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So we've selected the winners of the Opeth Burden comment contest!

The following two reviews are the winners, let us know what you think of them! 

missmaniac

HAIL OPETH!
My husband and I got together in 95. We found out about Opeth at around the same exact time. Opeth has been "our" band ever since. We eagerly anticipate each album, each dvd, each song and each video. We savor every little second of each offering - given of their own free will. Opeth doesn't have to share their Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious musical art form with us, but they do! And once again, we aren't disappointed! They NEVER cease to amaze us!

Have only seen them 3 times here in New Orleans, but each time was an experience of a lifetime!! One of the rare bands that sound exactly the same as their cd when they play live!! Please, without mercy - MIGHTY OPETH - we beg you - keep kicking our asses!

With infernal love & hugs,
Fiendance and MissManiac

Hellequin

This is a video to contemplate... it becomes difficult to speak words capable of reaching the sublime state that the junction between the song and the video achieves.
In my opinion, it creates a certain introspection in it's viewer, as a piece of art should do. As such, it actually completes the song (Burden, of course), as the song completes the video. Both create a single piece of art, culminating in what, for me, it's Opeth: a feeling that I cannot describe, that feeling that us all Opeth listeners and fans know pretty darn well x), a musical orgasm as I like to call it. At the same time it awakens other feelings.

I cannot speak of this video (being the album, Watershed, and it's first video for Porcelain Heart not forgotten, and included) as the highest point of Opeth - as artists-, but as a maturation of their art, as well as of their creativity and sense of experimentation.

The video maintains the song's mellow mood, giving it a beautiful strength and an image; it gives the song a face.

It is definatelly something to keep engraved in the memory of those who watch/listen to it.

:)

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