Album Rating: 2.5

whatever we think of the album (opinion still pending, lukewarm / unsure despite some positives, currently) ... I'm seeing a rather hefty number of old users flock in, plus a few accounts that either haven't commented, or have barely commented before



nice to see considering the inability to actually create new accounts

Album Rating: 2.0

I want to know what Shadows thinks of this

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah



I want to know what deththrasher thinks of the growls... I thought that Opeth was metal, I guess I was... right?

I enjoy listening to this thing front to back, but I agree with whoever said there are zero hooks. I'm fine with things being less straightforward, but I really do have a hard time remembering which song I'm listening to because they are all playing in a similar sonic pallet, except the closer. It's probably going to end up at 4 for me.

Oh and this is immaculately produced. I can pinpoint each instrument, and there's some fun imaging stuff happening here, with some left/right panning.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"haha didn’t you say it sucked originally? that’s cool it grew"



yeah and then i revised that opinion like two days later when i listened to it a second time. first time jamming was in the middle of the night with my headphones (not with my vastly superior new hi-fi system) and i was in some kind of emotional pit that night where i wasn't able to feel anything. took me a few days to recover from that, kinda scary. guess thats manic depression for ya.

Album Rating: 4.0

“Damnation

Still Life

My Arms, Your Hearse

Blackwater Park

Ghost Reveries



These are the 5 however you want to shake out the order”



Wrong. Ghost Reveries and Watershed are best

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Watershed and Blackwater Park are best, agreed.

Album Rating: 2.5

Orchid & Morningrise 😉

Album Rating: 4.3

Blackwater Park is 9th best Opeth agreed.

Album Rating: 4.0

The drums on 5 are so delicious.

Album Rating: 4.0

Waltteri Väyrynen really ties this together, Axe was proficient but like Lopez Väyrynen really adds an extra dimension the Axenrot albums lacked imo

Album Rating: 2.5

shows how much attention I pay because I’ve not heard that name before…



he must be some Finnish(?) bassist



Dude is definitely good

Album Rating: 4.0

He was in Bloodbath and Paradise Lost and joined Opeth in '22 apparently.



Not that I knew either, I was just blown away by the drumming and was gonna glaze Axenrot but no its a new guy. Makes sense tho, I always thought Axenrot sounded like a robot

Album Rating: 2.5

Ahh. Yeah I didn’t read that properly. Drummer. Makes sense. He does seem good!

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

demon on his dumbass arc (affectionately)

Axenrot was badass. If anything, to me, it sounds like the new drummer is trying to sound like axenrot. Stylistically, the drumming here isn't a far cry at all from the last few albums except that this dude may actually have more chops than axe and axe has some serious motherfuckin chops

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean I did mistake him for Axenrot at first, but there's a mix of groove and subtlety that I don't think Axe ever carried, at least to this extent. Again, he reminds me a lot of Lopez. I think Mikael's writing will always demand a certain style of drumming, superficially what Lopez, Axe, and Väyrynen do is pretty similar, but there's a creativity to Väyrynen that feels ascendant in much the way early Opeth did

Album Rating: 4.0

Also fuck it I think I'm raising this to a 4, not even for the growls, there's so much silly dinky twinkly shit and it just puts a smile on my face. idk why they ever released a radio edit of S1 tho, the full version is much much better

Album Rating: 5.0

Sometimes I’ll just be sitting somewhere minding my own business and out of nowhere that flute guitar interplay interlude will just come bursting into my brain.

Album Rating: 2.5

"demon on his dumbass arc (affectionately)"



I was confused / didn't read properly. Agreed tho, obviously