? Thanks so much for everyone who rushed out to buy the album, you really made our day! Let's hope this inspires a few more to go and get the CD, and that the record stores who didn't have the balls to stock it right away will do so now. You can see the official Finnish album chart here.

The response to RR has been really good, it seems like you guys really like it! Keep the comments coming, either to our guestbook or the forum.

Anyway, last friday we played at Jalometalli, which was big fun. Good audience, nice weather and a jacuzzi backstage... what more can you ask for? Thanks to the crazy moshpitters in the front, and everyone else who showed their support! You'll find some pics from the festival here, here and here.

REVIEWS START TO ROLL IN...
It looks like the lion's share of the media have enjoyed The Ride: Japan's Burrn! gave it a 87/100 (one of the best scores in that issue!), while Finland's no. 1 Metal website Imperiumi declared it "album of the week" with a sweet 9/10. Other good ones:

Metalreview: 5,5/6 ("One of the year’s most satisfying albums...")
Stalker: 8/10
Planetheavymetal (German): good!
Evilrockshard (German): very good!
Idioglossia (German): 12/15
Heavyhardes (German): good!
FFM-Rock (German): very good!
U-zine (German): 8/10
Auxportesdumetal (French): 16/20
Badsectors Records (Indonesian): 4/5

REPTILE RIDE OUT NOW!
It is on now! If you can't find the album from your local record shop, make them order it for you! Or just order it from here, here or here and let us know how it works for you, either on our myspace, guestbook or messageboard...

FINNISH DATES CONFIRMED
We'll start the touring in support of Reptile Ride in Finland, before we head to Europe to do the Norther tour. Check out "live" page for the new dates. At least two more dates will be added to September, and we'll probably continue to molest Finnish audiences in November...

E-CARD AVAILABLE
Spinefarm has put together an e-card for Reptile Ride. Including clips from every song on the CD. Check it out here!

EXIT ERKKI
The rumors are all over the net, so we might as well release this official statement ahead of schedule... Yes, Erkki is leaving the band. No big drama behind the scenes: he is simply involved in too many projects to keep up with our hectic pace. And especially now, with a new album coming out and tons of gigs and promotion to do, we need every member's undivided attention on Amoral.

Not one gig will be cancelled because of this: we have a few qualified bass players in line to help us out if needed, and already some very potential candidates for a permanent band member. Though we are gonna take our sweet time before making anyone an official member of the band, that's for sure. You don't just walk right in the Amoral famiglia, you have to earn it...

Erkki will play his last gig with us at Jalometalli, Oulu on August 17th. We wish him all the best with his future projects.

-Ben, Silver, Niko & Juffi

NEW MERCH STORE OPEN
The new Official Amoral webshop is now open! We have lots of new t-shirts, girlies and hoodies coming up so stop by every now and then to check for new gear. Pimp yourself up with AmoralWear here!

VIDEO ONLINE / TICKETS FOR RELEASE PARTY AVAILABLE
The video for "Leave your Dead Behind" is now on Youtube. Take a look and let us know what you think. A high-resolution version can be downloaded from here (Quicktime, right-click and "Save file as...").

Also, the tickets for the Reptile Ride release party are on sale now! Get yours from Tiketti.

ALBUM RELEASE PARTY @ NOSTURI, HELSINKI ON SEPTEMBER 8TH
We’re happy to announce that the album release party for Reptile Ride will be held at Nosturi, Helsinki on Saturday 8th of September. This will be our first gig in our hometown for over a year, and we are going to make it a night to remember! You do not want to miss this one... We wil be sharing the bill with our pals Norther. There is no age limit in Nosturi, so underaged Amoral lunatics are equally welcome! Tickets will be available soon...

Reptile Riden ilmestymistä juhlitaan Nosturissa 8.9.07! Ja kun tässä on vielä vierähtänyt vuoden päivät viime Helsingin keikasta, voitte olla varmoja että spesiaalishow luvassa. Tätä et halua jättää väliin! Mukana menossa Northerin apinat, eli hyvät iltamat tiedossa. Nosturihan on tunnetusti ikärajaton, eli kaikki tervetulleita. Liput tulevat pian myyntiin...

NEW SONG ONLINE / PRE-ORDER REPTILE RIDE / LISTENING SESSIONS
The song "Mute" from the upcoming album has been added to our Myspace site. Go have a listen and let us know what you think!

In other news, Record Shop X (aka. Levykauppa X) has started the presales for Reptile Ride. Those who pre-order the CD will receive a wicked cool "Got Reptile?" shirt with the CD! So make sure you're not one of the millions who'll be left without this limited edition t-shirt and head to Record Shop X right now!

Also, there'll be pre-listening sessions at all three Inferno bars in Finland (Helsinki, Tampere and Jyväskylä) on wednesday 8th of August. If you're located near one of these bars, go grab a beer and have a sneak peek. More info closer to the date at www.infernobar.fi.

JAPANESE RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED / GENERAL UPDATES
The Japanese release date for Reptile Ride has been confirmed. Woodbell/Experience will release the album on August 10th. That's a five-day headstart for those lucky Japanese! And they get the bonus track too, not fair...

