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Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera



7.8 | 167 votes |
Release date: 23 August 2024
Style: Symphonic death metal

Owners:

54 have it
13 want it


01. Ode To Art (De' Sepolcri)
02. I Can Never Die
03. Pendulum
04. Bloodclock
05. At War With My Soul
06. Morphine Waltz
07. Matricide 8.21
08. Per Aspera Ad Astra
09. Till Death Do Us Part
10. Opera

Line-up
Francesco Paoli - vocals, guitars
Veronica Bordacchini - vocals
Francesco Ferrini - piano
Fabio Bartoletti - guitars
Eugene Ryabchenko - drums
Paolo Rossi - bass, vocals

Staff review by
musclassia
Rating:
7.7
It’s been a turbulent few years for Francesco Paoli and his band Fleshgod Apocalypse, but the infernal orchestra plays on unabated.

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published 30.08.2024 | Comments (2)

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Comments: 20   Visited by: 352 users
14.06.2024 - 13:02
Rating: 9
diromanoff
Best news of the day!
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14.06.2024 - 18:06
Oracles
Best death band of all time.
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14.06.2024 - 22:19
koob
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15.06.2024 - 02:01
Rating: 7
Not a fan of those female vocals, seem out of place, in the Bloodclock single.
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02.08.2024 - 04:21
Rating: 9
MH_WarWizard
The singles have been great so far can't wait to hear the whole album
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Oh Glorious Metal
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Album Release day (August 23, 2024)
23.08.2024 - 19:46
Rating: 7
TheMetalGaia
Somewhat overproduced, IMO. It's fine, but I like their older stuff better.
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23.08.2024 - 20:21
Rating: 6
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
Other than "Till Death Do Us Apart" (which seems to be the stand-out track for me) and the fact it's massively produced I'm not overly impressed by this, there's very few memorable moments. It's a long way off King anyway.
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24.08.2024 - 10:35
Rating: 8
Duck Dodgers
There is an exaggeration about this album that I like. Overproduced in both sound and videos. For a strange reason I don’t mind the female vocals and was quite surprised by Morphine Waltz. 8 songs plus intro/outro, very good and professional effort. Not familiar with their early stuff but I am now curious to see them live.
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24.08.2024 - 13:00
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Tage Westerlund
Good album, female vocals makes it great composed, symphonic parts, all is well done.
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Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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24.08.2024 - 13:53
Rating: 6
Nightmare^
It doesn't do it for me...this type of female vocals are out of place, everything else sounds generic.
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24.08.2024 - 16:01
Rating: 9
stabs
The more I listen to it the better it gets. Love it.
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24.08.2024 - 16:34
24emd
Theory Snob
Somewhat enjoyed this, mainly the female vocals. Overall I'm not a big fan of this Italian, overly-operatic and dramatic style, though they're not toooo over the top. I've certainly heard worse.
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24.08.2024 - 18:04
Rating: 6
Cynic Metalhead
Ambrish Saxena
Snoozefest. Tiresome for one sitting. Miles away from "Agony", which I did find decent.
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27.08.2024 - 18:31
Rating: 8
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
This might just be their best release since Oracles and Mafia for me. Everything else they’ve written felt…slightly “amateur” in sections. King was an improvement, but not quite there. This is the first album in a long time where I haven’t skipped any songs. Perhaps it’s the influence of the new members. I preferred the old clean singing, but this is still pretty darn epic.

And yeah, super polished, but that’s the last thing I listen for tbh. If the melody and groove is spot on, I’ll settle for any production.
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29.08.2024 - 08:13
Rating: 6
Folkbill
The album is called Opera, but it lacks opera vocals, which are replaced by female clean vocals instead. I really liked Morphine Waltz and At War with My Soul, they both sound like the prior Veleno albums.
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01.09.2024 - 09:24
Rating: 8
dammage11
I really enjoyed this, it's Fleshgod condensed into the most efficient version of Fleshgod. It kind of reminds me in a way of Leprous's Congregation, which I also love. I just hope Fleshgod does not go the Leprous route and start making the same thing over and over again. This is the sort of thing that can work once. I'm glad they did it, but I'm looking forward to them evolving their sound after this.
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02.09.2024 - 14:17
Rating: 8
Kuroboshi
Wow, they went way more accessible than previously. And I love it! Banger album.
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06.09.2024 - 13:58
Rating: 8
mikeprado30
Written by MH_WarWizard on 02.08.2024 at 04:21

The singles have been great so far can't wait to hear the whole album

I felt the same. Nice stuff, but I hope female vocals won't be something permanent on their formula.
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23.09.2024 - 12:37
Rating: 9
diromanoff
Written by Nightmare^ on 24.08.2024 at 13:53

It doesn't do it for me...this type of female vocals are out of place, everything else sounds generic.

Generic? I don't think there is another band that comes close to what FA do in terms of music style / offering so, although one may not like their style, production, vocals etc etc, I cannot see how Opera is "generic" by any stretch of imagination.
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24.09.2024 - 02:31
Rating: 9
javierel22
Loved this one, Morphine Waltz and Bloodclock are the stand outs here for me
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