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My Arms, Your Hearse | 
 enlarge | Artist: Opeth
Label: Candlelight
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 9148
Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 68
UPC: 803341143524
EAN: 8033411435248
ASIN: B0000E1WMJ
Release Date: October 14, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Prologue | | • | April Ethereal | | • | When | | • | Madrigal | | • | The Amen Corner | | • | Demon of the Fall | | • | Credence | | • | Karma | | • | Epilogue | | • | Circle of the Tyrant - Opeth, Warrior, Tom G. | | • | Remember Tomorrow - Opeth, Harris, Steve |
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Album Description
Reissue of the band's 1998 album, considered to be their best. This release includes two extra tracks 'Remember Tomorrow' and a remake of the Celtic Frost classic 'Circle of the Tyrant'. Candlelight. 2003.
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 Too repetitive October 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Here is the ingredients needed to make an Opeth song. Anybody can do it, with decent music talent:
1. Really fast double bass drum tempo for a few seconds, accompanied by some pretty cool screaming, a creative device works the first ten times you hear it, then it's boring.
2. Slow, nondescript, instrumental acoustic guitar part for a few seconds or more.
3. Classic "kachung kachung" power chords played in a med. tempo, with normal sounding singing, for a few seconds or more.
4. Decent guitar solo, over any one of the above, for a few seconds or more.
Put those limited ingredients in a can, shake them out, and however they land is the next Opeth song. Every frickin song follow this exact same plan. Only difference is the order of the components. Pathetic, if your trying to impress a musician (I am one). Despite this, one has to for a one trick pony, Opeth is a pretty enjoyable trick. I doubt if I would buy another CD by them though, unless I were convinced it was not another "one song" album.
So many bands do this nowadays. Hit upon one idea that works, and then give up on trying to find any others.
 My Opinion, Your Choice March 31, 2008
Opeth are very unique featuring a wide array of musical genre compacted in a
powerful yet at times delicate metallic manor.
This album alone holds all the potential of their previous albums and is a great starting basis for a new comer. The songs are rather on the long side, so you easily get your moneys worth in length. The quality holds faithful the entire duration too, indicating an even better buy.
I was blindsided when a metal head and a pianist rec amended me this album. While it is metal it doesn't strictly follow the tested true formula, and in fact pioneers itself to jazzy, classical, and acoustic arrangements. The album is very progressive and while songs look long on paper seem short, because they are so good!
Well worth the price new, let alone a used copy.
the one that will stand the test of time ... December 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Opeth is testament to the fact that there is always beauty to be found in places where one would least expect it - in this case, an album labeled under the "extreme progressive metal" genre. Sure, this album is heavy in the truest sense of the word, but if you invest some time and dig through the imposing wall of sound, you will realize that it has been built on a solid base of Scandinavian folk melodies and layered twin-guitar harmonies.
For a while, I have been trying hard to find a way to describe Opeth in words. This is what I been able to put together so far: take a bunch of hopeless romantics (who also happen to be gifted musicians), give them guitars and drums and ask them to play mind-numbingly heavy and blisteringly fast music. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Opeth ...
This is Opeth's 3rd album, and in my humble opinion, the one that will eventually stand the test of time. Their first album was like - "Dude, we just discovered something new and incredible, now what the heck do we do with it ?". Their second album, "Morningrise" improved on the first, and had better musicianship (in fact, it sported several acoustic twin-guitar harmonies that made that album very special to me). MAYH marks a turning point in Opeth's sound - it is much more organized with shorter songs that don't meander into netherland (not that there is anything wrong with "meandering" - it is subjective), and also the overall sound is much heavier (yet the melody is still there). This is arguably one of Opeth's heaviest albums, and probably the first one to consistently feature Opeth's trademark "melodic/heavy/sad/powerful/epic"-sounding riffs (or just "Opethian"-riffs for brevity).
Just like other Opeth albums, MAYH is a concept album that describes an over-the-top love story - though, with a slight twist - one of the lovers is a dead guy (or a ghost to be precise). This guy dies before the beginning of the album and for a short while he doesn't know that he is dead yet (and by the way, this album was released in 1998 - an year before "The Sixth Sense" was released). For most of the album, this ghost watches in agony as his wife (or lover) suffers in grief unable to cope with the loss of her loved one. He (being a ghost and all) is powerless and unable to comfort her. The only time they are able to have a real conversation is through her dreams where "she laughing and weeping at once, says: 'take me away'", for which he responds, "I don't know how or why, and I'll never know WHEN.". And so on and so forth goes the story as his other attempts to reach her (as in the "Demon of The Fall") end in disaster as she starts to think that she is being haunted, and it drives her further into madness. Realizing this, he decides that the best way out of this is to let her be, and he simply walks away ...
