opeth-watershed

[madcatproductions]

alright,if anyone has heard this yet, what do you think? Do you like the musical direction the band has taken on this album? discuss

[lolzgreg]

Originally Posted by madcatproductions

alright,if anyone has heard this yet, what do you think? Do you like the musical direction the band has taken on this album? discuss

It's great, wonderful even. Opeth hasn't let me down once. I think it's good that they're switching it up a bit, you know? Lotus Eater = Best metal song of 2008.

-Greg

[ironmanx]

I love it. I am a huge Opeth fan however so I may seem a little biased. I just love how every album they make has something different so say, so to speak. Heir Apparent is so amazing when played live.

[gradgt]

The new album is great but IMO it's only 2/3 of an album. It does not feel complete!

Although I do love the way the first song flows into the second song. There are some very brilliant parts on the album, like that part in Porcelain Heart where it goes "I feel reeds beneath my feet...", that's just pure brilliance. Unfortunately the whole album doesn't shine that way, only parts. That's my complaint. And that's also where Opeth has always let down!

However if it weren't the way it is, all the good parts might seem less good by comparison. You know, if you eat a lot of salt you need to eat more and more salt to get the same taste.

Also, the song burden is really good at the beginning but it carries on like a jam-band song which I don't like. I can't stand jam bands... just droning on the same chords for 4 minutes pisses me off. I don't like when bands take shortcuts in songwriting! But that's my opinion.

All in all I think it's a good album, in some places amazing, but it's not amazing all the way through.

[Smidgelton]

I need to listen to this album again. I bought it a month ago and listened to it for a solid week. I really like it, but at the time I bought it, I was at the end of that musical phase and shifting towards different musical tastes. I do that a lot and eventually I will be back in the mood for this kind of metal. So I'll try to write something proper then.

While on the subject of Opeth, what do you guys their morning rise album? I haven't heard it. Somebody told me it was mostly just a lot of riffing, but that is about all they could say.

[ironmanx]

It is a very melodic album, while there is a lot of riffs, there is a TON of harmony lead guitars as well. It is a bit more simplistic then their later albums.

[Heinrich Kollner]

Mikael Åkerfeldt has done it again!!!!!!!!!
he is a genuis!
heir apparent is BRUTAL!!!!

[jeffsanders]

I'm with gradgt on this one. Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Damnation still remain my favorites.

But let's be honest here...it kills just about everything else out there right now in metal.

[Heinrich Kollner]

Blackwater Park and gost reveries are my favs!

[gradgt]

im tempted to cut all the good riffs out of 3 of the albums, and forge them together to make an opeth superalbum.