The two summer festivals (Hard Rock Laager and Finnhits Metal Fest) were tons of fun, thanks to all of you who showed up! Estonia especially, we didn't expect such a great response on our debut gig over there. Thanks so much, we will be back! Below a few pics from HRL, to see more of these click here.


We'll be updating the site quite frequently from now on, as there's all kinds of stuff going on: the presales of Reptile Ride (with a bonus shirt!) should start soon, the video for Leave Your Dead Behind is just about done and will be online in a matter of days, Pre-listening sessions and release parties will be announced shortly... Stay tuned!

LEAVE YOUR DEAD BEHIND SINGLE OUT NOW!
Well, actually it's been out for 10 days already but we punks've had busy time enjoying the summer, hence the late note. While we and the associates are still busy with the artwork and video (which are both going to look killer!), you make the wait comfortable and download the single (and/or the cover of Pandora's "The Naked Sun") from a location shown below:

NetAnttila
Musiikkilataamo
iTunes Finland
MSN Music Finland
Elisa Jukebox
Welho Music
Radio NRJ
MTV Finland
Media Milkshake
MTV3 Store
CDON.COM

TWO FESTIVAL GIGS CONFIRMED
Ahh, it looks like summer '07 won't be as quiet for us as we thought, two shows have just been confirmed:

- 30.06.07 - Hard Rock Laager Festival @ Vana-Vigala, Estonia
- 07.07.07 - Finnhits Metal Fest @ Pori, Finland

We're especially excited about our Estonian debut, we've tried to get there for quite some time now...

In other news: the video for "Leave Your Dead Behind" was filmed last sunday, and is now in editing. Thanks a bunch to those of you who showed up! The previews we've already seen look killer! The vid will probably be out in July, we'll let you know the date when it's settled. Below some pics from the shooting, taken by Valtteri Hirvonen.

TOUR DATES UPDATED
Some dates on the European tour have changed so all you stalkers update your calendars. And remember to show up next sunday (20.5.) for the video shoot around 3pm. Free entrance for all ages, the only requirement is to go ape shit! After filming, you'll be the first to hear Reptile Ride in its entirety!

REPTILE RIDE COVER ART REVEALED
Our main man Aki Siltala has finally completed the artwork for Reptile Ride. Check it out here. Nice!

AMORAL ON RADIO REAKTORI NEXT MONDAY
Ben and Niko will be on the metal show Kurimus next monday, 30.04., starting at 6pm. Tune in to 103,1mhz to hear it. Some new shit is more than likely to be played... More info about Radio Reaktori here.

AUDIENCE NEEDED FOR VIDEO SHOOT / HAETAAN YLEISÖÄ VIDEOON
Amoral is about to film a video for ”Leave Your Dead Behind”, the single from the upcoming album Reptile Ride, and wants YOU to participate. The shooting will take place at Nosturi, Helsinki on Sunday May 20th, and audience members should be there around 3pm. The idea is to do a good-ol’ “band and audience going crazy at a gig” –type video, so all moshers, stagedivers and headbangers are especially welcome. During that day we’ll also have the first public listening session of Reptile Ride, so if you’re interested to hear the new stuff, even more reasons to show up!
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Amoral on kuvaamassa videota tulevan Reptile Ride-levyn sinkkubiisistä "Leave Your Dead Behind", ja kaipaa SINUA yleisöksi. Kuvaukset tapahtuvat Nosturissa, Helsingissä sunnuntaina 20.5, ja yleisöä toivotaan paikalle klo 15. Tarkoituksena on tehdä vanha kunnon "bändi ja yleisö riehuu keikalla"-video, joten varsinkin kaikki kovan luokan pittaajat, moshaajat sekä daivaajat tervetulleita. Kuvausten ohessa suoritetaan uuden levyn ensimmäinen julkinen kuuntelusessio, joten jos uusi materiaali kiinnostaa niin sitä suuremmalla syyllä paikalle!

EUROPEAN TOUR CONFIRMED
We're happy to announce that we'll be joining our friends Norther for an European tour starting October 13th! Also on this tour is Drone from Germany. Check the dates from the live-section, and make sure to come and support your beloved Reptile Riders if we happen to hit a town near you!

RELEASE DATE FOR E-SINGLE CONFIRMED
Spinefarm Records has set the release date for the e-single "Leave Your Dead Behind" to June 6th. As previously informed, the bonus track for this release will be "The Naked Sun". Amoral's back catalogue is also about to go digital: Wound Creations (2004) and Decrowning (2005) will both be released for online sale on the 23rd of May. Reptile Ride will be released online on the same day as "the real thing", August 15th.

Places where all of the above should be available on their release dates:

NetAnttila
Musiikkilataamo
iTunes Finland
MSN Music Finland
Elisa Jukebox
Welho Music
Radio NRJ
MTV Finland
Media Milkshake
MTV3 Store
CDON.COM

ALBUM AND SONG TITLES ANNOUNCED
In case you haven't seen this anywhere yet, here's the official press release on the new album:

The Finnish hard rockin' and turbo lovin' quintet Amoral have completed the recording of their upcoming third album, entitled "Reptile Ride". The album will be released by Spikefarm Records on August 15th 2007.

