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Negoba
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 24 2008 Location: Big Muddy Status: Offline Points: 5208 |
Topic: Opeth "Throat of Winter" Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:25 |
Who has heard the new Opeth track?
It's "not very metal" says Mikael. It's closest to Kveldsangerr ish Ulver. It takes awhile to get going but..
I think I love it!
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Any Colour You Like
Prog Reviewer Joined: May 15 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12294 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:26 |
If it is anything like Kveldssanger. ACYL will like.
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Negoba
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 24 2008 Location: Big Muddy Status: Offline Points: 5208 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:30 |
The thirty second sample on the link isn't a bad representation.
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Evolutionary Sleeper
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Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:36 |
Listening to it now, thanks for the heads up!
Wow, that's an incredible song...no metuhlz at all though. Edited by Evolutionary_Sleeper - March 05 2010 at 16:43 |
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Harry Hood
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Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:49 |
I'm sorta torn. On one hand, I really dig the direction they're going in as far as musical choices. On the other hand, the composition has the same disjointed feel as "Watershed", which overall I wasn't very fond of.
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J-Man
Prog Reviewer Joined: August 07 2008 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7826 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:07 |
Sounds cool!
Is this foreshadowing a new album I hope? |
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Negoba
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 24 2008 Location: Big Muddy Status: Offline Points: 5208 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:17 |
"Song is very odd, it's good I think, or for my taste it is, but even I can understand it's very....odd! Produced and recorded it from scratch and I'm happy with the sound if I may say so myself. Fred laid down a killer acoustic solo and Per laid down an amazing twiddly tweet moog solo. It's not a very metal song, I'm saving up for that..later.....yet it's got a metal ‘mentality’, or what I remember metal used to do to me. I can feel it, even though it's not a ‘metal’ song per definition." - Mikael
I don't think this is where the band is necessarily going. I think it's Mikael getting some retro ya-ya's out.
P.S. I love Watershed
Edited by Negoba - March 05 2010 at 17:18 |
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progkidjoel
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:27 |
Sounds really good, sort of sounds like a mix between 'Atonement' and some of the acoustic passages from Still Life. I really like it though.
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Dominic
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 02 2008 Location: Liberation Land Status: Offline Points: 651 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:34 |
Wow, wow! *scampers off to search for the full version*
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Harry Hood
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Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:39 |
I don't know. I really like the musical passages themselves. They just don't tie them together like they used to. Lots of awkward pauses and transitions that don't really fit musically.
I think they lost a lot when Peter Lindgren left, and it shows. He was sort of the unsung hero of their glory days.
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progkidjoel
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:41 |
^Yeah I definitely agree that they did lose a bit after Lindgren left, although Watershed is still brilliant imo. We'll see how the next one turns out I guess.
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Kashmir75
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 25 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1029 |
Posted: March 05 2010 at 18:12 |
I loved Watershed. It hurt when Lindgren left, but the latest album was a borderline masterpiece IMO.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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(De)progressive
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 24 2010 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Points: 495 |
Posted: March 30 2010 at 09:23 |
Seconded.
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''Hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment.'' (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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NecronCommander
Special Collaborator Prog Metal Team Joined: September 17 2009 Location: Madison, WI Status: Offline Points: 16122 |
Posted: March 30 2010 at 16:26 |
I don't think it was a masterpiece, but it still was an excellent album.
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