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Posted: August 06 2022 at 06:59
Anathema: A Fine Day To Exit...
Quality band... knock Opeth right out of the park in my view...
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 07:47
anathema: A Natural Disaster
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
Joined: May 22 2007
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 07:58
Jared wrote:
Anathema: A Fine Day To Exit...
Quality band... knock Opeth right out of the park in my view...
I did an Opeth marathon last month, and surprisingly didn't hate it. I love their sound musically and their clean vocal songs are awesome but I struggle with the growling. The growling didn't bother me all that much this time. Maybe after all of these years, I have developed a bit of a tolerance for them. I have sort of similar issues with Anathema. There earlier heavy albums are OK, but I could do without the growling. Once they did away with the growling, all their later era albums are great!
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 08:08
rushfan4 wrote:
I did an Opeth marathon last month, and surprisingly didn't hate it. I love their sound musically and their clean vocal songs are awesome but I struggle with the growling. The growling didn't bother me all that much this time. Maybe after all of these years, I have developed a bit of a tolerance for them. I have sort of similar issues with Anathema. There earlier heavy albums are OK, but I could do without the growling. Once they did away with the growling, all their later era albums are great!
I have come to the conclusion that I will never be able to get over the growling hurdle, Scott; I think vocals are just so important to me. I can cope with growls when they are in short bursts and know that there is a beautiful crystal clear vocal just around the corner. Away from the awful vocals, the depressing 'maungyness' of Opeth's music also leaves me stone cold, so overall, they really are the package from hell.
Concerning Anathema, I admit, I can't do their first couple of albums at all. I can cope with Eternity but can't say I'm mad about it, but love them by the time of Judgement and I really don't think Opeth would be capable of writing anything as beautiful as We're Here or Weather Systems....
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 08:14
I had reached a similar conclusion with growling, which is why I am surprised that they didn't bother me. That being said, I would never listen to them around friends or family because I find them embarrassing amongst others.
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 08:18
rushfan4 wrote:
I had reached a similar conclusion with growling, which is why I am surprised that they didn't bother me. That being said, I would never listen to them around friends or family because I find them embarrassing amongst others.
It is of course possible that you were pre-occupied with something else, to the extent that Opeth had become merely a background noise. Before you knew it, the CD had stopped and you couldn't remember anything about the album you'd been playing?
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 09:35
Anathema: We're Here...
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
Joined: March 12 2005
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Posted: August 06 2022 at 13:42
Magma - Bourges...
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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Posted: August 06 2022 at 17:22
Jared wrote:
It is of course possible that you were pre-occupied with something else, to the extent that Opeth had become merely a background noise. Before you knew it, the CD had stopped and you couldn't remember anything about the album you'd been playing?
I know the feeling.
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