Good heavenly Gods of metal!
This sound on this album is freakin' HUGE. I'm really digging Reverie/Harlequin Forest right now, so intense and lyrically eerie. I'm very surprised Opeth didn't decide to make the album longer, but I am glad they decided to keep Isolation Years down to only a couple minutes; it doesn't break the flow of the album very much and is overall a pretty cool track.
Some asshole comments from ultimate-metal.com: (how come people on metal sites always think everything sucks?)
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"The first clean vocalled bit in the first song is one of the most painful things I've ever heard in my life."
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"I think with this one they've moved from "I can see why shit people would like it" to "I can't see why anyone would like it "
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"Beneath the Mire's intro sounds like fucking goth-rap."
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"It feels about as dumb as Deliverance and as uninterestingly melodic as Blackwater Park. Hooray for low expectations!"
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"Easily the worst Opeth yet. Just try to comprehend that idea for a moment."
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