Album Rating: 3.5
"Mikael fired him because Johan wanted more bass driven songs. At this point, I started to lose all respect for Akerfeldt not only as a person, but as a musican respectively."
It's hard to have respect for a lot of Swedish metal bands after a certain point, I find. DeFarfalla's departure was unfortunate and why they never kept him around when he was clearly one of the most talented musicians in the band and easily fit Akerfeldt's ambitions is beyond me.
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Mike has always had a very specific vision for the band, he knows exactly what he wants each song to sound like. I guess Johan wanted a bit more control than Mike was willing to give.
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Come on, Thrust. He's a top-notch player but best in the genre? We never really got to see him evolve.
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I would have loved him to stay on, he brought a slight psych sound they really wouldn't explore until later on.
But I think you're being a bit dramatic.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Doug Keyser from Watchtower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_phWzNEH55U
Lars K. Norburg from Spiral Architect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGimh1TtAU
Brent Sullivan from Slauter Xstroyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQhiLzjCgBw
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Album Rating: 3.5
Guys like Sullivan and Keyser deserve way more credit than they actually get.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Oh, in the case of fretless bass:
Spastic Ink - Words for Nerds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w0_0cfAqWM
Exivious - Ripple of a Tear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyEY4oKIOs
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I don't think he's very subtle, someone like Mendez is. Johan brought a showmanship to the bass playing that Mendez, while also a fantastic player, doesn't really do. I think that's why Mike has stuck with Mendez, he's technical but extremely subtle when he needs to be; Johan was too visible and loud for Mike
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Album Rating: 3.5
m/
I'll probably give Morningrise another go later on. I do think this album was a bit bloated and that they could have improved upon it further with DeFarfalla but I'll see if it holds up better after not having heard it for a while.
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Album Rating: 3.5
" I think that's why Mike has stuck with Mendez, he's technical but extremely subtle when he needs to be; Johan was too visible and loud for Mike"
That's honestly kind of what I missed from Opeth around albums like Blackwater Park where much of the album seemed one-note.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Do you know what key changes in correlation with same key measures in 2 measures per bar are?"
No, why?
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Album Rating: 3.5
Oh, that part. Yeah, that's one of my favorite moments on the album.
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at 5:34, is that bass playing those chords?
Also, the fucking wah
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The best part of the song is 5:00 to 7:00, about as trippy as they ever got during this era
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Album Rating: 5.0
True that. You see where you've come from and how you are different but also how you have remained the same.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Always figured Black Rose Immortal was kind of disjointed. Especially around the middle from what I recall.
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Album Rating: 3.5
A lot of Sweden's more prominent bands kind of went down the drain quality-wise.
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This contains one of my fav riffs by these guys. Basically the whole mellow section on night and the silent water from 2:50 onwards, so simple but it works so well.
Their mellow sections earlier on were more serene, I love their later mellow sections but they lacked the idyllic feeling I'd get from hearing those plucked octaves like this.
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Album Rating: 4.0
But in the end?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah, mellow sections on this and other older Opeth rule so hard. I like the mellotron-driven newer moments but this never gets old.
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