jonny_boy34 wrote:

Bangover wrote:

jonny_boy34 wrote:This is the best thread ever.

I choose Ghost Reveries. It was my first Opeth experience, and for that it shall always remain a magical experience to my face. You just can't get much better than The Baying Of The Hounds, or even Ghost of Perdition, what a ridiculous mother of a song.

Beneath The Mire is blates the best song on GR.....there all good. Have Opeth ever put out a bad album? No.

Beneath The Mire is definitely amazing, especially that unbelievable guitar/keyboard simultaneous solo of wonder, unbelievable. Harlequin Forest is also unbelievable. Well, every song's amazing basically. I really can't wait to hear what their next album is going to sound like.

Have you heard what Mikaels written about it? Sounds so sexual.

From his blog:

"I have around 5 tracks ready, or semi ready. I think it sounds darker than ever before (not saying this to "sell" the record, I think it really is darker) and more versatile."

"Some are downright evil sounding....a few Bathory (evil era 83-87) parts, some tech-death ones, some overblown prog ballad ones, one Nick Drake thing, one complete prog thing with triple harmony vocals, one evocative middle eastern psychedelic metal arrangement with falsetto vocals (not as wimpy sounding as you might think), one 70´s Scorpions sounding bit (like "Living and dying" type of stuff), one's totally murky forest-ish sounding dark prog-rock with loud vocals that shifts between major and minor, one tedious ugly/pretty little hobbit sounding symf part with moogs over a classical guitar, some soundtrack-ish sounding ones etc..."


*orgasm*

jonny_boy34 wrote:Shit, I should've known. I'm a fucking idiot. Guys, we're all fucking idiots. Sorry swizzle. It won't happen again.

Cheers, as long as you don't let it happen again.

jonny_boy34 wrote:

Bangover wrote:

jonny_boy34 wrote:This is the best thread ever.

I choose Ghost Reveries. It was my first Opeth experience, and for that it shall always remain a magical experience to my face. You just can't get much better than The Baying Of The Hounds, or even Ghost of Perdition, what a ridiculous mother of a song.

Beneath The Mire is blates the best song on GR.....there all good. Have Opeth ever put out a bad album? No.

Beneath The Mire is definitely amazing, especially that unbelievable guitar/keyboard simultaneous solo of wonder, unbelievable. Harlequin Forest is also unbelievable. Well, every song's amazing basically. I really can't wait to hear what their next album is going to sound like.

harlequin forest & beneath the mire are prime

Deliverance for me for the title track alone.

Opeth are god-like but i am a wee bit worrid about the recent unstability of the band line up

poison_was_the_cure wrote:at the minute damnation, its brilliance! but black water back is great and so is deliverance! opeth win! there isnt any band that sound similar!

Not strictly true.

For anyone who loves the Damnation album, you'd do well to listen to Porcupine Tree (best albums - Deadwing, In Absentia and Fear of a Blank Planet).
Opeth producer, Steven Wilson, is the frontman of the band and you can hear all the things on PT albums which make Damnation so wonderful.
The musicianship, as you'd expect, is exemplary and there's lots and lots of mellotron.

Bangover wrote:

jonny_boy34 wrote:

Bangover wrote:

jonny_boy34 wrote:This is the best thread ever.

I choose Ghost Reveries. It was my first Opeth experience, and for that it shall always remain a magical experience to my face. You just can't get much better than The Baying Of The Hounds, or even Ghost of Perdition, what a ridiculous mother of a song.

Beneath The Mire is blates the best song on GR.....there all good. Have Opeth ever put out a bad album? No.

Beneath The Mire is definitely amazing, especially that unbelievable guitar/keyboard simultaneous solo of wonder, unbelievable. Harlequin Forest is also unbelievable. Well, every song's amazing basically. I really can't wait to hear what their next album is going to sound like.

Have you heard what Mikaels written about it? Sounds so sexual.

From his blog:

"I have around 5 tracks ready, or semi ready. I think it sounds darker than ever before (not saying this to "sell" the record, I think it really is darker) and more versatile."

"Some are downright evil sounding....a few Bathory (evil era 83-87) parts, some tech-death ones, some overblown prog ballad ones, one Nick Drake thing, one complete prog thing with triple harmony vocals, one evocative middle eastern psychedelic metal arrangement with falsetto vocals (not as wimpy sounding as you might think), one 70´s Scorpions sounding bit (like "Living and dying" type of stuff), one's totally murky forest-ish sounding dark prog-rock with loud vocals that shifts between major and minor, one tedious ugly/pretty little hobbit sounding symf part with moogs over a classical guitar, some soundtrack-ish sounding ones etc..."


*orgasm*

I've literally just come about seventy-two times in five seconds.

Yes, Porcupine Tree are a lovely band. I have In Absentia and Deadwing (brilliant), and have listened to FOABP many times (not so brilliant, but still good), and they are very nice, somewhat commercial sounding, but it works and Steven Wilson is brilliant at everything he does, especially producing. You can definitely hear that both him and Opeth have influenced each other. But Opeth are better.

The Fourth Norseman wrote:whats your favourite album from the awesomeness that is opeth.

Yes i am a fanboi before you comment boove

never heard them

yes it has got to be Still Life, just a pure amazing album.

this is all great news about their new album, i hope Mikael just goes wild and a bit more mental with this one, i want to hear some raw comus influenced stuff, which from the sounds of things he is going to do... YES!!!

I hope it's gonna be like Damnation, Ghost Rev and Still Life all in one. Sexy.

Darkweasel wrote:

poison_was_the_cure wrote:at the minute damnation, its brilliance! but black water back is great and so is deliverance! opeth win! there isnt any band that sound similar!

Not strictly true.

For anyone who loves the Damnation album, you'd do well to listen to Porcupine Tree (best albums - Deadwing, In Absentia and Fear of a Blank Planet).
Opeth producer, Steven Wilson, is the frontman of the band and you can hear all the things on PT albums which make Damnation so wonderful.
The musicianship, as you'd expect, is exemplary and there's lots and lots of mellotron.

nice one! i shall have to check them out!

Dian Wei wrote:I have never even listened to them.

You're missing out. My arms your hearse is an amazing personal favourite. Still life is beautifull and poetic as well as the solid sound of orchid!

orc kid

haha! i only just noticed that! please tell me you where takin the piss and didnt actually think thats what its called

poison_was_the_cure wrote:orc kid

haha! i only just noticed that! please tell me you where takin the piss and didnt actually think thats what its called

I thought it was a concept album based on th latter stages of a young orcs emotional development? Isn't it?

The Fourth Norseman wrote:

poison_was_the_cure wrote:orc kid

haha! i only just noticed that! please tell me you where takin the piss and didnt actually think thats what its called

I thought it was a concept album based on th latter stages of a young orcs emotional development? Isn't it?

Don't be daft. The album was called Orc Hid and it was about the most cowardly creature in middle earth and what he did during battles.

He also thought My Arms Your Purse was about handbag theivery.