Tracklist

1	Thousand Lakes	2:04
2	Into Hiding	3:45
3	The Castway	5:33
4	First Doom	3:52
5	Black Winter Day	3:51
6	Drowned Maid	4:23
7	In The Beginning	3:38
8	Forgotten Sunrise	4:54
9	To Father's Cabin	3:50
10	Magic And Mayhem	4:28
11	Folk Of The North	1:17
12	Moon And Sun	3:39
13	Moon And Sun Part II: North's Son	5:12

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
• Distributed By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
• Licensed From – Relapse Records
• Recorded At – Sunlight Studios
• Mixed At – Sunlight Studios
• Licensed To – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Relapse Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Relapse Records, Inc.
• Published By – Release Relapse Music

Credits

• Arranged By – Amorphis
• Artwork [Additional] – Wes Benscoter
• Artwork [Cover Art] – Sv Bell Illustration
• Bass – Olli-Pekka Laine
• Composed By [Keyboard Sections] – Martenson*
• Drums – Jan Rechberger
• Executive-Producer – William J. Yurkiewicz Jr.*, Matthew F. Jacobson
• Keyboards, Synthesizer [Moog] – Kasper Martenson*
• Lead Guitar – Esa Holopainen
• Liner Notes [Japanese] – Masa Itoh
• Liner Notes [Lyrics Translated By] – Hutz Fujibayashi*
• Lyrics By – Holopainen* (tracks: 4, 8), Traditional (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 7, 9, 10, 12, 13)
• Music By – Holopainen* (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 to 10), Martenson* (tracks: 1, 3, 5), Laine* (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9), Koivusaari* (tracks: 3, 6, 11 to 13)
• Photography By – Darius Ramazani
• Producer, Engineer – Amorphis, Tomas Skogsberg
• Vocals [Clean], Voice [Speech] – Ville Tuomi
• Vocals, Rhythm Guitar – Tomi Koivusaari

Notes

Tracks 1 and 11 are instrumental tracks.
Tracks 11 to 13 are bonus tracks for the Japanese release.

The lyrics are based on Finnish national pole book Kalevala.

Manufactured and distributed by Victor Entertainment, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. ℗&© 1995
Digital remaster.
Licensed from Relapse Records

Recorded and mixed at studio Sunlight, September 1993.

The copyrights for the sound recording and artwork Relapse Records Inc. under exclusive licence to Victor Entertainment, Inc.
Published by Release Relapse Music (BMI). ℗&© 1994, 1995 Relapse Records Inc.

Issued with an obi and 16 page booklet including both English and Japanese lyrics and release information.

Track times in the booklet differ from those listed on the back insert. Track times in the booklet:
1 - 2:04
2 - 3:43
3 - 5:30
4 - 3:49
5 - 3:48
6 - 4:23
7 - 3:34
8 - 4:51
9 - 3:47
10 - 4:28
11 - 1:19
12 - 3:35
13 - 5:11

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: JASRAC
• Rights Society: BMI
• Matrix / Runout: VICP-5566-1 3W V
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L244
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 4011
• Barcode: 4 988002 317387

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
RR 6901-2	Amorphis	Tales From The Thousand Lakes ‎(CD, Album)	Relapse Records	RR 6901-2	US	1994
RR 6500	Amorphis	Tales From The Thousand Lakes ‎(2xLP, Ltd, Blu)	Relapse Records	RR 6500	US	2015
RR 6901-4	Amorphis	Tales From The Thousand Lakes ‎(Cass, Album)	Relapse Records	RR 6901-4	US	1994
JVC 058-4 VICP 5566	Amorphis	Tales from The Thousand Lakes ‎(Cass, Album)	JVC	JVC 058-4 VICP 5566	Philippines	1997
RR6500	Amorphis	Tales From The Thousand Lakes / Black Winter Day EP ‎(2xLP, RE, Album, Ltd, Cle)	Relapse Records	RR6500	Europe	2011

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