Who thinks Opeth are mainsteam? I still don't get that.

I would give it a 8,0
It's my least favorite Opeth album.

So vocals are very overproduced IMO.
I can't feel anything when I hear this album... It's like Beautiful music... nothing more... without soul or some kind of feeling.

But there are 3 thngs that are PERFECT on this album:
- The Grand Conjuration
- Isolation Years
- One of the best cover arts that I've seen in my fucking life....

Edit: One of the most stupid commets I've ever said. [damn, I'm doing the same thing as Dr. Rock] Anyway. The vocals are not overproduced or anything like that. I was just pissed off or probably surprised over the change of sound that Opeth did after Deliverance since I thought that fater Damnation it would be something in the vein of Deliverance/Blackwater Park but I was wrong and that's why I get pissed off... stupid I know.

This album has grown on me and I learned to love it. Not the best but it's indeed really really good.

8,7 is the now changed rating.

My rating for this album is 9.9 + 0.1 which means a pure master piece, is this album. I like this album more than other albums done by Opeth.
When I got the album and put on my disk-player, Ghost of Perdition started and that was the time, I understood no one can growl as well as Akerfeldt in Death metal music, and then I listen to the rest of album and at last I said no band can perform progressive/death metal as well as Opeth do..

Great album indeed...but I don't think it deserves such a high rate!

Written by BloodTears on 27.03.2008 at 18:01

Who thinks Opeth are mainsteam? I still don't get that.

I think Opeth are mainstream. Every metalhead knows them. Bands who are not mainstream are usually known only in their own lands... or in the underground. Like Absent.

Written by Infocalypse on 19.12.2008 at 21:58

Written by BloodTears on 27.03.2008 at 18:01

Who thinks Opeth are mainsteam? I still don't get that.

I think Opeth are mainstream. Every metalhead knows them. Bands who are not mainstream are usually known only in their own lands... or in the underground. Like Absent.

People know them in the metal community. Mainstream usually applies for people outside it, as I understand it.
That's why I said that.

Written by BloodTears on 19.12.2008 at 22:16

People know them in the metal community. Mainstream usually applies for people outside it, as I understand it.
That's why I said that.

I view the word "mainstream" as a band that plays a genre that is generic and easy to listen for the people outside metal... And also a kind of music that MANY bands [over]plays

So that's why I can't view Opeth as a mainstream band.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 19.12.2008 at 22:19

Written by BloodTears on 19.12.2008 at 22:16

People know them in the metal community. Mainstream usually applies for people outside it, as I understand it.
That's why I said that.

I view the word "mainstream" as a band that plays a genre that is generic and easy to listen for the people outside metal... And also a kind of music that MANY bands [over]plays

So that's why I can't view Opeth as a mainstream band.

Within metal OPeth certainly are mainstream. Just look at their sales figures and the fact that everyone knows them. Same applies for Dream Theater, Megadeth, Slayer, Iron Maiden etc.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2008 at 22:34

Within metal OPeth certainly are mainstream. Just look at their sales figures and the fact that everyone knows them. Same applies for Dream Theater, Megadeth, Slayer, Iron Maiden etc.

Within the metal community.. I agree... But in general music.. No way IMO.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 19.12.2008 at 22:37

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2008 at 22:34

Within metal OPeth certainly are mainstream. Just look at their sales figures and the fact that everyone knows them. Same applies for Dream Theater, Megadeth, Slayer, Iron Maiden etc.

Within the metal community.. I agree... But in general music.. No way IMO.

There are many metalheads on the world. Metal becomes popular.

The most metalheads like metal because of the melodies (In Flames, Amon Amarth etc.) - and it is not what metal shall be having! Opeth is a band that like both groups of metalheads - the simple and the more expecting. IMO.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2008 at 22:34

Written by X-Ray Rod on 19.12.2008 at 22:19

Written by BloodTears on 19.12.2008 at 22:16

People know them in the metal community. Mainstream usually applies for people outside it, as I understand it.
That's why I said that.

I view the word "mainstream" as a band that plays a genre that is generic and easy to listen for the people outside metal... And also a kind of music that MANY bands [over]plays

So that's why I can't view Opeth as a mainstream band.

Within metal OPeth certainly are mainstream. Just look at their sales figures and the fact that everyone knows them. Same applies for Dream Theater, Megadeth, Slayer, Iron Maiden etc.

I totally agree that within metal they are mainstream. But outside metal they are certainly not Some people know them sure but that's not enough.

Whereas Iron Maiden for instance are mainstream inside and outside metal.

Written by BloodTears on 20.12.2008 at 11:23

I totally agree that within metal they are mainstream. But outside metal they are certainly not Some people know them sure but that's not enough.

Whereas Iron Maiden for instance are mainstream inside and outside metal.

I think we must forget about outside Metal.. Because if they were so smart they were inside Metal and not in the outside (joking)
But seriously I don't care about what people outside Metal think about such great bands like Opeth. Especially these days which Metal is known by bands which are not totally Metal in our opinion.. So the important point about Opeth is that they are one of the foremost bands within Metal today..

Wonderful
Ghost Of Perditin is one of reasons that i admire metal.

What a f**king GREAT of Ghost Of Perdition....!!!!!!:bow:

I now have opinion to get this album...should i? reviews sound very promising...

Holy shit, I really rated this extremely high, but that was three years ago.

I am buying it anyway...

Written by Ellrohir on 28.09.2009 at 22:36

I am buying it anyway...

Definitely, it is a priceless album

Lol, again...i still cant live with the fact, that "priceless" is positive word... i was again wondering what is wrong on this album for the first time...

Another masterpiece....Opeth never dissapointed me....well i didn't count watershed...but they will be my fav. band,,,i think it's hard with any band to keep up with them in progressive metal....they have kind of music no one have in metal scene.

This is by far my favorite Opeth album - Reverie/Harlequin Forest might be the best epic prog metal song OF ALL TIME

Opeths best IMO.

One of the best! Full of Opeth hymns. Just incredible and absolutely amazing.

I much prefer Blackwater Park, Still Life and Morningrise, but this one's still a 10/10 album. Reverie/Harlequin is the best track, even though they re-used the riff from serenity painted death.

EDIT: more like a 9/10 album. The Great Conjuration gets sort of boring, the riff is unimaginative and repetitive as hell.

Written by [user id=35732] on 21.02.2011 at 20:56

If you mean the riff which opens Reverie/Harlequin Forest and begins in in Serenity Painted Death somewhere at 1:28; it's not the same riff, although there's some similarities. If you mean some else part then tell which one. Great album.

It's not the opening riff, it is the riff that starts at 2:52 in Reverie/Harlequin Forest, right after "Instruments of death before me" and at the time you mentioned in Serenity Painted Death. In Reverie/Harlequin, it's simpler and sharper, but it's basically the same. Still, it's their riff and they can do whatever they want with it.

This is honestly my favorite Opeth album. I always thought it really hit the perfect blend between the cleaner progressive stuff and the death metal aspects whereas other albums of theirs seem to lean a bit too hard to one or the other. I like the mix.

The Baying of The Hounds Intro is fucking awesome!