Watershed some light

After listening to the album for a few days many times i can say i love it and if i were to review it right now i would definately give it 5 stars

Golden Spiral wrote: Laplace wrote: plan to two-star this. yeah i know i always two-star metal but Dark Suns and this year's Meshuggah fared better and so will To-Mera the album just isn't very exciting   I'm with this, but I'd give it three.   I'm an opeth fan for sure, but this album doesn't stand out for me.  I miss the atmosphere of earlier albums.  It's a solid record, I enjoy it, but I can say that the honeymoon is already over between me and this album and I like pretty much all the others better than this one.   As a rule, never believe the 5 star reviews.  It's good that we have 5 star and one star reviews so you know which ones NOT to read.

When somebody from prog archives says 5 star or 1 star I normally can see where they are coming from depending on their point of view,  Certif1ed did an excellent review and validated his point of view very well I though to that person its 1 star doesn't mean to the next person it is though . 

GoldenSpiral   and I like pretty much all the others better than this one.   [/QUOTE wrote:   Correction:  I like this one better than Ghost Reveries, but I like the older albums better.

Based on the opinion in this thread, it seems like this album should probably have a 3.5 rating

If writing a pretentious review was your goal by the way, gg.  I can understand you not liking it, but your compraisons to Nickelback (as someone else mentioned) just stripped any of the credibility you had, imo.

Edited by Genesister - June 10 2008 at 12:41

As disappointed as I feel about this record, I still can't help but like it a lot.

I've only listened to the two Myspace songs thus far, and the music is strange. Simpler than usual, I guess, but with a fresh, distinctively new flavour, quite unlike past Opeth or anything else I'm familiar with. This bodes very, very well indeed.

I can "play" a lot of prog songs in my head from end-to-end. I remember so many things about so many bands and songs.
And I was a metal kid. Grew up on metal. Which should lead you to believe I'd be in love with this band.

But to this day I cannot remember anything done by Opeth as soon as I'm done hearing it. They've got the talent, but something about them is seriously lacking if I can't really recall a thing about their music once the echo dies away.

I've listened to 'Watershed' several times now, and it's good. But again, it just doesn't stick.
And I think it's high time Akerfeldt drops the hamburger vocals (hamburger vox = sounds like gargling meat ). It weakens what I think he's trying to achieve at this point with Opeth. They're trying so hard to be a new branch of progressive music, but they've got a serious anchor holding them back.

In the end. I like the new album well enough, and I might finally find some bits I'll remember later. But I don't see that it's anywhere near the definition of 'masterpiece'. Fans will love it, but it's still not likely to win new ones over.

Baza wrote: I think that Cert1fied's review is a disgrace to this site, it's unbelievably biased, he heard it only once and wrote here (in the middle of listening to this album) that he is bored by it... this is not serious. I think that his review should be deleted and also that he should be removed from the collaborator position, because this review affects the credibily of this site and it's colloborators. And I'm not saying that because I'm insulted by his bad review and rating, I don't think it's a great album, I would give it 3 stars, but at least I came to this desicion after at least 10 spins.

It's not a "disgrace", he's entitled to give it 1 star if he gives reasons. However, if he really only did listen to it once then it's not really a valid point of view and the fact that he said "I truly expect it to end up on eBay like the other Opeth albums I bought." makes me wonder (a) why he bothered to buy it and (b) why he bothered to review it when he'd already made his mind up about it.

Why is everyone jumping on certif1ed's back for giving the album 1 star instead of the 30 people who are already calling it a prog masterpiece? Surely if you are all claiming reviewers need more than a couple listens to give an album 1 star, you need to listen to the album much more to claim it is worthy of the title "masterpiece." Yes, certif1ed's review may have been written too quickly and with bias, but there is no more bias in his review than the others.