Author Topic: The Official Opeth Thread: New Album now streaming (Read 352463 times)

Dark Castle · « **Reply #2450 on:** September 27, 2011, 01:44:09 PM »

Quote from: Gadough on September 27, 2011, 01:38:49 PM

One of the top-rated reviews for Heritage on Amazon states that Slither is about Ronnie James Dio's death. Can anyone confirm this?

It's stated in the liner notes, at least in the Special Edition.

Zantera · « **Reply #2451 on:** September 27, 2011, 01:45:54 PM »

Mikael said in the making of-documentary that the song is a tribute to Dio because they all loved him.
If the song is actually about him (haven't read into the lyrics that much), that I can't tell.

Gadough · « **Reply #2452 on:** September 27, 2011, 01:47:09 PM »

Ah, ok. Cool.

I still don't have a physical copy yet.

DarkEternalNight · « **Reply #2453 on:** September 27, 2011, 01:50:01 PM »

Quote from: zxlkho on September 27, 2011, 10:43:51 AM

I'LL BE DRIVING TO SEE THEM IN ABOUT 48 HOURS

BOOYAH.

zxlkho · « **Reply #2454 on:** September 27, 2011, 02:14:17 PM »

I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE FUCKING ALBUM IN THE MAIL YET

FUCK YOU ROADRUNNER

Bedwetting Cosmonaut · « **Reply #2455 on:** September 28, 2011, 07:45:22 AM »

So Heritage has grown on me to the point where I am willing to say the only album that is better than that's come out this year is GFD.

Zydar · « **Reply #2456 on:** September 28, 2011, 07:56:05 AM »

From their twitter:

"Heritage" enters the U.S. chart at #19. Opeth's highest chart position to date in the U.S.

zxlkho · « **Reply #2457 on:** September 28, 2011, 07:57:13 AM »

Awesomesauce

? · « **Reply #2458 on:** September 28, 2011, 07:59:59 AM »

A great position for this kind of band!

faemir · « **Reply #2459 on:** September 28, 2011, 08:11:05 AM »

Gave Heritage another listen (7th), and it's weird, it's done what Watershed has done, where it sounds like any old normal Opeth album.

When Watershed came out, i thought the whole sound just didn't sound like them (especially the guitar tone, it was less forest-y and more clean/clinical). Heritage felt weird because of the 70s feel. But now it's just.. normal Opeth.

So Heritage is pretty awesome.

ACID_FOX · « **Reply #2460 on:** September 28, 2011, 09:11:18 AM »

Quote from: Zydar on September 28, 2011, 07:56:05 AM

From their twitter:

"Heritage" enters the U.S. chart at #19. Opeth's highest chart position to date in the U.S.

THEY SOLD OUT DERP.

Bedwetting Cosmonaut · « **Reply #2461 on:** September 28, 2011, 09:17:19 AM »

anyone have the vinyl and want to give a quick review of it?

BC

Perpetual Change · « **Reply #2462 on:** September 28, 2011, 09:34:16 AM »

Quote from: Bedwetting Cosmonaut on September 28, 2011, 09:17:19 AM

anyone have the vinyl and want to give a quick review of it?

BC

It pretty much sounds the same. MA added some crackles and pops into the mix, though, and boy do they sound awesome.

Gadough · « **Reply #2463 on:** September 28, 2011, 10:03:06 AM »

Quote from: Perpetual Change on September 28, 2011, 09:34:16 AM

Quote from: Bedwetting Cosmonaut on September 28, 2011, 09:17:19 AM
anyone have the vinyl and want to give a quick review of it?

BC

It pretty much sounds the same. MA added some crackles and pops into the mix, though, and boy do they sound awesome.

What a creative bastard!

zxlkho · « **Reply #2464 on:** September 28, 2011, 10:09:07 AM »

OPETH TOMORROW sljdfhksjdhf

OsMosis2259 · « **Reply #2465 on:** September 28, 2011, 11:44:12 AM »

Quote from: faemir on September 28, 2011, 08:11:05 AM

Gave Heritage another listen (7th), and it's weird, it's done what Watershed has done, where it sounds like any old normal Opeth album.

When Watershed came out, i thought the whole sound just didn't sound like them (especially the guitar tone, it was less forest-y and more clean/clinical). Heritage felt weird because of the 70s feel. But now it's just.. normal Opeth.

So Heritage is pretty awesome.

Yeah this pretty much happened to me too.

lateralus88 · « **Reply #2466 on:** September 28, 2011, 11:48:45 AM »

Quote from: ACID_FOX on September 28, 2011, 09:11:18 AM

Quote from: Zydar on September 28, 2011, 07:56:05 AM
From their twitter:

"Heritage" enters the U.S. chart at #19. Opeth's highest chart position to date in the U.S.

THEY SOLD OUT DERP.

Fake.

And.

Gay.

zxlkho · « **Reply #2467 on:** September 28, 2011, 11:50:30 AM »

Not kvlt enough. 2/5.

lateralus88 · « **Reply #2468 on:** September 28, 2011, 11:56:22 AM »

They haven't been kvlt enough since they stopped recording mandolin solos.

skydivingninja · « **Reply #2469 on:** September 28, 2011, 11:59:17 AM »

They haven't been kvlt enough since the first people to ever hear Orchid for the first time heard "Under the Weeping Moon" for the first time. Ever since then they've been fake and Takei.

