Album Rating: 5.0
Everything started going downhill after this
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
Arguably after Watershed actually
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
''Everything started going downhill after this''
I disagree, but you should know this already, haha. I like all their albums a lot except Deliverance and Morningrise, they're okay to me.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
''Everything started going downhill after this''
For me Heritage and PC are more like a period of "rebirth", if you want, for the band, since I find some of this and most of Watershed quite uninspired. Heritage and PC kind of saved them from falling into mediocrity
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
"Watershed quite uninspired'
Oh come on, Watershed is quality but i can understand how you feel that way. If anything, I think heritage is uninspired
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
Watershed is 4.25 while this is a 4.75
|
| |
Shed's a solid 3.5 imo
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
It's all over the place and there's a few annoying moments but no bad songs and the metal epics are some of the most dynamic and among their best. I'd say Heritage is around a 3.6 and PC a 3.75
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah this is an awesome record, just at times it feels a little bland. Very rarely though, but it does imo.
|
| |
Heritage definitely felt like a "rebirth" (to quote Onirium) to me. A much needed one as well. Watershed did actually show signs of a transition, just a shame it was such a mess of an album.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Hours of Wealth has really grown on me. the harmonies in that song are gorgeous.
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah too bad it drags after the first half
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
@Jamie my use of "rebirth" was really for lack of a better word, and yeah I definitely agree it was a
more than necessary change in their sound.
But imo the first signs of a transition towards a stronger 70s prog influence was on this
|
| |
I couldn't think of a better word either which is why I quoted you ;)
Musically they definitely sounded inspired on Heritage, the rhythm section in particular.
And yeah the 70's prog influences were already there on this album (and on earlier albums too), what I meant was that Watershed showed the first signs that they might actually be moving away from their usual death metal meets prog formula towards something completely different.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Ghost Ovaries
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, but I meant that I hear some already stronger classic prog influences on this with stuff like
the more prominent use of the mellotron, the organ in the Baying of the Hounds opening riff and the
whole Beneath the Mire and Atonement songs. Maybe that's just me, but I've always thought this one
already was a little less heavy and more rooted in prog than death metal
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
It does, but it was still very metal, too.
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah and less acoustic guitar
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, at some moments here what would have been acoustic guitar parts on other Opeth albums were kind
of replaced by stoner rock and mellotron-driven atmospheres like Atonement and Hours of Wealth. Which
is often not as good as their acoustic stuff, but it's not bad thing at all, just a nice addition to
their sound imo.
|
| |
@Onirium: Yes I agree with everything you said. I'm just saying it doesn't really sound like they were ready to drop the metal completely on here, it was still very much a part of their sound. it's on Watershed where the two elements (death metal and prog) began to sound detached from each other (with the exception of The Lotus Eater).
|
| |
|
|
