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Written by Slayer666 on 16.12.2008 at 15:17
Whatever drug the reviewer is using,my advice to him is to get off it as soon as possible.I mean,Jessus Christ,it's good,but,damnit it's not THAT good.Personally,i consider Opeth (and prog metal,in general) ultimate shit,but objectivly looking,it's a good album.But it doesn;t deserve this rating,or this position.Not even by far.
Hurrdurrduhdurrdurrdurrdurrduhdurrdurrduhdurduhhuurruhurrderpderpderpgorp. Duderpduhderp. Progmetalsucksderp. Herpduhdurrderpduhderp.
My favorite album. I'm so glad I listened, it got me into so much other music, and real got me to expand my horizons to lots of other genres. Thank you Opeth. 9.9/10 |
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Written by JonSnow on 28.11.2009 at 06:13
Written by Slayer666 on 16.12.2008 at 15:17
Whatever drug the reviewer is using,my advice to him is to get off it as soon as possible.I mean,Jessus Christ,it's good,but,damnit it's not THAT good.Personally,i consider Opeth (and prog metal,in general) ultimate shit,but objectivly looking,it's a good album.But it doesn;t deserve this rating,or this position.Not even by far.
Hurrdurrduhdurrdurrdurrdurrduhdurrdurrduhdurduhhuurruhurrderpderpderpgorp. Duderpduhderp. Progmetalsucksderp. Herpduhdurrderpduhderp.
Amaizing. Your conversation skills and intelligence are simply awesome. Do you give private lessons, perchance? |
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Written by Slayer666 on 16.12.2008 at 15:17
...I mean,Jessus Christ,it's good,but,damnit it's not THAT good.Personally,i consider Opeth (and prog metal,in general) ultimate shit...
Dude, you can't make statements like that. And what do you mean by the "THAT good." If you don't like the album or don't agree with the reviewer, just say that. No need to trash the whole genre and a band. |
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| Of course it does, it's a troll. What else is it gonna feed on besides the souls of progressive metal lovers? |
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Written by BloodTears on 27.03.2008 at 17:57
Ok, does anyone still have doubts about the artistic quality of Opeth? Then listen to Blackwater Park. It'll just be a part of the whole picture but it will help you to figure this puzzle out. For me, Blackwater Park was never the best Opeth's release, that doesnt mean I dont put it in a pedestal. 
I feel the same, when my friends ask me about which is the best Opeth album i always answer: "Blackwater Park, but is not my favorite" i can't deny is a masterpiece but i feel more identified with Orchid and Morningrise!. Besides Opeth has a discography which makes the selection of a favorite album a hard topic. |
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Written by Andresopeth on 09.12.2009 at 16:58
Written by BloodTears on 27.03.2008 at 17:57
Ok, does anyone still have doubts about the artistic quality of Opeth? Then listen to Blackwater Park. It'll just be a part of the whole picture but it will help you to figure this puzzle out. For me, Blackwater Park was never the best Opeth's release, that doesnt mean I dont put it in a pedestal.
I feel the same, when my friends ask me about which is the best Opeth album i always answer: "Blackwater Park, but is not my favorite" i can't deny is a masterpiece but i feel more identified with Orchid and Morningrise!. Besides Opeth has a discography which makes the selection of a favorite album a hard topic.
With me, it changes a lot but MAYH and SL usually stay up there, than come all the others. But is indeed hard to choose, especially if you actually like Opeth. Some people listen to Opeth casually and will have maybe a more objective analysis of their albums. |
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| I guess another factor would be how u got introduced to the band ... blackwater park was the first album from opeth i heard and then i listened to MAYH n others ... my fav would be blackwater park but i enjoy the other albums just as much ... |
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| Couldn't agree more with this review... Opeth are perfect.. |
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RELIC - 16.03.2010 at 10:36
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| Honestly, I agreed with the review completely. I have never heard anything that compares to this music's bold, unique, brilliant, limitless, brutal, beautiful style. Opeth is a band that truly is remarkable. Like most scandanavian metal it finds a way to puncture you, and seep in. No one likes Opeth right from the get go. But i assure you, after your third or fourth listen this cd will be in your top 10. No doubt about it. The cool thing is Opeth is a really talented group of humble guys. I have no problem saying it's my favorite cd. After all these years i can still listen to it for hours and hours and never for a minute get bored. So beautiful. Its classically influenced music with a progressive spin that hits with all the intensity of death metal. Its a big deal. You should check it out. |
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But Opeth still beats [Bach, Beethoven and Mozart] out.
