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Drew 
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Sounds OK- not too excited honestly. Thanks for posting this!
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Prog Geo
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 18:17 |
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I'm very open-minded in music. But I have some standards.
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Sonorous Meal show every Sunday at 20:00 (greek time) on http://www.justincaseradio.com
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Negoba
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 18:25 |
While having Per's head swinging in the breeze is simultaneously tacky and hilarious, having an Opeth album that's full on prog sounds pretty friggin awesome to me. Damnation was intentionally "light" and this doesn't sound like that. Mikael is a known fan of Comus and I think if anyone can make something twisted and beautiful, it's Opeth.
We'll see...I'm stoked.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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mithrandir
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 18:47 |
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wow, wasn't expecting that, but it makes me look forward to hearing it that much more, I'm sure I'll like,
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:03 |
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"it certainly is an acquired taste"
RIO MASTERPIECE INCOMING
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:18 |
Sounds good! Although i don't really care for about 1/3 of the bands listed under the influences of this album, but still...all the other words make this sound quite nice. Glad to see them doing something they want to do rather than what the fans want/expect.
Certainly has been moved up in my anticipation queue.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:42 |
Drew wrote:
Sounds OK- not too excited honestly. Thanks for posting this!
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Ditto. I listen to Opeth for heavy. If it aint heavy, I aint listening. There's a reason why the only album I don't have by them at the moment is Damnation. And YES, I have heard it before 
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QuestionableScum
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:49 |
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This sounds like it will be good. It seems to me that Opeth have exhausted their metal vocabulary, and were having difficulty reaching the intensity they had on Still Life/Blackwater Park on their last record. This is not to say that Watershed was bad, but it seemed to me that while on that record they had changed the sort of metal guitar work they used, it seemed to me to be very meh. Thus, I hope that Akerfeldt has reached a place where he knows that if he is not writing top quality metal, but is writing top quality prog rock, start making prog rock. The proggy elements of the last two Opeth records are what I have loved most, where the metal elements have seemed good, but derivative and underwhelming at best.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:51 |
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But Watershed isn't good either. The best songs were Heir Apparent and Lotus Eater. Burden and Coil bored the hell out of me - but so did the second half of that album.
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Negoba
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:55 |
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I love Coil, Hessian Peel, and Lotus Eaters. Heir Apparent's best parts are the proggy stuff in the middle / late. Porcelain Heart and Burden were boring, but I think this could be quite good.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 19:56 |
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Well... on the bright side - maybe this album will bomb and the band's next (in 2014) will be an amazing "return to form".
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TheClosing
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 20:12 |
King By-Tor wrote:
"return to form".
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Translation: Appeasing the fickle fans who want a rehash of the same uninspired album over and over. Because eight albums worth of the exact same formula: DM verse into clean passage then rinse and repeat, just isn't enough.
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colorofmoney91
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 20:20 |
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I'm definitely excited for this.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 20:41 |
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I really enjoy Porcelain Heart. I don't get the hate.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 20:44 |
TheClosing wrote:
King By-Tor wrote:
"return to form".
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Translation: Appeasing the fickle fans who want a rehash of the same uninspired album over and over. Because eight albums worth of the exact same formula: DM verse into clean passage then rinse and repeat, just isn't enough. |
Suddenly, a random acoustic passage appeared.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 20:47 |
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Maybe the new album will be 56 minutes of Weather Channel jazz.
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 22:15 |
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Havent been excited for Opeth since 2005 so this will be an interesting release. If it comes out the same day as the new Dream Theater my face will explode!
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 22:22 |
Padraic wrote:
Maybe the new album will be 56 minutes of Weather Channel jazz.
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OH GOD PLEASE YES!  Cmon Opeth smooth jazz album
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QuestionableScum
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 22:56 |
King By-Tor wrote:
But Watershed isn't good either. The best songs were Heir Apparent and Lotus Eater. Burden and Coil bored the hell out of me - but so did the second half of that album.
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I wouldn't call Burden or Coil particularly prog and neither song is particularly strong, but neither is the Lotus Eater or Heir Apparent. The Lotus Eater and Heir Apparent both suffer from having little atmosphere, and riffs that are not captivating at all.
Hessian Peel, and Hex Omega on the other hand were two tracks that I absolutely loved, because of the familiar atmosphere that felt very Opeth, while pushing the band more towards a 70's trad prog approach in terms of instrumentation.
But I imagine we have very different takes on Opeth given how you feel about Damnation, as I would place it as their 4th best album, only being surpassed by BWP, Still Life and Morningrise.
Edited by QuestionableScum - June 02 2011 at 23:01
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 23:00 |
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Hessian Peel alone boosts that album. What a brilliant song.
Also I'm with Pat, I like Porcelain Heart as well.
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