I Love Ghost Reveries.

I love it too.

I just got home from Gigantour.

I'm sad to report that there was no Godhead's Lament for us. Just the other 4 songs. I was actually quite surprised at how big a reaction Opeth actually got. I walked around after their set and heard a bunch of "Holy s[COLOR="Black"]hi[/COLOR]t, I've never heard of those guys before, but they were badass".

It was quite a kick *** performance from them. Every song was flawless. I felt it was just way too short. Megadeth owned all though. Wow. Just wow.

[QUOTE=eighty d]I don't think there's a single song on the album that doesn't have at least one part that completely blows me away. A lot of his clean vocal lines do it.[/QUOTE]
For me it's the lack of interesting riffs. Also the fact that the soft songs are totally lacking that beautiful acoustic playing that used to make mellow Opeth sections so long. It seems like the guitar is just thrown in there to get the job done, on heavy sections as well as soft.

[QUOTE=Cocaine]Darkthrone isn't good.[/QUOTE]
You progs wouldn't understand blackmetal.

/snide

[QUOTE=Mr. Ron]You progs wouldn't understand blackmetal.

/snide[/QUOTE]
I understand it man. It's mildly good at times.

[QUOTE=TojesDoLan]I understand it man. It's mildly good at times.[/QUOTE]
Some of it, yes. Although I've never heard Darkthrone, so I'll reserve my judgement on that one.

I jk ITT

[QUOTE=Eleventeen]It's got a few good songs, but I can't listen to it all the way through.[/QUOTE]
A massive 123 on that. It's got some of Opeth's heaviest (and coolest) parts to date, but as a whole it's often painful to listen to.

I love Ghost of Perdition though. Such an amazing song.

I agree with Jude. There's not enough of Opeth's trademark acoustic passages. I really like the mellow parts in the heavy songs but I feel like the full mellow songs aren't THAT amazing.

Put it this way, To Bid You Farewell is like 5 leagues above Hours Of Wealth, Isolation Years. (Even though I like them both).

[QUOTE=Symbolic]I Love Ghost Reveries.[/QUOTE]

I love Ghost Reveries too.

Yeah thats a cool one, Im not a fan of there older stuff much neways.

[QUOTE=Cocaine]Darkthrone isn't good.[/QUOTE]

Yes they are.

How reiterative. :p

On a related note, I think they are going a little bit more jazz in their slower pieces, so good times.

[QUOTE=Luc214]I love Ghost Reveries too.[/QUOTE]

I really like it too, though admittidly some of it feels a bit repetitive, mostly just The Grand Conjuration feels a bit long to me, but its still a great album to me. Nothing beats Still Life though, though I havent heard all of BlackWater Park yet, its on my list...

Actually the main reason I like Ghost Reveries is because it changes alot, like Ghost Of Perdition.

The grand conjuratio nis the only song with apparent "commercial success" purposes, and I'm almost positive it was meant to be repetitive to be catchy. Nonetheless, it is a crime to make repetitive long songs, so whatever.

I like it. I'm listening to it at the moment.

[QUOTE=alytee123]I really like it too, though admittidly some of it feels a bit repetitive, mostly just The Grand Conjuration feels a bit long to me, but its still a great album to me. Nothing beats Still Life though, though I havent heard all of BlackWater Park yet, its on my list...[/QUOTE]

The Grand Conjuration is one of my favorite Opeth songs, I don't know why, I just love it.

It's also the song that got me into Opeth.

TGC is really cool. Granted, it's a bit repetitive, but then again, most of their stuff it.

Depends on your definition of repetitive.

I don't think they are repetitive, jsut brief moments of repetition or reiteration to remind you where the song came from and where it might be going...

Except for Wreath. That song IS repetitive, but I like it for some reason.

[i]Ghost Reveries[/i] is just boring in general.

[quote=Eliminator][I]Ghost Reveries[/I] is just boring in general.[/quote]
I love Ghost Reveries, it's the album that got me into Opeth. My favorite track is Reverie/Harlequin Forest.

[QUOTE=TojesDoLan]Depends on your definition of repetitive.

I don't think they are repetitive, jsut brief moments of repetition or reiteration to remind you where the song came from and where it might be going...

Except for Wreath. That song IS repetitive, but I like it for some reason.[/QUOTE]

Deliverance has quite a few repetitive moments on it, e.g. ending to title track, but all the riffs they repeat are really decent, so it doesnt get boring. Wreath is such an evil sounding song -

[CENTER]"There is no absolution
Death is but a fairytale"[/CENTER]

I like GR a lot. If it were by any other band, it would be considered a masterpiece. But coming from Opeth, it seems simply mediocre.

Yeah.

Which makes it mediocore.

[QUOTE=Kage] But I adore every single part of that song like a son, so that's just me.[/QUOTE]

You mean you club it senselessly with a stick? :eek:

I think he means like fondling it while it's asleep.

[QUOTE=Det_Nosnip]You mean you club it senselessly with a stick? :eek:[/QUOTE]
:lol: I should wonder what kind of father-son relationship you had growing up.

[QUOTE=Eliminator]I think he means like fondling it while it's asleep.[/QUOTE]

Or inserting objects into its nether regions?

jeeez you mine as well say as[B]s[/B]rape