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darkshade 
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This has peaked my interest. 3 of the biggest prog metal bands coming out with albums around the same time this year!
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SFranke
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 13:08 |
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The band held a listening party for journalists on Wednesday. The word is the album has no growls, no death metal, and is about 56 minutes in length.
http://www.inferno.fi/blogi-opeth-heritage-ilm-20-9-4914/
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darkshade
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 13:29 |
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:26 |
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no metal AND a really stupid cover? Not worth the 3 year wait, sorry. I'll stick with Deliverance and Blackwater Park, k thx.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:30 |
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I still am not sure how to feel about the album cover.
I love it, but the faces of the band members on it is kind of wtf.
Looks like a 70's prog rock album cover! Which may not be too surprising actually.
I am cautiously looking forward to it. I was hoping they'd mix it up and sounds like they are. Now just hoping it will be good different and not sh*tty different!
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:32 |
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I thought it was an awesome cover until I saw it close up. Replace the band's faces with more skulls and it's epic.
But it's like a scene in a movie, you can't take even the most hardcore dramatic scene seriously if it ends with a comedic moment. It turns the whole scene comedic. Opeth, you have turned your whole album comedic.
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darkshade
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:35 |
 King By-Tor wrote:
no metal?
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That hasn't been ruled out yet. I'm sure there's some sick riffs on the album
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darkshade
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:37 |
King By-Tor wrote:
I thought it was an awesome cover until I saw it close up. Replace the band's faces with more skulls and it's epic.
But it's like a scene in a movie, you can't take even the most hardcore dramatic scene seriously if it ends with a comedic moment. It turns the whole scene comedic. Opeth, you have turned your whole album comedic.
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You don't think the Deliverance cover is funny? with Mikael standing in view of the mirror in the backround, trying to look evil 
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:40 |
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It's still pretty metal. Plus you'd have to know beforehand that it was him. You don't look at it and go - Oh, that's Mikael.
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darkshade
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 14:50 |
King By-Tor wrote:
It's still pretty metal. Plus you'd have to know beforehand that it was him. You don't look at it and go - Oh, that's Mikael.
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I did, or at least I thought it was when it came out. (though admittedly, it spooked me at first )
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PabstRibbon
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 15:27 |
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I think that Heritage will have growl and sick riffs in it because I remember an interview that Mikeal said that he would never make another album like Damnation ( no growl no metal riffs) so it will be surely be a violent record like the other one
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 15:28 |
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I think that Heritage will have growl |
Apparently not.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:04 |
darkshade wrote:
SFranke wrote:
The band held a listening party for journalists on Wednesday. The word is the album has no growls, no death metal, and is about 56 minutes in length.
http://www.inferno.fi/blogi-opeth-heritage-ilm-20-9-4914/
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I heard about this. They said, too, that there was jazz, folk, funk, and blues mixed in too  
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Excellent! I would LOVE a 70's feeling album but with some heaviness still, and jazzfolkbluesfunk mixed in! I still lol at how everyone heard "no death metal" and is assuming it's going to be Kansas now. That being said, a prog rock album would be cool but it can't be a 70's clone either
Edited by JJLehto - June 02 2011 at 17:08
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:24 |
JJLehto wrote:
darkshade wrote:
SFranke wrote:
The band held a listening party for journalists on Wednesday. The word is the album has no growls, no death metal, and is about 56 minutes in length.
http://www.inferno.fi/blogi-opeth-heritage-ilm-20-9-4914/
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I heard about this. They said, too, that there was jazz, folk, funk, and blues mixed in too
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Excellent!
I would LOVE a 70's feeling album but with some heaviness still, and jazzfolkbluesfunk mixed in!
I still lol at how everyone heard "no death metal" and is assuming it's going to be Kansas now.
That being said, a prog rock album would be cool but it can't be a 70's clone either
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You evidently have not heard the middle section of "Icarus II." 
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 18:08 |
SFranke wrote:
The band held a listening party for journalists on Wednesday. The word is the album has no growls, no death metal, and is about 56 minutes in length.http://www.inferno.fi/blogi-opeth-heritage-ilm-20-9-4914/
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So basically it's not Opeth anymore...
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 20:25 |
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This is all encouraging. Watershed was rather pathetic, actually. I'm wary of metal-blues turns (thank you, Pain of Salvation for that) but still, I'm hopeful Opeth will find soul, in a way.
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darkshade
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 22:08 |
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I still think there will be metal riffs (how many? I dont know) so it wont be like Damnation, but I also believe this will be Opeth's most varied album. I love when bands mix it up.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 22:27 |
darkshade wrote:
I still think there will be metal riffs (how many? I dont know) so it wont be like Damnation, but I also believe this will be Opeth's most varied album. I love when bands mix it up.
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That is exactly what I think. Agreed, much as I love Opeth they were wearing a bit thin after 8 albums of more or less the same style, and Watershed was really pretty mediocre but some great parts pulled it up.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 22:31 |
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Pekka
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 23:23 |
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A guy on another message board who was at that pre-listen said it still has plenty of really heavy parts, despite the lack of death metal. No Damnation this one.
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