[QUOTE=Rotarubehc]MAYH is a Great album. Don't associate me with black metal die hard fan but the weak production contributes to the whole sound - dark and dirty.

And yes twilight is my robe is the best song on orchid.[/QUOTE]

My favorite song is The Apostle In Triumph:)


Just thought I should bump.

Twilight is my Robe was the first song off the album that I heard. Fell in love with it right away. Looked for tabs for it but never found any PT...

I have yet to pick up that album...something I said I would do many times in here...

Do you still not have a PT for it?

Still don't have one...never found one.

They have tons of GP versions.

[QUOTE=Stoo]/Is bidding for Damnation and Deliverance on eBay.

35 Quid. Not bad for both.

:smoke:[/QUOTE]
I always forget how bad you brits get ripped off on cds and video games and the like. That's a ludicrous amount for 2 cds!

[QUOTE=Crysiss]They have tons of GP versions.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know. I don't have GP though :p My friend could get it for me, so its ok.

These guys are one of my all-time favorite bands. They are certainly not afraid to make a song longer than the norm, which is definently something I like because you can't really say to much or convey a message with a 5-minute long song.

[QUOTE=Cardboard Headgear]I always forget how bad you brits get ripped off on cds and video games and the like. That's a ludicrous amount for 2 cds![/QUOTE]
Well, yeah... but that's because it's bidding, In the shops I'd get them for about 8 pound each.

Anyway, I found a "Buy it Now" price on both of them. So I ordered both.

That completes my Opeth collection. :smoke:
[QUOTE=Trooper Rabbit]These guys are one of my all-time favorite bands. They are certainly not afraid to make a song longer than the norm, which is definently something I like because you can't really say to much or convey a message with a 5-minute long song.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure The 'Peth boys would find a way. :p

[QUOTE=SilentScream7]Yeah, Orchid's my favorite album. The twilight is my robe is one of the best songs I've heard, such emotion.[/QUOTE]


:chug: <3 Orchid. In Mist She Was Standing is a very great song, my personal favorite from the album.


[QUOTE=SilentScream7]I actually haven't listened to too much of My arms, your hearse. Pretty good album, right?[/QUOTE]


After I bought and listened to Morningrise for a few months, I bought MAYH, listened to it and thought at the time it was Opeth's worst album of the 3. I never listened to it after the first listen, until a few months later. I listened to it on the headphones when I went to sleep almost every night, later memorized all the lyrics and just recently it happened to occur to me that this is their best work to date. I couldn't stand the album at first, but it broke a barrier in my musical taste. There's something about MAYH that burned in my head, and I can't explain how.

As of now, here's my updated Top Five Opeth Songlist:

1. Epilogue
2. Black Rose Immortal
3. In Mist She Was Standing
4. Karma
5. Master's Apprentices

From my selection (at the moment)

1. Bleak
2. The Moor
3. Demon of the Fall
4. Black Rose Immortal
5. The Drapery Falls

but its probably going to change soon.

^^ Bleak No.1 for me too. :smoke:

1. Serenity Painted Death
2. Demon of the Fall
3. Master's Apprentices
4. Face of Melinda
5. The Leper Affinity

That's my top 5 at the moment, I think.

1. In My Time Of Need
2. By the Pain I see in Others
3. Black Rose Immortal
4. Baying of the Hounds
5. Harvest

How about top 5 fav non Opeth bands

1. Age of Silence
2. Winds
3. Dark Tranquillity
4. The Beatles
5. Novembers Doom

My top 5 at the moment would be something like this:
1. The Moor
2. Serenity Painted Death
3. In My Time Of Need
4. The Funeral Portrait
5. Bleak

My top 5 non Opeth bands at the moment would be hmmm...
1. Agalloch
2. Tool
3. Einherjer
4. Haggard
5. Vintersorg

Top 5 besides Opeth right now:
1. Tool
2. Queensrÿche
3. Pain of Salvation
4. Blind Guardian
5. Meshuggah

Top 5 besides Opeth at the moment:

1. Pain Of Salvation
2. Tool (Get to hear new album for the first time on Monday :))
3. Iron Maiden
4. The Mars Volta
5. Dredg

1. Black Rose Immortal
2. Blackwater Park
3. Windowpane
4. Serenity Painted Death
5. The Twilight Is My Robe

1. Grateful Dead
2. A Perfect Circle
3. The Allman Brothers
4. The Beatles
5. The Who

My top 5 bands changes almost daily.

