STILL LIFE

As much as i do try,i cannot understand what the world see's in this band,their song structure's are incoherent,and their guitar work is completly forgettable,most of the vocal work is great but so much is made up of misplaced growls.Still Life would have to be one of the most overrated albums in years,the one thing that really stands out with Still Life is the amazing amount of repetition,its totally incrediable,i have never heard anything like it.The opening track,"The Moor"starts with 2 minutes of nothing,the launches into a pendulum effect ,back and forth guitar riff (My God Its" Monotonous"),then we here these death growls,these guys are trying now to sound brutal but its so out of place it doesnt work,the vocal passages sound forced and weak .There is a huge amount of random acoustic work thrown in,the drum work is truely woeful and very lazy,the vocals are ok.One thing also about still life is the recording production its very flat and dull,and at one point one of the tracks completly cuts out at the end this is bad production.I dont know if this is seen as death metal from what i have heard but clean vocals never work when mixed in with death metal growls,its so out of place.Still life is basically dreadful,and very tediuos listening with some sub standard production,its very brooding icy music that goes nowhere and seems to go forever,Opeth seem to turn 3 minute tracks into 10 minutes,its all harmless and uneffecting music,Still Life is perfect background music.