Opeth - Blackwater Park (Dlx)
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Free Music Review: My first Opeth album...
Hit: 5 Stars
Caused me to buy three others, despite my hesitance to buy. I was introduced by a friend online about this time last year just after I got out of the shower in my dorm room. I remember him saying that he was checking out Opeth online and wanted to know what I thought. At first, when I heard it, I thought, "are you kidding me, music with growling?" I'm not really into death metal, Pantera was the heaviest stuff I'd normally listen to and usually only when I was pissed off. I'm not all that into heavy stuff. I just let it keep playing though and layed down on my bed in the sweet spot in between my speakers, where I do most of my intent listening, I became mesmerized enough that by the end of the first song, I downloaded the whole thing. By Harvest I was in a such a trance like state that I could have easily mistaken myself for being aleep. I was in such sheer bliss that I just let the sound take me where It wanted to. I had never experienced something like this from music before. It invoked some of the most beautiful feelings I had felt in a while, I was not on anything either. I love losing myself in music, I have only experienced this from classical music, which I love to listen to to become relaxed. Blackwater Park can relax me to the point where other, softer music fails to, perhaps because the complex melody and immaculate production of this album engages my mind at the deepest possible level. Open your mind to this stuff no matter which side of it you come down on, be it too heavy or too soft, and you will not be disappointed.Free Music Review: A brilliant album. This is coming from somebody who disdains death metal, too!
Hit: 5 Stars
I do not really like much death metal, but for some reason, Opeth's masterpiece, "Blackwater Park" just seems to click with me. At first, I did not like this album except for Patterns in the Ivy, which was AMAZING. Now that I have had time to let it sink in, this is one of my favorite albums ever. There is not a single bad track on this album. Opeth blends progressive rock, death metal, evil guitar riffs, and beautiful acoustic guitar work for a dream album beyond imagination. Now that there is a deluxe edition with two bonus tracks and a video for Harvest, you are probably wondering if this small amount of material is worth another purchase. It is. "Patterns in the Ivy II" is one of my favorite Opeth songs ever. "Still Day Beneath the Sun" is another great track. These are sung clean, but are beautiful and inspiring songs. My favorite track on this album has to be the ever-so powerful "Bleak". Bleak features a guest appearance by Steven Wilson, and his voice is so powerful. Singing over loud, destructive guitars, he lends his gentle soul to this already amazing song.
If you are not a fan of death metal, but you do like progressive rock/metal, I suggest you at least try Blackwater Park. It is some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard, especially the opening of "Dirge for November". If you want to get into Opeth but have no idea where to start, Blackwater Park is the perfect place. Get the deluxe edition too, if you have not already. Recommended.
Free Music Review: THE GREATEST BAND
Hit: 5 Stars
Opeth blew me away in 1998 after I heard the opening track from Orchid on NC State's friday night radio metal show. I was intrigued by the switching from great epic melodic death and classical guitars (things I was very into but never had heard together.) After picking up all the Opeth CD's (Ill never complain about spending twenty something bucks for Still Life and only to have it now available for half that ... Months after I bought BWP I heard they were rereleasing it. The day I bought it was a dark rainy day. My now exgirlfriend had left for New York, and I was in the mood for something mellonchollie. So I popped in disc 2, the one with the 2 new tracks. I was instantly in love. Still Day and Patterns in the Ivy are terrific songs. They are VERY influenced by the work of the late Nick Drake (someone Akerfeldt is very influenced by, and if you like the softer Opeth stuff you might like his things.) Still Day is very bleak sounding but it softens up a bit when there is vocal harmonies. Patterns in the Ivy 2 is my favorite of the 2. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!... Buy this Cd while you can. It's a limited edition ... The 2nd Cd is universal. The first, well us Opeth fans are a special breed of people. I don't need to say anything about BWP other than if you don't have it, buy it NOW!Free Music Review: Sweet Oblivion
Hit: 5 Stars
You don't listen to Opeth. You get lost in them. The albums they produce are like rich worlds of energy and inspiration. Sure, the vocal style is jarring at first, but keep listening. These aren't your average death growls. In fact, this isn't death metal at all. I don't know what you'd call it. Picture someone as dark and husky as Tom Waits, but who can croon as incredibly well as Maynard James Keenan. The music is huge and ambitious, having more in common with jazz or classical in it's variety and technical fireworks than metal. These aren't songs, they're compositions. Blackwater Park is a journey. It's heavy and monstrous at times, and at other times it seduces you into sweet oblivion. In the middle of the album, at its heart if you will, is one of my favourite songs, entitled "The Drapery Falls". The song is so haunting and catchy it gives me chills every time I hear it. It's the kind of song that makes you play an album over again when it's finished, even if it's over an hour long, just to repeat that feeling: "Pull me down again and guide me into pain..."
There aren't many albums I own two copies of, but when I saw that there was a Limited Edition of this one I couldn't resist.
Free Music Review: Opeth ! My favorite drug.
Hit: 5 Stars
If you think of a drug as a mind altering or mood altering substance than Opeth definantly qualify. The brutal guitar riffs and drum beats pump so much aggression into your veins you might want to crack your head open on a sidewalk. Than without any warning a melody will sadden you with so much dispair that you will practically want to end it all. From there you will hear such beauty that you think you have died and gone to heaven, only to hear another crashing guitar riff as if you were denied entrance and sent downward to hell. Yeah Opeth are quite a tripp. In a way they are differrent than a drug. Most drugs are best on the first time. After that they will decline in there effect. So you can also liken Opeth to a wine since they get better with age. This is a great starting place. You have steller riffs that can be both evil, brutal and gorgious simultaneously like blackwater park. And than you have just plain beautiful songs like harvest. My personal favorite is the drapery falls. It has it all. If you havnt bought this yet get it now!