The Tech/Extreme Prog metal appreciation

avalanchemaster wrote: no offense guys, but can you start an Opeth appreciation thread?  They DO NOT belong in this thread.  They are prog metal.  Nothing tech about them.    Plus they are so yesterday/old hat.... well at least to me.  I watched the Lamentations DVD yesterday and was bored stiff....

no offense guys, but can you start an Opeth appreciation thread?  They DO NOT belong in this thread.  They are prog metal.  Nothing tech about them. 

Ghost Reveries is great. That's my favorite tied with Blackwater Park. Blackwater Park is the better album overall, but the bulk of Ghost Reveries is so great that in my mind they are about equal.

avestin wrote: An interview with Gonin-Ish over at Sea of Tranquility: http://www.seaoftranquility.org/article.php?sid=1338 For those who need to listen to them: www.myspace.com/goninish

Bumping this from the last page in case anyone missed it.

Blackwater Park, then surprisingly Ghost Reveries, though granted it was the first I'd heard by them

^Blackwater Park for me as well, its about perfect.

SO guys, when will Necrophagist be added?


I kid! I kid!


What's your guys favorite Opeth album? I think mine might be Still Life. I couldn't get it until recently, but I am in love with it.

Edit: YES, Still Life is my favorite.


Edited by JJLehto - July 30 2009 at 21:06

Jake Kobrin wrote: I enjoy Frantic Bleep, but amazing I wouldn't necessarily say.

that's alright.  Everyone's experience is subjective.  we can agree to disagree.... but tell me this:  who do they sound like?  I say nobody else that I know of; which alone makes them fairly unique in the metal world.  Amazing to me..... but you know, we've already touched on that topic....

UMUR wrote: I never understood what people found so special about Scar Symmetry. Pretty generic melodic Swedish death metal/ metal ( of the most polished kind. Where´s the bite? Where´s the edge?). It´s allright but really! I´ve heard so many band´s playing this style and they don´t really stand out as something special to my ears. Taste is taste of course.

I like the polished kinda though, because it's a different feel the rougher, older school of melo death, so it's different feelings I get from it ya know.
I like how they have 2 vocalists, one doing clean and one growling, it's not something a lot of the melo death bands do.
Maybe not of interest to that many people, but they were hugely responsible for bringing 7 string guitars to the melo death scene and that allows them to get some more unconventional things happening guitar wise that 6 string bands just can't do.
But honestly you can argue many bands play in the style of power metal, thrash metal, prog metal, death metal, doom metal, I just honestly think Scar Symmetry has features to their sound that sets them apart from the band rehashing the old school melodeath sound, and they are about using the newest production values and levels of technique they can on the instrument (it's not hard to see Scar Symmetry have virtuosity more in line with technical metal bands when they go into those kind of sections where the older school melo death bands were less technical in general) to give them the most modern sound they can have and I like that approach personally.

Yeppers......Frantic Bleep are pretty awesome!