Album Rating: 2.5
“Besides Damnation, which is a clear 5, Sorceress is the best progpeth, even with a messy tracklist. Individually it has most of their strongest post-Watershed material.”
Damnation is Windowpane then a bunch of other lesser examples of the same formula. It’s okay, but sounded a hell of a lot better in my naive youthfulness tbh. Relevant comparison points just served to make it weaker.
Sorceress’s tracks definitely sounded more convincing live, so maybe they did have something to offer?… but buried under the flaccid cardboard production, it was kinda hard to tell
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah Sorceress with an actual master would be great tbh.
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Album Rating: 4.0
[2] such a flat sounding album
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Album Rating: 4.0
If Watershed counts as progpeth, I'd count that as their best. It's actually my favorite Opeth album, period.
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Album Rating: 4.3
Here we go again!!!
Ghost Reveries
My Arms, Your Hearse
Orchid
Still Life
Morningrise
Watershed
Last Will and Testament
Damnation
In Cauda Venenum
Blackwater Park
Deliverance
Heritage
Pale Communion
Sorceress
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
This is top 5 Opeth for me
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Album Rating: 4.0
My thoughts after listening to it twice.
- Production is beautiful and very well balanced. Every sound is masterfully captured.
- Musicianship is off the charts. Band has never sounded this tight imo.
- Strings sound lovely. Don't care if it's disney prog or whatever, but they're used very tastefully.
However...
It feels like the album is devoid of hooks. And yeah it's prog not power metal, but still I feel it lacks something that would make me connect more with it, amongst all the crazy polyrhythms and scales. It feels like it's an album for musicians, idk. Kinda like Heritage on steroids.
Hope I'll change my mind on subsequent listening (not to mention this thing was pretty expansive on vinyl).
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Don’t think much of it
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Deliverance that low, Hawks? Might be my favorite along with Ghost Reveries. It's the closest they got to straight up death metal.
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Album Rating: 4.3
Tbf I love all of them except the bottom 2 lol.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Damnation in bottom half makes me insanely sad.
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Album Rating: 4.3
Damnation is still a 4.5 though lol.
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Album Rating: 4.0
damnation is great but a little one note which is really my only complaint that holds it from upper tier peth
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think it's one of the hardest 5's and a top 10 all-timer for me, but fair enough, give me a bit to think on my ranking
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Album Rating: 4.0
Damnation
Still Life
My Arms, Your Hearse
Blackwater Park
Ghost Reveries
Morningrise
Watershed
Last Will and Testament
Deliverance
Orchid
In cauda venenum
Pale Communion
Sorceress
Heritage
"damnation is great but a little one note which is really my only complaint that holds it from upper tier peth" normally i would dock points for being one-note in other cases but that one note is so emotionally moving that I just have to have it #1
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Album Rating: 4.0
that's cool i respect that, it's an awesome album. def has gotten more appreciation over the years.
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Album Rating: 4.3
Yeah I wouldn't argue with that at all.
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Album Rating: 4.0
damnation is in a very special spot alongside s/t alice in chains where it's the perfect soundtrack when i'm in a really dark place mentally
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Album Rating: 4.0
i always go to mogwai- come on die young for that
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I definitely don't feel like damnation is "one note." Every song is pretty distinct and does something different
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