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| All Music Guide | (4.5/5) link |
| The Metal Observer | (10/10) link |
My Arms, Your Hearse is Opeth's third album, released in 1998. My Arms, Your Hearse, sometimes abbreviated as MAYH, was Opeth's first album to be simulataneously released in Europe and the United States (under Candlelight Records and Century Media respectively). The album is Opeth's first concept album, and is a change of pace from their previous release, Morningrise, as My Arms, Your Hearse is overall heavier than its predescessor and contains fewer mellow, acoustic parts. However, the album contains three mellow tracks devoid of death metal vocals; "Prologue", "Epilogue", as well as "Credence", which is completely acoustic.
After Johan DeFarfalla who played bass on the previous releases had been kicked out of the band, Opeth brought in Martin Mendez, a friend and previous bandmate of drummer Martin Lopez, but he did not have enough time to learn the bass parts for My Arms, Your Hearse, and Mikael Åkerfeldt ended up playing bass on the album.
Perhaps to enhance the flow of the album, the very last word(s) of each song on My Arms, Your Hearse is the name of the following, with the album's final track, "Epilogue", leading back to "Prologue" to complete the cycle. My Arms, Your Hearse is the only Opeth album that has done this. The album also contains "Demon of the fall", a song favored by many Opeth fans and very often played as an encore at live performances.
The 2000 reissue of My Arms, Your Hearse includes two bonus tracks; Circle of the tyrants, a Celtic Frost cover, and Remember Tomorrow, an Iron Maiden cover.