Album Rating: 5.0

Forest of October needs moar love.

Album Rating: 3.5

it's all about apostle bros

Album Rating: 3.5

Oh yea Twilight is fucking insane. That softer section makes the song for me.

Album Rating: 4.0

I meant the one for Orchid.



Oh, well I AM GOING TO PRETEND you didn't

Album Rating: 4.5

The softer section makes the song for me [2]



But the whole album is insanely good, so.... The Apostle in Triumph has one of the best opening riffs they've made.

Album Rating: 4.0

^Yes! I dig that riff too. Glad to see it getting some love.

Album Rating: 4.0

In Mist She Was Standing is tied with April Ethereal for my favorite Opeth song.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's pretty much nailed on that April Ethereal is Opeh's best song.



Probably the best opening riff ever actually, so sharp.

Album Rating: 3.0

Heir Apparent, Burden and Hex Omega are the only tracks I ever come back to.

Album Rating: 5.0

Nice to see the love for Burden man, Mike sounds brilliant on that one.

Album Rating: 4.5

How the fuck so you not return to Hessian Peel?

Album Rating: 3.0

The song is a disjointed mess.

Coil, Heir Apparent, Lotus Eater and Hessian Peel for me. Never did like the other 3 songs.

and I'd only ever return to Heir Apparent in the context of the two songs either side of it.

Album Rating: 5.0

Think he has the same problem with Heritage calc dude, with those disjointed structures and shit.

Album Rating: 3.0

Mikael lost the ability to mask his copy-and-paste approach to songwriting when he ditched the coherent atmosphere conjured by the riffs of the band's earlier work. The further you go into the band's discography after Blackwater Park, arguably even after Still Life, the more apparent it becomes that he was never a good songwriter to begin with. He was lucky to Lindgren to keep him grounded.

Album Rating: 4.5

I have no idea how it's disjointed at all but meh. True Pleb I can see him hating that.

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean I think his songwriting ability is still there but yeah, the approach he takes to songwriting in general is pretty samey.

Album Rating: 3.0

He has his moments, i.e. Eternal Rains Will Come, but on the whole he's shown that he doesn't have a grasp of it. Take a song like Famine, which runs through at least five different extended sections of unrelated, thematically incoherent sections.

Album Rating: 3.0

That's obviously the most egregious example, but it's definitely happening on many other late era Opeth records as well.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's his band at the end of the day, the band will go in whatever direction he chooses.



Would love more input from Mendez but I imagine he just goes along with Mike.