Album Rating: 4.0

On my second full listen and damn this is really rekindling my love for Opeth, at this exact moment. Beautiful album.

Album Rating: 3.5

Still need to do a full listen only jammed sections

Album Rating: 4.0

How fucking jaw-dropping is "Continuum" into "All Things Will Pass" as a closing pair

Album Rating: 4.0

Tell me about it.

Opeth is back bois

Album Rating: 2.5

my initial impression is that they’ve abandoned the coherent song structures that were relatively prevalent in the previous two records in favor of out-of-nowhere, momentum-killing changes and shifts



it’s cool if you’re a fan of prog for the sake of prog i suppose

Album Rating: 4.0

Sure it's not back to their former glory. But this rules

Album Rating: 2.5

All things outro needs to be like 3 minutes longer man

Album Rating: 2.5

it’s definitely not a return to the glory days but that was never gonna happen



was just hoping for a bigger emphasis on melody and streamlined song structure

Album Rating: 2.5

Pale Communion was just forgettable and pointless.

Album Rating: 3.0

Album indeed feels very much like a logical step after Watershed. It's a bit uncanny. Opeth found some balance again, and it's been long fucking overdue.



Also, please check the Ikea version. Akerfeldt sings with much more passion and heart than in the English version.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, they've abandoned the more conventional approach of Sorceress and I couldn't be happier about that.

Showing Heritage isn't complete garbage man >:-((( It's one of their most rewarding and heartfelt albums.

Album Rating: 3.0

To me those qualities are completely absent from Heritage. Heritage feels like confused introversion: like an exercise in self-satisfaction when you don't really know what you get off to.

Album Rating: 4.0

That solo in Lovelorn Crime is stunning.

Album Rating: 3.5

Heritage is a classic. It is powerful and loose, with great valleys and peaks. One song melts into the other dynamically. Pale Communion was alright, but really not cohesive. My least favourite prog rock album. Sorceress showed potential, songs had more meat but many were fillers too. This one is an entirely different beast. It is good, I just dont know if it is amazing and jaw dropping. I praise them for the production and the lush compositions, though.

Album Rating: 3.5

There must be a third cd I haven't heard yet.

Album Rating: 2.5

The good stuff is there

Album Rating: 1.5

Glad to see I wasn’t going crazy and some low ratings are appearing for this now

Album Rating: 4.5

:-(

Going in again, curious what a new day will reveal in this.

That's what I love about their twisty-turny prog albums. You never know what new details each spin can show you.

Album Rating: 2.5

Calling Heritage awful or a classic are both hottakes in my world, it’s just a very good record, although I can understand being either lukewarm to it, or falling for it completely if you dig the vibe.



For me this one rivals Heritage and has already long surpassed their previous 2, it has personality in abundance. It sounds like Opeth. Sowing’s Watershed without growls comment resonates with me somewhat, I can definitely see that comparison. This is far from perfect, but the highlights are better than anything they’ve come up with for a good while (namely the Universal Truth/Garroter/Continuum triumvirate).



It’s nice to see that the creativity is still there, whereas Tool just took 13 years to release the safe ‘Lateralus b-sides’ album where the most innovative track was a 4 minute interlude.

Album Rating: 2.5

The new Tool album is being mentioned in every new album thread lol



It surely made a lot of people butthurt