The beginning is awesome and then at approximately the 1:15 mark...if that part of the song doesn't "hook" you and draw you into it...You can't be a true Opeth fan.
How Can An Opeth Fan Not Like Karma?
- Thread starter JesusChristPose
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Karma is an amazing song. Personally, When was my first favorite off the album?
Sadistik
Let me die in solitude...
Static
Manically depressed robot
I'll tell you how an Opeth fan can not like Karma, its quite simple:
1)Said fan plays Karma on an audio device.
2)The fan enjoys Karma but not enough to like' it because the person is allowed to be subjective, and doesn't have to like it to be a 'fan'.
3)Said person is an Opeth fan who simply doesn't enjoy Karma as much as some other songs.
...and there you have it.
1)Said fan plays Karma on an audio device.
2)The fan enjoys Karma but not enough to like' it because the person is allowed to be subjective, and doesn't have to like it to be a 'fan'.
3)Said person is an Opeth fan who simply doesn't enjoy Karma as much as some other songs.
...and there you have it.
Till Fjalls
¥¤ÆZµ
Everyone listens to Opeth for different musical aspects. I personally love karma for it's mostrous weird riffage and the jpurney it takes. it such a dark heavy song. But not everyone who listens to Opeth wants that.
Another thing, it took me e long time before I got into that song, probably about a year or two before I really appreciated, now it is my fave on MAYH. (next to epilogue) Maybe some haven'treached that point of liking yet, or have passed it.
Another thing, it took me e long time before I got into that song, probably about a year or two before I really appreciated, now it is my fave on MAYH. (next to epilogue) Maybe some haven'treached that point of liking yet, or have passed it.
I like Karma but I don't think the intro is very good. It doesn't fit at all with the end of Credence...seems like it ruins the flow somewhat to me.
Naaah, the intro is...sorta awakening from a hibernal dream...(Although the consept doesn´t suggest this.) On MYAH it´s the most independent song, I think, and therefore it´s not a bad thing that the intro comes from behind the tree or something...
It is all a matter of opinion, but at the 1:15 mark...I still cannot see how any Opeth fan could not like this song.
As for the end of Credence and the intro to Karma, I believe it symbolizes Opeth as Credence ends serenely while Karma starts out kicking and screaming ~ Opposites, just as Opeth often does.
As for the end of Credence and the intro to Karma, I believe it symbolizes Opeth as Credence ends serenely while Karma starts out kicking and screaming ~ Opposites, just as Opeth often does.
Russell
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Parasite
Captain Evil
I bet if it weren't so far into the album everyone would hear it more often and like it more as well.
redblueyes
wreathme
I agree with you JCP. After the first minute of the song, EVERYTHING stops (including my heart beating).. I mean the WORLD stops at the minute mark. From there I have no control but a helpless pion, being tossed about by the first couple verses. It's a feeling of surrender but it's total bliss. I LOVE that song. After those versus, i'm all spent anyway, and the rest of the song .. just ride it out. alllllllll the way out.........
redblueyes
wreathme
Dammit! Now you've gone and gotten me all horny to hear that song. And I don't have the cd with me at work! FUCK! FUCK FUCK! 
MadTinus
Language enthusiast
Because MAYH is Opeth's least good album by far...
BTW: that first riff is obviously stolen from Gorefest's song "Erase".
Alcapoth
S t a r E
Well, Karma is a GREAT song (love the ending screams by Mikael!!!), but by far not the greatest on MAYH.
April Ethereal, When, Demon of the Fall & The Amen Corner are better....Karma is excellent, though...still.
April Ethereal, When, Demon of the Fall & The Amen Corner are better....Karma is excellent, though...still.
Russell
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Well, that would be quite an achievement considering it's perhaps their best album
(that or Mornigrise)
"I agree with you JCP. After the first minute of the song, EVERYTHING stops (including my heart beating).. I mean the WORLD stops at the minute mark. From there I have no control but a helpless pion, being tossed about by the first couple verses. It's a feeling of surrender but it's total bliss. I LOVE that song. After those versus, i'm all spent anyway, and the rest of the song .. just ride it out. alllllllll the way out........."
~ BINGO!!! I have found another Opeth fan who understands what the fuck I am talking about....I couldn't agree with you more redblueeyes! I feel the same, exactly!
"Because MAYH is Opeth's least good album by far..."
~ You need to put down your crackpipe and go cold turkey for awhile.
~ You need to put down your crackpipe and go cold turkey for awhile.
karma is one of my favorites on MAYH
it and April Ethereal do a great job of wrapping up the "theme" of the album
I'm not sure when in Karma it is, but I love the accoustic re-iteration of MAYH's "theme melody".. about halfway through the song. ive always found the "you have nothing more to find, you have nothing more to lose" to be quite poignant with the music there.
karma has some of the best lyrics too, i like "the castles were all empty, asleep, long awaiting their king" and "amidst the forest, one would hear that i had been there, draped within a fate I could not change." You can tell he wrote the lyrics first to this album, as the concept is nice and tight, and the theme of predestination/fate is so succinctly wrapped up.
it and April Ethereal do a great job of wrapping up the "theme" of the album
I'm not sure when in Karma it is, but I love the accoustic re-iteration of MAYH's "theme melody".. about halfway through the song. ive always found the "you have nothing more to find, you have nothing more to lose" to be quite poignant with the music there.
karma has some of the best lyrics too, i like "the castles were all empty, asleep, long awaiting their king" and "amidst the forest, one would hear that i had been there, draped within a fate I could not change." You can tell he wrote the lyrics first to this album, as the concept is nice and tight, and the theme of predestination/fate is so succinctly wrapped up.
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
Karma is a brilliant song, the transitions it are sick and uniquely Opethian, some of the most unsettling passages in their whole catalogue.
Ermz
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karma... one of the songs I never really got into... no reason in particular, I guess the intro never really hooked me.
