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Well over 4,300 views and I posted this yesterday. You people are ANIMALS!!

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Talons' review has 15,000 views and that was only up for a few days

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Damn, that was pretty fast haha



So I'm predicting the average will soon rest right around where Heritage is.

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Everyone seems to say it grows off quickly so I agree with you there

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Nah it'll stay at a 3.6 no lower

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This debate was a few pages back, but I don't get how anyone could say that Still Life is closer in sound to MA,YH than Blackwater Park. Maybe it's because of the giant change in terms of production but Still Life sounds like a huge change to me. None of the tracks on MAYH would work on Still Life, but many from Still Life and Blackwater Park could work on each other (Funeral Portrait sounds just like a Still Life track to me).

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Finally someone gets it

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They all follow the same formula. Particularly Still Life and MAYH. That's not even my opinion that's just how it is. They have different sounding production obviously, gradually getting more polished through the 3 album streak, and the atmosphere is different on each but their all the same style and follow similar structural ideas.



Still Life definitely saw Opeth playing it safe, there's no two ways about it. What risks were taken with that album? MAYH worked well so they decided to make Still Life a continuation of that formula, even sticking with the idea of making it a concept album.

yah but mayh >

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Obviously.



Not that the fact that they played it safe necessarily has any affect on the quality of Still Life. Even though I personally think it's far inferior to MAYH.

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"None of the tracks on MAYH would work on Still Life"



lol April Ethereal would work perfectly for example. it would be the heaviest song on the record though

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Opeth weren't playing it safe on SL or BWP. They were building on and improving the sound that they established with MAYH



Playing it safe basically means no progression at all. Think Dream Theater's last 2 albums or something like that

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Yea I don't quite get how there could be no progression with still life and BWP. If anything, they played it safe with GR.

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Playing it safe doesn't mean no progression at all, it means not taking any risks and not changing things up stylistically, which they certainly didn't with Still Life.



Continuing with and building on the sound/style established on their previous album which brought them great success is definitely playing it safe.

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They played it safe with quite a few of their albums, although perhaps not quite to the extent that some of the band's detractors have claimed.

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Congrats on the feature, sir.

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Yay, thank you kind sir and Jom!

congrats pal

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grats mongi, shouldnt some of the first paragraph be in the past tense ? just a style thing maybe

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Yea you're right about the first part. I did change a couple words, but I still don't feel it's necessary to split them up into two paragraphs so I just balanced out the past and present in the first paragraph.