The most ridiculous statement ever posted in the history of reviewing. |
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| I tried to hate Opeth for a long time, but yes this album is good from what I've heard. The review is ridiculous but the reviewer obviously FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELS what he writes... |
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No amount of words in this, or any other, language can begin to describe the tapestry of emotions on this, or any of their albums. Opeth's creations transcend not only metal, but art itself. This is the language of the soul.
So, how bout them Opeth guys? |
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Written by Entropic Silence on 06.08.2010 at 08:29
So, how bout them Opeth guys?
For starters, "their only rivals ... [are] Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. But Opeth still beats them out."
Sorry, I still think that's probably the funniest thing I've ever read on this site and thanks for bringing me back to this review so I could enjoy myself for a few minutes.  |
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ErnilEnNaur - 18.08.2010 at 04:40
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So this is what's passing for a review these days, huh? Something tells me that after this kid saw 2012, he claimed that Emmerich beats out Hitchcock and Bergman. Seriously though, what kind of a fanboy must the proof reader have been to let this fly? Never mind the fact that the """""""""""""""reviewer"""""""""""""" was on drugs, what was he/she on?
And the way so many comment agree with this review (as if there was anything there to be agreed with in the first place) is just more evidence to my theory, that Akerfeldt is a busyness man, who knows what people want and then gives it to them. But busyness is not greater than art and a million fanboys aren't worth 1 fan. God, people who drool over Opeth make me sick. |
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vezzy - 18.08.2010 at 13:48
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Written by Guest on 18.08.2010 at 04:40
So this is what's passing for a review these days, huh? Something tells me that after this kid saw 2012, he claimed that Emmerich beats out Hitchcock and Bergman. Seriously though, what kind of a fanboy must the proof reader have been to let this fly? Never mind the fact that the """""""""""""""reviewer"""""""""""""" was on drugs, what was he/she on?
And the way so many comment agree with this review (as if there was anything there to be agreed with in the first place) is just more evidence to my theory, that Akerfeldt is a busyness man, who knows what people want and then gives it to them. But busyness is not greater than art and a million fanboys aren't worth 1 fan. God, people who drool over Opeth make me sick.
Still, you have to take into account this was written back in '03. Like, the earliest year the system shows when the reviews were published, so it seems fair that there are some bloopers to be found. |
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Opeth is just awesome (my favorite band, actually), and I personally think they are the best metal band out there, but I guess you got a little carried away when you said they are better than Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. No way.
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| This is one of the best metal albums ever. Its pure perfection. Just amazing! |
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| I find later Opeth extremely boring.The only albums I enjoy from them are the first three.I think Orchid in particular is a masterpiece.But from Still Life and onwards I think Opeth are just recycling the ideas they had in their first three albums.I find their later albums tedious and inoffensive and completely unoriginal.Opeth are just repeating themselves with every album and I have lost all intrest in them,though I still listen to their first three albums. |
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Written by Dragzad on 13.02.2011 at 15:10
I find later Opeth extremely boring.The only albums I enjoy from them are the first three.I think Orchid in particular is a masterpiece.But from Still Life and onwards I think Opeth are just recycling the ideas they had in their first three albums.I find their later albums tedious and inoffensive and completely unoriginal.Opeth are just repeating themselves with every album and I have lost all intrest in them,though I still listen to their first three albums.
