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Opeth Morningrise is one of best Opeth Masterpieces. this Accoustic death metal albums which makes an angelic touch... it is a really great CD with a very high quality music. it is the #1 opeth album for me. The Accoustic guitars are really good on it, It is an Excellent album. | Review by: infernum Hell, this its the first record of opeth i listened and its awesome, a must for everyone,! i have to say a lot but, in little words, Opeth its a guaranty, its a band that dont disapoint you!, buy it, got a copy or do any but listen it.! Review by: salvador Morningrise is OPETH at its finest and most sophisticated. This CD contains some of the best music ever written by OPETH, such as To Bid you Farewell, Night and the Silent Water and Black Rose Immortal. The intensity in this album is quite semalessly matched and followed with beauty, and that's what makes it superior to ... Orchid. Review by: JUVENTUS Records Dont come much more stunning than this. Review by: carcass_alex Sometimes words canīt just express the utmost aura of divinity that an album can communicate to you. This is the case with OPETHīs "Morningrise". "Superb and overwhelming progressive dark metal" could be a definition to this masterpiece, but since I donīt like those labels at all, Iīll try to describe the immense music inside: long songs, structure weird and surprising, excellent harmonies that guitars weave without end throughout the album, stirring acoustic parts that remind us the 70īs prog bands like Camel, a normal voice that is utterly shivering, an agressive voice that features madness and despair as only a few ones can, mysterious lyrics and artwork, great bass parts that frolic behind the main melodic lines, drums pounding and caressing the songs like a smooth hand in a silky cloak... the music fills my room and I feel like fleeing towards another dimension far from here. My senses reel, my heart stumbles and something invades my soul every time I hear this album. This is in my humble opinion the best OPETH album ever, inspiration possessed their minds while they were doing it like it never did or will do. Some people disagree, but itīs up to you to make your choice. "Masterpiece" is a word too little to describe this CD. Words wonīt be enough. Just let the music whisper and scream to your ears. I recommend "Morningrise" to every listener that likes good, gloomy music without dubs of any kind. Review by: fjordi Right there in the league of Swedish melodic death metal bands with really long songs (I need to coin a name for that genre and save a few keystrokes), Opeth releases this, their second album. There are five songs total on the album and not one of them is shorter than ten minutes. That right there should scare off the attention-span impaired. Now that they're surfing elsewhere, let's discuss exactly what Opeth puts forth. If you happen to be an avid follower of the European, especially Swedish scene, the name Opeth isn't a total mystery. Singer/guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt has appeared on Edge of Sanity records and in return former E.O.S. mainman Dan Swano helped record this epic piece. Musically, and even within one song, these guys go all over the map. Generally the songs flow well from one part to the next, though individual songs are not immediately noticeable. The twin guitars work well with each other, creating some great melodies in the guitars, and often lasping into very tasteful acoustic moods. In my opinion, it's difficult to write on guitar intricate songs that fully involve the listener, but Opeth manages to keep your attention. The bass tends to loop around the guitar lines and reminded me lot (in tone, maybe) of the old American experimental thrash band Watchtower. Singer Akerfeldt has a wide range of vocal approaches from hoarse black metal screams to somber melodies. The best thing about this album is that each new listen further enhances the absolute majesty of the music. Soon you'll begin to anticipate the movements of the pieces and be drawn into it. I admit I fell in love with this album while listening to it during a huge sunrise lightning storm in Utah. Trust me, the music completely fit into the scheme of things. Absolutely recommended. Review by: Gravedaddy666 OPETH - MORNINGRISE Released on Candlelight Records in 1996. "Morningrise" is Opeth's second album and it is one of the most respected albums I know. My expectations were high when I laid my hands down on this CD. This album has the best riffs ever made by Opeth and the sound quality is also nice (which is really rare for the early albums). Mikael's vocalwork on this album is not as good as one might expect. Don't get me wrong, he is still doing great job in the microphone. As always, the guitarwork is astoundingly sophisticated but nevertheless, the vocals are Mikael's specialty. What really hit me, was the surprisingly talented bass guitar work on this CD made by Johan de Farfalla. There are two songs which easily belong to the Top10 of the century. These hymns are "Advent" and "To Bid You Farewell". The first one is a kind of an In Flames -riffing song and "To Bid You Farewell" is sooo beautiful from the first notes to the very ending chords. They are Opeth's finest pieces. There are too many riffs which can be easily guessed (especially in "Nectar" and "Black Rose Immortal" which somehow seemed to be Mikael's fave). They lower a bit the final grade. Opeth's finest crownjewel "Morningrise" was one of the highlights of the year1996. As anticipated after the tremendous "Orchid" -album, Opeth was bound to fail their 'sequel'. But they didn't. Marking : 9/10 Review by: Punisher Morningrise is probably one of the best technical death metal (with a hell of lot more infulences) cd. Ive only heard this from opeth, but after i hearded this, i just wanted more, more... I personally like the accoustic parts the best.. "To Bid You Farewell" is probably one of the most beatiful song i have ever heard in my entire life... I cant wait till i see them in Inferno festival 2003... Review by: Jens conventoinal yet inovative tecnical and adictive morningrise is my absolute favoret metal cd of all time progresive metal that captures your soul and lyricks that inspire your imagination commercial music could never come close to conprehending such geinus this one can sit besides the best of the best it can sit next to slayers reign in blood venoms black metal deaths symbolic panteras vulgar display of power theroins secret of the