Your views on the next Opeth album

Jbird wrote: I understand why he's not doing the cookie monster vocals these days, but I would be happier if the music itself were a bit heavier than what was on Heritage.

Hopefully a good deal heavier and a few growls please .

Nice inputs.

I liked Heritage a lot.  It's better than Watershed, which is also pretty good.

As long as they don't make another album that sounds like Damnation I don't care.

Heritage is pretty much why I've began to get back into Opeth. When Watershed came out, it seemed a little "more of the same" and/or "they might be actually running out of ideas". I see that album differently now, but it's still how I felt back then. That was more of me personally not being in the right head-space for Watershed.

It seems like Heritage is garnering similar opinions and statements online that were garnered when Damnation came out. Yet, nowadays, it's seen as one of their best albums. Opeth are actually being progressive, pretty much always have been. I feel Heritage will age very well.

In the words of Edgard Varese - "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."

As far as them going in a hard rock direction: C'mon, Opeth have albums like Damnation and Heritage, which got people worried, but in my opinion, those albums are still classic Opeth, even a transitional album like Watershed is still an amazing album. I sense that people think it's going to be some 70s/80s hard rock inspired album. I think Mikael just wants to bring some aggression back to the music, either composition-wise, or production wise, considering Heritage was a very low-key album as far as production went. Even though I've fallen in and out of love with Opeth over the years for personal reasons, they have never truly disappointed.

I'm a fan of virtually all stages of Opeth's development (progression? ) & if the next album were to further explore the areas touched on by 'Heritage' I'd be one happy man.

Then again, if they were to go softer still (toward say, the 'Damnation' album) or considerably harder, I'd still be a happy man.

To me, Opeth are one of the more interesting bands in their particular genre & Akerfeldt's leadership & songwriting so far haven't disappointed

I didn't like anything by Opeth until the last album.
There's plenty of mileage left in exploring the angle taken on the last album without going back to heavy metal.

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: Holy Moley Its Moshkito!

Anthony H. wrote: Mikael has said that the next album will be in the vein of hard rock.

Edited by UMUR - August 20 2012 at 09:14

^ I wasn't blown away by Heritage either, I still like it, but missed some of the majesty and darkness from them. Some really impressive pieces on the album, but I too hope it's a mix of progressive metal and prog.