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angusscream
Still one of the favorites. A grower, a talented mess, but very attractive to my ears.
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mrmichel0927
This is by far Opeth's worst album. Most of it sounds like a band trying to find a new sound, and failing to do so. Pale Communion does everything this record wants to do, and does it ten times better. That being said, I do enjoy "The Devil's Orchard" and "Folklore."
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Wonderglue
I don't care for Death Metal or Grownling. Most of the songs i like from Opeth have melodic interludes. But i don't mind them either. Everything post Watershed is just boring Goblin rip-off. It wasn't that progressive rock or death metal made Opeth what it was, it was their deliverance on nostalgia, melachonic sound structures and a feel of yearning. Something that is missing from all their albums after Watershed. Every new Opeth album sounded different, but it was clearly Opeth. This to me, isn't Opeth because it doesn't sound like Opeth in any way or form. And i am not a fan of 70's prog-rock in any way, shape or form, so i couldn't care less for stuff like this. I am sure there are better bands from that time that made stuff like this on their own terms. IF they did their "progressive rock" in style of Damnation, then i would say "Hell yeah, just do it and don't stop" but no, guess Cock Rock is where it is.
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Wonderglue
Yeah, till Watershed. Both mild and strong were good, because it had heavy melancholy feel in all of the songs they wrote. Now they are just a progressive band nothing different than any other 70's progressive bands. If they just sticked with Damnation style and ramped it up a bit, it would be cool. I just don't like modern Opeth. Some may say they changed all the time, and they did. But the core aspect was still there. After their transformation from Watershed to Heritage, it was just too big, it wasn't the same Opeth. Not at all. If people like it, more power to them, i just don't. Not my style of music.
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MyMediaMusic
This is a great album! Each song is a different soundscape, and some of the spacier, Floydian type tracks are very meditative and peaceful, like all good prog should be. A good album to dream to.
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MegaDave89
I Feel The Dark, Häxprocess, Folklore and Marrow Of The Earth are the best songs.
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AhrimanAmmaneh
How anyone could turn to this or Pale Communion when they want an Opeth fix, I don't know. [2]
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MegaDave89
Different from their past album, some good songs, but i dont listen to it alot more. 6/10
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XavirorivaX
Creo que Åkerfeldt tomó la mejor decisión al abandonar los guturales. Por su desempeño en vivo se nota que ya no puede hacerlos. Parece que se dañó las cuerdas vocales.
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darkwitch_metal
No sólo eso, Steven declaró en una entrevista que ambos estaban desinteresados en el metal: " Él (Mikael) ha sido un aporte para mí, como yo creo serlo para él, que ha dado un paso hacia adelante unos dos discos atrás, cuando decidió que ya no estaba interesado en el metal, al igual que yo. No tengo nada en contra del estilo, pero desde mi punto de vista su vocabulario es muy acotado: ese sonido metalero, creativamente hablando, está agotado, a tal punto que ya ni siquiera es pesado." - Steven Wilson.
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PinkFloydrulez
I lost interest in opeth around the time watershed came out (or I guess -by- the time it came out?) but tbh i don't feel too harshly towards this album. granted, i never listened to it a ton, and was a little baffled by it in my own way when it came out, but i was never invested in it like a lot of people were. most of that has faded away over time and i just have a mellow acceptance for it now. i think i vibe with it more than the albums that have come after. i really like the opening piano piece. maybe it'll keep growing in the future
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Chrilu
In a few weeks there'll be the new "masterpiece". Åkerfeldt already praised it as the best in his discography (of course!). The new single is pure crap. One of his musical friends, Steven Wilson, stated a few days ago that his band, Porcupine Tree, doesn't exist anymore (of course, his solo crap is selling better). Maybe Mikael should consider the same thought.
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ihatepretending
This album is like a spot-the-influence game: there's some Crimson, there's the Camel, there's some Tull flute... but there's no Opeth to speak of.
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Celestriad
How anyone could turn to this or Pale Communion when they want an Opeth fix, I don't know.
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Celestriad
Stripped away all the unique traits that made Opeth compelling, and replaced them with boring prog B-sides. This isn't about people being close-minded to change: Damnation proved Opeth could do a non-metal album and still retain that pure Opeth essence, and it also remains their most listened to album in their entire discography on Last FM. But Heritage is utter drivel, a limp-wristed pastiche of a genre that has been perfected by bands decades ago.
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Dogger_Dog
The prog rock equivalent of high resolution photographs of gangraped, pulled-apart manpie
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MisterJunior
I for one have enjoyed Opeth's move toward a proggier sound. Maybe it's not Larks' Tongues in Aspic but there's some real quality here.
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Dogger_Dog
Most overhyped garbage I've ever heard. Seriously people if you want real prog, there's plenty of it out there. Settling for this Anekdoten wannabe is deeply disturbing. This album is to prog what Taco Bell is to authentic Mexican food.
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Cabrasevera
This is a masterpiece when compared to Pale Communion, god, this band is so dead.
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Powerage_86
Narrow minded idiots who can't accept change dismiss this album based on that. Its a great record.
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KungFuHamster__
It has taken me a long time to like this album, but now I think it is my favourite by them, even more than Blackwater Park and Still Life.
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salaryfar
I really enjoy the new direction Opeth has been taking, and Heritage is an absolute masterpiece for me. Every song is really interesting and none of them are boring at all. I highly recommend this album for anyone who listens to progressive rock and enjoys something that's different.
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Failure2Conform
This album is still in the process of growing on me three years later. I just listened to it for the first time in a year or so and really felt like I enjoyed it for the first time. I actually love it aside from just a couple of tracks in the middle of the album that really seem to go nowhere and bog and it down. "Haxprocess" and "Famine".
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arglactable
Anyone who thinks the production on this album is bad is objectively retarded. I love Opeth's classic work, but the "wall of noise" modern metal production has always been by far the worst part of the experience, even though several of those albums are among my favorites ever recorded. And then before that, it was just reedy, low fi 90's production, until someone went back and "remastered" them by compressing the shit out of everything. Heritage and Pale Communion are the best produced albums in their discography by far, irrespective of personal complaints about the music.
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rainechoes
It's just not in the same league as any other Opeth album. I don't even know how they managed to come up with this. I'm just so glad they did.
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Bound2Fate
I think this album is great, although I would get rid of a couple tracks on it. I don't understand the hate for it. It's not boring at all. http://solmortuus.com/main/?p=281
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angusscream
So much time has passed since the release of heritage, and I still doesn't know whether I like it or not. That is probably good)
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