OPETH - Watershed
Roadrunner
Records
This is one HEAVY Opeth release. There's more aggression here alongside some bolstering riff-dynamics which are intriguing. Mikael said that he's "also a genius when it comes to music" and I'd have to agree up until they changed from progressive metal to progressive rock. They should've not sold out because my contention is that they lost some true fans. But anyway, 'Watershed' some call "disjointed" but I say on here highly experimental. When they belt out heavy riff, that's something to admire and bang your head to. Although I like older Opeth more meaning 'Blackwater Park' and 'Still Life', 'Watershed' still has it's moments of precision.
Mikael's
vocals are way aggressive on here. It's
way on the progressive scale, but I find more brilliance the more that I listen
to it. It's not as catchy as the two
albums I mentioned, but I still think that its diversity and ingenuity is still
there. They are just changing a little bit
of styles here on the guitars and vocals.
Some things sound a little backwards, but that's because I think that
this is one of their more experimental efforts to date. And because of this, I took some points off,
not because of the direction, but because of the sounds from the guitar aren't
as creative as past works in any respect..
One that I haven't mentioned that's my favorite of all-time is 'My Arms,
Your Hearse'.
A
lot of the tracks are all over the place, but the sound quality is still top
notch. I enjoyed the clean guitars and
the solemn vocals. But they needed a
little bit more grit to the songs to bring the ideas together. Mikael falls a little short of his
"genius" here probably because he wants to tend the band into a
different direction. This being one of
the albums that remains to be maintained before their fall from the metal
community. They just show that they were
heading this direction. I've found sort
of just a select few songs that I can follow and some of the progressive rock sound
meshed into this release. It doesn't
help that Mikael doesn't like to sing brutal vocals.
In
summary, this is a decent effort by the band.
But for me, it's just a "B" rating. The songwriting on here was a bit
"off" and hard to swallow. I'm
not saying that it's their worst release, I'm just saying that it needed some
work. Songs don't seem to flow in tandem
like they did on their older releases.
Well, this is it, hello to the progressive rock that follows a band that
had some great talent to just throw it away.
I guess Mikael just lost the fire and turned to another direction with
the band just to sell records. He
could've put more energy into this release and showed us that Opeth's metal
days would go on till the end.
Ryan “Death8699” Fanucchi
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