![]() Requiem closes the previous and introduces the final track, it’s just a 1 min transition, a mental pause for the volcano that yet to erupt soon.Īnd here we are, the volcano is about to be erupted …. In my vision, you are the embodiment of pure freedom but through my eyes, you are made of stone”. ![]() I know, death metal fans would want something heavier and more sophisticated but the track after the soft part at beginning gets heavier exponentially with every passing second and then boom, my favorite moment of the whole albums kicks in: a very beautiful melody with Mikael mourning disturbingly in the background until a shift in the harmony changes, it gets a bit faster and oh God, words can’t describe the feelings that this part put me through for a couple of minutes… but then it stops and an obvious Steve-Harris-influenced bass riff introduces the song aggressively to another breathtaking atmosphere ON THE SAME DAMN TRACK! I have nothing to add, it closes with a final atmospheric part ina calming fashion that AGAIN gets heavy with Mikael AGAIN mourning in the back “Under your command I will obey. The construction is a bit different and the riffs are very melodic. We go now to my favorite piece from this record Twilight Is My Robe and also the most underrated track here for never being considered among the best Orchid songs. It has a similar construction to the songs that came before by starting off heavy and then it cools down into a calmer transition but as every song here, everyone is unique and different, the atmospheric part here has a thin distorted guitar riff overdubbed and then it gets heavier again, the drumming in this track is very impressive, the guy doesn’t stop blasting those beats… or actually he does at around the last minute when it becomes relaxing, soft and melodic, great material as always. I mean there’s nothing to add or comment about, it’s definitely a piece I return to for its beauty and the ups-and-downs it can take you, the ups may not be high, the downs may not be low but the oscillations are perfectly sinusoidale.įorest Of October follows, arguably the heaviest song in this record and probably in their entire discography and certainly the most black metal-influenced track they ever put out. It’s up to you to label Silhouette a song or not, being just 3 mins and nothing more than a heartwarming piano piece played by their drummer at the time Anders. It kicks in harshly from the start and like the song that came right before, at some point around the 3rd minute, it cools off and becomes very ambient for around 2-3 mins just to explode with a tornado of double-bass drums, chest-ripping riffs and from-the-deep kind-of-screams!! It doesn’t finish here, Opeth made a legacy of mixing clean vocals and melodies beautifully with such tornados and that’s what they did at the end, just check the song out, a goosebumps-inducing part hits you when he sings cleanly and a solo follows closing this 10 mins track. Then, Under The Weeping Moon plays and it always seemed to me that this is the popular opinion’s best song from this record and understandably so. The record starts off with In The Mist She Was Standing, a staggering 14 mins that kicks off pretty strongly and gets even stronger with every passing moment and then around the 4th minute, a storm of solos start hitting right into a relaxing transition in which you can listen to the bass that accelerates and becomes heavy again with Mikael’s screams in the back going monstrously non-stop and from the 10th minute, the music cools down and becomes harshly melodic and indeed, very beautiful. Let’s start going in-depth through each song briefly, shall we?! A total of 66 minutes divided into 7 pieces. The first record that this group put out is called Orchid. Amongst a Swedish Death Metal scene that everybody expected to cool down soon, they needed to put out something special, something unique that would differentiate them from their peers and competitors and oh, boy they absolutely did it magnificently!Ī little of black metal that was kinda famous in Scandinavia at the time (mostly for the wrong reasons…) and a little bit of progressive rock elements, the Swedish death metal scene introduced something new, and I don’t know if by-nature-or-by-design: Opeth, the pioneers of progressive death metal, created and crafted carefully with compassion and love (at least, that’s what I want to believe). Four ambitious, well somewhat at least, little men had a vision back then that no one else could observe. Let’s go back in time to 1995 to a cold Swedish city called Stockholm, the home of some of the best musical phenomena to ever exist (yes, ABBA is certainly amongst the greatest, no question).
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