Point me to the best Morningrise reviews on the net
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who cares what other people say about it? just buy the cd and decide for yourself. take my word for it though, it's worth it.
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Well, you can find them here: www.opeth.com, follow: discography/morningrise/reviews. There are some (good) reviews there. Other than that, www.google.com.
Actually I was reading the reviews on metal-archives and this one below made me scratch my head.
It's lame of the highest order.
I've heard countless great things about Opeth, which of course made me cynically believe it sucked pretty badly. I really had no clue about just how horribly insipid Opeth is.
The opening to Advent, though not simplistic sludge or anything, is boring. It does not make me want to headbang. It does not scare me, or really bring me any other feelings than "meh," but it was exciting in retrospect as I was listening to this album later. The drumming does not match it. It leads nowhere, just into some slow bass section, and then to the ridiculous raspy growly vocals that DO NOT BELONG THERE. The only worse ones I can really think of is Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica's random growls, but those were at least funny because they were so silly and cheesy. The lyrics, which I read as I went along are equally bad -- they don't remotely depress me, they're poorly written, and even Dani Filth blows them away. Some of the guitar work sounds off-key, and attempts to be quasi-epic, but ends up being completely mundane. Next is -- acoustic guitars, which I don't mind -- Desolate Ways was great on Blessed are the Sick -- but they're just pointlessly juxtaposed in, with a return to the off-key sounding guitars and crunching noise, and then another return to the acoustic. I somewhat quit paying attention, as I was watching the song timer go from 4:00 to 7:00 to 8:00. At 9:00, there's some clean vocals, like Emperor would do (I'm thinking brief parts from 1994's Nightside Eclipse, too, when I mention that) -- and those would be far more fitting for this stuff. After that, some random scales being played over and over on the bass, and as the voice comes back, I still realize that I have 3:00 of bad ideas left on this song. Then it ends with a whimper.
Next, on the Night and the Silent Winter, there are more droning pseudo-epic-gothenburg with acoustic guitars, trying to sound melodic but are lifeless and totally insipid, along with those lousy, shitty vocals. As the uninspiring guitars continue, I have yet to hear anything more than some guy who knows a few scales make up bad, buzzy, annoying guitar "melodies" with shit. If you heard the last song, you've pretty much heard this one -- there's only a slight degree of separating. For most of this, I just watched the clock slowly go towards 11 fucking minutes and waited for something exciting. The Leprechaun dancing music at 7:45 or so was a change from the alternating stupid quasi-melodic guitars with thumpa-thumpa drumming and lousy vocals. Then there was some kind of whispering at 9:50, and it ends with slow plucking on guitar and silence that just about makes me want to cry *sniff*.
Third song, Nectar -- predictably, it begins with another shitty intro of that guitar style and the lousy vocals, and for a second the bass catches my ear as something I might have almost remotely heard in a NES game years ago, but not really. At 2 minutes, I hope for a wailing solo or something, but no. At 3:15 there's some silence, and it's back to stuff that makes even the worst from Gothenburg sound great. At 4:00, there's something that almost sounds like a solo, but is rather unimpressive and doesn't do anything for the song. They're riffing along, but I couldn't possibly headbang to it, it's not brutal, it's not epic, it's not fast, it's not sludge, but it's not exciting, and I still don't find it anything but stupid. If this was nothing but the acoustic, along with those clean vocals, than it might almost have something to it -- if it was nothing but quasi-melodic guitars and bad Swedish raspy growls, it would outright suck, but both together make both parts suck worse. At 8:50, the distortion on it sounds like nails on a chalkboard, and after that it's not terrible (just bland), but that little happy slap bass does not belong. At all. Then it's finally over.
Black Rose Immortal. After this, one song left, but OMFG, it's 20 minutes long. I've listened through Manowar's 30 minute song, but it was about 8 separate songs at once, and was pretty cool. This one, however, sounds 90% the same as the last two. It begins with another riff that sounds epic, but due to style, production, and something else, it just falls flat as more droning. At 55 seconds, there's some half-decent growling there, but it still does not belong and just seems pointless and retarded, like cussing in a Weird Al song or something. It continues to sound like really bad early Dimmu Borgir, with half of it being dull but bearable acoustic fucking around. I hit the button and fastforwarded it a bit, and I doubt I missed anything. At 10:00, there's some clean vocals, but he just sounds like a pathetic wuss -- I believe it to be one of the inspirations for a few of the songs on Anal Cunt's Picnic of Love. But at 16:40, there's a solo, and it's half decent! That's the only part I liked out of 20 fucking minutes of that crap.