The track-listing of "Reptile Ride" is as follows:

1. Leave Your Dead Behind
2. Nervasion
3. Hang Me High
4. Mute
5. Few and Far Between
6. Snake Skin Saddle
7. D-Drop Bop
8. Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Fun
9. Pusher

The opening track, "Leave Your Dead Behind", will be released as a net single earlier this summer. A video for the song is also in the make.

For a bonus track for both the Japanese release of the album and the net single, the band recorded their take on Swedish popstar Pandora's song "The Naked Sun". For those familiar with this contemporary classic, expect... well, expect something different.

"Reptile Ride" was produced, recorded and mixed by Janne Saksa at Sound Supreme Studios in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

After successful support tours all across Europe (in 2005 with Finntroll and 2006 with Dark Funeral), two showcase gigs in Japan, recent visits to Russia and Italy and countless shows in their home country, the band is once again hungry to get on the road. A few "warm-up" gigs have been booked for this autumn/summer, but serious gigging will start later this fall after the release of the album. So make sure to take a walk on the wild side and join the Reptile Ride!

AMORAL SIGNS WITH WELLDONE AGENCY
Alright! From now on all our Finnish gigs will be arranged by Welldone Agency, Finland's leading booking agency. Hopefully this means more and better gigs for us. A proper Finnish tour to support the new album is already under construction. For the time being gigs abroad will still be booked directly by the band and our management TWU Music.

STUDIO REPORT AT GET IN THE PIT
We had a spy among us for a couple of days in the studio, and all our dirty secrets are now online at Getinthepit.fi. So check that out for an outside view of the recording process. Sorry, only in Finnish...

JALOMETALLI FESTIVAL CONFIRMED
We'll have the pleasure of sharing the stage with legends such as Testament and Kreator (among others) in this year's Jalometalli Festival, which takes place in Oulu, Finland on the 17th & 18th of August. More info: http://www.jalometalli.net/

SPRING DATES
Just to make sure we won't forget how to play our instruments before the touring for the 3rd album begins, we have a couple of exclusive Finnish dates coming up in May. The monkey business will take place in Klubi, Turku (04.05.2007) and Bar 68, Jyväskylä (05.05.2007), with our fellow chipmonks Omnium Gatherum and Dauntless. We'll most likely try out quite a few new tunes... Expect a full blown Finnish tour later this year.

ENTER STUDIO / RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED / DRUM CLINIC AT FME
Ahh, finally some updates, huh? The recording of the yet untitled third album has begun. We'll be spending the next five weeks at Studio Sound Supreme in Hämeenlinna with producer Janne Saksa, and the plan is to walk out of here with one hell of an album. The release date has been set to August 15th, so write that date down in those little black books of yours! First new sounds should be out in May in the form of a net single, to ease the pain of waiting. The new album will consist of nine songs, and we're also covering one 90's eurodance classic to use as a possible bonus track. Good times... The mandatory studio diary is up and running, we'll be updating it frequently so make sure to check back.

And now sports: Juffi will be doing a drum clinic at the Finnish Metal Expo, Helsinki next saturday. This time he'll be joined by Erkki, who'll deliver the groovy bass licks to beat the skins to. Showtime 18.15, expect funky times and some double parking!

DRUM CLINIC IN TAMPERE THIS SATURDAY / NEW ITALIAN DATE
Our battery assaulter Juhana Karlsson will be doing a drum clinic for Pearl at Rocktori, Tampere, Finland (Hallituskatu 7) this saturday, 13.01.07, from 12pm. Juffi will demonstrate his playing techniques and practicing methods, and also give a first look on some of the material from the upcoming third album. If you happen to be anywhere near Tampere, make sure to be there!

Also, one more Italian date has been confirmed: 04.02.07 at La Tana delle Tigri, Montegranaro.

PRE-PRODUCTION UPDATE
Hey all,

pretty quiet here lately, huh? well, it doesn't mean we've been lazy y'know. Writing, arranging and rehearsing non-stop at the moment, as well as working on the cover art (with our main man Aki Siltala) and booking gigs for next year. So keeping busy, just like we like it...

Our producer Janne Saksa dropped by our practice place last sunday to say hi, check out the new tunes and tell us to write better ones. He already has lots of cool ideas, we're thrilled to get back to the studio with the guy! Looks like the actual recordings will start February 12th, so we have a little more time to practice.

For the very first time we're actually demoing the new songs with the whole band (usually it's just guitars over programmed drums and bass), just so see how they work out. A short clip of this goofy action can be found here.

Ok, that's all for now. If nothing news-worthy comes up before the holidays, have a swell Xmas, and remember: nothing says "love you mom" like an Amoral CD or t-shirt...

MINITOUR IN ITALY CONFIRMED
We are pleased to inform that we'll be doing a minitour in Italy in the beginning of February. The dates fit perfectly with our studio schedule as our producer Janne Saksa is on vacation at the same time anyway. So basically we'll start working on the album last week of January, do the Italian dates and then head back to the studio to finish album number three.

Other bands playing with us on this tour are Gory Blister + Rain. You can check the dates and locations from the live-section. Hope to see as many of our Italian friends there as possible!

