Opeth - Deliverance
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Free Music Review: Let this one grow on you like ivy on an old brick wall.
Hit: 5 Stars
I LOVE OPETH. Apart from Pink Floyd they are my favorite band. I eagerly have awaited each new Opeth release since I bought My Arms... back in 98 or 99. When I heard Opeth was going to release 2 cds at once, one a normal Opeth album, death metal and easy stuff and an entire cd of the mellow styled tunes and interludes that have graced their albums since Orchid. I awaited the arrival of Deliverance and I was lucky to pick up a copy the Sunday night before it's release.
I have not been so disappointed since Cliff Yablonski stopped updating his part of the webpage every other Monday.
The cd goes like this:
Wreath- opening tom rolls and Martin Lopez is off. He's not cut loose like he has on this album since MAYH. It is a decent song but not what I expected.
Deliverance- starts good and gets quiet after a minute and goes in to a mellow part. When it goes back in it starts to get old.
Mikael also does this weird thing with his voice. His singing voice is so beautiful but there is something wrong on this cd.
A Fair Judgement- Takes too long to start. Odd for a mellow Opeth tune. Gets better though. I like the solo.
For Absent Friends- Instrumental track. last bit of peace before...
Master's Apprentice- Sinister riff. Not enough layering of guitars, making it not sound like Opeth.
By The Pain I See In Others- Good closer, all elements of Opeth songs in it.
It is an album that takes some time to grow. I like it more now than when I started this review five or so minutes ago. The guitars are not as layered as on the last 3 albums. The drum sound is very clear. I was mislead by the 2 song teaser on the Blackwater Park rerelease. Maybe that appetite will be satiated next March or so When Damnation, the mellow cd hits the shelves.
Best Opeth Cds:
STILL LIFE- the highpoint in their career. Best songs.
MY ARMS YOUR HEARSE- The heaviest of the bands catalogue. If you feel like spending money, get the import with the 2 cover songs on there. Hell, get anything Opeth.
BLACKWATER PARK- A great cd, but here is where the band's constant progression ended. Viewed by many as a side step to Still Life, Black water is still a wonderful cd. Get the rerelease while you can.
DELIVERANCE- Mikaels most brutal vocals. Not a lot of progression since Blackwater. Takes time to like, there fore making this a hard Opeth album to enjoy at first.
ORCHID- The first and my first. Epic and truly unique for the time. Still today, too.
MORNINGRISE- My least favorite but it's still better than anything that's selling a million copies!
Free Music Review: My Arms Your Hearse Meets Technicality
Hit: 5 Stars
Purpose
The purpose of this review is to inform, as impartially as possible, as to the quality of this product, rate it, explain why I came to this conclusion, as well as pass on any helpful information to the reader that could aid in finding similar products. Hope it helps.
Critique
The sixth Opeth album, this is questionably Opeth's heaviest, and quite possibly their best. It has almost every bit of the heaviness of 'Hearse', yet combined with the technicality of 'Blackwater Park' two-fold; in MHO, anyway. And that's one potent combination.
Comaprison
What is Opeth? Opeth basically defies classification. The words beautiful, brooding, sometimes intense, sometimes soft, sometimes eerie, and always beautiful come to mind. Yet that is a pale description. It's death metal, but not about blood and gore, like Cattle Decapitation, and like bands, (No offense, fans of aforementioned.) with long, progressive song structures, and is truly of an unsurpassed quality. Just me, but I've never encountered a more consistantly impressive band in this genre, that not only brings everything death metal, but also beauty. And I don't mean what some consider to be twisted, perverted beauty either. For that, type in keyword_Slayer_, or _Emperor_. Once agin, no offense to fans; good music, but the lyrics are a bit, um, extreme, for my tastes.
Album Breakdown
This album is all but entirely dominated by some of the heaviest, fastest, most intense, and at the same time most beautiful riffs of any Opeth album, and that's saying something. Very few acoustical "softer" sections here, so if you are a fan of Opeth's earlier work, such as 'Morningrise', or of their all-acoustical album 'Damnation', and death metal vox bother you, then this may not be for you. Personally, I love the heaviness and death metal vocals, but it obviously depends on the person. Just a heads' up.
Similar Bands
Agalloch (Slower than Opeth, Black metal vocals, slightly inferior); recommended albums: Pale Folklore, and The Mantle. Pale Folklore is the heaviest of the two.) Ulver (Strictly Black metal, before switching over to electronic music. I know, WTF? but their three Black metal albums are great. They are, in descending intensity; Nattans Madrigal, Bergtatt, and Kveldssanger.)
Bottom Line
If you are an Opeth fan and don't have this album yet, you're missing out, BIG time. It's heavy, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Enjoy and happy searching.
Free Music Review: A pleasure of music in a dour and often caustic style.
Hit: 5 Stars
Opeth have come to be known as a giant in progressive metal. But, they are also akin to death metal, too, and they do what they do better than anyone else. There are a lot of bands out there that could learn something about music from this band, that it doesn't have to absolutely annihilate the listener to be enjoyed. Not even in metal. One of the main reasons, often overlooked, why Metallica was heralded in the 80s was because they made great solid musically great songs. They weren't merely thrash. They built great songs through a sort of concept of instrument play, and they were very interesting.
So it is with the current masters of metal, Opeth. But, they go a lot further than Metallica ever did. Opeth builds the tension of a song with grand sweeping gestures of joy and depression. You don't know from one minute to the next if you should cheer or sigh. The dynamic of the song flow in most Opeth songs is unbelievably emotional and stirring, and when you add to it a sense of real metal power, well it makes the idea invented in Metallica's "Fade to Black" come alive on an almost orchestral level. It is simply amazing music.
