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Anathema: A Fine Day To Exit...

Quality band... knock Opeth right out of the park in my view... Evil Smile

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

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

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

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? LOL

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

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

Anekdoten - Vemod

Pattern-Seeking Animals - Only Passing Through

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Recommendation from my streaming service based on my recent listening history. This is great.

High Castle Teleorkestra - The Egg That Never Opened

Band is made up of members from Estradasphere, Mr. Bungle, Farmers Market, Umlaut, Secret Chiefs 3 and other bands like that.

For fans of eclectic, avant prog, and the Beach Boys. Kitchen sink music in a good way.

Edited by mathman0806 - August 07 2022 at 00:15