Last song! This one starts out acoustic, and I just spent the whole time waiting for the distortion to come on as it plodded away for the guy to do the crappy vocals to pathetically try to shock or scare me, but instead I get some distortion at 7:00 and some singing that sounds much like Alice in Chains at 7:30 or so. If people call 90% of this shitty song metal, then they should also include John Denver and David Buskin, since you could headbang to that much more easily. This album finally dies with a whimper, and I feel relieved that I'll never have to torture myself again with this crap!
I don't see what anyone sees in this, and I can only guess that it's another dumb trend of masses of people worshipping mellow pseudo-intellectual depression bands and pretentiously heaping praise upon them -- Tool comes to mind immediately as a predecessor. Most of this could be compressed to a 15-20 minute album, and possibly further, since there would still be repetition between stupid acoustics and stupid distorted guitar work. Anyone who would remotely call this stuff "death metal" obviously hasn't learned to identify music beyond vocal timbre.
There are a million things done in this style FAR better -- try Cynic's Focus, which this stuff obviously tries pooly imitate. It's actually a pretty good album. If you like long songs progressive, try Dream Theatre, of course -- Petrucci can play, unlike this guy, save for that one solo in the 20 minute long song, and they know how to have fun, instead of just droning around and feeling sorry for themselves. If you want something creepy and bleak, go for Burzum's Hvis Lyset Tar Oss. And if you want brutality with great guitar work -- there's countless other great examples, but I've been spinning this one lately -- pick up Vital Remains' Dechristianize. It's amazing solos and guitar work alongside sheer insanity.
Fuck, even Kip Winger's solo project is more emotional and progressive than this horse shit. I'm giving this an 8% -- yes, 8%, not 98 or 80-something -- mostly because of absence of rap.
It's lame of the highest order.
I've heard countless great things about Opeth, which of course made me cynically believe it sucked pretty badly. I really had no clue about just how horribly insipid Opeth is.
The opening to Advent, though not simplistic sludge or anything, is boring. It does not make me want to headbang. It does not scare me, or really bring me any other feelings than "meh," but it was exciting in retrospect as I was listening to this album later. The drumming does not match it. It leads nowhere, just into some slow bass section, and then to the ridiculous raspy growly vocals that DO NOT BELONG THERE. The only worse ones I can really think of is Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica's random growls, but those were at least funny because they were so silly and cheesy. The lyrics, which I read as I went along are equally bad -- they don't remotely depress me, they're poorly written, and even Dani Filth blows them away. Some of the guitar work sounds off-key, and attempts to be quasi-epic, but ends up being completely mundane. Next is -- acoustic guitars, which I don't mind -- Desolate Ways was great on Blessed are the Sick -- but they're just pointlessly juxtaposed in, with a return to the off-key sounding guitars and crunching noise, and then another return to the acoustic. I somewhat quit paying attention, as I was watching the song timer go from 4:00 to 7:00 to 8:00. At 9:00, there's some clean vocals, like Emperor would do (I'm thinking brief parts from 1994's Nightside Eclipse, too, when I mention that) -- and those would be far more fitting for this stuff. After that, some random scales being played over and over on the bass, and as the voice comes back, I still realize that I have 3:00 of bad ideas left on this song. Then it ends with a whimper.
Next, on the Night and the Silent Winter, there are more droning pseudo-epic-gothenburg with acoustic guitars, trying to sound melodic but are lifeless and totally insipid, along with those lousy, shitty vocals. As the uninspiring guitars continue, I have yet to hear anything more than some guy who knows a few scales make up bad, buzzy, annoying guitar "melodies" with shit. If you heard the last song, you've pretty much heard this one -- there's only a slight degree of separating. For most of this, I just watched the clock slowly go towards 11 fucking minutes and waited for something exciting. The Leprechaun dancing music at 7:45 or so was a change from the alternating stupid quasi-melodic guitars with thumpa-thumpa drumming and lousy vocals. Then there was some kind of whispering at 9:50, and it ends with slow plucking on guitar and silence that just about makes me want to cry *sniff*.