LIVE @ TUSKA AFTERPARTY W/JEFF WALKER, VIDEO ONLINE
Ok,this one was too hilarious not to put up for you guys to see. It's sunday night of the TUSKA weekend, we're the last band on the afterparty bill and we're about to play the last song of the set. Why not play a Stryper cover? Even better, let's invite ex-Carcass frontman Jeff Walker and one ridiculously talented singer Christian Palin (Random Eyes) to join us! Check the madness here.

NEW T-SHIRT AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER / DRUM CLINIC IN TURKU
Hey hey, check out the merch section, we have a new shirt available, designed especially with all you punk rockers, trendy goths and 69 Eyes fans in mind! We'll be receiving the shirts in about three weeks, but we're taking pre-orders already. Everyone who orders the shirt before November 9th will receive an autographed Decrowning poster with their shirt.

In other news, our Battery Assaulter Juffi will be doing a demo session / clinic for Pearl Drums this saturday at Vimma (Aurakatu 16, 3krs), Turku, starting at 11am. So if you happen to be in the neighborhood, make sure to go ask him silly questions. More info about this here.

GIG IN RUSSIA CONFIRMED
We'll be playing in St. Petersburg, Russia on the 11th of November. The venue is called Roks Club. Other bands on the bill are Mannhai, Barathrum and Drown Me Blue. Check the flyer here. Hope to see all you Russian metalheadz there!

JAPANESE SITE OPENED
As you probably noticed from the new front page, this site can now be entered either in English or in Japanese! Since our Japanese is not quite as fluid as our English, we won't be able to update the Japanese site as often as the English one, but hopefully it'll be of some use for our friends from the land of the rising sun. A huge thank you to Tammy for translating and helping us out! Check out the gallery section from the Japanese site for exclusive live pics from Tokyo...

AMORAL ON CAMPUS TV
CampusTV has put up some footage from our recent gig in Rock Korjaamo, Mikkeli on their site. The interview clips are in Finnish, but it's not like you're missing out on anything important if you can't understand it...

MESSAGE BOARD OPENED/ CONTEST LAUNCHED
Alright, the official Amoral Forums are here! So, please feel free to register in and talk/ask about anything you feel like. We’ll be reading the board actively and try to answer any and all questions you might have.

To go with the opening of the forums, why not have a small contest? We have all kinds of goodies in our archives (Japanese versions of our albums, old backstage passes, posters, patches, wristbands…), which will be compiled into one cool bag of stuff for someone to score. More specific list of the stuff will be posted on the forum soon.

The winner of the goodie bag will be randomly drawed from everyone who has posted something on the Amoral board during it’s first month. So the closing day for the competition is September 15th.

SOME SURPRISE GIGS
We just got asked to play Salo and Helsinki this month, and for some reason we said yes. Salo's gig is gonna be at Maksim this very weekend, saturday the 12th, and Helsinki's at Tavastia on the 31st.

STUDIO BOOKED
The studio has been booked for the recording of the third album. Hämeenlinna Rock City awaits us again, as we enter studio Sound Supreme in January 2007. If all goes well (Janne Saksa doesn't throw us out, we don't get carried away with the pinball machine etc) we should be done by mid-March.

Now, the question is: what the hell is there to do in Hämeenlinna during wintertime? It's not likely we'll be going for a swim or to throw frisbee in January, so we have no idea how to spend our free time after working hours. Any and all good ideas and suggestions are welcomed to the guestbook!

No release date has yet been decided on, but expect to hear new music in the summer of '07. New material is coming out great, so we have no worries about making the deadline. We cannot wait to start playing the new shit live! There's some serious Gallows Pole Rock n´ Roll to be unleashed...

MORE TUSKA PICS
can't get enough of them handsome fellas, now can ya? Well here you go then: more pictures from the gig at Tavastia, this time provided by Metal Pics.

PICS FROM TUSKA AFTERPARTY / WRITING ALBUM NO. 3
Hey all,

As you may have noticed, it's been pretty quiet at the Amoral camp lately. Our Upcoming Gigs -list is shorter than ever (The "Decrowning Europe" -tour is just about done), and we are finally starting to work on new stuff for our third go at writing the Ultimate Metal Album. We have a few more Finnish dates to play (with some more possibly popping up later), but other than that it's time to concentrate on writing songs.

Last week we had the honor to be the very last band to play on the Tuska weekend, and the gig was lots of fun. As the theme of the night was cover songs, we threw some classic riffs into our own material throughout the set. The highlight of the show was during the last two songs, when we had special guests onstage with us. Our friend Christian Palin from Random Eyes did a cool duet with Niko on HIM's "Your Sweet Six Six Six", and one Jeff Walker from Carcass came on for the grand finale, Stryper's "Soldiers Under Command". It was quite a headfuck, looking to my right while playing, and there's Jeff fukkin´ Walker onstage with us, singing Stryper! Check out some pics at Tartarean Deside.

Ok, that's all for now. We'll be updating the page every now and then, so check back. Off to work on them riffs... -Ben

JAPAN DIARY ADDED
Ok, here you go: an overly-detailed diary of our short visit to Tokyo. Lots of pictures too, so check it out. Click on that big-ass box in the right corner to get to the diary...

