Album Rating: 4.5

One of the best, but the entire album is pretty damn good.



The Lotus Eater (top 5)

Heir Apparent

Coil = Hessian Peel

Hex Omega

Porcelain Heart

Burden

Album Rating: 4.5

Don't remember the album to rank the songs, but Burden is definitely top 4 for me... I'll tell you in exactly 54 min and 58 sec.!

Album Rating: 4.5

Hessian Peel is incredible, my fav on this.

Album Rating: 4.5

Burden lets this album down IMO. Coil is by far much more beautiful.



Hessian peel is like the backwards Opeth song. Soft, acoustic majority with a heavy middle section

Album Rating: 4.5

@CalculatingInfinity



Ha, we don't see us two agreeing in many things. We have to celebrate! ;)

Album Rating: 4.5

I love Hessian Peel.



A typical Opeth track anyway. Soft, acoustic and heavy in one track.

Album Rating: 4.5

The backwards but typical opeth track.



When those growls hit hard in that song...

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I love that part.

Album Rating: 4.5

Will their children cry

When their mother dies

And in the autumn of their liiiiiiiives

Will they feel the same?

Album Rating: 4.5

@Choccy: Really suprised you think Porcelain Heart is better the Burden (note I really like Burden). Why do you?



@Mythodea: Party! :D

Hessian Peel rules yeah.

Burden kinda sucks.

Album Rating: 4.5

Why?

Album Rating: 4.5

@calculatingInfinity: Not sure. Burden isn't a bad track by all means but it just drags on and on and doesn't have the beauty that Coil does. Porcelain heart was a huge grower. Love how it just flows without much consideration of anything before it and is just one of the more interesting Opeth tracks, compositionally. The acoustic part at the end is pretty cool too

Album Rating: 4.5

I must say that I really love the guitar work on Burden. Hate the downtuning part though, oh well.

Burden just offers nothing of interest, it's a relatively well written simple song and has decent melody I guess but idk it's just seems pretty average.

Album Rating: 4.5

I love the down tuning - maybe I'm the only one in here - and the work on keyboards too. I don't like Porcelain Heart because it seems repetitive and, despite the acoustic interlude, I think it's a bit hastily done. Heavy and light parts interchange with that awful guitar solo. nananananaananananaNANANANANANA DUN DUN DUN!

Album Rating: 4.5

Burden is too melodramatic

Album Rating: 4.5

"I love the down tuning - maybe I'm the only one in here"



Na I love it too :]. For me Burden definitely isn't the best on the album, but it's the one that shocks me the most because it shouldn't work. It's a jack of all trades song, displaying many sides to Opeth (the organ solo/Prog influence, the sad/melodramatic lyrics, the bombastic nature, fading away through a segment which hasn't be used in the song before) and that's what I really like about it. Despite it being a paradox of a track (mainly in the argument Choccy has which is its not beautiful enough despite it's evident attempt) it's just Opeth jamming with all these ideas with a bombast and swagger which isn't present in most of their discography, with each individual idea being executed brilliantly when taken as their own. I can see why some don't like it but to me it's a great track, showing many sides to Opeth and the shear bombast and ambition makes up for its slightly ham handed execution.

Album Rating: 4.5

That's how I feel about Hex Omega, but I much prefer that song

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

their weakest closer they ever put out