Death vs Opeth
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Topic: Death vs Opeth
Posted By: LSDisease
Subject: Death vs Opeth
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 07:21
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Death by 1000 miles. They popularized death metal so we can talk about it now.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 07:35
| Chuck Schuldiner was an absolute hero of heavy metal. Opeth is pretty good. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 07:38
| I'd still rather listen to Opeth. |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 07:42
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I can't vote. Way too different and love 'em both. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 08:28
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Opdeath -------------  
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Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 09:21
| One has a vastly superior vocalist... |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 09:23
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AlexDOM wrote:Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 09:29
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Not a huge fan of either but if I were forced at gunpoint I would choose Death (ha! get it?)
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Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 09:38
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 09:46
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How come these polls rarely have 'none of the above'? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 09:52
It's assumed that if one doesn't like either of the bands, one would simply refrain from participating...or commenting.
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 11:15
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Opeth because the perform more melodic prog tunes as well as the metal.
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 11:29
Opeth is the more developed metal sound, and more melodic. Still Life is the only Death Metal album that I'd give 4/5 stars to, and the only one I've really considered buying 
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Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 11:34
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Death had better guitarists than Opeth. Opeth is not even close.
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 11:59
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^ It's all opinion, and people don't like changing their opinions. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:02
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The thing someone is better/worse guitarist isn't an opinion.
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:07
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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 Chuck, Masdival, LaRouque etc. played a very different style of death metal in Death than Akerfeldt and Lindgren in Opeth. I don't think Chuck could have written an Opeth song, and Akerfeldt couldn't have written a Death song. If that makes sense.  ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:15
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Andy LaRocque was widely known as King Diamond guitarist, his style definitely developed to the point of extreme. Opeth were just kids playing metal.
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:19
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And Death started as a thrash-y and punk-y band with unique-at-the-time vocals. Both kept improving and drawing influences from other genres and are far more refined than when they started.
Also, wrong guitarist! Meant Rick Rozz.  ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:24
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Not wrong, Andy played on Individual Thought Patterns and brought his unique style that pushed Death forward. Opeth were later and they actually didn't show anything new at the time they started. ------------- "Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht!" |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:25
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Opeth, though Death is very good as well.
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:27
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I think folk was fairly new to death metal at the time. It had probably been done in black metal by then, though, so yeah. Nothing new when they started. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:35
Bathory released Twilight Of The Gods in 1991 4 years before Opeth debut album. ------------- "Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht!" |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:40
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Well, there you go. Still--you can't judge a band by its first album (at least, not ones with over a decade of music). I wouldn't be a Death fan if I did that. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:44
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I've heard their first 4 albums. Nothing interesting to me. It's not like you record a long song and it's always good.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:45
You haven't heard anything from Blackwater Park on?
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Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:50
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^ No, in fact when they started (released their debut) 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.
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:51
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Some of my favourites. Ghost of Perdition being my most favourite.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:53
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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Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:57
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Bleak that's on the album and HoX posted so I may check this out.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 12:58
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 13:53
| Death by far |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 14:06
well, yes it is BUT
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. |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 14:12
And I don't think many people are fatheaded enough to claim that they're better than those that influenced them.
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Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 14:17
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Very interesting poll! I don't know Death enough to choose but both are excellent. |
Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 14:42
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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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 15:14
Oh.....is that how that works..?
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 15:20
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 15:27
 I voted Death, although both are very close to my heart. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 15:37
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like many metalheads, I like Death but not Opeth. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 15:38
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Opeth ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 15:38
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I love Death, but still Opeth has a special place in my heart. ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: January 17 2014 at 18:09
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! |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: January 18 2014 at 02:39
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. ------------- "Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht!" |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 18 2014 at 13:13
It's not a good example because Vai's playing is tasteless, uninspired and masturbatory (joking ok) |
Posted By: Meurglys
Date Posted: January 18 2014 at 15:33
| I loved only Still Life from Opeth and some songs from other albums. But i love every Death album. |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date 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. |