TUSKA AFTERPARTY CONFIRMED
We'll be playing at Tavastia, Helsinki on sunday 2nd of July with Horricane and Sten (Stone cover band), so if you happen to be in town make sure to check us out...

BACK FROM JAPAN
Oh my god!! Just got back from Tokyo (the other guys got back earlier, I stayed for an extra week), and all I can say is that the trip truly blew our minds. Where do I begin... The place itself was just as mezmerizing as you'd expect, the people we're so nice and the audiences were amazing. A huge thank you to Masa and Woodbell, Naoko and Creative Man, Youthquake, the crew at both clubs and especially all the fans who made us feel so very welcome. We had the time of our lives, all thanks to you. Domo arigato gozaimasu! We'll put up a proper Japan report and a bunch of photos this weekend, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, check out Tammy's pics, mostly taken from our afterparty at the Current bar. Thanks to Tammy for the pictures!

Ok, gotta start working on that report. Make sure to check back soon...

- Ben / Amoral

SOME SUMMER DATES ANNOUNCED / JAPAN CALLING
A few new Finnish dates have been confirmed: June 10th in Helsinki, August 8th in Mikkeli and August 18th in Pori. Check the live section for more info. Even though some more gigs might pop up, this summer won't be that busy for us on the live front, so we'll try to use it to work on new material for the third album, due sometime next year.

But now it's time for us to pack our bags and head to the land of the rising sun! We'll be leaving monday morning, while the rest of the bands and crew will follow only the next day, so we'll have a headstart on the sake. Damn, we can't wait! Hope all goes well and the crowds will enjoy our sets. Expect some sort of a report on the first week of June. There'll also be a split Amoral/Pain Confessor tour diary in the upcoming Tuska-issue of Inferno Magazine... Sayonara mofos!

DECROWNING LIVE VIDEO ONLINE
Some more stuff to keep you busy, here's Decrowning live at Pakkahuone, Tampere on the 13th of April 2006. Download the video here (click right button, save target as).

LACRIMAL GLAND VIDEO ONLINE
Our "Chinese Democracy", the video for Lacrimal Gland is finally finished and is online for all to see. Download the video here (click right button, save target as). A huge thank you to the crew, who made this happen with basically no budget whatsoever. We think it turned out pretty cool, let us know what you think!

TOKYO DATES CORRECTED
The dates of the Tokyo gigs we´re a bit off, sorry about that. So it's the 24th we´ll play the Liquidroom, and on the 25th we're at the Dress Tokyo. Så här...

TAMPERE GIG FILMED / ANOTHER TOKYO GIG CONFIRMED
Last thursday's gig at Pakkahuone, Tampere was one of our best ones so far, as the audience was absolutely fantastic! We never, ever expected that kind of a response, being the first band and all, but you guys just fucking killed. Kiitos Tampere! The gig was filmed for future use (no plans yet), but hopefully we'll get to put one song online as a live video soon...

In other news, another show has been confirmed for our Tokyo visit. It'll take place the day before the "main" showcase gig in Liquidroom. The venue is still unknown to us, but we'll keep you posted.

Next tuesday we'll play in Nosturi, Helsinki, opening for Bolt Thrower, hope to see as many Amoral friends there as possible! We start already at 20.15, so make sure to be there in time!

BACK HOME / SOME FINNISH GIGS COMING UP / NEW MERCH
So, we made it back alive from the tour, which turned out to be a blast. Thanks to Dark Funeral, Naglfar, Asmodeus, Endstille and the kick-ass crew for making this a memorable trip. And a special thank you to everyone who came to see us and gave us their support, it was great to play for you guys. Hope to see you on tour again soon...

Our well-deserved (?) vacation is not gonna be much longer than a week, as we have some more Finnish dates to play. In addition to the Mokoma gig in Tampere, we'll be opening up for Bolt Thrower in Helsinki (Nosturi 18.4.), and then head back to Tampere for a one-off headlining gig (Klubi 5.5.) with Farmakon, Scorch Earth Tactics and Pofony.

Also, there's some new merch for sale. We finally got the new Decrowning girlies, and also cool skull logo wristbands, check them out at the merch section...

OPENING FOR MOKOMA IN TAMPERE 13.4.
We've been asked to open up for Mokoma and Ajattara at Pakkahuone, Tampere on the 13th of April, and since we've been kinda lazy lately with gigging, we said hell yes! So if you happen to be in the neighborhood, come check this cool package out...

SHOWCASE IN JAPAN / LIVE REVIEW
Amoral will do a short trip to Tokyo, Japan for a couple of chowcase gigs and press on the 23rd of May. Norther and Pain Confessor will be joining us. Needless to say, we are thrilled about this opportunity to visit the land of Hello Kitty and used underwear -vending machines...

And since you're already here, check out this cool review of the Tavastia gig by Metal Rules, right over here.

TOUR DIARY LAUNCHED
Aight, you can now follow our tour through the diary, which will be updated as often as possible. Check out how these dorks manage to survive six weeks of pure black metal blasphemy!

