Album Rating: 4.5

His growls are still pretty great, especially considering he's been doing it for the past 30+ years

Album Rating: 4.0

dude is a top 3 extreme metal vocalist ever and I'll die on that hill alone if i have to

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I think he is defs up there for one of the best

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah absolutely agreed. You definitely won't be alone on that very very crowded hill StormChaser!

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

My fangirlness bumped this back to the 4.5 i had it at



Also hiya Trif

Album Rating: 4.5

Hehe nice Ect!



Hi! Glad to be in this Opeth party with you! On §5 now. Lovely stuff.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Haha same here actually im on §5 as well

Album Rating: 4.5

Cannot be a coincidence! Long-distance-party-mode activate!!!! 🤸🏻‍♂️🌈🥳💃🏻🕺🏻



One thing I found strange about this album, even more so since it is a concept album, is they decided it was necessary to use a fade-out three (?????) times! Kind of strange.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I've swapped to watching broadchurch atm

Album Rating: 2.5

I have to say that's some solid decision making there

Album Rating: 4.5

But seriously, those fade-outs kind of ruin the flow of this one for me.



Suuuper strange decision for a concept album. They've kept those grooves going for long times in the past, why not do it now and make them into a satisfying conclusion, rather than fade out endings almost half of the time (3 out of 7 tunes!).

I am really really enjoying the new drummer

Album Rating: 4.0

it'll be good company then, Trif.



yes, sad for PL's lost, but very happy we got our Lopez-esque boy in the building for future Opeth releases

Album Rating: 4.5

A 2.9!? For what is easily one of the best albums of the year. This site is a joke

Album Rating: 4.0

It is a site where people have varied opinions, my dude

Album Rating: 4.0

yes, and pikazilla

this has not yet clicked for me. It's kinda overdramatic in execution and not really focused on building captivating songs. feels more like a performed musical in that sense. still finding a lot to like but nothing that completely floors me like the run from mayh to watershed did

Album Rating: 2.5

excessive dramatisation is certainly not something I would ever use as a critique for these guys, especially not as a long term fan - they've kinda always been a bit like that, no?



maybe it's the additional bells and whistles with the prog elements being slightly more symphonic(?) idk just speculating



Watershed as a (somewhat valid) comparison point is hella dramatic, over-the-top and sort of ridiculous, lol

Album Rating: 2.0

watershed poops all over this



it's a way more focused and coherent piece of work than this prog soup for the hoi polloi

i think fr me its the vocals that come of as more melodramatic the most. the instrumentation with all the symphonic elements as well. I mean, sure they've always been thetralic but in their glory days they managed to evoke more emotions with their toolbox. but here, there seem to be so many different parts and things in the songs going on that everything kinda just blurs together. but maybe it's just me and I need to give it some more spins.