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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: December 09 2017 at 17:06 |
hieronymous wrote:
I was all like, "how could they leave off Pale Communion?!!" (cuz that's my fave) - then realized this poll is 6 years old... |
Bosch! Pale Communion.
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Dellinger
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Posted: December 09 2017 at 21:34 |
omphaloskepsis wrote:
hieronymous wrote:
I was all like, "how could they leave off Pale Communion?!!" (cuz that's my fave) - then realized this poll is 6 years old... |
Bosch! Pale Communion. | Mine one is Sorceress. Though Pale Comminion is great too, perhaps my second choice.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 10 2017 at 01:34 |
Can we say this........ My pick of the bunch with Growl vocals is Morningrise. My pick with Clean vocals is Damnation (or Heritage, depending on my mood). Even with Orchid, Opeth are more a Progressive Metal band with DM vocals to me, and not so much a Death Metal band with Progressive tendencies.
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Upbeat Tango Monday
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Posted: December 10 2017 at 05:48 |
I really like Still Life, Blackwater Park and Watershed. I'll vote for Watershed. New/clean Opeth is weird. They try to sound like KC and show love to 70's bands...but their music got simpler and more straightforward. Also, I think Ghost Reveries is one of their weaker albums.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: December 10 2017 at 06:04 |
Orchid for me. I remember when that came out. I headbanged for about a month.
Not really a fan of the most recent Prog albums. Sounds too sterile and polite imo. Sorta like Burt Reynolds doing ballet.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: December 10 2017 at 10:42 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
Not really a fan of the most recent Prog albums. Sounds too sterile and polite imo. Sorta like Burt Reynolds doing ballet. |
Agreed, it's really strange but when I listen to the clean-vocal-prog Opeth albums they have all the right ingredients ('prog' keyboard textures, acoustic as well as distorted guitars, excellent musicianship, odd time signatures, etc) but there's just not much fire there or memorable parts that stay stuck in my head. I'd have to say overall that I find their transition from doom to prog interesting, but disappointing
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Mortte
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Posted: December 10 2017 at 11:03 |
Well, I am not the fan of their growl albums at all. Not a big Opeth-fan anyway, but I think Sorceress is decent album. Really like "Will O the Wisp" in it.
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Dopeydoc
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Posted: December 10 2017 at 15:28 |
Damnation, in my time of need
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Daysbetween
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Posted: December 17 2017 at 04:41 |
I prefer the later albums so voted Heritage but mu fave is Pale Communion.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 17 2017 at 04:49 |
^ I listened to Pale Communion last night and realised that it is impossible to choose between that and Heritage. Or Damnation. Sorceress, whilst still pretty impressive, is a notch down from those three. And I prefer Orchid and Morningrise over the other ‘Extreme’ releases, but they are all great either way. Brilliant band.
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: December 17 2017 at 08:44 |
ORCHID!
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https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy
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Progcu
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Posted: December 19 2017 at 07:53 |
I have not got used to Opeth's Death Metal stuffs. So, the most I like is Pale C... More keyboard suits me.
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Posted: December 19 2017 at 07:59 |
I have not heard much of Opeth's catalog, so no vote, but Pale Communion is pretty good at least.
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Dellinger
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Posted: December 19 2017 at 21:10 |
Progcu wrote:
I have not got used to Opeth's Death Metal stuffs. So, the most I like is Pale C... More keyboard suits me. | I'm not fond of death metal growling, but the one song I do love from Opeth that includes those kind of vocals is "The Drapery Falls", specially the live version from Lamentations.
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