SLOVENIAN DATE ADDED TO THE TOUR
The other cancelled Polish date has been replaced by a gig in Maribor, Slovenia on the 23rd of March...

CZECH REPUBLIC DATE ANNOUNCED, FRENCH DATE CANCELLED
The organizers are trying to fill the dates of the cancelled Polish dates, and so far one new date has been confirmed, 24.3 in Zlin. Unfortunately that´s not the only update: The gig in Toulouse, France has been cancelled, due to the fact that the venue (Le Ramier) is no more.

BANNER & FLYERS ADDED, TOUR-DIARY INFO
We´ve put up some promo material in the Street Team section, check ´em out. Also, make sure to visit this site regularly during the upcoming European tour, as we´re planning on keeping a tour diary from the road. We´ll be updating it with pictures and bad tour humor as often as we possibly can...

POLISH GIGS CANCELLED FOR POLITICAL REASONS
Official statement by the Polish promoter:

"We are sorry to inform that DARK FUNERAL, NAGLFAR, AMORAL & ASMODEUS gigs in Lódz and Katowice have been cancelled. Massive Music would like to apologize for all inconveniences caused to Dragon Productions and the bands. The cancellation is beyond our control, we are entirely helpless in the face of the present political situation in Poland. " Mariusz Kmiolek

Guess the Polish authorities didn´t find Dark Funeral´s lyrics funny, eh? This is truly fucked up, let´s just hope we won´t have more cases like this popping up in the near future...

TOUR UPDATES
One more date has been added to the upcoming European tour: March 29th in Karlskrona, Sweden. Also, the band which will replace Endstille at some of the latter gigs will not be Dark Fortress after all, but a band called Asmodeus. For exact info about who plays at which gig, check Dark Funeral´s website...

So, only three more weeks to go before the tour starts, can´t wait! Hope to see as many Amoral supporters out there as possible, and hopefully win over some black metal fans too. Meanwhile, few more days to vote for us at the Finnish Metal Awards as best newcomer, so if you haven´t already done that, follow that link...

AMORAL WANTS YOU!
Hear ye, hear ye,

Time has come for us to start building a Street Team, and we need your help. We are now fortunate enough to have dedicated followers in many cities all over the world, and the help of those would be highly valuable in spreading the word and getting the band heard by new people. What we´re looking for is people willing to help us out, mainly by hanging posters and handing out flyers at their local music stores/clubs etc. For example, with this tour we have coming up, the idea is to get as many people as possible to know we´re coming to town, and get them to come check us out. This is of course crucial for us to be able to come back and do longer and better tours for you guys, all over the world. Decrowning is also about to be released in the US and Japan in March, and some extra promotion wouldn´t hurt...

So, if you believe in what we do and think Amoral is something others should get into as well, please get in touch for more info. Drop an email to street-team(at)amoralweb.com, and we´ll get back to you with all the nessessary information.

Also, some people have been asking for wallpapers, so now there´s some at the pictures section, check ´em out...

EUROPEAN TOUR CONFIRMED (AGAIN!)
So, this one´s supposed to be 100% confirmed (yes, again), let´s hope we´ll actually make it to the bus this time... We have been booked as an opener for Dark Funeral on their upcoming European tour between the 21st of February and April 1st. Other Bands on this 37-date tour (which just so happens to start in Finland) are our old touring buddies Naglfar and Endstille (who will be replaced by Dark Fortress at some of the dates). A highly black metallish package, yes, but we believe we´ll be able to hold our own... Check the dates from the live section and the poster here.

PICS FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR
Don´t ask us why it took us this long to put up some pics from the Finntroll/Naglfar tour we did in April/May last year, as we have no idea. But better late than never: check the pictures section for some drunken action across Europe...

DECROWNING US RELEASE DATE MARCH 21ST
Candlelight Records USA have put up the release date for Decrowning on their website. The album will be out March 21st. US metalheads, get ready...

AMORAL AT THE FINNISH METAL EXPO IN FEBRUARY
Happy new year to everyone! We´ll start the year by playing some more Finnish dates in January, so if you happen to be in the neighborhood at the time make sure to check us out...

We (or at least some of us) will be "working" at the upcoming Finnish Metal Expo, which will take place between the 17th and the 18th of February. Our management TWU Music have reserved a booth for the weekend for promoting their bands Swallow the Sun, Rebelhead and Amoral. So we´ll be hanging at the booth answering questions like "how come the first album was better", or the usual "what´s so amoral about you guys anyway?" etc... So if you´re planning on coming to the event, drop by to say hi, or just to point and laugh at us. We´ll also have our merch with us there, so shirts and all that will be available there too... See you there!

GIG IN VARKAUS CANCELLED
Unfortunately the gig in Telakka, Varkaus in February has been cancelled, as the club is closing down (or changing owners, or something like that). Hopefully we´ll get to do a replacement gig later this year...

THREE MORE SONGS ONLINE / NEW PROMOPICS
So the previous update wasn´t this year´s last after all.. as our management will be participating in the Midem music convention next year, three complete songs from Decrowning have been put on their website to promote the band. Lacrimal Gland, Denial 101 and Bleeder are available for listening here.