Hipster Opeth fanboy: only enjoys first albums, others are unoriginal and tedious. |
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Um, I agree with the 10 you gave them... But this review is pure bullshit. Saying Opeth beats Bach, Beethoven and Mozart it's not only idiotic, but also absurd, cuz you just CAN'T compare ProgDeath Metal and Classical Music :facepalm:...
Focusing on the album, yeah, I think (at least for now) it's their best release until now... Maybe I still have to listen to other albums (like Orchid and Morningrise), but it's just that I find this album flawless, and FULL of killer tracks (The Lepper Affinity, Bleak, The Drappery Falls, Blackwater Park...), and simply beautiful tracks like Patterns in the Ivy, or Still Day Beneath the Sun... Just perfect 
And yeah, Opeth's probably the band with the most quality-balanced discography... There's not even one mediocre album=P |
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Written by FrozenJoy on 19.03.2011 at 01:10
And yeah, Opeth's probably the band with the most quality-balanced discography... There's not even one mediocre album=P
I'd venture so far as to suggest Watershed is a mediocre release. Granted, I don't see Opeth the way most of their fans do (BEST BAND EVER!!!) but I understand their music and the "complexity" and all that jazz. This is probably one of my least favorite Opeth releases, but it's at least more adventurous and interesting than Watershed.
PS - thanks for bringing me back to this review (second time someone has). I still laugh when I read the part about Mozart and co.  |
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I don't know... I have to admit, I haven't listened to Watershed yet... I didn't have the chance to buy it yet... what do you mean with more adventurous than watershed?
Nah, thank you guys from metalstorm for helping me see reviewers like this... xD |
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Written by FrozenJoy on 19.03.2011 at 06:04
what do you mean with more adventurous than watershed?
I'm no Opeth encyclopedia or even a casual fan, but in my experience a lot of earlier Opeth releases seemed to be very...experimental. Not in an avant-garde genre-bending way, but in an odd song structure kind of way. They usually throw you for a loop, where you expect a chorus or a repeated riff or something, they change it up by repeating something ELSE or just simply starting off in a completely different direction.
I found this album to follow that trend as well.
I did not find that with Watershed. I gave it one listen*, and that was more than enough. It felt bland; I mean, I've always found them a little sleep-inducing, but Watershed just felt unimaginative and uninspired (overused and overly assuming word, I know).
* for those who are wondering, I don't need to listen to it again to appreciate it |
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Written by Troy Killjoy on 20.03.2011 at 01:07
I'm no Opeth encyclopedia or even a casual fan, but in my experience a lot of earlier Opeth releases seemed to be very...experimental. Not in an avant-garde genre-bending way, but in an odd song structure kind of way. They usually throw you for a loop, where you expect a chorus or a repeated riff or something, they change it up by repeating something ELSE or just simply starting off in a completely different direction.
I found this album to follow that trend as well.
I did not find that with Watershed. I gave it one listen*, and that was more than enough. It felt bland; I mean, I've always found them a little sleep-inducing, but Watershed just felt unimaginative and uninspired (overused and overly assuming word, I know).
* for those who are wondering, I don't need to listen to it again to appreciate it
As it stand this and Blackwater Park are the only 2 Opeth records I listen to. I find them more similar to each other than any others to be honest but there's no real progression on Watershed that isn't on Blackwater. I did find Watershed to be a very bland record. Now I don't understand how I could have thought that. Hessian Peel is one heck of a song. Anyway Watershed and this blow the overly convoluted progfest that is Ghost Reveries out of the water. |
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Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 20.03.2011 at 05:36
Anyway Watershed and this blow the overly convoluted progfest that is Ghost Reveries out of the water.
Meh, I don't know... Watershed and Ghost Reveries are pretty much on the same level for me as my least favorite of their discography. Which one I preffer more tends to change from time to time.
