Rate Opeth albums
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Topic: Rate Opeth albums
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: Rate Opeth albums
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 22:38
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Now that I got their collection and I've become a fan of the band, I want to see what others think. Orchid - 2.5 / 5 Morningrise - 3.8 / 5 My Arms - 4.3 / 5 Still Life - 4.2 / 5 Blackwater Park - 3.5 / 5 Deliverance - 3.7 / 5 Damnation - 3.5 / 5 Ghost Reveries - 4.5 / 5 |
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Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 22:49
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Orchid - 3 / 5 Morningrise - 4 / 5 My Arms - 5 / 5 Still Life - 5/ 5 Blackwater Park - 5/ 5 Deliverance - 4 / 5 Damnation - 4 / 5 Ghost Reveries - 4 / 5  ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: OpethGuitarist
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 22:54
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Orchid - 3.3 / 5 Morningrise - 4.6 / 5 My Arms - 4.8 / 5 Still Life - 6 / 5 (easily the best thing they ever did) Blackwater Park - 4.5 / 5 Deliverance - 2.9 / 5 Damnation - 3.8 / 5 Ghost Reveries - 3.2 / 5 ------------- back from the dead, i will begin posting reviews again and musing through the forums |
Posted By: Erpland316
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 23:18
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Orchid- 3/5
Morningrise- 3.5/5
My Arms Your Hearse- 3.5/5
Still Life- 5/5
Blackwater Park- 4/5
Deliverance- 4/5
Damnation- 4.5/5
Ghost Reveries- 4.5/5 ------------- "Science is all metaphor"-Timothy Leary [IMG]http://freespace.virgin.net/martin.jones10/amonpic.jpg">[IMG]http://imagegen.last.fm/red/artists/Yeti316.gif"> |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 23:19
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Is the phenomenon coming back? ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 23:21
yes I'm back hahahha the extent of my Opeth collection... Damnation- 4.5 wouldn't mind hearing more in that albums vein... I really liked it.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Zac M wrote:Posted By: Asphalt
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 01:06
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surprised how orchid always gets low ratings, albeit being one of their most experimental and bold statements [and the production is quite decent mind you, raw black metal, not THAT's bad production], so here goes: Orchid- 4/5 [see above] Morningrise- 3.5/5 [quite good actually, black rose immortal having some of the best epic moments]
My Arms Your Hearse- 4/5 [just beautiful, no 10-and-beyond-songs yet very well written, with one heck of an intro track]
Still Life- 3/5 [not really big on this one, don't really see it as their big highlight]
Blackwater Park- 5/5 [ok, so it's the first i've listened from them, but i don't think it's just bias here]
Deliverance- 3.5/5 [interesting effort but something's lacking]
Damnation- 4.5/5 [same as above; perhaps a combination of the two?
 ]Ghost Reveries- 2.5/5 [  ok, now i'm biased and i won't hide it; there's plenty of prog metal around; the reason we love opeth is because they do something different; did they really feel like it was the step they needed? i respect them and i don't think they've gone mainstream, but it just doesn't grab me; however, it is an effort to progress so... i'll be waitin' for their next one  ] |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 03:24
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Orchid: 3/5 Morningrise: 3/5 My Arms Your Hearse: 4.5/5 Still Life: 4/5 Blackwater Park: 4/5 Deliverance: 4.5/5 Damnation: 4/5 Ghost Reveries: 4.5/5 My ratings are somewhat vague and a little unfair in some cases; for example, I love both Orchid and Morningrise, even though I only gave them a score of 3. I gave them only 3 stars because they still had much more to offer, but as far as melodic black/death albums go, they are 5's. Each Opeth album is quite an achievemet in my opinion and I enjoy all of them almost equally. ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 03:37
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Orchid: 4.5/5
Morningrise 5/5
My Arms Your Hearse 5/5
Still Life 4.5/5
Blackwater Park 4/5
Damnation 3.5/5
Deliverance 3.5/5
Ghost Reveries 2.5/5
-- Ivan ------------- sig |
Posted By: Lex C
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 09:39
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Orchid: 3.78/5
Morningrise 2/5
My Arms Your Hearse 4.4/5
Still Life 5/5
Blackwater Park 7/5
Damnation 6/5
Deliverance 6/5
Ghost Reveries 5/5
Opeth is one band I am very biased to because they were my introduction to Prog, although my parents were huge Yes, Genesis JT GG ect fans, my friend was the one who showed me Opeth, I started listening to them all the time and then he showed me Meshuggah which was a big miss for me for a long time, then he decided to take the symphonic route and Showed me YES and PoS and that is where my love of prog began. Basicly that was a winded story explaining where my higher ratings come from |
Posted By: Detric
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 10:48
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Orchid: 2.5/5
Morningrise: 4/5
My Arms, Your Hearse: 5/5
Still Life: 4.7/5
Blackwater Park: 4.5/5
Deliverance: 3/5
Damnation: 2.1/5
Ghost Reveries: 4,1/5
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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 13:54
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Orchid 2/5
Morningrise 3/5
My Arms Your Hearse 3/5
Still Life 4/5
Blackwater Park 5/5
Deliverence 4/5
Damnation 4/5
Ghost Reveries 3/5 -------------  
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 14:39
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From what I have...
