Opeth

[Jakehammaren]

I'm not gonna lie... I'm kind of obsessed.

But hey, is it my fault if every album they release is a masterpiece?

Well, I guess I don't totally love Morningrise, but other than that - wow.

This band is pure and utter genious. Pretty much the best band ever.

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=arial][size=1]Just so we're clear, because Jake isn't, Opeth are a brutal metal band with a lot of pretty singing. They're pretty popular, and they deserve all the attention. They're just [i]that good.[/i]


I must say, I don't actually own their older stuff yet, and I don't listen to it as much. I found though, that after listening to their last four albums first (I went in the order of [u]Blackwater Park[/u], [u]Ghost Reveries[/u], [u]Deliverance[/u], and then [u]Damnation[/u]) their older work is harder to get into. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not missing out on much. Their new stuff is completely satisfying, I even got my mother into [u]Damnation[/u], since it's not really heavy metal.

My favorite album is probably [u]Ghost Reveries[/u], with [u]Blackwater Park[/u] catching up for a photo finish. :p I found some parts of BP to be drawn out, while GR jumped around between moods a lot more and is simliar to other stuff I listen to in its nature.

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[Amorphous]

[quote name='RiflesAtRecess][font=arial][size=1]Just so we're clear, because Jake isn't, Opeth are a brutal metal band with a lot of pretty singing. They're pretty popular, and they deserve all the attention. They're just [i]that good.[/i][/font'][/size][/quote]This is what we call Extreme Progressive Metal.

As far as I am concerned though, this band is boring and their attention is unfounded, I would rather listen to Progressive Death Metal like Disillusion and the likes over Opeth. They barely meet any standards of musical genius as far as I am concerned. Even when I was younger and just getting into metal I never ever understood what was so amazing about Opeth and I had listened to every album by them.

[Jakehammaren]

[QUOTE=Amorphous]This is what we call Extreme Progressive Metal.

As far as I am concerned though, this band is boring and their attention is unfounded, I would rather listen to Progressive Death Metal like Disillusion and the likes over Opeth. They barely meet any standards of musical genius as far as I am concerned. Even when I was younger and just getting into metal I never ever understood what was so amazing about Opeth and I had listened to every album by them.[/QUOTE]

To each his own. I actually hear this opinion a lot.

The Metal world has two Opeth camps: those who hold strong disdain, and those who worship. I am, obviously, of the latter group.