I have myself held back for two years (the time I've been listening to Opeth) on doing any kind of review of their albums because I wanted to first experience the full Opeth impression before I talked. Because, you cannot simply describe an Opeth song to someone who's never heard one. There is literally little else at all like them in all of music, and most of those are pale shades of the real thing. Opeth are every bit to metal music now what Metallica was 23 years ago (as of 2009). And a lot more.
To the album. Deliverance is easily Opeth's heaviest work. It starts powerfully from Wreath and barely lets up all the way through to By the Pain I See in Others. It has shivering melodies tied in with crushing grooves and it all melts perfectly into a sonic rush of sound that any music fan can utterly enjoy. Opeth have perfected musical enjoyment for the art of heavy metal. A Fair Judgement is filled with tremendous melodic buildup to an amazingly heavy and robust finishing riff. Deliverance is crushing and devastating. Master's Apprentices opens with one of the most evil metal riffs I've ever heard.
If you are considering buying an Opeth album, as a metal fan, then get this one. Give yourself time to get used to Opeth. If you are a fan of great music, all I can say is buy this, and enjoy. Music lovers will not be disappointed in this album.
Free Music Review: Back with a Vengeance!
Hit: 5 Stars
I really love bands like Opeth. By that, I mean bands that consistently crank out one awesome album after the other, with little or no slack in quality. Bands such as these are hard to come by these days, but they're great to have in this day in age.Anyway, this, Opeth's new release, most definitely does not disappoint. If there's one thing that can be said about "Deliverance", it's that it is heavy! Without a doubt their heaviest yet. Heck, the opening track, "Wreath", could easily be mistaken for Suffocation, if not for the epic length and softer passages. For those of you out there who aren't particularly down with straight-up death, fear not, for while this may take a little more effort on your part to get into, I think there is still enough melody and variety here for any Opeth fan to enjoy it.
As always, the musicianship is just great. There are a few more solos than on the last album, and the drumming is among their most furious yet. A friend of mine put it best when he said that it sounded like he got bionic legs, and was posessed by Buddy Rich. Ok, the Buddy Rich thing is a bit of a stretch, but the double bass work here is quite mad. He still does the textured, complex drumming that he's known for, but the speed is generally kicked up a notch. And of course, I gotta mention Mikael. I swear he gets better and better on each album. His growls are more menacing than ever, and his melodic vocals (though slightly more sparse) are just as good.
As far as favorite songs, it's hard to say, as Opeth's albums tend to have the feel of one long composition, but I think at the moment I'd have to go with "Master's Apprentices". The coolest moment on the the entire CD is during this song, where it slows down to a tranquil melodic part, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, Mikael roars "Plunging deep into the void!". Too freakin' cool. The aforementioned "Wreath" is great for an adrenaline rush, "A Fair Judgement" is more calm and laid-back, and the 14-minute "By the Pain I See in Others" makes for a thrilling album closer. All of the songs top 10 minutes (save for the short instrumental, "For Absent Friends"), and as usual, there is nary a dull moment to be found.
Yep, it would seem that as long as Opeth is around, there will be no shortage of great music in today's scene. Can't wait to hear what "Damnation" is gonna sound like. It should be interesting. Anyway, buy this if you love Opeth. You'll be glad you did.
Free Music Review: The King's of Progressive Death Metal
Hit: 5 Stars
Yet again, another fabulous album is released by Opeth. It is astonishing how great this band is. Great album, after great album, after great album.
This album is definitely one of Opeth's heavier albums with Mikael Akerfeldt's growls being more ferocious and brutal as ever. It is primarily made up of wicked, heavy guitar riffs/pounding double bass drums and the occasional soft passages with mellow acoustic guitars, and angelic vocals. The lyrics on this album are a bit different from other works from Opeth in that they are pretty grim (I am pretty sure someone close to Mikael Akerfeldt died when he wrote both Deliverance and Damnation. It says something like that in both the booklets from both Deliverance and Damnation).
Every single song on this album (with the exception of "For Absent Friends") is over 10 minutes in length, and not one song ever gets boring. Each and every song is also highly technical, done brilliantly, and melodic as hell from "Wreath," straight down to "By the Pain I See in Others."
1) "Wreath"- 9/10- Heavy/Blistering from the start, heavy/blistering until the finish with a short soft passage in the latter part of the song.
2) "Deliverance"- 10/10- Classic Opeth. Opens furiously, then calms down a bit for a while, then furious again.
3) "A Fair Judgement"- 10/10- The softest song on the album. It is similar to songs on Damnation, only longer. No death metal growls, just elegant vocals, beautiful keyboards, and great melody.
4) "For Absent Friends"- 8/10- Great instrumental piece but very short.
5) "Master's Apprentices"- 1,000/10- This is the best song on the album in my opinion. Opens with an insanely heavy guitar riff and straight up demonic vocals. Then later on in the song, one of the most gorgeous soft acoustic passages I have ever heard from ANY band, let alone Opeth. Then just as your eyes are closing taking in the beauty of the acoustic passage, out of nowhere Mikael hits you with beastly vocals and brutal guitar riffs again.
6) "By the Pain I see in Others"- 9/10- Great and may I add weird (but in a great way) song. The lyrics are strange, and the whole composition of the song is awesomely strange as well.
In all though, Opeth is just a spectacular band and this album is too good.