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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: 2003-06-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Advent 2: Night and the Silent Water 3: Nectar 4: Black Rose Immortal 5: To Bid You Farewell 6: Eternal Soul Torture [*]

Excellent
The first two Opeth albums really accentuate counterpoint guitars, which is one of the most beautiful styles of play there is. This is probably my favorite metal album. I have never heard another band do it as well as Opeth, and Morningrise is their finest example. Song 2 is breathtaking. .


YES YES AND GUESS WHAT YES
opeth opeth opeth in my opinion this is there best album there other work is pretty damn good as well many people including cridicts think that opeth is the best band in the world well damn i dont agree but there up there competeing for that title and over the years they have made a great name for themselves so morning rise is probley there most melodic album yet and i love it its pure geniuse nice harsh vocal killer guitar and awsome acoustics in the mix clean vocals it is truley an elite album anyone looking for a good metal album look no further you listen to and you will see what i am talking about hope the review helped.


Melodic Opeth
This is also, in my opinion, their best work (although many people think Still Life or Blackwater Park should get that spot). This is arguably Opeth's most melodic record.

The first four songs on this record contain so many melodies, tempo changes, acoustic interludes, killer bass, great drumwork, and anything else you'd want off of a progressive melodic metal band. Black Rose Immortal is arguably the best song they've composed; the 20 minute track flows smoother and tastes better than the finest wine. The final track is purely acoustic but has killer melodies nonetheless.

The only "problem" with this record is that people may find the bass at times intrusive. It's by no means in the background, but it melds so well with the guitar lines that it doesn't sound unnecessarily heavy. Trust me, keep at it and you'll fall in love with the bass as well.

Perhaps this review will push the overall score to a well deserved 5 stars :).


A Masterpiece even by the standards of an Opeth fan
The album is a continuous roller-coaster of adrenaline and dopamines best enjoyed in a dimly lit room on high volume. The intensely pure emotional level this song invokes is best described as ecstasy.


Everything youthful
It transcends its genre and uses its musical elements as tools for expression; it doesn't matter what you classify it as. This album is intense and narrative in a way that few are. It is metal in that there are growls and heavier parts, but even then for the most part I feel a lot more of a sensitive, paranoid romanticism than any usual kind of aggression. Morningrise is a natural vivid world with no rules, all emotions are as intense as the days of adolescence where a relationship could mean everything even irrational and wild as it was. It captures that life, and maybe in particular what that life was to a much younger Mikael Akerfeldt, in all its radiant forest imagery and pale pink lights like the Christmas lights in my girlfriend's dorm room.

Listening to Morningrise could either make you feel nostalgia for this lifestyle, or sadness at never having experienced it at all. Or you could feel nothing, because without real focus on the part of the listener, these songs drag on and their narrations don't come across. This is an album for the patient.

There are technical flaws. There are a few transitions that may not quite work (although the songs flow much better than on "Orchid", which was still good). The growl is not as polished as it would become later. Yet, this just might by my favorite album in the world. Its soul is more real and vibrant than almost anything I've experienced.


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