The official Opeth thread v. Bring on the new album!

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Surely this has been mentioned before, but the last few minutes of Hex Omega sounds a lot like the heavy parts of Shutdown by OSI.

[black_biff_stadler]

Dirt From a Holy Place is so amazing /off topic

[?]

OSI is so amazing /off topic

I actually remember that 2 years ago someone posted Stockholm by OSI on Youtube as a fake leak of The Devil's Orchard.

[Buddyhunter1]

I actually remember that 2 years ago someone posted Stockholm by OSI on Youtube as a fake leak of The Devil's Orchard.

And that's how I got into OSI.

[eviljust]

Yesterday I listened to Still Life. Yeah, kinda amazing is #9 in my ranking, but still. I just love the other albums more.

[aprilethereal]

I used to think Still Life was the greatest piece of music ever created. It's still amazing and my favourite Opeth album, but it's definitely not flawless.

[?]

I promised to translate the bit where Mikael talks about the first Opeth gig in a Finnish interview last week, but I forgot it so here it is:

We opened for Therion in a suburb in Stockholm. Our then-vocalist David Isberg had a bad reputation in the metal circles and everyone hoped we would fail. We didn't let them down!

I was pretty much the only band member who knew the songs from start to finish. I stood with my back towards the audience, since I was trying to give our drummer signs about the changes between different riffs and parts. David disappeared backstage repeatedly and of course he didn't know the lyrics. In the end his improvisation mixed things up completely: if some riff was supposed to be repeated 4 times he would sing 3 or 5 lines. Soon nobody knew which part we were playing. At the end of the show someone threw snus on David and his mic stand was stolen. I still can't take that gig with humor, after 18 years.

[adastra]

Ghost Reveries 2LP  will be released this month o.o !!!!!!

[bout to crash]

I promised to translate the bit where Mikael talks about the first Opeth gig in a Finnish interview last week, but I forgot it so here it is:

We opened for Therion in a suburb in Stockholm. Our then-vocalist David Isberg had a bad reputation in the metal circles and everyone hoped we would fail. We didn't let them down!

I was pretty much the only band member who knew the songs from start to finish. I stood with my back towards the audience, since I was trying to give our drummer signs about the changes between different riffs and parts. David disappeared backstage repeatedly and of course he didn't know the lyrics. In the end his improvisation mixed things up completely: if some riff was supposed to be repeated 4 times he would sing 3 or 5 lines. Soon nobody knew which part we were playing. At the end of the show someone threw snus on David and his mic stand was stolen. I still can't take that gig with humor, after 18 years.

Dang! 

[black_biff_stadler]

Is "snus" that tobacky shit? Otherwise I have no idea unless someone threw an anus at Dan and you accidentally typed an "s" instead of an "a".

[?]

Is "snus" that tobacky shit?

Yeah, it's a Swedish thing.

[Outcrier]

I used to think Still Life was the greatest piece of music ever created.

And now?

[aprilethereal]

I used to think Still Life was the greatest piece of music ever created.

And now?

"It's still amazing and my favourite Opeth album, but it's definitely not flawless."

[Outcrier]

I meant...and now? What you think is the "greatest piece of music ever created"?

[aprilethereal]

I meant...and now? What you think is the "greatest piece of music ever created"?

Oh okay
I don't think I can decide though. SFAM comes pretty damn close honestly, but so do many other albums I consider to be perfect.

[eviljust]

Today I'll listen to Heritage probably. Giving it another opportunity.

[Onno]

Today I'll listen to Heritage probably. Giving it another opportunity.

Hope you like it 

[eviljust]

Today I'll listen to Heritage probably. Giving it another opportunity.

Hope you like it 

You know, I kinda liked it at the very first listening. It just went underwhelming right after.

[Cygnus17]

Just starting to get into this incredible talented band.  Took a while with the growling vocals, but getting used to them

[aprilethereal]

Just starting to get into this incredible talented band.  Took a while with the growling vocals, but getting used to them

Prepare for an incredible journey

[Scrub206]

Just starting to get into this incredible talented band.  Took a while with the growling vocals, but getting used to them

I was in your shoes roughly 6 months ago... Best... Journey... NA

[Cygnus17]

Great band...cant wait for their new album/tour.  I saw them on the progressive nation tour, but that was a shorter set and I went primarily to see DT (of course)...

[TioJorge]

The first time I saw Opeth was when I traveled to New York (from Houston) with a friend strictly to see DT...turns out when we got there that DT was a least of our wants. BTBAM and Opeth turned us both into fans at that point, and Opeth wore the crown that night. Master's Apprentices absolute tore our panties off and fucked us real good. SO REAL GOOD. Then I saw them in a really, really shitty venue in Houston called Terminal 5, and it was the worst venue experience I've ever had, and somehow Opeth turned it into (still) the best show I've ever seen. It was like being raped by god.

