It's been a while since Opeth released Blackwater Park, and I am still struggling to come to terms with it. What is it about this album that makes you like it as much (or more) as the other Opeth releases? What is it about this album that I don't get?
It took me a long while to dig My Arms Your Hearse too, but that album didn't bore me while I figured it out.
To me, Park sounds very uninspired. It's sluggish, the tempo is generally low, Mendez' drumwork is very open and repetitive, riffs are repeated more often than on other albums and are more similar to each other. Very little (compared to more progressive tracks such as, say, "When") happens in the songs on this album (or am I missing something?) - "Harvest" drones on and on, "Blackwater Park" likewise. "The Drapery Falls" tries to be more exciting, but is slow and the parts don't flow together very well.
I put the disc on regularly, hoping that BAM now it comes and I have a new Opeth album to love, but before "Bleak" is over I'm bored, and I put on any of the other CDs (Damnation excepted. A man needs growling.)
There is a distinct difference between Park and the other Opeth albums IMO - usually an Opeth track takes you through a varied soundscape. As an example, the parts that make up a song like "Ghost of Perdition" or "Advent" are different from each other, yet flow together - many ideas crammed into one song. On Park, ideas are repeated over and over.
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It took me a long while to dig My Arms Your Hearse too, but that album didn't bore me while I figured it out.
To me, Park sounds very uninspired. It's sluggish, the tempo is generally low, Mendez' drumwork is very open and repetitive, riffs are repeated more often than on other albums and are more similar to each other. Very little (compared to more progressive tracks such as, say, "When") happens in the songs on this album (or am I missing something?) - "Harvest" drones on and on, "Blackwater Park" likewise. "The Drapery Falls" tries to be more exciting, but is slow and the parts don't flow together very well.
I put the disc on regularly, hoping that BAM now it comes and I have a new Opeth album to love, but before "Bleak" is over I'm bored, and I put on any of the other CDs (Damnation excepted. A man needs growling.)
There is a distinct difference between Park and the other Opeth albums IMO - usually an Opeth track takes you through a varied soundscape. As an example, the parts that make up a song like "Ghost of Perdition" or "Advent" are different from each other, yet flow together - many ideas crammed into one song. On Park, ideas are repeated over and over.
Libera me