Originally Posted by Inuzuka Skysword

The problem I have with Orchid is that it is so unpolished. I mean, it is a great album, but it was a bunch of ideas piled together at the last second. It was almost like the band just wanted to create the sound. I think the band was smart in doing this though. They established their sound early on and then polished that sound with Still Life and then polished it with a different tone on Blackwater Park. Morningrise, my favorite, is probably the most diverse record of theirs. The folk interludes were also done best on that album.

I think the best thing about Orchid is that I felt it had a sort-of black metal feel to it, which is way different then any of their albums. The guitars were lose and the band sounded like a folk black metal band. When they did My Arms, Your Hearse they moved much more into the death metal genre. That album, IMO, is the most death metal album they have made. Deliverance was heavy, but I thought that album had more of a progressive sound then death. It reminded me of Meshuggah with a more deathy sound.