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Posted: June 05 2011 at 19:05
Tapfret wrote:
I'm already amused. This will be Opeth's St. Anger. Regardless of it being good/bad/different whatever, it will be the "its cool to bash Opeth" album. Hell, just the cover has people frothing at the mouth. Let the dog pile begin.
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 20:33
Tapfret wrote:
I'm already amused. This will be Opeth's St. Anger. Regardless of it being good/bad/different whatever, it will be the "its cool to bash Opeth" album. Hell, just the cover has people frothing at the mouth. Let the dog pile begin.
Not quite so easy. St. Anger was sunk not entirely but sufficiently by a snare drum. I think it might be harder to take down Heritage.
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Posted: June 06 2011 at 06:08
Fyrus wrote:
Am I one of the few that thought Damnation was one of Opeth's weaker albums?
And I am in no way a fan of death metal and such... Opeth is the only band with growling I can stand :p
Damnation just didn't seem like Opeth...
I don't think this new album will be like Damnation though, seems to be different.
Damnation and Deliverence make up the two worst albums in Opeth's discography. Heritage seems like they're going to do something very different to Damnation and I am definitely looking forward to it, and I like that cover art as well.
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Posted: June 06 2011 at 09:09
sleeper wrote:
Damnation and Deliverence make up the two worst albums in Opeth's discography.
Interesting how different people's opinions can be. Those are two of my favorite albums in their discography. Although perhaps you think so highly of the other albums that these lose by default.
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Posted: June 06 2011 at 09:18
The only way Heritage will be like St. Anger is if it's horrifically bad in almost every way. It might be stylish to pile on them for selling out or whatever, but St. Anger has a special little place in rock suckiness. The lyrics, production, in fact the entire purpose of the album would have to be bad. Playing in the style of your all time favorites is not a bad reason to make an album. Completely selling our your roots to try to make something current was. No comparison.
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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Posted: June 06 2011 at 09:42
Stoned420 wrote:
sleeper wrote:
Damnation and Deliverence make up the two worst albums in Opeth's discography.
Interesting how different people's opinions can be. Those are two of my favorite albums in their discography. Although perhaps you think so highly of the other albums that these lose by default.
Well, I do think very highly of the three preceeding albums, particularly BWP, but I just found that splitting the two sides of Opeth onto seperate albums didnt at all work. Plus, I hate Lopez's inapropriate drumming on Deliverance.
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Posted: June 06 2011 at 11:20
It really makes me laugh when someone says that Damnation is a prog album.
I think Mikael is doing the correct decision. Watershed was their weakest album since Damnation. His growls are becoming much worse (you can see in the Live at Albert Hall), probably because of too much cigarettes and drinking. If you compare the old growls with the current ones...... much better. Mikael doesn't hold his growls too much anymore like he used to do.
On the other hand, his clean singing has improved so much! That's why I think it is best to make an album with more clean vocals.
No way this will be 'incomplete' - Opeth's music doesn't rely on growls, even though Akerfeldt's are some of the best in the business. Looking forward to this, especially since he seems so excited about it. A repeat of Damnation would be a little on the boring side, but it seems like the music here will be less straightforward.
Also I don't know if his growls have been getting worse. Watershed wasn't the best but his vocals killed on Ghost Reveries.
Is there any news regarding the Akerfeldt project with Steve Wilson of Porcupine Tree? I remember hearing something about that a few months back, but then radio silence ...
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