Amorpha was formed in August 2003. The members, Callum Lovett, Leigh 'Ham' Costanza and Doug Cartwright, had known each other for ages, and had been involved in previous, ill-fated (and by comparison, total crap) bands together, such as Torn and Soul Assassins. All three knew the chemistry between them as players was there, but they also remembered the 'ego wars' that occured whenever they got together with musical instruments. Put simply, all three are so passionate about their music, anyone suggesting anything other than what was set in their minds would get their head bitten off.

However, Doug, Callum and Ham all knew that the only way to make a good band was through the three of them together. While sitting around at Sandpit Field one evening, the band was discussing the new Metallica offering, St. Anger. While everyone else in Swanage was trying to out-do each other with the best insult for the album, the future members of Amorpha were saying how great was it. The conversation changed direction towards Iron Maiden. Then, Callum suggested a jam, where everyone would play a load of Metallica and Iron Maiden. Ham and Doug took it him up on the offer, and a couple of days later they were all sitting in Callums room jamming on Iron Maiden songs and making comments about booking the Guide Hut for a rehearsal, and how it would be great if Ham wasn't playing air drums!

The band started to work because everyone agreed which songs to cover. However, after a couple of months of success, the predictable happened - Callum was unhappy with a song choice, and the result was the band splitting up.

However, a new (and much better) idea came to surface in November 2003. Callum and Ham were all set to do 'Rocklab 2003' with their band 'The Pete Morris Experience', but Pete quit, leaving them screwed. Callum asked Doug to join, just for Rocklab 2003, with the intention of doing a couple of Metallica songs. Doug agreed. Two days later, the band was in the Guide Hut playing 'Master Of Puppets' at ridiculously high volumes, and writing an original, which became 'Fear The Reaper'.

Over the Rocklab weekend, the band seemed to suddenly change gear and speed off into the distance - every few minutes, Callum would write another riff, and it would be even more crushing than the last! Ham wrote some awesome drum lines, Doug wrote some riffs, suggested arrangement ideas, and played some kick ass solos, and the band had another 3 unfinished orignals on their hands.

So, the band reformed, but with a new idea: instead of covers, originals will be pretty much all the band do. And so far, all the originals rule!

The band was originally called 'Spawn Of The Beast', but everyone agreed the name sounded too much like an Iron Maiden tribute band, so the name was changed to Amorpha.



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