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Opeth - Morningrise Audio CD

A fair review of the Opeth "Morningrise" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Opeth reviews here, or go back to the Opeth tabs.

Opeth Band: Opeth
Title: Morningrise
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-06-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Advent 2: Night & The Silent Water 3: Nectar 4: Black Rose Immortal 5: To Bid You Farewell

I LOVE THIS BAND!
The musicians in Opeth are masters at their instruments. Opeth is an excellent metal band their categorized as a death metal band with both clean and distorted vocals. All of Opeth's albums are great so you can never go wrong with buying any of their cd's.


Weirdo Music
Irish metal, heh, heh, heh. From Celtic riffs in "Black Rose Immortal" to the saddest little accoustic part ever, ("The Night and the Silent Water" around the 6:30 mark), Opeth leads us on a journey of what can be accurately described as Weirdo Music. . .

The production is rough to say the least; the bass sounds somewhat like a twanging rubber band. However, I love the gritty sound! Why? Because it gives the album an anciently obscure feel, like the true musical illustration of the archaic lakeside house on the cover. Just as effective as Opeth's newer, clearer sound, I think. Perfect for being a REAL freak at high school or scaring the Mormon neighbors.


BLOWN AWAY!
com samples do not do this band any justice(espesially when you only hear 30 seconds on 10min. The Amazon. songs). Opeth must be one of the most musically talented bands on the planet. Their music is on so many levels it's impossible to categorize. And hearing the Death Metal parts of their music on these 30 second samples is only the begining and there is so much more to these songs. It is like hearing poetry when you listen to them. AMAZING! MUST BUY! Try Albums like Orcid, Morningrise, My Arms, Your Hearst. Try These before buying the newer albums.


one of opeths classic albums.. i love it!
Many people call this their masterpiece, and I guess I one could say it is, but I prefer Blackwater Park and Still Life much more. Morningrise is one of Opeth's best albums, althought not my favorite, it is still great. Anyway, the songs on this album are great, and overall much better than Orchid which came before this album. They are actually songs! haha, unlike orchid which felt kinda like a jumble of great music. Here's a run down of the tracks. . .
Advent- a good opener. . . 5/5
The Night and the Silent Water- not one of my favorite opeth songs, but ok 4/5.
Nectar- pretty cool song 5/5.
Black Rose Immortal- one of Opeth's masterpiece, although the opening bass line is kinda funny, it reminds me of like. . . a midget dance, check it out. 6/5
To Bid you Farewell- my favorite song on this album. . . i love th e heavy part at the end, its kinda like A fair judgement on deliverance, just maybe a bit better. 6/5.


Succor for the Discouraged Ones
A woman, a wild animal, a great metal album - each is beautiful in its own way, ceaselessly entreating us to appreciate it. Humans are naturally drawn to beauty in its myriad forms. Yet curiously not everyone heeds beauty's call. Some are unmoved by the sight of a comely woman, others slay animals for sport, and then there are those who repudiate metal. "It's just noise" is a common complaint by many of the uninformed. Others look down their noses and spit, "It's only pathetic losers who listen to metal!"

Pity the Discouraged Ones, for it is they who ignore the beauty before them. If only they would open their minds and ears to the wonders that metal provides the adventurous spirit, a sumptuous buffet of ideas and emotions awaits them.

Amongst the cornucopia that is my metal collection sits an object of such beauty, no words I write can do it justice. And yet, I feel I must persevere with this review if only so that a few of the uninitiated may join the fold of brothers and sisters united in their ardor for metal. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to make the acquaintance of Morningrise, the most beautiful death metal album ever created.

Morningrise is the captivating creation of Opeth, arguably Sweden's most accomplished metal band. There are only a handful of geniuses in the rock music scene today, and Opeth guitarist/vocalist Michael Akerfeldt is most assuredly one of them. Morningrise is simply stunning and, unlike with most death metal albums, its power and grace become apparent as early as the first listen.

If you're like me, you remember a time when we naively thought Entombed's Clandestine and At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul would never be topped. But then along came Morningrise which bludgeoned those death metal classics effortlessly. Like most Opeth albums, Morningrise is oddly soothing despite its stylistic fluctuations. Akerfeldt alternates between guttural and clean vocals with such subtlety that at times you don't even notice the transition.

The first track, "Advent", sets the standard so high, it is nothing short of miraculous that Opeth are able to match it again four times over by the end of the album. Throughout the album, the listener's senses are repeatedly aroused by moments of feral aggression only to be becalmed by passages of blissful tranquility. The effect is to leave the listener a bit dazed the way one feels upon emerging from a theater after viewing a particularly moving film. Yet Morningrise is somehow even more spectacular than a powerful film in that it invites the listener to conjure up his or her own images while experiencing it. I will not even attempt to waste empty words on the merits of individual songs when to truly appreciate them, it is the music, not my prose, that you must experience. Uplifting and life-affirming, Morningrise is an album to be cherished.


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