Comments on: Opeth – Heritage

By: john philpin

john philpin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:08:32 +0000

Just read your post on the guardian re GFD – hoping to see a post on your site – still this album is also pretty good … meanwhile – not sure if you saw that mr wilson is listing levin torn and white on his ‘music i am listening to’ playlist – on his HQ site – this is my review of that album – well worth MANY listens >>

http://www.justgoodmusic.net/2011/09/21/levin-torn-white-review/

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:38:58 +0000

Agree, they are something different for sure. The Tull comp is strictly a good thing

Mark

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:50:52 +0000

I probably haven’t listened to enough Tull to spot the similarities.

While it’s got very strong and very deliberate 70s vibe, it comes over as a respectful homage rather than a derivative pastiche. Opeth have always had enough creativity and imagination of their own to be far more than just the sum of their influences. So it still sounds more like Opeth than it sounds like anyone else.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:25:36 +0000

Nice review. I think this is an excellent album. As noted in a tweet earlier today, I think much of this album smacks of Jethro Tull (various periods of their catalogue). This is not to suggest that this is either a bad thing (itâ€™s not in my opinion), or that the influence runs too deep (itâ€™s certainly not a copy of anything they have done). However, I found some of the instrumentation and dynamics very Tull like â€“ even the vocals could be early Ian Anderson. I wonder if anyone things the same thing?