And just in case your idea of a good time is waching pictures of longhaired guys trying to look tough, the latest promo pics can be found at the pictures-section...

AMORAL CAMP GETS INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
OK, last update of the year then. We played our last gig of the year last saturday at Salo, which was a blast, with a lot more people showing up than we expected. Same goes for our visit in Kouvola the week before that, which also was killer. We have a few weeks before the next gigs in January, and we´re taking a couple of weeks break from practicing. We deserve it, right?

Thanks to everyone who has showed up at our gigs this year, bought the album or supported our little hobby in any way, we are truly grateful. A 31-gig European tour, Sauna Open Air, Tuska Festival and a new album... this year has been good to us. And we´re doing our best to top it in 2006, as we have a whole bunch of things cooking up for next year already... So stay tuned, and have a holly jolly muthafuckin´ christmas, aaight?

GIG IN OULU FINALLY CONFIRMED
Amoral will play at Jalometalli Winterfest, in Teatria, Oulu on the 21st of January.

AMORAL NOMINATED FOR BEST NEWCOMER IN FMA / GIG IN VARKAUS
Amoral is one of the five nominees for best newcomer in Finnish Metal Awards 2005. Other nominees in the same category are Teräsbetoni, Stam1na, Sear and Kiuas. If you feel like voting for your homeboys, you can do so here

Also, a gig in Varkaus has now been confirmed. We´ll be playing in Telakka on the 24th of February...

HOODIE UPDATE
We just received a new batch of them sexy zipper-hoodies, and - as a christmas present for all you hobbits out there - there´s some M -sized ones now too! More info from the merch-section...

...AND THEN CANCELLED
Ok, so somebody fucked up nicely... What seemed to be 100% confirmation have now been cancelled by the booking agency. Fuckin´ aye... But it looks like an European tour WILL happen around April/May, with other bands. Stay tuned...

EUROPEAN TOUR CONFIRMED
We´ll start 2006 by playing 31 gigs across Europe with Bolt Thrower and Malevolent Creation in January/February. Check the tourdates from the live-section....

This tour unfortunately means that we´ll have to cancel the Finnish dates planned for January. We´re sorry about this, and are already working on getting new dates for the gigs. The Kuopio-gig has already been re-scheduled to April...

AMORAL SIGNS WITH TWU MUSIC / JAPAN & US RELEASES CONFIRMED
Amoral have signed an artist management deal with TWU Music. We believe that outside help at this point is what we need to take things once again to the next level.

In other news, Decrowning has been licensed to Japan and the States. Woodbell will release it in Japan March 10th, and Candlelight will handle the album in the US, release date also landing on March...

TURKU GIG CANCELLED / NEW REVIEW
Unfortunately we had to cancel our gig in TVO, Turku, as our gig-buddies to be, Godsplague, are filming a video that very same weekend. We´ll try to figure out another band for the gig in Salo (which was also supposed to feature GP), more info about it later...

Global Domination gave Decrowning a smooth 10/10, read the review here.

BLEEDER LIVE VIDEO ONLINE
Old Skool Productions put together a live video for the song Bleeder, filmed at Gloria, Helsinki 5.11.05. Check it out here.

NEW MERCH
Check out the merch-section, Decrowning t-shirts and the much requested zipper hoodies have arrived...

AMORAL AT SPINEFEAST 2005
We´ve been asked to play at this year´s Spinefeast (as Machete had to cancel for some reason), and since we´re already gonna be there to receive the grant, we thought what the hell... So, friday the 18th at Nosturi, Helsinki, be there! You can buy tickets in advance from Tiketti.

FIRST LIVE DECROWNINGS
Ok, so last weekend we played our first gigs since the release of the new album. Thanks to everyone who showed up at Tampere and Helsinki, we had a blast! The show in Helsinki especially was great, as we had Markus from Omnium Gatherum join us for Denial 101 and J from Elenium + Sami and Ari from Dauntless helping us out with Wild Side. As Borat would say: Happy time! Thanks to the special guests and especially all you crazy fuckers in the front! We filmed the gig, and most probably one of the songs will end up on the site as a live video soon... Below some pics from Gloria (taken by Kristina Sundman), we´ll add more of ´em later to the gallery. El Diablo also took some great pics at the gig, check them out here.

MORE REVIEWS...
Lords of Metal (92/100) and Metal1.info (9,5/10) also liked the album...

NEW REVIEWS ONLINE
A few new reviews: Mesta.net (4,5/5), Metalrage (89/100), Music Discovery (9/10) and SchwerMetall (10/13). So far so good, hopefully the reviews keep on being this positive...

SEINÄJOKI DATE CONFIRMED
We´ll be playing at Bar 15 in Seinäjoki on the 14th of January...

REVIEW BY NOISE.FI ONLINE
Another 4/5 review in finnish here...

TICKETS FOR THE HELSINKI GIG ON SALE
Get yours now from Tiketti...

REVIEW BY STALKERMUSIC ONLINE
A nice 4/5 review in finnish here...

DECROWNING LYRICS ONLINE / NEW REVIEW
Many of you have asked us about the lyrics on the new album, since the print in the booklet turned out to be so small. So now you can find all the lyrics from the discography section. Read them, learn them and scream them back at Niko´s face next time you see us live...

