My Arms Your Hearse by Opeth (CD, Nov-2003, Candlelight Records Metal)

Many many years ago I was into King Diamond, Them was the first thing that I heard from him as a solo artist but I d known about his from his days with Merciful Fate. I get into the theatrics of music - elaborate keyboards, grandiose vocals, ongoing themes that carry from song to song ... you get the picture. When I mentioned this to someone they asked me what I thought of Opeth s My Arms, Your Hearse . That was like opening a can of worms ... get me started on anything like this and I can go on for the better part of an hour about it. Music, to me, is something special - something that I...