The best Opeth for me has always been all the albums before Blackwater Park. I do enjoy Blackwater Park a lot though, but that album that is claimed for almost everyone as their best is far from albums like Still Life or Morningrise. |
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Kwis - 01.04.2011 at 18:21
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| Still one of the best albums ever created |
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| GREAT review man!! That's exactly what I think of this album. So atmospheric, crazy crazy dark, but not straight forward brutal as most death metal bands are |
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Written by Parasomnia on 28.04.2011 at 23:24
...but not straight forward brutal as most death metal bands are
Not even slightly brutal...they're more prog than death. |
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Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.04.2011 at 23:28
Written by Parasomnia on 28.04.2011 at 23:24
...but not straight forward brutal as most death metal bands are
Not even slightly brutal...they're more prog than death.
They get plenty brutal sometimes, but as a tool and not in a "we are soooo badass" (insert scene-esque lisp) kind of way. Like Serenity Painted Death. The sound is BRUTAL as HELL haha, but thats just because the song is talking about the guy going on a murdering rampage after the people that murdered Melinda. Very very good use of aggression right there |
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| Blackwater Park was my breakthrough into metal. This album is impossible to describe. |
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Written by Bloodshotmage on 27.01.2012 at 06:08
Blackwater Park was my breakthrough into metal. This album is impossible to describe.
It's actually quite simple to describe. Passion. Pure, unadulterated passion. |
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Written by Void Eater on 28.01.2012 at 02:19
It's actually quite simple to describe. Passion. Pure, unadulterated passion.
Congrats, you just described the way I feel about bacon and big breasted redheads and not a single iota about this album. |
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Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 28.01.2012 at 02:55
Written by Void Eater on 28.01.2012 at 02:19
It's actually quite simple to describe. Passion. Pure, unadulterated passion.
Congrats, you just described the way I feel about bacon and big breasted redheads and not a single iota about this album.
Eating bacon while getting a blowjob by a big breasted redhead>Opeth's entire career everything. |
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| What a terrible pile of pompous, pretentious hogwash. I wonder if the author is actually capable of listening to this album as opposed to praying to it on his knees. |
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Written by Daniell on 28.01.2012 at 12:11
What a terrible pile of pompous, pretentious hogwash. I wonder if the author is actually capable of listening to this album as opposed to praying to it on his knees.
Kind of an irrelevant comment for what is a 9 year old review don't you think? |
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Written by Void Eater on 28.01.2012 at 06:56
Eating bacon while getting a blowjob by a big breasted redhead>Opeth's entire career everything.
It would be truly living the dream. Oh wait, steak and blow job day isn't far off now, I might have to make a minor adjustment to it. |
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Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 28.01.2012 at 12:40
Written by Daniell on 28.01.2012 at 12:11
What a terrible pile of pompous, pretentious hogwash. I wonder if the author is actually capable of listening to this album as opposed to praying to it on his knees.
Kind of an irrelevant comment for what is a 9 year old review don't you think?
Agreed, and back to the discussion of tits and bacon..
Anyway, as I can gather from the review in order to truly experience this album in all it's transcendental glory you have to suffer an acute case of memory loss. The review is telling me to forget this forget that forget the music this is the one true GOD!  |
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Holy shit! This is what the Deathday 666 review is making fun of  |
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Oaken - 03.06.2012 at 21:15
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Written by Mr. Doctor on 16.12.2008 at 20:03
Every fanboy from every band can be as narrow-minded as this one. The thing start when people can't accept that some albums are just not THAT good.... Because the first 4 albums by Opeth beat this one easily.
Of course, but the thing is that Opeth has WAY TOO MANY fanboys, maybe the most since Metallica and those big names. |
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| Most subjective review on this site? Glad it's here though, hilarious. |
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Written by Void Eater on 30.07.2012 at 07:31
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I like to think of this review as I do of Holocaust memorials: it represents something ugly which should never be allowed to happen again.
I'm not talking about the album (in fact, I don't think I've ever listened to it). |
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