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    Posted: March 28 2014 at 22:18
Well, that review sounds as if they are at last going to make the album I have been wanting them to make. Given that I like them to be metal, but withough grunting, and neither Damnation nor Heritage were metal. It sounds really promising.
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I almost sure it's going to be a masterwork like 'The Raven That Refused to Sing'.

Maybe then Opeth would be considered as a full-blown prog rock band, not just sophisticated death metal one.
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A track-by-track review of Opeths latest album.

http://www.metalinjection.net/reviews/first-impressions-of-the-new-untitled-opeth-album-a-track-by-track-review

Wow....this sounds interesting!!
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

I liked how he ended with "hopefully it won't be a mess"... not many artists are so honest about what they are working with.


I remember during the Deliverance/Damnation days, I read Mikael's blog on the Opeth site, not sure if it's still there, but I recall he would talk about recording each album, and how it was hell each time, and that he was very modest about the recordings, and even called the early albums bad, as far as production and vocals were concerned.
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Points: 12608 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2014 at 21:27
I liked how he ended with "hopefully it won't be a mess"... not many artists are so honest about what they are working with.
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If they are, hopefully he'll get Dave Stewart to orchestrate, like on Storm Corrosion.
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Perhaps strings will be included on the next album:
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Originally posted by Smurph Smurph wrote:

I feel like he's pigeonholing himself if he writes only death metal or only 70's prog influenced music. Why not mix the two???

'Cos he has been mixing them for 15 years.


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Wait why can't they MIX heritage with the insaneness of Ghost Reveries?

I feel like he's pigeonholing himself if he writes only death metal or only 70's prog influenced music. Why not mix the two???
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I think I'll just continue pretending WATERSHED was their final album. I had to check the cover several times to check Heritage was a Opeth album. They were one of my favourite bands but I'm worried they are on a downward spiral   
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

I think I'll just continue pretending Ghost Reveries was their final album. Just Like how Pain of Salvation ended on BE.

Reveries was GREAT, as was WATERSHED...
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I enjoyed Heritage. In fact, a lot more than Watershed or Damnation. I'm quite curious to see where they go. I heard some heaviness will return, but that was months ago.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

I think I'll just continue pretending Ghost Reveries was their final album. Just Like how Pain of Salvation ended on BE.
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Their latest album certainly won them a new fan in me.
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

top reminiscing about the past - it's dead and buried - Opeth have moved on and a good job too!


That's a lot easier to do if you like their new stuff. I'm in the "losing a fan" stage of Opeth fandom. And it's not like I'm even a big metalhead or anything.
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Stop reminiscing about the past
Lets hope Opeth will do the same,  the last Opeth and Wilson, was "reminiscing about the past" too much.
70's influence is fine, but it easily becomes "been there, .....got the T-shirt" 
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Points: 14256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2013 at 06:11
Ghost Rev is great but they have er... progressed


If the new ones as good as Heritage, we have a winner as far as I'm concerned


Stop reminiscing about the past - it's dead and buried - Opeth have moved on and a good job too!
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Points: 3834 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2013 at 15:30
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

They plan to have influences before 60's and 70's prog, like the last record, here we will have Mikael scat singing over a brass quartet - with special guests: Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, and Mingus. 


Hahahaha

Blackwater Park Ragtime Edition?



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A glimpse into the future perhaps?

I actually quite like this cover
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Points: 12608 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2013 at 14:33
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

I'd have to listen to it again, but certainly Heritage did not impact me anywhere close to the level of Blackwater Park or Deliverance.  That it harkens back to a "prog rock" sound of yesteryear means nothing to me.  It's the album Mikael wanted to make and that's absolutely fine, but it's an album devoid of the things that drew me into listening to Opeth in the first place.


Well, I can easily understand why someone who fell in love with Opeth with his all metal grunting songs wouldn't like Heritage at all. However, I feel it's all right if he feels the need to change his sound, if he has already done all the best he could do with the extreme metal sound, what's the point on going with more of the same? Really, he runs the risk of losing some of his fanbase, but also has the possibility of winning some different kind of fanbase. I found Heritage very enjoyable, though not a masterpiece. I could hardly find a masterpiece with Opeth, though, given that I don't really like grunting. Perhaps now that he's staying away from that kind of singing he'll end up doing some album I can really love.

I don't even know if I disagree with that.  I didn't dislike the album, but there was nothing there that would want to make me listen to it on a regular basis.


Well, for me at least the song "Folklore" is one I like to revisit. Some other nice parts, and the flutes are pretty nice too (though nothing to do with Jethro Tull, as some people have sugested). But if we are talking about this kind of music, I guess I much prefere "Grace for Drowning".
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2013 at 13:53
Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

They plan to have influences before 60's and 70's prog, like the last record, here we will have Mikael scat singing over a brass quartet - with special guests: Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, and Mingus. 


Hahahaha

Blackwater Park Ragtime Edition?



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