The Official Opeth Thread

[The Owl]

QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Mar 2 2010, 06:39 PM)

Good Poll!! Had to go with "Watershed." "Ghosts" is a close second. How will this band write a new record that will surpass "Watershed?" Maybe Steven Wilson knows that answer. Signed, "Blackwater Park"

Watershed and Damnation are by a wide margin their most accessible albums....... and both are very, very great..

 

but nothing can top the overall impact of what is BWP.... just amazing

 

 

what did you think of their new song?

 

[H. P. L.]

QUOTE (The Owl @ Mar 3 2010, 07:14 PM)

but nothing can top the overall impact of what is BWP.... just amazing

 

 

[The Owl]

Are any of you lucky bastards who live overseas seeing any of the 6 dates that Opeth are doing for their 20th anniversary tour...?

 

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OPETH - Evolution XX: An Opeth Anthology MARCH 2010     * 30th - Cirkus, Stockholm - SWEDEN APRIL 2010     * 1st - Lichtburg, Essen - GERMANY (SOLD OUT)     * 3rd - Bataclan, Paris - FRANCE (SOLD OUT)     * 4th - Paaspop Festival, Schijndel - NETHERLANDS (*Please note NOT a Evolution XX show)     * 5th - Royal Albert Hall, London - UK     * 7th - Terminal 5, New York - NY, USA (SOLD OUT)     * 9th - The Wiltern, Los Angeles - CA, USA (SOLD OUT) JUNE 2010     * 12th - Sweden Rock Festival

 

They are supposed to be playing BWP in it's entirety.... I wish I could go!.

 

 

 

 

Aside from that, there is no news regarding a new album anytime soon.... I know that Mikael stated he wanted to do a solo acoustic album (which is really cool), but hopefully as far a full new Opeth album, I hope they are back in the studio by the end of the summer to early fall, and we will hopefully have an album by either late this year or early next year.

[The Owl]

[treeduck]

[The Owl]

Anyone pre-order the new live album yet?

[Joshua]

I honestly can't pick just one favorite album. The three I play the most are Ghost Reveries, Watershed, and Blackwater Park. The albums I listen to the least are the first two.

[The Owl]

QUOTE (Joshua @ Aug 14 2010, 01:13 PM)

I honestly can't pick just one favorite album. The three I play the most are Ghost Reveries, Watershed, and Blackwater Park. The albums I listen to the least are the first two.

Really, out of the first 5 albums Id put Morningrise up there with BWP and Watershed..... Morningrise I feel is a very strong and amazing album.

[sullysue]

QUOTE (The Owl @ Aug 14 2010, 12:58 PM)

Anyone pre-order the new live album yet?

Still waitin' on that f'ing money fairy!

 

I'm really anxious to order that and the PT DVD. And the Insurgentes DVD. So much stuff I want....

 

Have you ordered it yet?

[J0N]

Saw them on Friday at Bloodstock festival - was probably the best setlist i've seen them play, and they did a fantastic cover of Catch the Rainbow as a tribute to Dio.

[The Owl]

QUOTE (J0N @ Aug 16 2010, 10:47 AM)

Saw them on Friday at Bloodstock festival - was probably the best setlist i've seen them play, and they did a fantastic cover of Catch the Rainbow as a tribute to Dio.

I saw it on youtube last night....... Incredible

 

http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?act=...51061&p=2050728

[J0N]

QUOTE (The Owl @ Aug 16 2010, 04:51 PM)

QUOTE (J0N @ Aug 16 2010, 10:47 AM) Saw them on Friday at Bloodstock festival - was probably the best setlist i've seen them play, and they did a fantastic cover of Catch the Rainbow as a tribute to Dio. I saw it on youtube last night....... Incredible   http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?act=...51061&p=2050728 Aye, was a great show; Twisted Sister covered Long Live Rock 'N' Roll as well, which was surprisingly good, as was the band in general

[thelocator]

QUOTE (sullysue @ Nov 5 2009, 10:29 AM)

I got my hands on Blackwater Park and Morningrise last night. The first thing that came to mind while I was listening to Blackwater Park (haven't listened to Morningrise yet) was that it's very "manly" music. I can't think of a better way of putting it. But, it's the kind of music I tend to gravitate towards in that it's not one song after another of the same thing. What I appreciate most is the transitioning that goes on. Growling and heavy, but then changing up to melodic and soothing. It's like listening in on a schizophrenic episode. Musically, I love them. I only need to get past the growling vocals, and Opeth has a new fan.

For some reason, females tend to gravitate towards the tunes, 'The Drapery Falls', 'Harvest' and 'A Fair Judgment' for some reason...That's my experience with chickadees and the mighty Opeth...So, it's not all dudely music, strictly for dudamen...And, I guess that you already know that Steve Wilson produced three of the Opeth recordings...and that 'Damnation' basically sounds like a PT/Opeth hybrid...These things you know?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Owl]

Burden......... Just Wow!

[thelocator]

QUOTE (The Owl @ Aug 24 2010, 11:57 PM)

Burden......... Just Wow!

You just got wowed by it now, or are you working from memory?

 

It's definitely a residual wower...like a sleeper hit.

 

It kinda repeats on ya like a good gyro.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Peart 2112]

Blackwater Park is my number one favorite, All their albums are great!!

[thelocator]

I voted for Blackwater, but my first intention was the mighty, Deliverance...Now that I see how BWP is just running away with the title, I want to root for an underdog...C'mon little Orchid, you can do it.

