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    Posted: February 11 2014 at 04:05
Nothing more horribly annoying than when someone makes a poll to just hate on one particular artist. Long live Opeth, Death is amazing as well.
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I loved only Still Life from Opeth and some songs from other albums. But i love every Death album.
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Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

Originally posted by Jbird Jbird wrote:

Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

Death had better guitarists than Opeth. Opeth is not even close. 

Steve Vai is a better guitarist than Angus & Malcolm combined. I'd still rather listen to AC/DC though.

The Beatles were pretty average musicians even by the standards of their day, and look at the love they get. It's not always about how good you are, musicianship-wise.


It's not a good example cos Death were first. Death were more influential than Opeth. But I see what you mean, it's still pretty subjective. 


It's not a good example because Vai's playing is tasteless, uninspired and masturbatory

(joking ok)


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Originally posted by Jbird Jbird wrote:

Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

Death had better guitarists than Opeth. Opeth is not even close. 

Steve Vai is a better guitarist than Angus & Malcolm combined. I'd still rather listen to AC/DC though.

The Beatles were pretty average musicians even by the standards of their day, and look at the love they get. It's not always about how good you are, musicianship-wise.


It's not a good example cos Death were first. Death were more influential than Opeth. But I see what you mean, it's still pretty subjective. 
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

^ No, in fact when they started I wasn't a big death metal fan anymore but my friend still was so indtroduced this band to me. In early 2000's I wasn't into metal at all. And Death....well, in 1990 they appeared to be fresh. I'm sentimental. 

Oh wow, in my opinion you haven't heard their best work.  Not like you're obligated to check it out or anything, but just sayin'.

I have to emphatically agree. I can't force you to do anything, of course, but I must emphatically insist you listen to Ghost Reveries. The ratings do not do it justice; it is the tech/extreme prog metal masterpiece if I could only pick one. It's literally flawless and one of the most musical albums I've ever heard. Opeth's first 4 include Still Life, which I think is almost on par with Ghost Reveries, but good gravy do the early entries of their discographies not cover the whole story!
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I love Death, but still Opeth has a special place in my heart.
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like many metalheads, I like Death but not Opeth.
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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Not a huge fan of either but if I were forced at gunpoint I would choose Death (ha! get it?)






I voted Death, although both are very close to my heart.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

How come these polls rarely have 'none of the above'?

It's assumed that if one doesn't like either of the bands, one would simply refrain from participating...or commenting.
 
Oh.....is that how that works..?
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

How come these polls rarely have 'none of the above'?

It's assumed that if one doesn't like either of the bands, one would simply refrain from participating...or commenting.
 
Oh.....is that how that works..?
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Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

Death had better guitarists than Opeth. Opeth is not even close. 

Steve Vai is a better guitarist than Angus & Malcolm combined. I'd still rather listen to AC/DC though.

The Beatles were pretty average musicians even by the standards of their day, and look at the love they get. It's not always about how good you are, musicianship-wise.
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Very interesting poll! I don't know Death enough to choose but both are excellent.
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

The thing someone is better/worse guitarist isn't an opinion. 


well, yes it is

BUT

Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

^ It's all opinion, and people don't like changing their opinions.


There probably isn't a metal guitarist on the planet who would claim that Opeth's guitarists were better than Death's... Opeth's guitarists included.

Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

Wasn't talking about that so much as posting stuff like that isn't going to make anyone change or regret their vote. =P

And I don't think many people are fatheaded enough to claim that they're better than those that influenced them.


Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - January 17 2014 at 14:13
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Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

The thing someone is better/worse guitarist isn't an opinion. 


well, yes it is

BUT

Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

^ It's all opinion, and people don't like changing their opinions.


There probably isn't a metal guitarist on the planet who would claim that Opeth's guitarists were better than Death's... Opeth's guitarists included.
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Death by far
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Bleak that's on the album and HoX posted so I may check this out.
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Originally posted by LSDisease LSDisease wrote:

^ No, in fact when they started I wasn't a big death metal fan anymore but my friend still was so indtroduced this band to me. In early 2000's I wasn't into metal at all. And Death....well, in 1990 they appeared to be fresh. I'm sentimental. 

Oh wow, in my opinion you haven't heard their best work.  Not like you're obligated to check it out or anything, but just sayin'.
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Some of my favourites.
Ghost of Perdition being my most favourite.


Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - January 17 2014 at 12:52
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