Allmusic.com review of Lamentations

[Risquit]

Say what you will about allmusicguide.com, but they lick Opeth's ass (as well as some other good bands), and some of the reviewers really know their shit. So check out their review of Lamentations

 

[Nikodemus]

What a great review, not only of Lamentations, but of the band. Obviously a fan. I like '...the band's diverse and unparalleled combination of death metal, unwieldy, ambitious prog, and earthy folk...' Got to be one of the best Opeth descriptions yet!!

 

[scorpian007]

allmusic.com is cool

 

[Rejvk]

(although the Akerfeldt "orifice cam" gives a few too many close-ups of the vocalists oral and nasal cavities).

"Orifice Cam" lol, brilliant

 

[ginkgothian]

How true..lol

 

[Risquit]

I like how they tell you about other bands in the same style, all of which are links to those bands and their albums.

 

[ChrisEmerson]

good review, but i still maintain that AMG dont have a clue what they are talking about half the time.

 

[squeegee your third eye]

Their reviews are really uneven, totally depending on the individual, ranging from professional and insightful to haphazard, ignorant or obsolete, especially in the smaller niche genres.

 

[Risquit]

Examples?

 

[MightyA]

Theory in Practice - Colonizing the Sun

Theory in Practice brings to mind a few different metal bands with their brutal assault, but the band that they have the most in common with seems to be Fear Factory. Not the multi-faceted Fear Factory that pals around with Gary Numan and appears on major film soundtracks, but the savage Fear Factory of 1992. The Fear Factory that flavored their sludgy death metal assault with the occasional sample or synth line. Which is precisely how Colonizing the Sun is handled by these folks. The only problem is that ten years after Fear Factory first did it, a hundred other metal bands have done the exact same thing with little or no change. And just like all of those bands, Theory in Practice delivers a by-the-numbers metal album. Sure, they throw in cute touches like bass solos to prove their technical chops, and they have a very aggressive sound that really fits their style. But the songs are the same old nonsense, the vocals are unintelligible, and it is hard to believe that after 15 years, this genre just gets bigger and bigger with so few changes to the sound. -- Bradley Torreano

 

[KielbasaSausage]

instrumental "Ending Credits" (which vocalist/guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt describes to the crowd as a blatant Camel rip-off — a reference perhaps lost on the theater-full of metal worshippers).

haha what an idiot.

 

[synergy]

I'm always hoping that amg will give a cd that I like a good review...and they usually don't...and then I'm like "hey man screw you you damn reviewer". But on the rare occasion that they hand out a good review I'm like, "cool....I'll have to come back to this site again some day" I'd probably bebetter off if the site just didnt exist.

 

[osse87]

"The live gig finds the band Jekyll-and-Hyde-ing through a two-hour set, split into mellow and beastly halves."

What does he mean by that? I've heard a little about Jekyll and Hyde but that doesn't explain this.

 

[ChrisEmerson]

he means showing the 2 sides of the band in different sets

 

[synergy]

they switch from Jekyll to Hyde but never back to Jekyll, so the plural use of "Jekyll and Hyding" was completely uncalled for. Or maybe I'm just stupid.

 

[Dreadful]

They gave some pretty good ratings for all their albums, but I thought Orchid deserved alot better, considering that it's their best album.