runes arch enemys wages of sin king diamonds them cannibal corpse the tomb of the mutilated and mercyful fates melissa Review by: bill I'm going to make a lot of friends saying this. I hate Opeth. I own this album, and musically it is very good. I can't say anything bad about the music. Everything they wanted to achieve with it, I am convinced they did. The acoustic tone is perfect and true to old prog. The leads and melodies are smooth as hell and the bass does some extremely crazy stuff with odd rhythms. This must have taken forever to write. I heard Mikael talk about how Opeth is the greatest band in the world once in an interview and I started seeing all these Opeth fans spring up everywhere. Straight to the point-I like being the kind of metalhead who likes shit other metalhead's do not-but aside from that-in all honesty, I seriously dislike this band because when I first heard it I took in something cool. Then I realized how incredibly fruity the band members are and their fans are the kids who don't know anything about any other OLD swedish bands as well as kids who would rather make these guys rockstars than musicians hence the newer albums SUCK. I would just assume listen Atheist for an hour and Bela Fleck for a half an hour than sit through an hour of Opeth again. Opeth has succeeded in what they want to do-I'm sorry I didn't see their ambitions earlier. Review by: varathron This is one of the best Metal albums ever! I Think it's not th best album of Opeth. I Think Blackwater Park is. But the score for me is 10 out of 10 Review by: Khold666IsGreat This (for me) is simply the BEST Opeth album!! I love the others very much but for some reason, this album just gives me the goose-pimples... Review by: shahramn very good progresive melodic atmospheric death metal. to my opinion it lacks the emotion it could have. and the vocals are done very well, but their not something to remember too much. Review by: forgotten What can i say.It's the best album ever !!!!! Opeth ruuuuuuuuleeeeeez !!! Review by: raziel There once was a period a endored this album, WAS. It sounds like the end of a period in my ears. I always found that Orchd and Morningrise were very different than the other (better) albums. A sometimes crappy production, a thin guitarline (but good drums) is the reason for it. The sound is a lot mor raw then al the other albums. Only Dirge for November on the Blackwater park record reminds me of the early days of Opeth. It still is quite a good album with good piano and drum stuff. Also the surprising clean vocals are very good. This was a real beauty. When they re-released the record i heared the last song.... FUCKING CRAP!!!! an extra bonus track. Why do the put an unproffesional FUCKING crap song on such a beautiful album!!! why.......!!!! It really breaks the climax of this album. Black Rose Immortal is a huge beauty, but i don't like The Night And The Silent Water any more and thats a huge part for an album with 5 songs on it! But the beauty's Advent and To Bid You Farewell are stunning, absolute beauty's. So i cleared up my mind and listened to it again.... 77/100 Review by: Khold666IsGreat I bought and listened this album first in 1998 and this album fuckin' change my life ( as I wrote in Eternity album) I cannot believe in my ears when I listened it. a combination of black/doom/acoustic music and some jazzy parts. I still cannot find a band like opeth's creativity god-like 10/10 Review by: semitrust Opeth's best album ever, in my opinion. the longest songs, the most verious album, the most shifting melodies- especially 'Advent' and 'Black Rose Immortal', the longer the better... every bit of it is unforgettable. it has that old rock pink floyd style death metal combination that I love. Review by: yan I didn't know what the word "perfection" meant, so I went to see on the dictionary and it said: Opeth Review by: Vampyric With high hopes I bought my first Opeth. What a disappointment it was. I actually sold the album. I'm sorry - metal; to me, is about aggressivity, focus and coherence. None of this is delivered on this album. Yes, I've actually listened to it twice to check if I could be wrong. I wasn't. I'm usually rather mild and sensitive on my reviews but really, please listen before you buy. Opeth's succes - I don't deny them any BTW, they obviously put a lot of thought into their music (too much so...?) - won't be marred by one bad review so I think it's safe to add some counterpoint here... Review by: Clouded Sky This one is also a masterpiece. Just like all the other Opeth albums. This album contains the longest Opeth song ever to be recorded. Black rose immortal is a staggering 20 min long. And the greatest thing is that it never gets boring. just like the other Opeth songs on this album. Get this masterpiece of an album. I still say that Still life is the best but this one is pretty damn close. 10/10 Review by: illnath Opeth-Morningrise is the best album ever created by man. I have a collection of more than a thousand albums but no album comes close to this one in terms of the music. Review by: Spermicide Ah, there is not much I can say about Morningrise except that it is amazing...I love this cd, and it is by far my favorite Opeth album. Review by: Morose_Defect This album is one of the best Opeth's ones... for me the best song ever is Black Rose Immortal.. the riffs, lyrics, solos and vocals of this song are the best!! ;) Review by: Abeliux For me still the very best album of OPETH. Straight ahead death metal alternating whit some slow parts witch it typical for OPETH. Review by: moeienox this is the greatest band & album ever don`t listen another kind of shit (korn , metallica,etc,etc..) with opeth it`s just enough i givem a 1000000 Review by: fuck christ "Morningrise" has to be one of Opeth's best works and songs such as "Advent", "Black Rose Immortal", and "The Night and the Silent Water" have a very "metal" feel. They are longer than the songs of some other metal bands but nevertheless still make a more artistic impression in the dark pool of metal music. Review by: ghost of perdition This is for me the greatest work of this great band, great atmosphere and a great prog/metal album. One of my all time favorite albums. Review by: metalgabo opeth's epic album!no more no less!1996 is the year for opeth! the songs "nectar","advent","black rose immortal" opeth's finest works lie in this album.i have bought it and so should you!don't you dare to avoid this! Review by: metal maniac
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