Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
It's a A
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Album Rating: 3.0
I thought it was gonna be heavier or something. There are definitely some great moments here but it feels like a lot of wankery and fluff to me. Plus the vocals are very off putting to me
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Album Rating: 5.0
wankery...
fluff...
vocals off-putting...
I don't get it.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Akerfeldt's vocals are anything but off-putting.
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Album Rating: 4.0
It ok [2]
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
"It ok [2]"
*Album Rating: 4.0*
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Album Rating: 4.0
i didn't care for this the first few times i listened to it. might just take awhile to grow on you.
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Album Rating: 4.0
It's ok for Opeth's standard pre-heritage.
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Album Rating: 5.0
He doesn't dig - no shame in that.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah okay, if someone doesn't like it, granted, but calling this wankery is fucking irritating
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Yeah, it's not wankery, honestly
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Album Rating: 3.5
Well maybe he has good reasoning behind it
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
For sure. I guess I'm not ruling it out... I suppose it just seems weird to call this wank when there are a thousand other technical metal bands that could be given that label instead, like Brain Drill or Behold the Arctopus
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Album Rating: 5.0
The only way I can get behind it is a definition of "wank" that would include every 10 minute song ever.
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Album Rating: 3.0
it feels silly and hard to take seriously at times. Which I know is a completely asinine reason especially for me considering some of the stuff I listen to. But when it comes to metal, especially of the death metal variety, I guess I wanted more meat behind some of the music. the clean vocals just do not fit at all in my opinion to. like when he starts singing i cringe half the time. Hes is to smooth and polished or something. And the synths are a bit excessive to me as well. Its also a bit tiring to me to sit through such long songs. Which normally i wouldnt have a problem with, but these songs move around too much or something. I can see why you guys dig it, but I guess it just aint for me. My death metal band of choice is Gojira, which I know the two sound absolutely nothing alike, I just saw the tags and thought I'd give it a try. Other than that I prefer classic death metal from the 90s and 80s. Which again is a very stupid thing, I know. I'm exploring more modern stuff as time goes on
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I can see what you mean for sure. Personally I never had a problem with the heaviness or intensity of this album, and found the production to be a huge factor in giving "meat" to the guitars and bass. It's interesting that you choose to prefer Gojira, since they're actually my favorite death metal band as well but I always found them - much like Opeth - to be in the "prog death" vein rather than the "tech death" vein. To me, it seems like both bands prefer the route of atmosphere over technicality and it serves them both well
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Album Rating: 3.0
I hear ya. Gojira just kicks ass
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Album Rating: 5.0
Ah okay. Nice to see some reasoning, now I understand.
I must admit that I never really saw this as death metal in the conventional sense, so I approached it from a totally different angle. It's more like a band just scooping from a pool of genres and creating something different in the process imo. There is no Opeth album without clean vocals, but even then, this one is as far away from death metal as the "heavy" Opeth albums go (along with Watershed).
This was also their first album with keyboard as a main instrument btw, so you might like the earlier stuff better? Idk
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Album Rating: 3.0
maybe I will give their older shit a shot then. idk im so depressed no music is any good right now so take what I say with a grain of salt
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Album Rating: 4.0
If you're in that kind of a mood then Morningrise might be perfect for you tbh
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