Album Rating: 3.5

With occy and Egarran on this one but to a lesser extent obviously. This is in the bottom half of their discog for me. Easily.

quite agreeable

Album Rating: 5.0

The Moor and White Cluster are top 10 Opeth songs. Definitely some fairly bland moments throughout this though.

I should probably give this a proper rating at some point

this doesn't actually have any bland moments for me really

Album Rating: 4.5

agreed

Oh no this thread moved a lot while I wasn't paying attention and its mostly bad takes D:

Always distressing when my opinion on an album falls closer to Zak's than to Johnny's or Norma's

Album Rating: 4.5

Yh Opeth songwriting post Mendez join is pre homogenous in that it mines the same styled heavy riffs into soarprog into bluescoustics and back, so it gets pre samey even while the songs change up



Heritage bucked the trend, got some proper interesting back in the mix, and is why that is one of their best records.



Alongside this, which may be samey but also it does not matter b/c it jams hard af. That standard heavypeth Riff with A->E string descent in 8th notes but with a 16th note trill somewhere in the mix just sounds better on Serenity Painted Death than it do in Drapery Falls or Hessian Peel yknow

They for sure have a very distinctive sound that they don't often stray far from, but considering how homogeneous death metal bands as a whole tend to be I have a very hard time seeing opeth as particularly worthy of criticism in that regard

Album Rating: 4.5

Oh yeah, it's only a criticism so far as they miff the execution (which they do, sometimes, on BWP, GP, Watershed). Hit it out of the park pretty hard here and MAYH



still pretty copy/paste as far as how they schematize the songwriting post-Morningrise pre-Heritage and also Post-Heritage tho

Album Rating: 4.0

haha I love it porc

Album Rating: 4.5

Egar all my tighty whigtys are in the wash and it's time for the neighborhood bbq do you have a spare I could borrow

Album Rating: 3.5

"... is one of their best records."

I love you porc 💖

Album Rating: 3.5

'They for sure have a very distinctive sound that they don't often stray far from, but considering how homogeneous death metal bands as a whole tend to be I have a very hard time seeing opeth as particularly worthy of criticism in that regard' (2)

Yeah I can see what porc is getting at, but they definitely are distinctive and do enough to separate themselves from the pack. I mean they're easily distinguishable from the legions of bands who're influenced by them ('Opethian' is a thing after all) - and that's with the benefit of retrospect. Always imitated, never surpassed. The sign of an all-time great.

It's probably not fair comparing these guys to 'straight-up DM' but yeah much of that style descends into homogeny, almost like a necessary aesthetic at times. The two are completely separate entities in my mind though. These guys are certainly way more prog than they are death, even at their heaviest.

Album Rating: 4.0

>Egar all my tighty whigtys are in the wash and it's time for the neighborhood bbq do you have a spare I could borrow



bb you know you don't have to ask. What's mine is yours. I just want your 16th note trill.

iconic sputcore and epic riffs!

Album Rating: 5.0

Another next level move for the band this was, and I’ve always found White Cluster to be underrated and one of their best songs.

Album Rating: 4.0

You'll always have a friend in me

Album Rating: 5.0

Revisiting this one now for my Opeth marathon. Goddamn, The Moor is still so good

Album Rating: 4.0

Fave Opeth song of the lot at the moment goes to Godheads Lament