maybe, yeah.

[QUOTE=Meatshield]I have a question - does Mikael use a mouthharp in windowpane, or is that some other instrument? [/QUOTE]


No. You were probably hearing something else while he had his pick in his mouth.

Doubt it. Nothing like that listened in the credits for Damnation, could be wrong though.

If he did, it'd be pretty noticeable. Welcome to the forums! :)

[QUOTE=Jude]They're not really a Christian band...the songs After Forever and Lord of This World and Into the Void have a pretty Christian slant to them but most other Sabbath references to religion are along the lines of "Don't need it/want it, etc."

Perhaps they briefly converted while making the Master of Reality album?[/QUOTE]

I don't think so, I mean they're pretty Christian throughout their career. Their title song, for example, may portray a dark, scary figure, but Ozzy is saying he's scared of it, in fact, and is basically asking God to help him "OOOH NOO LORD PLEASE HELP ME". Still, it is a pretty damn dark song. I could see hardcore Christians thinking it was some sort of Satanist thing. Plus, The Wizard could not be about some Tolkien character but it sounds like some sort of Jesus figure, perhaps? He seems to be magical, walking around healing and making people happy, the song says.

My buddy once told me that Sabbath wrote some christian lyrics, specifically on the Master of Reality album, under the influence of their manager because he wanted the group to downplay their satanic image, I don't think this is true but who knows.

[QUOTE=Seed Awakening]My buddy once told me that Sabbath wrote some christian lyrics, specifically on the Master of Reality album, under the influence of their manager because he wanted the group to downplay their satanic image, I don't think this is true but who knows.[/QUOTE]

Woah, if they did it just because their manager said so that would be lame.

Agreed. But I wouldn't take it seriously, my buddies a bit of a moron

We should get back to something Opeth related. Has anybody heard any news about the Akerfeldt/Wilson project?

^Wasn't Portnoy going to be involved in that? I know that kinda seems unlikly, but Mikeal does thank him the GR booklet.

I think so, but I don't think there's been anything official released.

Man, Opeth keeps changing their setlist now? I heard they took out Demon Of The Fall now. :mad:

Damn, an Akerfeldt/Wilson/Portnoy project would be insane. I doubt it will ever happen.

Yeah, that'd be cool. I'd rather see Akerfeldt do another Bloodbath album though. His voice is so perfect with them.

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLBMxLmEF1Y&search=akerfeldt[/url]

Mikael giving singing lessons. lol Sorry if its been posted


Theres another video of them giving a lesson.
Martins playing a squier. Mikaels playing a strat and Peter is playing a jackson

Mikael: We want solos too but were no jeff loomis. (laughs)

I found that pretty funny

NP Blackwater Park

Finally I'm listeing to it. I had only heard a few parts of the song but never the whole thing.

^^ well, what did you think?

Blackwater Park isn't all it's cracked up to be, I think. It drags on HORRIBLY in places.

However, the growled parts are the best on the album, which brings the song up to average.

It took BWP a long time to grow on me, but I love it now. I don't think it drags on that bad, I never get bored with it. The growls are amazing.

Does anyone know any of the set lists that have been played so far?

[QUOTE=MidnightRider]It took BWP a long time to grow on me, but I love it now. I don't think it drags on that bad, I never get bored with it. The growls are amazing.[/QUOTE]


I love how it fades off into that really slow riff for a while, it builds up to the climax so perfectly. :)

[QUOTE=Treebeard]Does anyone know any of the set lists that have been played so far?[/QUOTE]

When I saw them with Nevermore in Toronto they played something like:

Baying of the Hounds
When
Deliverance
In My Time of Need
Bleak
Grand Conjuration
Face of Melinda
Blackwater Park
Demon of the Fall

They usually play Demon of the Fall as an encore, unless the crowd sucks I guess.

[QUOTE=Flynn]^^ well, what did you think?[/QUOTE]

It was good. I'll have to listen to it again though...after one listen to an Opeth song, not everything goes in :)

yeah, give it a few listens...it's grow on you like vines. \m/ -_- \m/

Yeah I will.

I also listened to Forest of October for the first time. Once again, I'll have to listen to it again :p I liked it though.

Blackwater Park is a sick song, my second favorite from that album other then Bleak. I found it was better live, Mikael sounds way more evil.

The biggest drag-on in Blackwater Park is the acoustic part after the first stanza. If it was put a little bit... probably some good minutes after that, I suppose it could've been better. But no. It's too boring considering the... mood of the song up to that point.

On a related note, let's also discuss... our favorite line songs in Opeth songs. I start.

Deliverance, somewhere after the growled section finishes:

[I]the piercing sounds you make
soaring higher, higher now
and once left in my wake
your memory is nothing but the scars on me [/I]

And, Hope leaves, the chorus thingy:

[I]There is a wound that's always bleeding
There is a road I'm always walking
And I know you'll never return to this place [/I]

Yeah, out of that part, those are the ones I have very stuck in my head at the moment.

I like the last verse of Windowpane:

Haunting loneliness in the eye
Skin covering a secret scar
His hand is waving a goodbye
There's no response or action returned

There is deep prejudice in me
Outshines all reason inside
Given dreams all ridden with pain
And projected unto the last

The second verse of Bleak:

Moving/I am moving closer to your side
Luring/You are luring me into the night
Crying/Who is crying for you here?
Dying/I am dying fast inside your tears

Everytime he growls that line, it gives me goosebumps...

[QUOTE=Stormrider331]Yeah I will.

I also listened to Forest of October for the first time. Once again, I'll have to listen to it again :p I liked it though.[/QUOTE]


Oh man, that song is great. :thumb: