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Ocean of Noise
July 13th 2016


11368 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Still Life is 5th best after their first 3 and this.

Ocean of Noise
July 13th 2016


11368 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Morningrise is definitely underrated. It's also their best.

Orchid is a grower, but it's ultimately more interesting and adventurous than any of their post-Candlelight albums.

Have you checked My Arms, Your Hearse yet?

Koris
Emeritus
July 13th 2016


22630 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Here's my ranking:



Still Life (5/5)

Blackwater Park (4.5/5)

Ghost Reveries (4.5/5)

Watershed (4.5/5)

My Arms, Your Hearse (4.5/5)

Orchid (4/5)

Damnation (4/5)

Morningrise (4/5)

Heritage (3.5/5)

Pale Communion (3.5/5)

Deliverance (2.5/5)

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


More Deliverance love pls

Koris
Emeritus
July 13th 2016


22630 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I love the title track and A Fair Judgment, and I like For Absent Friends, and the rest bores me to death. Sorry

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


Wreath is a somewhat undervalued track; the relentless intensity is Opeth at their finest. Can imagine it seeming overbearing though.

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


Morningrise is fantastic from start to finish

BigPleb
July 13th 2016


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Masters Apprentices is on Deliverance too cmon guys, the soft section on that track is one of Opeth's very best.

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


The heavy 'transition' at the end of it is a pretty butcher's knife approach to songwriting though. I dig the track fyi

Koris
Emeritus
July 13th 2016


22630 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"the relentless intensity is Opeth at their finest."



But my problem with that song is that the intensity comes to a halt during the slower riff in the middle. Then of course, that riff lasts for 4-5 minutes and gets so tedious. I wish the opening riff was taken advantage of more, personally

Koris
Emeritus
July 13th 2016


22630 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I like the speed metal-esque solo, but there's so much to trudge through to get there.



Just my opinion, of course

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


Ah no - that's when it really starts. The opening riff is fantastic, but the mid section is so crushing.

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


The first 10 seconds are a highlight of Opeth's discog though

Koris
Emeritus
July 13th 2016


22630 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

To the album's credit though, I really do love Deliverance and A Fair Judgment. The former, in particular, is an astonishing song... that ending breakdown section is just legendary



And that acoustic section in A Fair Judgment is one of my favorite Opeth moments in general, especially when Steven starts harmonizing with Mikael

JohnnyoftheWell
July 13th 2016


64287 Comments


A Fair Judgement is a beautiful sequence of twists and turns; melancholy nailed just right

Arnaud
July 13th 2016


215 Comments


This rating for the panned review of Blackwater Park is a sacrilege.

BigPleb
July 13th 2016


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

The roomy outro in Fair Judgement is so awesome.

Koris
Emeritus
July 13th 2016


22630 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Lol, 3/5 isn't exactly panning it

zaruyache
July 13th 2016


28648 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

By opeth community standards tho they might as well have 1'd it.

Egarran
July 13th 2016


36867 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I am sharpening my pitchfork as we speak.



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