Silent Waters is now on sale in European record stores and at the Amorphis webshop. Currently available are the regular jewel case version as well as a limited digipak edition with one bonus track. A gatefold vinyl LP will follow soon. In the US, the album will hit the stores on September 18.

Freshly arrived at the webshop are also two new shirt models: a regular t-shirt with the album cover motif (print on both sides) and a girlie version with the new logo design (no back print).

Silent Waters has been elected Album of the Month by Metal Hammer (DE), Sweden Rock Magazine (SE) and Rock Hard (GR). The release gigs at Helsinki’s Tavastia club this weekend are both sold out, for the other shows of the Finnish tour in September are still tickets available.

You can now listen to three songs from the new album in full length on the Amorphis Myspace. Silent Waters tells the story of Kalevala hero Lemminkäinen, based on an original cycle of fourteen poems crafted in Finnish by Pekka Kainulainen. The English translations were done by Erkki Virta. For the unabridged text of the original poems (English version), please read on here.

Sony BMG is gathering the creme of Finnish metal guitarists for an instrumental album titled Guitar Heroes, due for release on November 7, 2007.
Esa Holopainen is taking part in the project, contributing a track he describes as having a distinctly oriental flavour to it. Recordings will take place in the near future, and the album is promised to culminate in an all-star guitar battle.

Other musicians featured on the CD are Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius), Alexi Laiho & Roope Latvala (Children of Bodom), Emppu Vuorinen (Nightwish), Sakari Hietala (Tarot), Euge Valovirta (Godsplague, Suburban Tribe), Tuomio (ex-Impaled Nazarene), Mikko Salovaara (Kiuas), Nino Laurenne (Thunderstone) and Mr. Crab (Bleak) plus bassists Pasi Heikkilä and Lauri Porra as well as drummers Mirka Rantanen, Jaska Raatikainen and Kai Hahto.