calus

Well... the opening is rare everywhere...
Take a somewhat narrow-minded jazz enthusiast; for him, metal can easily be crap...
I think that if metal (and similar genres) overshadow others, it's because it truly hides the most difficult emotions to uncover... melody, for example, is just one ingredient, and it's much better balanced than in other genres...
And then a question...
Feelings and moods aren't always pleasant; what do we listen to in order to channel... anger? impatience? why not, madness?
All those nice subgenres with the "post" suffix that lean towards the apocalyptic, the catacomb-like, the misanthropic, the depressive... it may seem strange, but they are the ones that make us fall in love with the extreme!
And then the rhythm... stretched or broken, the four-four time as a special case, this brings out emotions that only a few can fail to recognize...
I understand the 13-year-old metalhead with black t-shirts and nail polish, but in the end, we're always talking about emotional content rather than the immaturity of the listeners...
Long live Ulver as an example; they don't deny, they explore...
I once liked a review of the masterpiece by Void of Silence:
"I imagine a world where Human Antithesis is played from speakers on the beach in August..."
Chills!!!!

Unlike many other "types" of listeners, an open-minded metalhead can probably listen to anything... from jazz to electronic, from prog to pop (perhaps refined), from folk to psychedelia, from fusion to techno... and excuse me... even brutal...

really nice album..but literally ruined by the voice!!! I would have opted for either a different singer or a more theatrical solution.. this way it doesn't deliver.. it prevents me from repeated listening.. sorry!

I have never heard anything from the damned artist in question... but I have always been intrigued by them... I hope to find some coherence at least, and beautiful feelings (I didn’t say positive!!!)
The review couldn’t have been better, well done!

the absolute most beautiful among the many masterpieces (especially the earlier ones) by Opeth (what a goal they are ^_^)..I mean all the tracks (from the third one on until the end in particular) are hallucinatory, melodic, gothic, doomish, produced amazingly, sung and played with excellence and above all emotional!!! It was my first album by them, the first real death (or pseudo-death) album that threw me into the abyss of this type of music; I will never thank it enough, nor will I ever stop listening to it with the same wonderful sensations..

or TH stands for THERION (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therion)... now let me know what you think and let's write a book with these new Metal-Occult parallels!

maybe TH stands for THELEMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema), just to engage in a bit of (pseudo)esotericism from the bar..^_^

Very good Geenoo, I totally agree!
The Slayer guys are clowns and I don't even like what they play..
This is heavy for kids, considering the lightness and the complete lack of identification with what they scream from the stage.. (at this point, say things you believe in or have a little respect..).

I used to love it... at the Black Out we used to mosh like crazy... who was there?

beautiful "feeling" from the album..more than a review. In itself, the album is the classic splendid manifesto of a certain type of art, but in the end, it's unlistenable for me (I've tried so many times..). I prefer the subsequent u fail me, more accessible (still with caution).