Xanthul · « **Reply #2470 on:** September 28, 2011, 12:00:23 PM »

That's why I burn everything I record. I'm a prolific artist with 14 albums and 5 EPs, just no one has ever heard of them.

lateralus88 · « **Reply #2471 on:** September 28, 2011, 12:01:22 PM »

Quote from: Xanthul on September 28, 2011, 12:00:23 PM

That's why I burn everything I record. I'm a prolific artist with 14 albums and 5 EPs, just no one has ever heard of them.

That's fucking indie.

Quote from: skydivingninja on September 28, 2011, 11:59:17 AM

fake and Takei

skydivingninja · « **Reply #2472 on:** September 28, 2011, 12:04:15 PM »

I record everything I make onto water, then drink it, so I have musical urine. My bowel movements consistently get 8.7s on Pitchfork.

lateralus88 · « **Reply #2473 on:** September 28, 2011, 12:06:13 PM »

Quote from: skydivingninja on September 28, 2011, 12:04:15 PM

I record everything I make onto water, then drink it, so I have musical urine. My bowel movements consistently get 8.7s on Pitchfork.

So YOU are that bastard behind Neutral Milk Hotel!

skydivingninja · « **Reply #2474 on:** September 28, 2011, 12:08:45 PM »

No. NMH is the only band to ever get a 10 on pitchfork. My urine music is trve kvlt

HarlequinForest · « **Reply #2475 on:** September 28, 2011, 12:15:58 PM »

Quote from: OsMosis2259 on September 28, 2011, 11:44:12 AM

Quote from: faemir on September 28, 2011, 08:11:05 AM
Gave Heritage another listen (7th), and it's weird, it's done what Watershed has done, where it sounds like any old normal Opeth album.

When Watershed came out, i thought the whole sound just didn't sound like them (especially the guitar tone, it was less forest-y and more clean/clinical). Heritage felt weird because of the 70s feel. But now it's just.. normal Opeth.

So Heritage is pretty awesome.

Yeah this pretty much happened to me too.

Likewise. It just blends into the rest of their catalog for me now, which is weird considering how much I hated how different it sounded at first.

glaurung · « **Reply #2476 on:** September 28, 2011, 02:37:18 PM »

So I've finally heard the album. It's pretty amazing! Calling it a bunch of Jethro Tull covers or just "Opeth does 70's prog" album is pretty ridiculous. It feels totally original to me.

ACID_FOX · « **Reply #2477 on:** September 28, 2011, 02:57:31 PM »

The only part that sounds ANYTHING like JT is the vocals at the beginning of Folklore, and even that's a stretch.

Gadough · « **Reply #2478 on:** September 28, 2011, 02:59:37 PM »

Quote from: skydivingninja on September 28, 2011, 12:08:45 PM

No. NMH is the only band to ever get a 10 on pitchfork.

Ok, I know that back-and-forth between you and Alex was a joke, but please don't tell me this part is actually true...

zxlkho · « **Reply #2479 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:02:22 PM »

Quote from: Gadough on September 28, 2011, 02:59:37 PM

Quote from: skydivingninja on September 28, 2011, 12:08:45 PM
No. NMH is the only band to ever get a 10 on pitchfork.

Ok, I know that back-and-forth between you and Alex was a joke, but please don't tell me this part is actually true...

Let me Wikipedia that for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork_Media#Albums_rated_10.0

Sigz · « **Reply #2480 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:15:38 PM »

Quote

Pitchfork has been criticized for deleting older reviews from their archive in an effort to keep up with the changing trends in indie music. One such example is the 9.5/10 review written for Save Ferris' album It Means Everything.[21]

Negative reviews of two By Divine Right albums were also removed from Pitchfork after members Brendan Canning and Leslie Feist became successful with the band Broken Social Scene and their own solo work. Steven Byrd's deleted review of By Divine Right's Bless This Mess, on which Canning and Feist play bass and guitar, went so far as to compare the band to "retard(s) with a guitar" who "wouldn't know Rock and Roll if she broke into their house and beat up their children," rating the album 1.8 out of ten.[22] After Belle & Sebastian's "comeback" in the mid-to-late 2000s, Pitchfork removed their 0.8-rated review of The Boy With the Arab Strap from the site.[23][24] The reviewer lambasted the band for writing songs that were "so sticky they should be hanging from Ben Stiller's ear, and I don't mean that in a good way."[25] The site has also removed its earlier reviews of three albums which it later rated 10.0/10: Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right to Children,[26] DJ Shadow's Endtroducing,[27] and Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.[28] Pitchfork originally gave the Flaming Lips concept album Zaireeka a scathing 0.0/10 in a review that also derided all Flaming Lips fans.[29] The review has since been deleted, and Pitchfork now praises the album.[30] Despite an initial 5.4/10 rating,[31] indicating a middling if not mediocre outing, Bright Eyes' 2000 release Fevers and Mirrors was later celebrated as one of the best of the decade in a list released after the band had reached new heights of critical and creative success.[32]

lol

zxlkho · « **Reply #2481 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:24:24 PM »

Yeah I thought it was implied that none of Pitchfork's reviews or opinions should be taken seriously.

ACID_FOX · « **Reply #2482 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:26:00 PM »

whats pitchfork they seem gey

Gadough · « **Reply #2483 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:27:38 PM »

Pitchfork only likes albums they can xanascholithoun.

Dark Castle · « **Reply #2484 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:28:11 PM »

Quote from: lateralus88 on September 28, 2011, 11:56:22 AM

They haven't been kvlt enough since they stopped recording mandolin solos.

Mandolin solos are actually really cool. Metal Hammer showcased a song from a Vietnamese band that had those and it was awesome.

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