For those who can read german, there´s a review by Metal Dungeon here. 9/10, not bad!

PROBLEMS WITH OUR SERVER / SOMNIUM GRANT
First of all, we´re sorry for this bullshit with the site being down every once in a while. We´ve been having some trouble with our server (partly due to the ever-increasing amount of visits), but as far as we know everything should be ok now. Let´s hope for the best...

On brighter news, Amoral has been chosen to be this year´s receiver of the Somnium grant. This fund was founded in memory of Teemu Raimoranta, guitarist of Finntroll and Impaled Nazarene, who died tragically in 2003. The fund is operated by the Finnish live music foundation Elmu rs. The grant, 2000 euros, will be presented to the band at this year´s Spinefeast, which will take place in Nosturi, Helsinki on the 18th of November. Amoral would like to thank the decisionmakers, this is both an honor and a huge help. At least for a while now we won´t have to worry about our rehearsal room´s rent...

We are practicing for the upcoming Finnish gigs at the moment, so that we´ll be in shape by the beginning of November. The Helsinki gig at Gloria on the 5th of November will be a special one, we´ll play an extra-long set with an exotic setlist and also have a few guest appearances onstage... Do not miss it! Also, please note that the gig in Henry´s Pub, Kuopio has been moved to January. Also playing that evening (and the next day at Lutakko) are our friends De Lirium´s Order...

PICS FROM THE VIDEO SHOOT
Ok, the Lacrimal Gland video is now shot. It took about 30 working hours, lots of headbanging and way more spins of the song that anyone would´ve cared to hear, but once edited it should look pretty cool. A huge thank you to the crew: Ari, Antti, Joose, Sami, Vale, Laura, Janne, Aki, Jyri and Alisa. We appreciate it! Check out some pics from the shoot below...

In other news, Decrowning can now be purchased directly from us. Check out the merch section for more info.

ANOTHER INTERVIEW ONLINE / SHOOTING A VIDEO
Silver talked with Sonos Metallicos, and the results can be read here. sorry, only in Finnish again... Also, we´ll be shooting a video for the song Lacrimal Gland this weekend. Hopefully the results will be visible for everyone sometimes next month.

TAMPERE DATE CONFIRMED
We´ll be playing at Club Jee Jee, Tampere on the 4th of November...

AMORAL ON IMPERIUMI.NET / HELSINKI GIG ANNOUNCED
Ok, so today Decrowning hit the stores in Finland, make sure you grab a copy asap! There´s a review + an interview (in finnish) on Imperiumi.net, so check that out if you master the language... Also, a Helsinki date has been added to the upcoming gigs. And the good news is that there´s no age limit, so all you youngsters are welcome too! But yeah, hope you guys like the new album, and we´ll keep you updated about new reviews and dates as we get them...

FIRST REVIEW ONLINE
Check out the first review (in Finnish) by Sonos Metallicos here (4,5/5)!

NEW DESIGN / ANOTHER RADIO SHOW
As you can probably see, we´ve changed the looks of the site a bit to go with the new album. Look around and tell us what you think. Also, Silver and Ben guested on a show called Tuhkaluukku (Radio SuomiPop), broadcasting this friday at 7pm, check it out.

As of now, every store in the world is capable of ordering Decrowning to their selections, so if you can´t find it at your local store, please ask them to order it for you. Many stores won´t stock a small release like this if they´re not sure people are interested in it, so do your share in the Amoral World Domination Plan and make sure Decrowning can be found in your home town! We salute you...

INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ALREADY IN OCTOBER
We have just been informed that the international release date is not November 21st as previously announced, but actually already the 10th of October, only five days after the Finnish release. So start harrassing your local record stores...

DECROWNING RINGTONES ONLINE
There´s three songclips made as ringtones on some Finnish mobile sites. Here´s one of them. This is a way to hear three more samples from the forthcoming album, so check it out.

ANOTHER RADIO FEATURE
Amoral will also be featured on a radio show called Metalliliitto (YleX 91,9mHz) 2.10. starting at 6pm. There will be an interview and a few new songs will be played. The cover of Mötley Crue's Wild Side (featuring guys from Dauntless and Elenium) will also be on the list so be sure to check it out!

DECROWNING IS NEAR / SOME FINNISH DATES ANNOUNCED
Decrowning will be released in Finland on the 5th of October (not 4th like previously announced), so only a couple more weeks to go...

The band will be guesting on Työnimi Mättöä! radio program (Radio Helsinki 95,2mHz) on tuesday the 4th at 9pm playing some of the new stuff alongside some of their favourite music, make sure to tune in.

You guys have about a month to digest the new material before we start the gigging in Finland. We´ll be playing Finnish dates throughout November-December-January, so check back for more dates soon...

09.11.2005 Henry´s Pub, Kuopio
11.11.2005 Yellowstone, Kotka
09.12.2005 Rytmikatti, Kouvola
16.12.2005 TVO, Turku
17.12.2005 Maxim, Salo
13.01.2006 Torvi, Lahti
20.01.2006 Lutakko, Jyväskylä