I have listened to the whole album, and I have to say I am a bit let down.


again, Orchid > all Opeth albums.

Does anybody know where to find some Official Opeth Guitar Books? I'm looking for SL, MAYH, and BWP.

[QUOTE=.:~ Route 1 ~:.]I have listened to the whole album, and I have to say I am a bit let down.


again, Orchid > all Opeth albums.[/QUOTE]
Eww..I dislike Orchid greatly. It's the only Opeth album I actually don't like. To be honest, if you disregard Deliverance, Opeth seem to be getting better and better. Though, BWP is the exception. I still think that's their best.

I don't get how Deliverance is so unliked by so many. I think its an awesome record, not a bad track. A little rough around the production area, and some of the guitars sounded pretty hollow but the songs are all epicily awesome IMO.

I like Deliverance as well, but the reason I think I don't like it as much as their others is because when I bought it, I was let down by it because none of the songs, in my opinion, lived up to the title track, which I was completely blown away by. The other songs were good, but I wasn't blown away.

[QUOTE=The Cynic]Does anybody know where to find some Official Opeth Guitar Books? I'm looking for SL, MAYH, and BWP.[/QUOTE]
I didn't think Opeth had any official books. If they do, I want them ASAP.

[QUOTE=Kage]I like Deliverance as well, but the reason I think I don't like it as much as their others is because when I bought it, I was let down by it because none of the songs, in my opinion, lived up to the title track, which I was completely blown away by. The other songs were good, but I wasn't blown away.[/QUOTE]
My favorite song on that album is 'By the Pain I See In Others' :p

[QUOTE=Kage]Eww..I dislike Orchid greatly. It's the only Opeth album I actually don't like. To be honest, if you disregard Deliverance, Opeth seem to be getting better and better. Though, BWP is the exception. I still think that's their best.[/QUOTE]
Blaaaaaaaarrrgggeee! How can you dislike Orchid? Such a good album.

I'm not a huge fan of it either. IMO, there are some cool riffs and ideas, but the songs lack direction, are often structured poorly, and the production blew.

[QUOTE=Det_Nosnip]I'm not a huge fan of it either. IMO, there are some cool riffs and ideas, but the songs lack direction, are often structured poorly, and the production blew.[/QUOTE]
There's the perfect answer why I don't like it.

Well, I love it, along with the rest of there earlier stuff. I guess I'm a sucker for dual harmonies. :D

[QUOTE=Kage]Eww..I dislike Orchid greatly. It's the only Opeth album I actually don't like. To be honest, if you disregard Deliverance, Opeth seem to be getting better and better. Though, BWP is the exception. I still think that's their best.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, they don't seem to be able to top or even equal Blackwater Park.

[QUOTE=.:~ Route 1 ~:.]I have listened to the whole album, and I have to say I am a bit let down.


again, Orchid > all Opeth albums.[/QUOTE]

after a few listens I am a bit let down too, it not bad music, but it doesn't live up to Opeth standards.

my favorite remains: Morningrise

[QUOTE=the2stranger]after a few listens I am a bit let down too, it not bad music, but it doesn't live up to Opeth standards.

my favorite remains: Morningrise[/QUOTE]
I guess I just liked them when they played their more melodic stuff. All of their albums are good though.

The new album does have a lot less atmosphere to it. It is still my second favorite, but that may be due to it being a new album that hasn't sunk all the way in yet.

Are you guys also checking for a new name?

Serenity Painted Thead.

[QUOTE=Damien Rhodes]I didn't think Opeth had any official books. If they do, I want them ASAP. [/QUOTE]

They do. On several tabs I've seen them say that it came from the offical book, but I have no luck finding them.

I've actually gave a bunch of listens to the new album, I actually quite like a lot. To me it's easily above MAYH and ****ation on my most "mood for" list of Opeth's albums since I like all the albums equal.

I just saw the Grand Conjuration video on Headbanger's Ball. I'm pretty sure it was shortened, but I did catch it in progress. Didn't make much sense, but it didn't really matter, because it looked kicka[size=2]s[/size]s. They all had heavy metal hair.

The song time for the video is less then half the normal song time... bit disappointing, but oh well.

I caught it in the middle, so I couldn't tell. Since it was Mtv, I assumed it was shortened significantly. Reminds me of when I saw the video for Dream Theater's Pull Me Under on there. It was like 4 minutes long instead of 8.

where did opeth's name come from, isnt it a type of mineral water generally found in the catskills mountain area?

No... the original name was Opet, which meens the city of the moon, they just added the H I guess.

Any reason for that H to be added? Just seems arbitrary to me.

I donno... sounds better? + to originality?

I suppose. Kudos to them for adding an arbitrary H. Opeth sounds better than Opet, seems.

It may just be translated differently or something, idk.

That's my guess.

I heard opeth means hash brownie in dutch. Is this true?

I don't see a reason for it to be, seeing as they're Swedish. So I doubt it.

Maybe it means hash brownie in sweedish... thought of that yet?