Here are some of my thoughts about the Pale Communion.
I have listened it for about 20 times now. There are some nice moments but most of the album just doesn't feel good
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Eternal Rains Will Come and
Elysian Woes are great songs! I love them both.
Moon Above, Sun Below and
Faith In Others are both decent songs, but nothing remarkable.
Cusp Of Eternity, River and
Voice of Treason are pretty bad... IMHO. First 3 minutes of Voice Of Treason sounds so weak. I can't believe that they recorded something like this.
Goblin is a complete joke.
So, In conclusion, I like couple of songs, but most of it just doesn't click for me. I don't mind that there is now growls so no problem with that. I'm trying to say that IMO the songwriting is just weak. And best example of that is the beginning of Voice Of Treason.
I remember the days when I thought that Åkerfeldt had propably the best clean vocals ever! But somehow I don't the vocals on Pale Communion. Maybe someone else should sing in Opeth?
Propably won't be listening to Pale Communion very much anymore, I gave my copy of the cd to my friend.