Album Rating: 3.0
The moment, past the slightly overlong intro, as the main driving riff comes and Axe enters - and practically everything that follows until the ending - counts among the most brilliant things they've done in my opinion.
Although I find Axe's overall performance on the album slightly less interesting and compelling than on Heritage
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Album Rating: 2.5
Agreed, Axe's performance was significantly better and much more interesting on Heritage (as was the whole band tbh).
His performance here is still probably the best/most interesting thing about this album though, which has as much to do with the lack of interesting ideas elsewhere as it does with his excellent drumming.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is not their weakest, but is far from being their best... Imo is an excellent addition in Opeth's catalogue.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I still like it better than many - if not most - of their death metal records
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
I think it's solid enough.
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Album Rating: 3.0
The biggest problem with this album is that it's just progressive rock and is contend with it. It's good at that, but it's not good at being something really exciting. The fact of the matter is, they hardly ever released any "real" death metal records, because most of their albums that rooted in that style were also so much more. Listen to Ghost Reveries, it's so rich of everything. It's got a venturesomeness that this album just lacks.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I perfectly agree with your point; the brilliance in their music has always been their tendency for experimenting and venturing, which is why Heritage was such an amazing and rich record and this isn't.
I love a few of their most adventurous "death metal" albums, of course, yet pre-BWP era records and Deliverance sound utterly boring in my opinion, because they are very much grounded in the same generic genre-specific ideas.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I find Opeth's early work just as experimental as their new material, no matter that the styles and musical directions are different between the each period of their career.
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Album Rating: 3.0
This isn't refreshing enough. Heritage had songs like Nepenthe that the band hadnt really done before
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah Nepenthe is great, but Häxprocess is the one that gets me all the time.
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Album Rating: 3.0
That would be one of those two or Folklore for me, but the whole record is probably my favourite Opeth one
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Album Rating: 4.5
I prefer this over Heritage, though I acknowledge it as an excellent record.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Yeah this is def better than Heritage.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Nnnnope
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Album Rating: 4.5
To each, their own...
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Album Rating: 3.0
Heritage was this album, only done better
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Album Rating: 4.5
Which one done better?
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Better than Heritage. A more consistent tone and theme.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Heritage is better.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Disagreed.
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