A few special notes are in order about this album: the ending lyrics of all the songs are the same as the title of the following song (the ending lyric of the last song is the same as the title of the first song). All the songs represent different seasons - the first full song "April Ethereal" starts (obviously) in the spring, and the album moves on to summer (on the "Amen Corner"), and into the fall (on "Demon of the Fall") and finally ends in winter's "Epilogue" (which starts the next "Prologue", and so it goes on ...).
Musically, this is clearly one of Opeth's best works. It starts with "Prologue" that sets the mood for the rest of the album. You hear raindrops on the background followed by a gentle piano intro that forebodes the sadness that is to follow ... "April Ethereal" then starts with fade-in vocals and immediately bursts into massive riffs followed by Akerfeld's imperious growl and the rest is ... well, you just have to listen to find out. Trying to describe Opeth's songs using words is always a very difficult thing to do. But, I do want to mention a few musical highlights: this album features several unique riffs that follow some sort of a "question/answer" format - more precisely - the first part of the riff appears to ask a question that is answered by the second part of the riff (Ok. maybe, I am imagining things here ... or maybe not). Just listen to the riff that begins around 4:40 into the "April Ethereal", or the riff around 5:50 into "When", and you might understand what I am trying to say. Also, a special mention is in order for the outros of "April Ethereal" and "Demon of the Fall" - these are priceless gems, and the absolute head-banging beauty that launches the "Amen Corner".
All said, I do have a few minor quibbles. For example, I felt that the gear shift from the "Prologue" to "April Ethereal" was bit too abrupt for my taste. Also, some middle sections of the "Amen Corner" could have been a bit more interesting. It is definitely the album's weakest point (although, for an album of this calibre, that doesn't mean much).
Overall, this is a masterpiece - enough said.
"... Amidst the forest one would hear that I had been there. Draped within a fate I could not change, and always welcoming Winter's EPILOGUE ..."
Deep, textured and thoroughly enjoyable - highly recommended! November 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Opeth is that band, that band that can seemingly do it all. They play metal in an almost universal way, incorporating into each song a lot of varying mixtures with the vocals and the guitars. The growl styles of vocals are found here, but it is the "clean" vocals that really take your breath away. This album is heavy hitting in places, while slow and melodic in others. It has those ethereal, haunting atmospheres mixed in with superb blends of fantastic fretwork. My arms, your hearse is an album that can be enjoyed over and over again, and each time the listener can find some new sound or meaning within any given song. For me, there is no particular song that stands out, they all seem to me to bear a great value.
I do however, really enjoy the song "Amen Corner" which has some great change ups throughout, and like many of the songs it introduces a great mix of guitars that never get boring, monotonous, repetitive or annoying. I say that because sometimes with bands of this genre, or any genre for that matter, there is the chance to come off formulaic and repetitive. Sometimes a band can put too many minutes into showcasing frenzied technical ability. You won't find that here, for this Opeth album shows a bands ability to put great effort into laying out a textured, rich platoon of songs that have a great coverage in instrumental musicianship, progressive power and intelligent songwriting.
I spent years listening to the more opera styled vocals with long winded solos from many metal bands, and the entire time I had heard of Opeth, but never really checked them out. This particular album is in my "armchair metalhead" opinion, a masterpiece. The surging guitar parts of "Demon of the Fall" never tire, and the song "Karma" has a great mix of shredding that then turns over to the latter half of the track with some eclectic solo parts that are simply fantastic. Also to note are the driving beats of the dark, driving tune called "Circle of the Tyrant", which again, shows some great versatility in going forward with some supersonic speed from the lead guitar. Artful and Timeless, "My arms, your hearse" will be one to treasure for years to come.
MADRIGAL allright ! May 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Roaring riping through some of the best stuff these guys have done.This cd is raw but mature.It is a look into the other side of human existence.A dark broading yet soft as the opening portion of a soft rainfall.
This band will take you through darkness and light in the blink of an eye.You will be captivated by this majestral Akerfelt who has all the right ingredients to be mentioned among the heaviest of metalers along with the majestics of progressivism and the softness of a rock balad.
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