Opeth - The Lotus Eater “The Lotus Eater” off the “Watershed,” album, the band’s ninth opus, speeds like a freight train for several minutes of blast-beats and alternating clean and growled vocals. A monumental album that builds on the band’s sound while continuing to expand it in new directions. From the quiet opening of “Coil” to the huge closing chords of “Hex Omega,” “Watershed” swings between breathtaking beauty and searing rage in the space of a few seconds. The album also pushes the boundaries of metal beyond what people might expect, to include jazz, folk music and “Kansas” style classic rock in the death metal mix. Before keyboardist Per Wiberg shifts the action with an organ riff not too far away from jazz, “Burden” is a soaring ballad with an acoustic coda that slowly, intentionally collapses into musical disarray, like the final groan of a dying music box. “Porcelain Heart” is as brooding and dark as anything in the band’s catalogue – at least until the five minute mark, where the song gives way to acoustic beauty, Akerfeldt’s “clean” vocals and, believe it or not, an oboe. ~GirlWithDragonTat
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:30:00 +0000
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