Album Rating: 5.0

Okay, let's go three pages back, because I am absent these days due to reasons. I saw Johnny's review of BRI and thought to myself, what the hell, let's relisten to this thing (I haven't in years, and only a couple of times total). BRI has some cool moments but sounds like they took whatever was left on the cutting floor and glued it together.



>1:12 - 3:10 is a circuitous overharmonised 6/8 snoozefest

It's getting repetitive, but the bass does some nice fiddling, so I don't mind



>7:30-8:51 is kinda dumb but ok let's roll with it

tbh it's one of the most enjoyable things on here.



>8:51 - 14:45 is classic and hands down the best thing opeth did idk probably

Best thing maybe no, but it's up there with the rest of the classics. It's the only part of the song I'd return to.



>16:36 is one of the most lol wtf is this happening guitar solos I can remember. hilariously dumb songwriting

It has some awkward placement, I give you that, but what's more annoying is the composition itself. Boring x 10 songwriting, as far as solos go.



Rest of the song is cool, and the closing minute is very dark and exciting. Overall, song could easily be cut in half, structured around the 9-15 minute part. It suffers too much from the 'going nowhere' factor as it's not cohesive enough to guarantee storytelling. There are some ''doom'' cliches, like the whispering lyrics, the whatever-sticks passages for guitars and the braindead title BLACK ROSE IMMORTAL that is literally the trinity of cliche doom/gothic words or/and iconography, surpassed only by Raven, maybe.



More of a song to listen to if you want to have an all-around knowledge of their discography.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I pretty much never go back to BRI. I like that album but there’s definitely a lot of immature songwriting choices, which Åkerfeldt will be the first to admit. Where was it he told the story of bringing a lute to the recording session? Roundhouse tapes maybe?

Album Rating: 5.0

Yep, Roundhouse Tapes, The Night And The Silent Water. That song rules though

these sure are some takes

Album Rating: 5.0

One thing I do really like about Morningrise is that you can tell they wrote a lot of the heavier parts on acoustic first

Album Rating: 4.0

He told a condensed version of that lute story during the gig I went to a few years back.

BRI is what I like to refer to as a flawed masterpiece, ‘flawed’ is a technicality as well, one of those occasions where it shouldn’t always work but I love it regardless. Easy top 5 Opeth track.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yea, some things shouldn't work, but they somehow do and that's the magic

Album Rating: 4.0

Exactly, the magic of Orchid and especially Morningrise is that they work so incredibly well despite their flaws. I would not have them any other way.

Album Rating: 5.0

Orchid is a bit goofy at times but I still dig it

Album Rating: 4.0

Cute goofiness. They were so young still too.

Album Rating: 5.0

the Bon Jovi reverb on the drums in the under the weeping moon interlude midway through the song gets me laughing every time I hear it

Album Rating: 4.0

I hear they were a big influence.

Album Rating: 5.0

Orchid is awesome even for someone like me, who's not into that genre, Morningrise is a skip, save for same tracks. But really, MAYH is were the discussion really starts for me.

Album Rating: 4.0

What genre, melo-death, or something more specific? Opeth appear to have created a unique brand of DM that doesn’t always translate very well across to other sub-genres. Most stuff I’ve heard that gets described as ‘Opethian’ is underwhelming to me.

Album Rating: 5.0

no, I'm talking about this black doom gothic style, sth like Draconian would play

Album Rating: 5.0

The typical human ear cannot hear below 20 Hz so that is likely yes

Speaking of, how come this band never did a cover of The Sound Of Silence

Album Rating: 5.0

Covering the Sound of Silence would be a pretty disturbing thing to do, tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

"Yea, some things shouldn't work, but they somehow do and that's the magic"



Describes Agalloch through Marrow as well.

Album Rating: 5.0

Covering the Sound of Silence would be a pretty disturbing thing to do, tbh