EDIT: Where's Black_Floyd when you could use some backing up?
lol, I was asleep but otherwise I'd have been in here instantly to have your back. It's become fairly obvious that most of the folks giving you shit are repeatedly ignoring the basis of your argument and likely because they like the new direction and have little reason to be open to opposing viewpoints because of that.
Seriously people, how hard is it to grasp the point he's trying to make? He's not saying he wants Opeth to make the same damn record for all of eternity. He's saying if they're gonna radically change their sound, he'd prefer it be in the name of making actual good music and not just dick-riding Mike's 70s influences in an unfulfillingly uncreative manner.
Ugh I get tired of hearing this... The "Heritage doesn't sound like an Opeth record" complaint.
Yeah Heritage is different but it's still Opeth and has elements that make it an Opeth record. If you don't like it, that's cool but it's DEF an Opeth record.
Ghost Reveries doesn't sound anything like Orchid... Times change, bands change, people change.
I don't recall anyone griping about GR back when it was released or in the years that followed so you're grasping at straws with that one. Also, most of the people whom don't like Heritage probably rank Orchid and Morningrise fairly low anyway since they both seem to get the When Dream and Day Unite treatment around here anyway. Furthermore, GR wasn't that big of a change. They added keyboards but piano/keyboard had already been on Orchid (Silhouette), MAYH (Prologue, Epilogue, Circle of the Tyrant as a bonus track), BWP (The Leper Affinity, Patterns in the Ivy), Deliverance (A Fair Judgment), and Damnation (can't remember the exact tracks other than Weakness right now.) Sure Atonement was different but that's only one song. Everything else was completely in the vein of what they'd gracefully transitioned through over the previous seven albums whereas Heritage has zero growls (come back at me with Damnation if you wanna have that argument, I'm more than game), virtually zero metal (the distinction between hard rock and the style of metal Opeth plays/played is very apparent), a severe dropoff in the quality of melodic content, transitions that are jarring to a point far past clever or progressive and deep into "amateur trying to sound cool" territory, and a lot of the vocal melodies just don't fit the music over which they're sung.
He stopped coming in this thread around the same time he heard that this next album was going to suck
If you ever flunk out of school, you'll still have a promising career as a carpenter with your ability to hit the nail on the head.