Third song, Nectar -- predictably, it begins with another shitty intro of that guitar style and the lousy vocals, and for a second the bass catches my ear as something I might have almost remotely heard in a NES game years ago, but not really. At 2 minutes, I hope for a wailing solo or something, but no. At 3:15 there's some silence, and it's back to stuff that makes even the worst from Gothenburg sound great. At 4:00, there's something that almost sounds like a solo, but is rather unimpressive and doesn't do anything for the song. They're riffing along, but I couldn't possibly headbang to it, it's not brutal, it's not epic, it's not fast, it's not sludge, but it's not exciting, and I still don't find it anything but stupid. If this was nothing but the acoustic, along with those clean vocals, than it might almost have something to it -- if it was nothing but quasi-melodic guitars and bad Swedish raspy growls, it would outright suck, but both together make both parts suck worse. At 8:50, the distortion on it sounds like nails on a chalkboard, and after that it's not terrible (just bland), but that little happy slap bass does not belong. At all. Then it's finally over.
Black Rose Immortal. After this, one song left, but OMFG, it's 20 minutes long. I've listened through Manowar's 30 minute song, but it was about 8 separate songs at once, and was pretty cool. This one, however, sounds 90% the same as the last two. It begins with another riff that sounds epic, but due to style, production, and something else, it just falls flat as more droning. At 55 seconds, there's some half-decent growling there, but it still does not belong and just seems pointless and retarded, like cussing in a Weird Al song or something. It continues to sound like really bad early Dimmu Borgir, with half of it being dull but bearable acoustic fucking around. I hit the button and fastforwarded it a bit, and I doubt I missed anything. At 10:00, there's some clean vocals, but he just sounds like a pathetic wuss -- I believe it to be one of the inspirations for a few of the songs on Anal Cunt's Picnic of Love. But at 16:40, there's a solo, and it's half decent! That's the only part I liked out of 20 fucking minutes of that crap.
Last song! This one starts out acoustic, and I just spent the whole time waiting for the distortion to come on as it plodded away for the guy to do the crappy vocals to pathetically try to shock or scare me, but instead I get some distortion at 7:00 and some singing that sounds much like Alice in Chains at 7:30 or so. If people call 90% of this shitty song metal, then they should also include John Denver and David Buskin, since you could headbang to that much more easily. This album finally dies with a whimper, and I feel relieved that I'll never have to torture myself again with this crap!
I don't see what anyone sees in this, and I can only guess that it's another dumb trend of masses of people worshipping mellow pseudo-intellectual depression bands and pretentiously heaping praise upon them -- Tool comes to mind immediately as a predecessor. Most of this could be compressed to a 15-20 minute album, and possibly further, since there would still be repetition between stupid acoustics and stupid distorted guitar work. Anyone who would remotely call this stuff "death metal" obviously hasn't learned to identify music beyond vocal timbre.
There are a million things done in this style FAR better -- try Cynic's Focus, which this stuff obviously tries pooly imitate. It's actually a pretty good album. If you like long songs progressive, try Dream Theatre, of course -- Petrucci can play, unlike this guy, save for that one solo in the 20 minute long song, and they know how to have fun, instead of just droning around and feeling sorry for themselves. If you want something creepy and bleak, go for Burzum's Hvis Lyset Tar Oss. And if you want brutality with great guitar work -- there's countless other great examples, but I've been spinning this one lately -- pick up Vital Remains' Dechristianize. It's amazing solos and guitar work alongside sheer insanity.
Fuck, even Kip Winger's solo project is more emotional and progressive than this horse shit. I'm giving this an 8% -- yes, 8%, not 98 or 80-something -- mostly because of absence of rap.
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Morningrise is THE best Opeth album.
Although, every time I listen to Still Life I change my thoughts and vice versa.
Although, every time I listen to Still Life I change my thoughts and vice versa.
