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What is your favorite Opeth Album  

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  1. 1. What is your favorite Opeth Album

    • Orchid
      1
    • Morningrise
      1
    • My Arms Your Hearse
      2
    • Still Life
      9
    • Blackwater Park
      11
    • Deliverance
      4
    • Damnation
      5
    • Ghost Reveries
      7
    • Watershed
      12


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QUOTE (Sheldon Cooper @ Aug 17 2012, 10:24 AM)
QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Aug 17 2012, 08:51 AM)
Damnation is scarily marvellous.

Watershed...you must her it.

Watershed had the perfect balance of the Heavy/Harsh Vocally metal sound that helped define Opeth, and the mellower prog elements...

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QUOTE (The Owl @ Aug 16 2012, 11:56 AM)
Good to hear.... i have noticed by recent setlists that the fan community has kind of bent Opeth's will a bit...when I saw them last October they had no harsh vocals at all and alot of their more proggy and less metally material...Ive seen that their stelists as of the last couple of months are still generally the same as the show I saw, but they have added a couple of the heavier/growling tracks back into their rotation....
Which makes me wonder where Opeth will go from here, I loved Heritage, but alot of their hardcore base did not for their change of direction...I wonder if Opeth will continue along the Heritage path or have the next record back towards the heavier side?
I dont think Opeth have any intention of repeating what they've done already, but I think they can still find that balance of their current direction while keeping their heavy sound and satisfy both sides of their audience..

I think I've said this before, but I saw Mikel's video where he talked about making Heritage. He had been writing heavy songs with death growls, but at the time, he just was not feeling it. But he did say they would do that kind of music again.

 

I would be thrilled with a metal album with all clean vocals on it. If they decide they want to be a non-metal proggy band from now on, I guess I will have to take each album as it comes. I'm still not a real fan of Heritage, though it has some great moments.

 

I saw them last November in Baltimore. It was the last show of the U.S. tour, and their last show with Katatonia opening for them. As you probably know, Mikel and Axe are in the band Bloodbath with the two guitar players and lead singer from Katatonia, though he plays bass in this band, and Mikel sings. Bloodbath did a 4 song encore at the end of the show, and it was balls to the wall, make your ears bleed, death metal. It was a general admission show, and I was right in front of the stage at the barrier, just right of center stage. I about got squished several times when the mosh pit opened up behind me. Good times.

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Aug 16 2012, 05:31 AM)
Finally dipping my toes into Opeth waters.

(I'm seeing them in the Autumn, Anathema are opening for them)


f**k, this is good shit.

Just now? Opeth gets even better with repeated listens. The music is haunting and surreal

Yeah, I'm way behind on all things Opeth. I meant to start listening years ago, but there's just so much music out there.

 

Started playing Blackwater Park & Heritage yesterday on Deezer.

 

Yowsa.

Don't feel bad. I denied Opeth for several years because of the death growls. But I finally bowed to peer pressure last summer (2011) and now I am a huge fan.

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Riverside is great... their latest EP "Memories in My Head" is fantastic as well.... cannot wait for their new album, that they're in the middle of making right now...dosen't seem like it will make 2012, but early 2013 is just as great.
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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Aug 17 2012, 09:18 AM)
QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Aug 17 2012, 02:09 PM)
QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Aug 17 2012, 07:51 AM)
Damnation is scarily marvellous.

Have you heard Still Life and Ghost Reveries yet?

No, getting through them all one by one on Deezer. Those 2 are up next.

 

Damnation has blown my mind, it's very funereal in atmosphere, but so melodic. Was not expecting that.

 

 

BUT! Every CD ordered. Should have them all next week.

I hope you ordered the special edition 2 disc of Blackwater Park, the bonus songs on disc 2 are fokking brilliant!

 

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QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 16 2012, 01:58 PM)
I don't like Riverside I bought one of their albums once and had to rid myself of the stain with CD burying ritual in the far pond...

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ADHD is awesome. I hope this isn't the one of which you speak.

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QUOTE (Gompers @ Sep 17 2012, 06:22 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 16 2012, 01:58 PM)
I don't like Riverside I bought one of their albums once and had to rid myself of the stain with CD burying ritual in the far pond...

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ADHD is awesome. I hope this isn't the one of which you speak.

The album in question is called Second Life Syndrome.

 

And this is my second life after hearing that album... tongue.gif

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QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 18 2012, 11:30 AM)
QUOTE (Gompers @ Sep 17 2012, 06:22 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 16 2012, 01:58 PM)
I don't like Riverside I bought one of their albums once and had to rid myself of the stain with CD burying ritual in the far pond...

cool10.gif

ADHD is awesome. I hope this isn't the one of which you speak.

The album in question is called Second Life Syndrome.

 

And this is my second life after hearing that album... tongue.gif

It's a bore, but the title track is great stuff, no question.

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QUOTE (Steevo @ Sep 17 2012, 08:49 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 18 2012, 11:30 AM)
QUOTE (Gompers @ Sep 17 2012, 06:22 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 16 2012, 01:58 PM)
I don't like Riverside I bought one of their albums once and had to rid myself of the stain with CD burying ritual in the far pond...

cool10.gif

ADHD is awesome. I hope this isn't the one of which you speak.

The album in question is called Second Life Syndrome.

 

And this is my second life after hearing that album... tongue.gif

It's a bore, but the title track is great stuff, no question.

What's your avatar mate? I like the colours. cool10.gif

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QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 19 2012, 07:13 AM)
QUOTE (Steevo @ Sep 17 2012, 08:49 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 18 2012, 11:30 AM)
QUOTE (Gompers @ Sep 17 2012, 06:22 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 16 2012, 01:58 PM)
I don't like Riverside I bought one of their albums once and had to rid myself of the stain with CD burying ritual in the far pond...

cool10.gif

ADHD is awesome. I hope this isn't the one of which you speak.

The album in question is called Second Life Syndrome.

 

And this is my second life after hearing that album... tongue.gif

It's a bore, but the title track is great stuff, no question.

What's your avatar mate? I like the colours. cool10.gif

Trust me, TD won't like the band though biggrin.gif

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QUOTE (Steevo @ Sep 18 2012, 03:08 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 19 2012, 07:13 AM)
QUOTE (Steevo @ Sep 17 2012, 08:49 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 18 2012, 11:30 AM)
QUOTE (Gompers @ Sep 17 2012, 06:22 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Sep 16 2012, 01:58 PM)
I don't like Riverside I bought one of their albums once and had to rid myself of the stain with CD burying ritual in the far pond...

cool10.gif

ADHD is awesome. I hope this isn't the one of which you speak.

The album in question is called Second Life Syndrome.

 

And this is my second life after hearing that album... tongue.gif

It's a bore, but the title track is great stuff, no question.

What's your avatar mate? I like the colours. cool10.gif

Trust me, TD won't like the band though biggrin.gif

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