Axe is very, very good, but his heavy playing doesn't excite me as much as Lopez.
As good as his drumming is on Heritage, the drumming on Ghost Reveries slaughters it.
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Album Rating: 2.5
It's worth noting though Butters (although you probably knew this anyway) I generally prefer looser, jazzy drumming to metal drumming so I'm sure that plays a big part in my preference. Not that Lopez can't play in a jazzy style, he just doesn't embrace it as much or do it as effectively as Aexenrot for me.
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Album Rating: 2.5
As good as his drumming is on Heritage, the drumming on Ghost Reveries slaughters it.
Damn, didn't see this. Disagree so hard.
And yeah the main thing I look for in drumming is how much it excites me and Axenrot is leagues ahead in that regard for me.
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Album Rating: 3.0
"The outro for deliverance for example - to draw from another album - sounds better than anything Axe has done and it's not technically THAT great it just gives the raging hard ons. "
wow really? that is your go to Lopez section for this argument? that section is insanely simple and not really that awe inspiring. soft section 8:40 into Deliverance t/t would've been a better example since it's about just as proggy as what Axe plays but he does so with WAY more fluidity. it's probably Opeth's best drumming section in any song...shame it only lasts for a minute and a half
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Album Rating: 2.0
MO, I don't play drums, but it sounds alien to me and I LOVE it.
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Axe is great but i just dig Lopez style way more.. White Cluster yo.
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literally any fill on ghost reveries is more memorable than anything axe has ever done
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Album Rating: 2.5
lol
Complete opposite for me. Axe's drumming on Heritage is more memorable than anything Lopez has ever played, as good as
he may be.
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still need to listen does it sound like elp and camel
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Album Rating: 2.5
First song sounds like ELP.
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elp but worse
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Album Rating: 3.5
There are quite a few Emerson Lake and Palmer elements on this album. Especially in Eternal Rains will Come.
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Album Rating: 3.0
López is amazing at loose play, just watch Lamentations. Exhibit A of why I love his playing so much
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Album Rating: 3.5
just watched Lamentations again, after 100 years, and yep it's true, the drumming is absolutely orgasmic there. Lopez > Axe
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Album Rating: 2.5
Lopez' loose playing is great but I still think Axe does it much better.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Axe is better suited to this style, was very off-the-wall on Watershed which in a way worked since that whole album is all over the place
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Album Rating: 3.0
Lopez was great, but Axe is like a genius of modern rock drumming
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Album Rating: 4.0
Great review must admit.
Btw... this music is not even close to this boozed with acid. It's more on the math /controlled side
of the progressive trend. I agree that the album doesn't deliver nothing (I mean literally nothing
new) and just recreates the old sort of way of playing in '60/'70. It's just a correct, well produced
and thought of progressive rock album with a bit of noticeable "opetish" flavor and progressions. You
have to really, really love and admire Opeth in order to fully accept and possibly enjoy this new
"Opeth". In my humble opinion it'd be a lot more proper if the whole new whim would be signed by his
side project... I mean if Mikael really wanted to realize his deeply rooted passions and inspirations
he should have give the real Opeth a good rest.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Both are amazing drums, but Lopez is just incredible.
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I have never listened to Opeth, but I still found this review brilliant
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