TopGun
Posts: 28 From: Canada
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yea i liked it.. but i bought the bonus limited edition blablabla with 3 new tracks and the dvd.. it was to my dismay that the bonus tracks were ON and ONLY ON the dvd.. which meant i couldnt run it on my comp to rip the songs onto my ipod (if anyone knows a way feel free to tell me ) so overall yea i liked it.. just a little disapointed over the bonus tracks cause its not like i wanna sit infront of my tv and listen to them on the dvd..good review tho
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NocturnalStalker Metal Addict
Posts: 889 From: Spain |
22.08.2008 - 08:32Rating: 9
Splendid album and very good review. I can't find a sentence here I wouldn't agree with.
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Introspekrieg Totemic Lust
Posts: 2747 From: USA |
Nice review, not sure I would have rated it as high, but that is only because I have yet to see how this album will impact me in the coming years. I can't make a clear-headed decision about an album's rating until the excitement of a new release has quelled and I can fully break down an album's structure. Hopefully this will be the start of a new era for Opeth, now that the Blackwater Park~ era has come to a close. Their progress with the keyboard is a good start...
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Doc G. Full Grown Hoser
Posts: 9718 From: Canada |
22.08.2008 - 09:38Rating: 5
Doc G.Full Grown HoserPosts: 9718 From: Canada
This is their best work since Still Life IMO. This album got the eerie riffage back that I thought was really missing in a few previous albums (and I thought was achieved best on Still Life). I like the rating, don't necessarily agree with the review (talking about the comparisons to Ghost Reveries).
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Spyroid Rosetta Stoned
Posts: 1023 From: Sweden |
22.08.2008 - 09:43Rating: 9
SpyroidRosetta StonedPosts: 1023 From: Sweden
Written by TopGun on 22.08.2008 at 08:30
yea i liked it.. but i bought the bonus limited edition blablabla with 3 new tracks and the dvd.. it was to my dismay that the bonus tracks were ON and ONLY ON the dvd.. which meant i couldnt run it on my comp to rip the songs onto my ipod (if anyone knows a way feel free to tell me ) so overall yea i liked it.. just a little disapointed over the bonus tracks cause its not like i wanna sit infront of my tv and listen to them on the dvd..good review tho
I really recognise that feeling... but well, if I had paid for the limited edition I think I would've downloaded theese two tracks just to be able to put them in my iPod, and not feeling way to guilty
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kaylamacgavin
Posts: 189 From: USA |
Perfect review for yet again another amazing Opeth album. Mikael Akerfeldt couldn't write a bad album even if he tried.
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Marcus Doit Like Bernie
Posts: 642 From: USA |
22.08.2008 - 10:11Rating: 9
MarcusDoit Like BerniePosts: 642 From: USA
This album is great, somehow Opeth still manages to get better and better. The music interlude at about 5:45 into The Lotus Eater is amazing!
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Enissa
Posts: 815 From: Greece |
22.08.2008 - 10:21Rating: 7
Very Nice & Beautiful album
Although I didnt Expect Opeth to use female Vocals But I LOVE IT!!!
and I love the first 4 tracks, especially "Burden" very nice guitar solos.
and The Review is totally Perfect & Fair for the album, thanx Demonic Tutor.
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ylside
Posts: 4727 From: Morocco |
22.08.2008 - 10:32Rating: 8
ylsidePosts: 4727 From: Morocco
Great album.
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Reizenstein
Posts: 59 From: Sweden |
22.08.2008 - 11:09Rating: 9
I love this album, the only downside is that the songs can be a bit to long. For example, Burden could have been shorted by almost 1-2 minutes.
On the other hand, it wouldn't be Opeth if the songs wern't long as hell
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Katatronik Angel of Lust
Posts: 1018 From: Italy |
22.08.2008 - 13:28Rating: 9
Again a great album... Not my favourite one though...
Still Life, Blackwater Park and even Ghost Reveries are better IMO...
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and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
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Talvi
Posts: 825 From: Spain |
22.08.2008 - 14:07Rating: 8
TalviPosts: 825 From: Spain
One of their best IMO. Good review.
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Flynny
Posts: 7 From: Australia
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great album. not blackwater park or ghost riveries, but just another fuckin great album
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Elio Red Nightmare
Posts: 4920 From: Italy |
22.08.2008 - 15:39Rating: 9
ElioRed NightmarePosts: 4920 From: Italy
good review and very good album...not their best though. I would have rated it about 8.
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Abattoir
Posts: 3629 From: Slovenia |
For me this one is another very good album...generally looking, they have never realy go out of those ranks. Only good staff from them...and it still continues.
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VPeter
Posts: 1450 From: The Netherlands |
VPeterPosts: 1450 From: The Netherlands
Overated album by an overated band, that's all I got to say. Still I have to say it's better then the tiring and boring album that was Ghost Reveries.
