Oh my god.
There are SO many.
I guess I like it when (for Mike's death growls) when he sounds REALLY dark and evil, and also when words he speaks are a little more complicated than usual (thats one thing about metal I love, the English used is great Queens English, and suggests good readership by the songwriter... Metal is intelligent music imho!!). One thing is for sure, Opeth's lyrics are full of beautifully written passges. I love listening to the lyrics... at the gig in Sydney, I sang and growled to every song! Damn I love them.
Anyway, here we go my top three, in order:
THIRD PLACE: THE MOOR
" <OPENING LAYERED SCREAMS - LOVE IT!!!!!!!!>
The sigh of summer upon my return
Fifteen alike since I was here
Bathed in deep fog, blurring my trail
Snuffing the first morning rays...
.... I awoke from the miasma
Passing swiftly through the moor
This is here, waters stir
And in the distance all that was lost"
SECOND PLACE: KARMA (almost ties for FIRST place, I love this verse, so dark, powerful and evil!!!!)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! (THE best Mike scream!!!)
I have gooone awaaaayaaaagggh
The bed is coooold and emptyaaaagghhh
Treeees bend their booooughs toward the earth.
And nighttime biiiiirds float as black faceeeees...."
FIRST PLACE: THE AMEN CORNER
"And so I rose from my sleeeeeeep
The moon turned away its face
Overture of the long, black night begins...<exclude whispered passage, its not a growl but I do love it!!!>
Until noooooow we shared the same aura
My ashes within your haaaaands
My breaaaaaaaaath in the sepulchral mound
You know that your night is my day
The final spark that blew life into me
The Demon Of The Faaaaall"
