[QUOTE=LifeofMusic]same thing happenend to me. I was mad at myself for a month. Now I have a chance to redeem myself.[/QUOTE]

did you miss the show at the wiltern?

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G2jlXUkJ84&search=Opeth%20live[/url]

Axe sounds alright to me. He is no Lopez but he probably is the best replacement they could get. I am looking to their new album and the different style Axe will bring.

[QUOTE=TheOpethAffinity]i could have went to a opeth show A COUPLE OF MILES away from me, a few months ago. it was at the wiltern...[B]apparently they were going to play every single album, chronologically.[/B] i didnt go...i found out about like 2 days before it happened. i didnt bother to get tickets...wow, i missed a good opportunity.[/QUOTE]

Well damn, that's a lot of stage time for them. :lol:

It was "songs from each album, chronologically", which turned into one from the first four albums, and then an onslaught of new stuff.

[QUOTE=Spoonful of Shame][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G2jlXUkJ84&search=Opeth%20live[/url]

Axe sounds alright to me. He is no Lopez but he probably is the best replacement they could get. I am looking to their new album and the different style Axe will bring.[/QUOTE]

The tempo of that song is slowed down a bit by him. But all in all its not that bad.

After listening to [I]Morningrise[/I] a lot, I think [I]To Bid You Farwell[/I] is on of their best acoustic performances. Mikael's voice is amazing in it I think.

[I]For Absent Friends[/I] is also up there with my favorite acoustic
performances.

TBYF is so amazing.

[QUOTE=SilentScream]After listening to [I]Morningrise[/I] a lot, I think [I]To Bid You Farwell[/I] is on of their best acoustic performances. Mikael's voice is amazing in it I think.

[I]For Absent Friends[/I] is also up there with my favorite acoustic
performances.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Wotan]TBYF is so amazing.[/QUOTE]

Aye. :chug:
I must give Morningrise afew more decent listens soon.

But man, the album of the hour (for me anyway) is definately My Arms, Your Hearse.
Is it me or does that album just get better and better?
It's some of the most amazing riffage and harmonies mixed with brilliant creative drumming and brutality from the vocals I think I've ever heard.

Alot of stuff I've never really noticed just came alive for me recently with the aid of earphones - just awesome melodies and rhythms.
It has made it's way to the top for my fav album list and it's good to know that this is just the beginning of my appreciation for this album.

I cannot praise it enough!
MAYH ftfw! :smash:

...Phew! I think the fanboy in me is relieved and content... for now. :p

Anyone reccomend older Opeth?

I have Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, My Arms, Your Hearse, and Damnation.

I want Still Life and Deliverance,

does anyone reccomend Orchid and Morningrise?

I heard some of Orchid awhile ago and I didn't like it. But that was a long time ago, before I really got into Opeth.

Get Still Life and Deliverance first, then trail back to the others. Good albums, just takes getting use too more then the other two.

[QUOTE=Luc214]Anyone reccomend older Opeth?

I have Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, My Arms, Your Hearse, and Damnation.

I want Still Life and Deliverance,

does anyone reccomend Orchid and Morningrise?

I heard some of Orchid awhile ago and I didn't like it. But that was a long time ago, before I really got into Opeth.[/QUOTE]
The first two are a little more harsh but the content is still good, so you'll probably like them either way. I mean come on, it's Opeth.

I just saw on Youtube some guy post that "Opeth is the worst excuse for Doom Metal" he's ever heard....


Yeah, and Emperors the crappiest power metal to date.

[QUOTE=Darkness]I just saw on Youtube some guy post that "Opeth is the worst excuse for Doom Metal" he's ever heard....


Yeah, and Emperors the crappiest power metal to date.[/QUOTE]
Link plzkthx

/gets torch ready for flaming.

EDIT: I wonder where the hell he heard Opeth were Doom Metal?

Haha, yes, I saw that and died a bit inside.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=dyiQjwajllo&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DdyiQjwajllo%26mode%3Drelated%26search%3D[/url]

*cries* I hate people.

The only thing that actually makes me bad on To Bid You Farwell is the growls. For me, the song is almost ruined then. I think the song should be purely acoustic.

Not to mention that it's also one of Opeth's best-written song.

