Style: Progressive death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Riff after riff after riff, the songs just keep going
Thoughts: Early Opeth is everything I love about metal, especially 90's metal. It has so many ideas and concepts that it doesn't know where to start and end... so it just throws them all in and see what sticks and what doesn't.
There are so many things going on in this release. So many melodies, so many beats, so many passages. It really feels like the band had too many ideas and couldn't edit them out. The songs are a bit disjointed, but somehow manage to stay somewhat cohesive. In reality though these songs are just a collection of riffs, one after the other without any regard for if it makes a full on song or not.
Mourningrise along with Orchid is the most experimental that Opeth would ever be. They are a moment in time that the band never revisited. It's fascinating, like looking at an archived tome from a period long forgotten. This one just happens to be in audio form.
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