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    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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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:26
If it is anything like Kveldssanger. ACYL will like.
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Points: 5208 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2010 at 16:30
The thirty second sample on the link isn't a bad representation.
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Points: 7037 		Direct Link To This Post 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.


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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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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:07
Sounds cool! Thumbs Up

Is this foreshadowing a new album I hope? Wink

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Points: 5208 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 651 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2010 at 17:34
Wow, wow!  *scampers off to search for the full version*
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Points: 1305 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 1029 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 495 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2010 at 09:23
Originally posted by Kashmir75 Kashmir75 wrote:

I loved Watershed. It hurt when Lindgren left, but the latest album was a borderline masterpiece IMO.
 
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Points: 16122 		Direct Link To This Post 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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