I feel the exact same way. The clean/acoustic parts are perfect, but the distortion and growls kind of ruin the mood.

Yeah, and I kinda feel that way about a lot of Opeth songs. They'll have a perfect acoustic melodic sense, but then it's ruined when the distortion is picked up. I think The Drapery Falls would be such a better song if it was purely Mikael's clean vocals.

Well that's why we have Damnation.

Purely acoustic and clean vox.

Yeah, but that album gets boring after 30,000 listens.

Damnation isn't purely acoustic, is it? There's plenty of electric guitars; in fact, I'd say it's mostly electric guitars. And there's quite a bit of electric synth in there. Hardly pure acoustic.

Well there is plenty of electric guitars in the solo's but that's really it.

[QUOTE=SilentScream]Yeah, and I kinda feel that way about a lot of Opeth songs. They'll have a perfect acoustic melodic sense, but then it's ruined when the distortion is picked up. I think The Drapery Falls would be such a better song if it was purely Mikael's clean vocals.[/QUOTE]

Nah, I don't think so. It wouldn't really match up at all with the middle part of the song.

[QUOTE=Spoonful of Shame]Well there is plenty of electric guitars in the solo's but that's really it.[/QUOTE]
Clean electric guitar does not equal an acoustic guitar.

Almost the entirety of the album is on electric guitars.

EDIT: Okay, I'm listening to it again, and it's not the entirety , but quite a lot of it.

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]Nah, I don't think so. It wouldn't really match up at all with the middle part of the song.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I can see what you mean. I just think that the begging half of the song is so amazing.

Damnation is mostly clean electric. A lot of times it's mistaken for an all acoustic album.

I'll agree with that. The beginning part is MUCH better than the later part, even though I love that half step harmonized riff so much. So weird, yet it's awesome.

[QUOTE=Kage]Clean electric guitar does not equal an acoustic guitar.

Almost the entirety of the album is on electric guitars.

EDIT: Okay, I'm listening to it again, and it's not the entirety , but quite a lot of it.[/QUOTE]

True. I guess the best way to describe the album is that it is "mellow".

[QUOTE=SilentScream]The only thing that actually makes me bad on To Bid You Farwell is the growls. For me, the song is almost ruined then. I think the song should be purely acoustic.

Not to mention that it's also one of Opeth's best-written song.[/QUOTE]

Since when does To Bid You Farewell have growls in it?

I love the distortion part in TBYF, moreso than the Face of Melinda one.

Oh, and I think on Damnation they use a sort of clean guitar acoustic simulation type sound a fair bit. There's very few actual acoustic parts.

Haha, I just meant when the distortion picks up.

There's alot of acoustics in it.

There's also synths and some soft electric too, sorry.

But yeah it's their chill stuff.

I like the latter part of the Drapery Falls, but then...I'm a TRUE Opeth fan. ;)

[QUOTE=Det_Nosnip]I like the latter part of the Drapery Falls, but then...I'm a TRUE Opeth fan. ;)[/QUOTE]

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Drapery Falls is so good... all the way through.

If For Absent Friends had vocals, that'd be up there on my favorite Opeth songs.

[QUOTE=JamJar]\m/>_<\m/

Drapery Falls is so good... all the way through.[/QUOTE]
Meh...the death metal part brings the rest down from the heights of awesomeness, unfortunately.

[QUOTE=Jude]Meh...the death metal part brings the rest down from the heights of awesomeness, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]

It's still a great song though. I just think it would be perfect if the death metal part was better.

Damn. I think the dm part is the best part of the song.

Drapery Falls is great the whole way through - but I think the DM parts are better, although the acoustic parts are nice and the clean vocals are great.

IMO one of the best parts of the Drapery Falls is the long notes that Akerfeldt plays - they come in somewhere in the intro and come back later on in the song. You might not realise the sheer awesomeness of those notes until you watch Lamentations and see Akerfeldt's theatrics while he's playing them.

[QUOTE=Jude]Meh...the death metal part brings the rest down from the heights of awesomeness, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]
Wtf are you talking about? It's perfect where it is.

Agreed.

[QUOTE=Jude]Meh...the death metal part brings the rest down from the heights of awesomeness, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]
I really, really like the DM part of that song. It's such a great climax. Mikaels voice is so powerfull.