Don't get me wrong, I like Opeth, but mostly their heavier, early stuff.

Album Rating: 1.0

Here's a more organically put together 70's prog w extreme metal take; Bedsore's Dreaming the Strife Love. Now that sounds more natural then what this band has cobbled together the last decade.



Seriously, give your heads a shake if you enjoy this.

Album Rating: 2.0

they jumped so headfirst into 70s prog but forgot how to write compelling songs. it feels so jumbled and incoherent.

Album Rating: 3.5

Thinking about how Martin axenrot was in this band for 15 years and only got to play cool extreme metal drums on a single album, what a damn shame

Album Rating: 4.0

I’m not gonna lie I don’t hear the “jumbled together” argument at all. They do some odd eclectic stuff sure but nothing here felt off base to me, or at the expense of songwriting

Album Rating: 4.5

Well done fellas, you managed to bring the average down

Album Rating: 4.0

As far as “some great parts end abruptly and move on” arguments, I can see that, but even on say a pop track I see that as a strength more than a weakness. Makes you wanna listen again

Album Rating: 4.5

Same for me!

Album Rating: 4.0

I’m not gonna lie I don’t hear the “jumbled together” argument at all. They do some odd eclectic stuff sure but nothing here felt off base to me, or at the expense of songwriting [2]

Same for me tbh. I just like me a prog suite

Album Rating: 4.0

same as kalk, trif and nash. but i think this band just fucked with their fanbase way too long. not that any band should do what the fanbase wants, but this prolonged 70s prog phase and an abandonment of their core sound almost felt like a response to the hate the received during their Heritage (unfairly for sure, but still) live run. it always felt pointed against the fans, which is something you don't do either. almost like a "fuck you I'm not doing growls if that's the only thing you care about", and i think that's missing the point too. all of this may be just a lot of conjecture on my part though

Album Rating: 2.5

Can’t connect with this at all. Feels disjointed

Album Rating: 2.5

The lack of actual track titles bothers me quite a bit

Album Rating: 4.0

That I can agree with lol. Annoying as hell it’s just paragraphs. Hard to reference highlights when you just list numbers. At least 1-7 are the actual track numbers though. Would be worse if they didn’t align

Album Rating: 4.5

I think it's kinda cool, I've never seen another band do it, so it's at least creative to me. I think a big part of it too as a concept album is it's meant to be listened to from start to finish so the individual track names aren't as important, again my opinion. But it works here. The drumming is so sick on this record.

"The band themselves have been making that mistake, referring to the song titles as paragraphs but using the silcrow."

Interesting, as is Trifs comment regarding cultural usage of the silcrow vs pilcrow. My initial assumption was thay since the "songs" seemed to have been set up like sections (in English) of a legal document the silcrow stood for section (which would then contain subsections and paragraphs). It's fascinating that in Swedish paragraphs have a broader meaning and includes sections of a legal document.

Album Rating: 4.5

And that goes for almost all of Europe, except... the UK/Ireland!



Interesting indeed. Makes me wonder why this happened.

English is a bastard of a language that follows no rules and even when it does, does it inconsistently. I imagine that Opeth, despite being fluent in English, intended the silcrow usage to mean what it does in Swedish (and apparently every other European language) and assumed English did the same thing, not realising that English had gone a different way with it.

🇬🇧 🇮🇪 > than silcrows and pilcrows whatever the bloody hell they are.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah zak that was the point, all the rest of us don't really distinguish between those weird things, but the English language does...

Man this was a real challenge to finish. I think that §2 and 3 tired the hell out of me without offering that much of a reward. Came back to listen to the rest around a week later, and I can sense the appeal, although it still feels slightly all over the place. A Story Never Told's solo is pure badassery, I'm baffled as to why some people point it out as the weakest song.