 

 

 

[The Owl]

After multiple listenings....... Watershed is just right behind BWP..... both are amazing albums, but in a measurement by an electron microscope, BWP is just an nudge above Watershed

[J0N]

QUOTE (thelocator @ Aug 26 2010, 06:20 PM)

I voted for Blackwater, but my first intention was the mighty, Deliverance...Now that I see how BWP is just running away with the title, I want to root for an underdog...C'mon little Orchid, you can do it.

If I could vote for two albums i'd be very tempted to go for Orchid as a second - its definitely in my top 3 along with Blackwater Park and Deliverance. Blackwater Park is my favourite by a considerable distance, mind.

[thelocator]

QUOTE (The Owl @ Aug 26 2010, 12:48 PM)

After multiple listenings....... Watershed is just right behind BWP..... both are amazing albums, but in a measurement by an electron microscope, BWP is just an nudge above Watershed

You just used the term 'multiple listens'...I've never experienece a band like OPETH which takes SO LONG to get acquainted with the individual studio releases. Man, is their stuff convoluted and HIGHLY nuanced.

 

I'm just right now finishing up with another helping of Blackwater Park...It has really proven to be quite the monsterpiece......but only after several years of ownership and maybe three dozen or more spins...

 

Ackerfeldt and Wilson delivered a mighty fine combined effort...but I wouldn't have guessed this at first...all I heard initially was a jumble of a thousand different musical styles that didn't seem to have any type of cohesive elements running through it.

 

I almost threw in the towel quite a number of times with these guys...Firstly, because I had no interest in Death Metal...outside of the few, non-melodic, Jazz-leaning groups...And, secondly, I almost gave up on the mighty O, because the stuff just was not clicking with me.

 

I'm glad I stuck it out though...Albums like the one just cited, can only be heard occasionaly by me anyhowst...But, when I'm high as a kite and throw on a pair of headphones, no other band will do me the same way.

 

Despite all the different, modern musical blends in their product line, OPETH are a band that's 'progressive' in the same way that a 70's outfit was progressive...And, their stuff takes longer than Gentle Giant's music in terms of 'Acquiring The Taste'...

 

Just because you don't care for 'Death Metal' doesn't mean that you can count these guys out. Do so and you might 'lose out'.

 

 

 

[The Owl]

Edited August 27, 2010 by The Owl

[thelocator]

QUOTE (The Owl @ Aug 27 2010, 01:32 PM)

For years I dismissed this band...... because of the death metal aspect, mainly due to the growling vocals (Something due to listening to bands like Opeth, BTBAM, and Mastodon I've grown a tolerance towards). But around late 08 or early 09 I thought, f**k it... I'm gonna give Opeth the old college try...... I bought "Ghost Reveries" and was blown the f**k away.....I'd never been more wrong about a band, and hated myself for dismissing them for so many years... As I mentioned earlier death metal growls, I have grown a tolerance for. (and in the case of Opeth, kind of enjoy on some levels)... Within a Year I had their whole discography.... To those who still dismiss the band as a death metal growl fest, I implore you..... listen to these guys..... you will not find another band like Opeth.

It's a funny little thing that you should mention 'Ghost Reveries' and that this was yer 'intro' to the band...I say this to you because someone had actually purchased this title for me as a present around the time that it was released.

 

This well-intentioned lad thought that I would like the group since I was already a big fan of The Prog...as well as liking several Metal bands...Well Mr. Well-Wisher couldn't have been more wrong at the time...I returned the album to the store the very next day..."Hated It", as the two gay movie reviewers on 'In Living Colour' used to say.

 

I mean, this music was all over the place, and not at all like YES or Iron Maiden (my general representations of both Prog and Metal)...This didn't sound good to my ears at all...And, I wasn't willing to give it any longer time to unfold because I didn't think it would have any sort of impact whatsoever.

 

Well, fast forward only a year more, whe I was a full-on Porcupine Tree-head...Some folks have Treehouses, I had a fat Tree-head...And, what happened is that I wound up taking the back door route to understanding and 'developing an ear' for Opeth...That's what it really took, friend...Kinda like a comparison to Jazz, Opeth's music is almost written in a different language.

 

So, it was Opeth's 'Damnation' title that got me going...So devoid of all the complex melding of disparate parts that made the other title so arduous...Just straight-up, mellowish, Progressive Rock ...VERY MUCH like what's found on the PT albums...Right? It was Wilson's involvement in the project that sparked my interest, and even though he didn't write most of it, the music itself was heavily molded by his hands.

 

So, listening to that thing long enough, I was now ready for Blackwater and Deliverance, which together with Damnation form my holy triumvirate of favourite Opeth titles...would add Watershed and Ghost Reveries as four and five...But, the whole thing was certainly not an overnight revelation...This band took me literally a few years to fully embrace...

 

I would like for TRF alumni Mystic Slipperman to give this band much more of a chance than he has, since he happens to be such a fan of PT...My opinion is that if you can appreciate Opeth, then you can def. appreciate pretty much any other form of complex music...

 

It's like that with Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet and all of Jazz in general...If you can understand the most complex formula that's available, everything else unfolds pretty quickly.

 

 

 

[The Owl]

[sullysue]

[The Owl]

I wonder if there's not going to be much drums, if it's going to be mainly acoustic........that would be cool if it was.