Still Life - 4.25/5 Blackwater Park - 4/5 Damnation - 4/5 ------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 14:41
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Orchid 2.5/5 Morningrise 3.5/5 My Arms 3/5 Still Life 4/5 Blackwater Park 5/5 Deliverance 4/5 Damnation 5/5 Ghost Reveries 5/5 ------------- |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 15:54
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Orchid: 3/5
Morningrise: 3.5/5
My Arms, Your Hearse: 4/5
Still Life: 4.5/5
Blackwater Park: 5/5
Deliverance: 4.5/5
Damnation: 4/5
Ghost Reveries: 5/5
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Posted By: E-voin
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 16:44
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Orchid: 4/5
Morningrise: 5/5
My Arms, Your Hearse: 4/5
Still Life: 4.5/5
Blackwater Park: 5/5
Deliverance: 4/5
Damnation: 5/5
Ghost Reveries: 3/5
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 22:10
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Still Life 3/5 BWP 4.5/5 Deliverance 3.5/5 Damnation 4.5/5 Ghost Reveries 5/5 |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 01:59
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I only own two Opeth albums and they have done nothing for me. ------------- 
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 04:12
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Orchid: Do not own Morningrise: 3.5/5
My Arms, Your Hearse: 4.5/5
Still Life: 4/5
Blackwater Park: 5/5
Deliverance: 4/5
Damnation: 3/5
Ghost Reveries: 3/5 ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Fusionman
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 08:10
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Orchid was on average rated too low...seriously. Ghost Reveries was the opposite...far too high. ------------- 
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Posted By: Open-Mind
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 08:11
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Orchid: 3/5 Morningrise: 3/5 My Arms, Your Hearse: 3.5/5 Still Life: 4/5 Blackwater Park: 4.5/5 Deliverance: 4/5 Damnation: 5/5 Ghost Reveries: 4.5/5 ------------- "I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time, I feel my luck could change.. " |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 09:31
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Orchid: need to hear it more times Morningrise: 4/5 My Arms, Your Hearse: need to hear it more times Still Life: 4.5/5
Blackwater Park: 4.5/5 Deliverance: 4/5 Damnation: 4/5 Ghost Reveries: 4/5 and I am being strict
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 12:29
That's true.
-- Ivan ------------- sig |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 12:38
How dare people love that album!  |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 12:46
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Blackwater Park - 4/5
Deliverance - 4/5 ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: OpethGuitarist
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 14:21
It's not that they love it, it's that it is really not that great when compared to their other works. Anyways, I think if you listen to it enough you will see that it lacks the depth that an album like Still Life has. ------------- back from the dead, i will begin posting reviews again and musing through the forums |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 14:27
The problem I have with Ghost Reveries is that it sounds more like a side project featuring Mikael Akerfeldt than an Opeth album. The production and timbre of the album is different from any other Opeth album. The same could be said about Deliverence and Damnation, but those albums still have traces of the timbre of other Opeth albums like Still Life and Blackwater Park.
Opeth is a band that consistently changes things up a little bit, the problem is that they have a difficult time pleasing every small section of their fanbase. -------------
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 14:28
I've listened to both extensively, and I completely disagree. |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: July 31 2006 at 08:53
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Orchid: 4.5/5
Morningrise: 5/5 My Arms Your Hearse: 2.5/5 Still Life: 3.5/5 Blackwater Park: 3/5 Deliverance: 4/5 Damnation: 5/5 Ghost Reveries: 4.5/5 I do really like them.I'm not keen on Prog-Metal anymore,and the only bands I'm still listening to are OPETH,TOOL,EXTROVERT,RIVERSIDE and DT(the last one pretty rare)
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 31 2006 at 09:03
Listening to it now... I found it cheap in a record shop this morning, and bought it without any hesitation. So far, I've got to say I'm truly impressed...  Of course, being my very first Opeth album, I can't vote in this poll yet. Hope to be able to write a review soon, though! |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: July 31 2006 at 10:13
Dai yesho odin shans Moim Rukam, Tvoyemu Katafalku, potom menya poblagodarish.
 -- Ivan ------------- sig |
Posted By: hank
Date Posted: August 22 2006 at 12:16
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orchid 3.5/5
Morningrise 4/5
my arms 2.5/5
still life 3/5
blackwaterpark 5/5
Deliverance 4/5
Damnation 2.5/5
i haven't listen to ghost reveries, yet.... ------------- Old friend charity Cruel twisted smile And the smile signals emptiness For me Starless and Bible Black |
Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: August 22 2006 at 19:53
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Orchid-? (don't have yet)
Morningrise-? (ditto) My Arms Your Hearse-4/5 Still Life-5/5 Blackwater Park-5/5 Deliverance-4.5/5 Damnation-4/5 Ghost Reveries-3.5/5 Count me in the Ghost Reveries is overrated, Deliverance is underrated club. |