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| 1. In Mist She Was Standing |
| 2. Under the Weeping Moon |
| 3. Silhouette |
| 4. Forest Of October |
| 5. The Twilight Is My Robe |
| 6. Requiem |
| 7. The Apostle In Triumph |
| 8. Into The Frost Of Winter |
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What you get here is almost a "best of" in a strange kind of way... to explain this you need to understand that Opeth tend to write chunks of songs, musical passages then bolt together their best moments to form rather long songs.
Sounds ugly and if most people tried it im sure it would be, however Opeth do it with such grace and brilliance you barely notice this as you just let the excellent musicianship flow over you.
Back to the plot, yes like a best of of all the best passages they wrote over 4-5 years before they got a record deal, and I would say a particularly important Opeth album to own. Both guitarists wrote the music on this album, something you dont get on later albums which is a shame because Peter does add an extra dimension to their already varied sound.
If you're an Opeth fan and youre wondering whether you need an album as old as this, trust me you do, theres a certain "untamed beauty" which has to some extent been polished out of Opeth... thats not to say theres anything wrong with new Opeth, it just feels completley free and rambling which makes it such a beauty.
If youre not sure about Opeth, never much heard of them they are really for anyone who loves modern metal, but just wishes it was more creative, more varied, more melodic, more... just MORE! If you understand what I mean, youll enjoy Opeth.
Standout tracks include In the mist She Was Standing, Silhouette, and the classic Forest of October - one of their very best tracks.
all songs here were written between 1990 and 1994 and if you buy it today chances are you'll get the bonus track that's basically an insight into their sessions. i refuse to look at opeth on a track by track basis so will attempt to describe the awe with which i listened to this.
this was, when it was released, nothing short of unique. this, i realise, is not reason enough to own it, but it should be stated how progressive this was in the fairly conservative genre of death metal. this originality was misunderstood as pretension and so opeth struggled for recogntion. the album is immense. it cannot be absorbed in one listen and even after a few weeks i find myself finding new intracacies in the style and note play.
this album is difficult to describe so i shall limit my waffle. it is (for the most part) heavy. not just through crushing guitar riffs but in that i feel you need a certain amount of grey matter to contemplate all that is on offer. the piano track may confuse some, but it is a perfect way of looking at the same world, but describing it in a totally different way to the usual thrash.
in short it doesn't have the ballads of still life (yet even now they were experimenting with acoustics) or the sweet production of black water park, but it is an important album with epic tracks that really do conjure images unlike so much of the bubblegum pop thrown at people today.
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