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Tech/Extreme Prog Metal

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Tony R
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Respect your heritage.

Clean vocals, 70s Prog and Classic Rock, transition away from Death Metal, homage to influences: Camel, Floyd, Rainbow, Jazz Fusion. Sink or swim time for Akeldfeldt and Opeth. Death Metal fans estranged.

That just about sums up Opeth's attempt at a tradionally-styled and themed Progressive Rock album. On early listens I was entranced by Akeldfeldt's attempt to re-invent the band as a Prog behemoth and I still find the album an enjoyable listen. I was never a fan of traditional Death Metal vocals but their absence seems to have taken away the pure visceral excitement of their best albums from that genre. As an experiment it is interesting and worthy but ultimately I have downgraded my original assessment to 3.5/5 but am happy to award 4 stars.

Tony R | 4/5 | 2011-9-29

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