That said, I still want a follow up to Heritage. People seem to think in absolutes...as if they'd never do metal ever again if they did another 'soft' album. I think that's bullshit. They've got plenty of death metal, progressive death bunny rape metal and any other type of metal in their catalog; it's time for something new. They did one spectacular (IN MY DISGUSTINGLY USELESS, WEAK OPINION; COMPARED TO YOURS, WHOM IS READING THIS, WHICH IS FAR SUPERIOR) album and it absolutely defined their sound in a completely different way, so I'm ready for something else straight out of left field that shoves the purists in a far-out-corner of the universe. Then if they so chose and if the vocal-chord-god decides Mikael can still do it, they can go back to death-metal. If not, boo-fucking-hoo and accept reality...any type of metal will strain immensely, especially as well as Mikael does it and for as long as he has.

But really, I'm sick of the few friends who I know IRL that like Opeth constantly bitching about Heritage. Those little shits. I love 'em, but god fucking damn it are they closed-minded. I mean, it's not even about opinion at this point, it's the fact that Opeth had the audacity to do something that wasn't a brutal ass-fuck of a progressive death-metal album. *GASP*. Fuck your expectations. I hope they blow all of us out of the water and do a jazz-infused-disco album just to shove it in the faces of everyone that decided Opeth 'sucked' the moment they 'defied' the fans. Fuck fans.

/rantonclosedmindedignorance[boxyourselfinLOLLLLOOOOLOLOLOLO]

[senecadawg2]

amen, I just want them to do whatever they feel like doing.

[eviljust]

Just starting to get into this incredible talented band.  Took a while with the growling vocals, but getting used to them

Your mind will be blown. No matter which album you're gonna listen to.

@TioJorge: I really can see your point of view, but I really hope they will create something closer to their roots. Just 'cuz I miss them that way, Heritage has anything to do with it.

[Mosh]

But really, I'm sick of the few friends who I know IRL that like Opeth constantly bitching about Heritage. Those little shits. I love 'em, but god fucking damn it are they closed-minded. I mean, it's not even about opinion at this point, it's the fact that Opeth had the audacity to do something that wasn't a brutal ass-fuck of a progressive death-metal album. *GASP*. Fuck your expectations. I hope they blow all of us out of the water and do a jazz-infused-disco album just to shove it in the faces of everyone that decided Opeth 'sucked' the moment they 'defied' the fans. Fuck fans

Mostly agreed. I don't have a problem with people just not digging the album, but hating it on the grounds that it isn't "metal" is really annoying.

[Dark Castle]

I feel like I've said this before so many times, but it's not that Heritage is a bad album, or that Opeth can't experiment... But to change your entire sound after 10+ years of an established "basic" sound just kind of sucks. Like it's totally okay to experiment with your sound, but Heritage really should have been under a different moniker, like Chuck Schuldiner did with Control Denied. Death and Control Denied are both fucking awesome, but it wouldn't have been a Death album if he'd just decided to for go changing band names, if you get what I'm saying. Heritage kind of feels like a different band and Mikael decided to for go changing the moniker. Heritage is still a good album, don't let this paragraph come across as me saying I don't like it, because I do a lot, lots of lush gorgeous moments on the album, and a few goosebump moments, but aside from Mikaels voice, and the guitar's general tone, it just doesn't feel at all like an Opeth album.

[senecadawg2]

I feel like I've said this before so many times, but it's not that Heritage is a bad album, or that Opeth can't experiment... But to change your entire sound after 10+ years of an established "basic" sound just kind of sucks.

I completely disagree. I'd take Heritage over Orchid and Watershed any day of the week. I don't think the change in sound does not 'sucks'. And I know I'm not alone in that opinion.

[Dark Castle]

I really meant that it only sucks in the context in keeping it under Opeth, which I know you still disagree with, but I'd take Orchid and Watershed ANY day of the week over Heritage.

[senecadawg2]

Fair enough.

And to be fair, I think they're all stellar albums 

[Orthogonal]

Just starting to get into this incredible talented band.  Took a while with the growling vocals, but getting used to them

They were my first "growling vocals"  band. At first they were something to suffer through while I heard the rest of the amazing music. Then I tolerated them, and over time I found I wouldn't want the songs any other way than with them. Now I enjoy them and love every bit of the extra dimension it brings to their sound.

[DebraKadabra]

Nothing wrong with liking Ghost Reveries more than Still Life and Blackwater Park. The three, together, make the holy trinity of Opeth albums for me, and any one of them can be my favorite on a given day.

Quoted for absolute motherfucking truth.  If I'm out of context, fuck all y'all.

[senecadawg2]

 

[aprilethereal]

[Outcrier]

I meant...and now? What you think is the "greatest piece of music ever created"?

Oh okay
I don't think I can decide though. SFAM comes pretty damn close honestly, but so do many other albums I consider to be perfect.

I used to think the same (about SFAM) years ago (when i was obsessed with DT and progressive metal in general), then i started to explore all kinds of genres....now i hardly listen to metal anymore