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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2011 at 11:13
Akerfeldt does have a very good 'clean' voice which (to these ancient ears, at least) calls to mind a young Ian Anderson.

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Points: 12810 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2011 at 18:49
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Heritage will be my first Opeth album ever once it arrives.  Heard the "single" and thought it was pretty strong, so I made the leap.  I also liked Akerfeldt's clean voice on the last OSI album (or was it the one before that?).  Whether I like it or not, we'll see, although, even if I do, I won't be digging too heavily into their discography as I do not like death metal growls at all.  May pick up Damnation though if I like Heritage. 


Just, don't take Heritage to judge if you'll like Damnation... I still haven't heard Heritage (hope to do so soon), but for what I've heard about it it's a whole different thing to Damnation. As a matter of fact, I didn't like Damnation so much, I found it a bit to soft and I just didn't like the songs so much... and I don't like growling at all, but the album just wasn't for me. I'm expecting to like Heritage (I'll just have to wait and see... or hear).
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Points: 8614 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2011 at 12:43
Listening to the 5.1 mix. Love it.

The "making of" video Ankerfeldt explains the original music was more metal but they just were not "feeling it". Which just goes to show that so much of "feeling" when listening has to do with listener perception and expectation and is simply transferred onto the artist.

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This is the first Opeth album I really don't like. It has nothing to do with the lack of grunting. It has everything to do with overall dullness and a lack of extremes that made prior Opeth albums so interesting.

Every song is working towards a climax.. but instead of a climax, the song ends. A person above already stated that the only 2 interesting songs were short ones (lines in my hand, folklore); I could not agree more. These tracks are great, but they are the only ones.
 
Drumming is excellent, bass is excellent, keyboard is good, guitar is good, I even think the singing is pretty good, but put them all together and it's just forced and boring. Big big letdown.
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Points: 12810 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2011 at 13:41
At last I got to hear this album. I found it rather interesting, but still need to listen to it more. I did expecti it to have more metal in it, even if it lacked growling, but indeed it's not even got much of metal... though I wouldn't call it a soft album, either (like Damnation).
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Points: 84 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2011 at 08:40
Well today was my first listen to it...  and the album is just incredible! after the rather "weak" album "Watershed" Opeth evolve their music into some kind of A modern King Crimson like heavy prog.
The album sound is very uniqe and grim, I didn't expect such an experimental and chaotic sound from Opeth but what can I say Mikael never seize to amaze me.
Axe and Martin Mendez give what is in my opinion their best performance to date with extraordinary drums and bass.
The mixing job by steven wilson is inredible as usual, and the album have great  sound quality.

Overall i enjoyed "Heritage"  alot and I cant wait to see them live in March.
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