Opeth: New album - The Last Will and Testament

[treeduck]

 

 

October
11 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave / Eagles Club
12 - Cleveland, OH - Agora Theater & Ballroom
14 - Toronto, ON - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
15 - Montréal, QC - L'Olympia
16 - Worcester, MA - Palladium
18 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
19 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
20 - Washington, DC - Warner Theatre
22 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
23 - New Orleans, LA - Fillmore New Orleans
24 - Austin, TX - Emo’s Austin
25 - Dallas, TX - Majestic Theatre
27 - Denver, CO - Mission Ballroom
29 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
30 - Los Angeles, CA - YouTube Theater
31 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield

 

 

 

[Entre_Perpetuo]

How do you pronounce that song title?

[Segue Myles]

I love Tribulation!

 

Not sure what to feel about new Opeth. I put them alongside Mastodon and In Flames as the best metal band post 80s...but I've also not loved any of their albums since Watershed.

 

The album cover is evoking early 2000s Oprth covers so...I hope that's a sign the metal is back!

[Segue Myles]

Oh oh oh oh I played the song I played the song

 

Aaahhhhhhhh I love it!

 

 

[bluefox4000]

Hey the growls are back.  i admit i went straight to the vocals first before playing the song in ful

'

i was like "music........music......more music.......COME ON SING!!!!!!!!"  i just kept skipping forward, lol

 

reason being.  i've found the clean prog years boring.  to be blunt they sucked at full blown prog.  OK harsh but they didn't do anything interesting with it.

 

THIS i liked.  and have hope for the album.

 

Mick

Edited August 2, 2024 by bluefox4000

[Union 5-3992]

2 hours ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

How do you pronounce that song title?

It's a concept album about a will. All songs but the closer are different paragraphs/sections of the will.

 

I'd call the new single "Paragraph 1"

[Union 5-3992]

I'm very excited for the new album. The first tack seems like a blend of Watershed and In Cauda Venenum.

[BastillePark]

1 hour ago, bluefox4000 said:

Hey the growls are back.  i admit i went straight to the vocals first before playing the song in ful

'

i was like "music........music......more music.......COME ON SING!!!!!!!!"  i just kept skipping forward, lol

 

reason being.  i've found the clean prog years boring.  to be blunt they sucked at full blown prog.  OK harsh but they didn't do anything interesting with it.

 

THIS i liked.  and have hope for the album.

 

Mick

That's all I need to know. Pass.

[bluefox4000]

Just now, BastillePark said:

That's all I need to know. Pass.

 

 

I used to be like that now i don't mind growls/harsh vocals...........maybe i just stockholm syndromed myself

 

Mick

[Maverick]

27 minutes ago, BastillePark said:

That's all I need to know. Pass.

I'm in!  It's about time!

[BastillePark]

2 minutes ago, Maverick said:

I'm in!  It's about time!

That's what he said, and then she said.

[Maverick]

2 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

I love Tribulation!

 

Not sure what to feel about new Opeth. I put them alongside Mastodon and In Flames as the best metal band post 80s...but I've also not loved any of their albums since Watershed.

 

The album cover is evoking early 2000s Oprth covers so...I hope that's a sign the metal is back!

I agree with you here.  I didn't get into Opeth until after Watershed, and before Heritage.  I was disappointed in Heritage (figuring it was just my luck that as soon as I get into them, they stop being them.)  I saw them in concert for that tour, and while I liked it, I missed the growls.  Well, that is until the encore.  Katatonia had opened for them, and after Opeth's set, the members who made up the band Bloodbath (all Opeth and Katatonia, like a Death Metal Temple of the Dog) came out and played about three songs, and there were only growls in there.  I absolutely loved it.  But I did like the older songs Opeth did that were just the clean vocals, especially my favorite Hex Omega.

[Maverick]

3 minutes ago, BastillePark said:

That's what he said, and then she said.

I don't know if you won the entire internet today with that.  But I'm pretty sure you won TRF for August.

[BastillePark]

Åkerfeldt talks about the album and why he decided to go back to that style of "singing."  Read about it here.

[Tinwoodsman]

Awesomeness!

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

30 minutes ago, BastillePark said:

Åkerfeldt talks about the album and why he decided to go back to that style of "singing."  Read about it here.

 

The special guest mentioned later in that article is pretty dang special.

[treeduck]

29 minutes ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

 

The special guest mentioned later in that article is pretty dang special.

[BastillePark]

29 minutes ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

 

The special guest mentioned later in that article is pretty dang special.

Which one, Anderson or Tempest? 

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

7 minutes ago, BastillePark said:

Which one, Anderson or Tempest? 

 

Treeduck answered that up there.