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Janne Hugin
Posts: 1721 From: Hungary |
JanneHuginPosts: 1721 From: Hungary
I really don't like this album as I neither would like Opeth's other albums. There is good half minute in the song 'The Lotus Eater' but that's all. I don't like prog metal but it's even worse than simply prog metal...
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BloodTears ANA-thema
Posts: 11835 From: Portugal |
23.08.2008 - 00:22Rating: 9
Good review. I agree with the rating too. This is definately a great release, yes a lot of people don't like it but I still think its very special. And unlike what people might think I don't like it because its Opeth, I like it because it's beautiful, regardless of the band who is behind it.
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Raziel X
Posts: 117 From: Slovak Republic |
23.08.2008 - 01:29Rating: 9
Written by Janne on 22.08.2008 at 20:28
I really don't like this album as I neither would like Opeth's other albums. There is good half minute in the song 'The Lotus Eater' but that's all. I don't like prog metal but it's even worse than simply prog metal...
They why are you commenting a prog release when you simply cannot get into it and know nothing about prog?
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Janne Hugin
Posts: 1721 From: Hungary |
JanneHuginPosts: 1721 From: Hungary
Written by Raziel X on 23.08.2008 at 01:29
Written by Janne on 22.08.2008 at 20:28
I really don't like this album as I neither would like Opeth's other albums. There is good half minute in the song 'The Lotus Eater' but that's all. I don't like prog metal but it's even worse than simply prog metal...
They why are you commenting a prog release when you simply cannot get into it and know nothing about prog?
It's a good question... maybe I was boring xP sorry!!!
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Warman Erotic Stains
Posts: 7695 From: Sweden |
23.08.2008 - 01:57Rating: 8
WarmanErotic StainsPosts: 7695 From: Sweden
Opeth just can't seem to do anything wrong!
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X-Ray Rod Skandino
Posts: 18274 From: Sweden |
23.08.2008 - 02:14Rating: 7
YES!
I fucking knew it!!!
After the very dissapointing Ghost Reveries.. My expectations were very low but I still had some hope.
And they fucking did it. I'm very glad that they maked this album. It has the sound of GH but way better... This is what the other album should be.
I can't say wich is the best album. But this one is freaking good.
They still rock and I'm very happy for it.
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Raziel X
Posts: 117 From: Slovak Republic |
23.08.2008 - 02:36Rating: 9
Great release, I liked Ghost Reveries, and this only perfects what seemed boring for some people
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Jason W. Razorbliss
Posts: 3523 From: USA |
23.08.2008 - 03:28Rating: 6
Well, it's a more interesting release than Ghost Reveries, as well as having more passionate musicianship. But, in terms of enjoyment, I'm still not much interested in the album. It's Opeth, they have their unique sound and all, but those keyboards just take the music in a direction that seems like it's searching for something the band has yet to find. Ahh, it's a good album and all, but not album of the year to me...
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X-Ray Rod Skandino
Posts: 18274 From: Sweden |
23.08.2008 - 05:53Rating: 7
I forgot to say that I disagree with the rating.
a 8,5 will be very fair IMO.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you.
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Paradox0 Unasuming Madnes
Posts: 592 From: USA
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23.08.2008 - 21:40Rating: 7
Paradox0Unasuming Madnes Posts: 592 From: USA
What I really liked in this album where the 70's prog elements added in, especially the entire keyboard solo in what I believe was "The Lotus Eater". Actually Opeth has always been pretty progressive in spirit, although they've seemed to embrace it in this album in a more literal sense.
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Damned-In-Black
Posts: 212 From: New Zealand |
24.08.2008 - 12:27Rating: 5
Disappointed with this album. I enjoy all their others (Ghost Reveries and Morningrise somewhat less than the rest), but this one, not at all.
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After an album of the content of " Ghost Reveries" , I was feared that the group lowers its guard but in the great tradition of what Opeth had been able to make of better, like "Still Life" or " Blackwater Park"... The new " Watershed" was the album where Opeth reinvented a new duel of guitars.
So nice review and i agree with the rating for sure!
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Passenger Lost To Apathy
Posts: 1464 From: Portugal |
24.08.2008 - 16:12Rating: 10
PassengerLost To ApathyPosts: 1464 From: Portugal
I actually feel this may be Opeth's best album. Honestly, the balance between brutality and melancholy, technicality and acoustic, everything that makes Opeth reaches a more mature sound than ever. Surely this year's best, and better than Ghost Reveries and Deliverance.
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Passenger i think that what you said it's true cause i like all opeth album, and surely they're mature album after album, and i like this mixture between harmony with arpeges, and brutality i means with voices and instruments, it's like a beautifull sun after an natural catastroph hiiihi ( and the pink floyd and camel influence's appear!!)
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