Opeth have released some really awesome stuff in their time. But the new album amazes me upon every listen. Same with My Arms, Your Hearse.

[Blazingmonga]

Just thought I should mention:

I will be attending the Opeth show in Glasgow tonight. I'm going with my mum and 2 other friends. If anybody wants to say hi to me, feel free! I may have to take your picture though heh.

I will probably be wearing this:



And looking a bit like this:



I probably wont have much spare time after the gig as I have to get a lift home with these other people, but I would still love to say hi to anybody who wants to say hi to me.

Awesome!

I was turned off of Opeth at first because I couldn't find any direction in their song...just a non-stop stream of riffs that never seemed to go anywhere. I think Damnation opened me up quite a bit, which is strange because I usuually prefer heavy stuff to light stuff. But I find their melodic material to be more to the point...

Ghost Reveries is awesome, however. Still Life is pretty damn cool. Haven't gotten into Blackwater Park yet.

Still Life is the best album ever made by anyone.
As for Ghost Reveries, I'm not sure. I'm not very impressed actually. I don't like the guitar sound, Mikaels screams are too monotonuous and the balance heavy/mellow is not right, too much heavy.

I think all the Opeth albums have their own feel to them.

Orchid is very obviously a debut. Listening to the production and relative noviceness (when compared to their later stuff) it's easy to see how much they have grown. Mike's lyrics on this album are a bit weird, but I'll attribute that to his poor english at the time. Wait, did I actually write "noviceness"? Oh well.

Orchid is great to listen to, but it would probably turn people off if it were the first Opeth album they've ever heard. Forest of October is great, and watch for Mike completely raping the word "falling" at the very end of The Apostle In Triumph. Classic.

Morningrise... I'm not sure what I think of it. It's a good album, and I think the concept behind the lyrics is underrated, when people compare it to the concepts behind MAYH and Still Life. I'm absolutely in love with the bass lines in Advent. Defarfalla is an amazing bass player, I love his sound...

MAYH. I like the concept, but I've never liked the production. I dont know, I hear a lot of people saying it is one of the best quality of all Opeth albums, but the start of April Ethereal always sounded really crappy to me. It sounds like a bad rip off the radio or something. Again, Karma is very underrated on this album, and I dont know why.

Interesting story, MAYH was the first Opeth album (cd, rather) I ever got. My dad worked as a caretaker in a highschool, and found a copy of the cd in a locker during summer clean up. This was in 2000, and I wasnt really into metal at the time. I got home and this cd is sitting on my bed, still in the plastic wrapping. I listened to it a couple times, then put it away. Sometime in 2001, one of my friends who was into weird music that nobody has ever heard of, made me listen to this really coold band that he just started listening to. At this point, I was into Slipknot-ish stuff and was singing the praises of Mudvaynes "LD50" album (which I still like lol)

Anyways, he made me listen to this cd, which was Still Life. I liked it, and asked who it was, he told me and I didnt think anything of it.

I didn't think anything of it, till I got home and saw the MAYH cd in a pile of cd's... I listened to it with different ears, and a different mind and I became hooked.

Still Life is my favourite. The Moor is fantastic, and the quality is incredible IMO. I still love that one riff in Serenity Painted Death, the one that kicks in around the 1:25 mark.

BWP is great as well, but it leaves something to be desired. Some of the songs on there (Funeral Portrait, in particular) sound cheesy... It's still a great album as a whole though.

D&D are good. Damnation is terrific, but repetitive... good for listening to if you need to chill. Deliverance starts off incredibly, I've always liked Wreath and Deliverance. A Fair Judgement should have been left off the album, it just doesnt fit. Same with BTPISIO.

Ghost Reveries is in my top 3. I heard The Grand Conjuration a while before the cd came out, and I wasnt too impressed. I still wasnt impressed until I saw it live. BEST LIVE OPETH SONG. Bar none. I think Mike knew that song was meant to be played live, because it comes off spectacularly.

And now, I'm rambling. Terrific.

Bastard! Now I want to go fishing!

I'm absolutely in love with the bass lines in Advent. Defarfalla is an amazing bass player, I love his sound...

I believe Ã…kerfeldt played bass on Morningrise tho

I'm absolutely in love with the bass lines in Advent. Defarfalla is an amazing bass player, I love his sound...

I believe Ã…kerfeldt played bass on Morningrise tho

No that was on MAYH...I agree though Still Life is their best album

Still Life is my favorite as well, though I like them all very closely.

If you could mix Orchid's production with Morningrise's songwriting... you could have a stellar album!!!

MR always sounded a bit weak to me, especially the drums and electric guitars. Orchid, however, sounds excellent.

Oh, and I miss those acoustic sections with dual guitars... (like the acoustic verse on Black Rose Immortal, To Bid You Farewell intro, etc.)