1. Porcupine Tree
2. Black Label Society
3. Oasis
4. Megadeth
5. Metallica

I really can't pick my top songs. Every song by them is just sooooo good.

[QUOTE=Necronomicon]I really can't pick my top songs. Every song by them is just sooooo good.[/QUOTE]
Well what 5 songs do you find yourself listening to the most?

I watched Lamentations again last night, I noticed that the 'heavier album', Deliverance, is only half heavy ;(.

Also, their isn't Demon of the Fall on Lamentations, upsets me greatly.

Wtf does half heavy mean?

And it was only songs from Blackwater Park onwards they were playing.

[QUOTE=Stoo]Wtf does half heavy mean?

And it was only songs from Blackwater Park onwards they were playing.[/QUOTE]
Probably that Deliverance songs still had some moments of clean vocals and guitars.

Yes, like Master's Apprentice, it goes into this crazy death like intro, then half way into the song, it cuts off and goes to clean guitar and vocals. It disappoints me.

And Opeth usually ends with Demon of the Fall, which is why im surprised it wasnt on the dvd.

[QUOTE=Kreator2112]Yes, like Master's Apprentice, it goes into this crazy death like intro, then half way into the song, it cuts off and goes to clean guitar and vocals. It disappoints me.[/QUOTE]
Dude thats how Opeth is....

Well then they should have said, "Tonight were gonna do two sets, one that is softer, and later, one that is SLIGHTLY HEAVIER IN THE FACT THAT WE USE DISTORTION AND GROWL ON THE INTRO'S BUT NOTHING ELSE"

How long have you been into Opeth?

That's why Opeth are one of the best bands in the world today man.

they don't have many songs without clean vocals and soft parts.

Well two years, I know that is expected but I don't know. Im tired of listening to heavy stuff for 2 minutes, then forced to listen to the lighter progressive stuff for another 7.

Listen to something else?

Yea, I have been..too much hxc :(

I see...

[I]NP - An Awesome Opeth song with beautiful clean vocals and acoustic playing.[/I] :p

[QUOTE=Kreator2112]Well two years, I know that is expected but I don't know. Im tired of listening to heavy stuff for 2 minutes, then forced to listen to the lighter progressive stuff for another 7.[/QUOTE]
You need to get your proportions right before you can start to complain.

Sometimes I get sick of the soft stuff. I never said I couldn't stand it. I love Damnation. Death Whispered a Lullaby, In My Time of Need...its all good stuff.

being able to go from a whirldwind of heavy riffs to these clean sections are what make Opeth the amazing talents that they are.

maybe my tastes are just going heavier..again..

i dont know, my taste in music right now is fixed on Lamb of God, but i still LOVE opeth for their talent.... whatever

Top 5 for now..
1. The Funeral Portrait
2. Blackwater Park
3. Serenity Painted Death
4. By The Pain I See In Others
5. Moonlapse Vertigo

heh, I am such a Blackwater Park/Still Life slut.

For bands I would have to say..
1. Tool
2. The Smashing Pumpkins
3. Mastodon
4. Jeff Buckley
5. Mr. Bungle

I think the best thing about Opeth is their juxtaposition of clean/heavy parts.
It adds a lot more mood(s) and gives a much broader variety of soundscapes to their songs with them being able to add different sonic elements.. not to mention the expanse and opportunity of songwriting capabilities they get from being very open to dynamics.

[QUOTE=Kreator2112]I watched Lamentations again last night, I noticed that the 'heavier album', Deliverance, is only half heavy ;(.

Also, their isn't Demon of the Fall on Lamentations, upsets me greatly.[/QUOTE]
They didn't have rights to any of their old stuff at the time of the concert, so they could just play stuff from BWP, Deliverance and Damnation. In fact they did play Demon of the Fall as an encore, but it's not on the DVD.

[QUOTE=Kreator2112]Well then they should have said, "Tonight were gonna do two sets, one that is softer, and later, one that is SLIGHTLY HEAVIER IN THE FACT THAT WE USE DISTORTION AND GROWL ON THE INTRO'S BUT NOTHING ELSE"[/QUOTE]

er...

I can't think of one Opeth song that's anything like what you just described.

Most of their songs are fairly balanced between heavy and soft, many of their songs even have more heavier parts than soft parts as well. Very few songs are noticably way more soft than heavy unless they're actually completely clean songs.