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javajeff
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 17:55 |
Thanks! I plan to get it for free through Amazon. I just ordered Deliverence for free through Amazon.
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King of Loss
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Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 18:18 |
The new album is fantastic! Naysayers could perhaps give it more of a chance...
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Billy Pilgrim
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Location: Austin
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 18:25 |
PrognosticMind wrote:
Despite being a huge progressive/metal/progressive metal fan...this band just never clicked with me. I've given it try after try after try, and it just does...nothing for me.
Perhaps I should give it another go. I haven't heard their most recent work... |
What albums, or songs have you tried?
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Luna
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 20:31 |
Opeth have been hit or bunt with me. Morningrise completely blows me away with its mood, texture, and technicality. Meanwhile Blackwater Park contains many great moments surrounded by forgetful space. Heritage is something I don't want to think about.
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Unitron
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 21:49 |
Neo-Romantic wrote:
^I highly recommend Ghost Reveries if you like Damnation and want to hear something with the perfect balance between heavier and lighter textures. Probably the most musical metal album ever, and boy is it prog.
I love the favorite song choices so far! I have a hard time picking a favorite, so here's a top 5 in no particular order: Ghost of Perdition Harlequin Forest Blackwater Park Isolation Years White Cluster |
Harlequin Forest is also one of my favorites
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Polymorphia
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 22:22 |
I've been meaning to listen to more Opeth. I've never really given them a fair chance.
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Billy Pilgrim
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Posted: August 29 2014 at 02:36 |
Luna wrote:
Opeth have been hit or bunt with me. Morningrise completely blows me away with its mood, texture, and technicality. Meanwhile Blackwater Park contains many great moments surrounded by forgetful space. Heritage is something I don't want to think about. |
Still Life, Ghost Reveries, and My Arms Your Hearse are my favs from the band. Morningrise is excellent, nothing they've made since has sounded quite like that album. BWP to me has four great songs in Leper Affinity, Bleak, Drapery Falls, and Blackwater Park, but even Bleak and Drapery Falls drag a little too long, still like the album but they've done better.
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javajeff
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Posted: August 29 2014 at 06:05 |
Blackwater Park is just perfect to me. I put it up there with Still Life and Ghost Reveries. Although I have never heard My Arms Your Hearse and Morningrise yet, which I hope to get to soon.
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sleeper
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Location: Entropia
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Posted: August 29 2014 at 06:08 |
I disagree, Blackwater Park is their best album IMO. I also prefer Orchid over Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse over Still Life but since then they've been rather patchy. Deliverance is terrible, Damnation boring, Ghost Reveries is OK but the production isn't good and several songs are far too long, Watershed's OK but the songs don't seem to gell together as an album and Heritage is overly noodly and lacking in focus. PC might actually be their best album since BWP.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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King of Loss
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 21 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: August 29 2014 at 08:49 |
Polymorphia wrote:
I've been meaning to listen to more Opeth. I've never really given them a fair chance. |
If you like classic prog or Goblin, you would love this album!
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Luna
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Joined: July 28 2010
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Posted: August 29 2014 at 16:16 |
Billy Pilgrim wrote:
Luna wrote:
Opeth have been hit or bunt with me. Morningrise completely blows me away with its mood, texture, and technicality. Meanwhile Blackwater Park contains many great moments surrounded by forgetful space. Heritage is something I don't want to think about. |
Still Life, Ghost Reveries, and My Arms Your Hearse are my favs from the band. Morningrise is excellent, nothing they've made since has sounded quite like that album. BWP to me has four great songs in Leper Affinity, Bleak, Drapery Falls, and Blackwater Park, but even Bleak and Drapery Falls drag a little too long, still like the album but they've done better. |
I feel like the title track is the only one that doesn't feel dragged on as much as the others. It still has some of that feeling, but it sounds marginally more coherent.
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aapatsos
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Posted: August 29 2014 at 16:31 |
Just gave the last album a spin and was impressed, close to their best releases Recommended for proggies who disliked the metal side of Opeth (not me, not me)
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Pontos
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Joined: August 14 2014
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Posted: September 01 2014 at 01:11 |
There is an acoustic bit in Tubular Bells part one around the 7 and a half minute mark, that to me sounds very Opethian, it last's about a minute and a half. I've speed listening through a bunch of Opeth songs that I thought it might be in but I seem can't find it and it's driving me nuts. Can anyone help?
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Polymorphia
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Posted: September 01 2014 at 13:59 |
King of Loss wrote:
Polymorphia wrote:
I've been meaning to listen to more Opeth. I've never really given them a fair chance. |
If you like classic prog or Goblin, you would love this album! |
I like both, but rarely like modern bands who strive for the former. At the same time, Goblin is an interesting enough reference point to make me want to check it out. I've sampled a little of Blackwater Park too and liked what I heard.
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Lady_fantasy
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Location: Peru
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Posted: September 02 2014 at 00:29 |
They are one of my favorite bands. I'm a big fan (the enough big that I have an opeth tattoo)...It's difficult for me choosing a favorite opeth album, because I like them all ( but not all the songs on them)... I find their music beautiful and Melancholic even almost all their death metal songs are like that for me... maybe It's what I love of them, they can be very brutal and really soft but they never lose their melancholic. And about Heritage I like it but not as their other albums, and I cannot give a opinion about Pale Communion because I haven't listened it the enough, yet.
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Roj
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Posted: September 02 2014 at 02:54 |
Pretty impressed by the new one although I've only heard it twice. What I love is the fact that the songs seem very similar in composition approach and structure to the classic old days, just less heavy. As I'm a big fan of the Still Life-Ghost Reveries era this is good news for me after Heritage which I found a little unfocused and had a tendency to drift off (some may see that as a good thing I suppose). I could easily imagine either of the first two tracks appearing on Ghost Reveries if the heaviness was increased and growls added . The conclusion of track three is amazing.
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PJ20
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Location: Bangalore
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Posted: September 03 2014 at 08:32 |
I like opeths soft songs, metal is too disturbing
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Claypool90s
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Posted: September 04 2014 at 18:18 |
The way to be progressive and atmospheric at the same time
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Senti-mental
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Posted: September 04 2014 at 19:10 |
Aker is God! What a lovely fella
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King Crimson776
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Posted: September 06 2014 at 00:01 |
Their new album was a nice surprise. Probably their best, as far as I'm concerned. An enormous improvement over Heritage. I don't like harsh vocal metal, so other than that it's Damnation which is a bit too thin but still kind of nice. I've always took 'Atonement' from Ghost Reveries to be an indicator that they could write actual prog if they really wanted to, and the new album does have a similar sound, with the cool Eastern melodies.
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