Awesome, didn't know they had a new one on the way. Listening now.
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Awesome, didn't know they had a new one on the way. Listening now.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Decades of playing doom metal will do that to a guy.
Woffls
Member
Protest the Hero did a thing today.
Basically a subscription service which is $12 a year and you get a track a month for six months - whole thing makes up an EP called Pacific Myth. Not sure if that means we get an EP every year or an LP sometimes or whatever. An EP a year would be cool.
Not sure how I feel about it. I love just rinsing new PtH releases for months and enjoying the full record, but this way I'll probably be burnt out on the songs fairly soon. Will be interesting to see how it goes.
That said, when it's a few years later and all the tracks are there, I guess it won't make any difference.
Song they released today is good obvs. As if there were any doubt.
Basically a subscription service which is $12 a year and you get a track a month for six months - whole thing makes up an EP called Pacific Myth. Not sure if that means we get an EP every year or an LP sometimes or whatever. An EP a year would be cool.
Not sure how I feel about it. I love just rinsing new PtH releases for months and enjoying the full record, but this way I'll probably be burnt out on the songs fairly soon. Will be interesting to see how it goes.
That said, when it's a few years later and all the tracks are there, I guess it won't make any difference.
Song they released today is good obvs. As if there were any doubt.
In case anyone forgot, the new Panopticon album came out today
https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-eternal
https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-eternal
Hesemonni
Banned
Brilliant video by The Man-Eating Tree with Peter Tägtgren look alike being the husband of the year. Their other material needs more aggressive vocals and less clean ones tho'.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Listened to Mgla's new album a few days ago. It's really, really good. Anyone else listen to it?
Yeah, it's very good. Honestly though, of their 3 full lengths, it might be my least favorite. The songs are just less memorable to me. Still a great album though.
In other news, I listened to Panopticon's Autumn Eternal this morning while walking my dog and... wow. That album is amazing. I had the perfect atmosphere to listen too while walking through the park on a sunny and chilly fall morning with all the leaves turning around me. Love when an album just clicks like that right off the bat. I liked both Kentucky and Roads to the North but this new one just appeals to me way more than those 2. This year has been insanely good for metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf3F2ipTo74&list=PLB23ECCD443FE63D7
Still their best album, by far. The drummer is not from this earth.
Still their best album, by far. The drummer is not from this earth.
Dangerblade
Member
That's my favourite Nile album too; pretty much everything I've heard from them since then has been forgettable. A killer first 3 albums though.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Lots of really cool passages in this one. Especially the soft portion on I Whisper In The Ear of the Dead.
Did a search and saw no results for Kowloon Walled City. Their new record is really working for me. Elements of Slint/Unsane/Drive Like Jehu/Helmet
https://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/album/grievances
https://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/album/grievances
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
Solid Fugazi worship. Not bad. Kind of makes me want to listen to Wugazi again.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Wow, Ghost is gonna be on Colbert on the 30th. Kind of crazy how big that band is getting even with the whole Satan worship shtick.
Completely agree. Sleep To The Sound of The Waves Crashing makes me feel so good. Kinda blows my mind that he can release Road to the North, and then just about a year later releases another amazing album.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
What the.... huh.
Splatterpunk
Member
I caught Archgoat and Pseudogod the other night after about 4 hours of being bored to tears by mediocre openers. Archgoat was good but Pseudogod completely leveled the place, best I've seen them.
Pomegranate Tiger's first single off their new record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTeen3fddU8&ab_channel=PomegranateTiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTeen3fddU8&ab_channel=PomegranateTiger
Andrew Korenchkin
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So....how was it?
obin_gam
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They make good music. Meliora is a brilliant record. Not particualry crazy at all.
BEATEN TO DEATH - Unplugged
Really strange grind album. Catchy as hell. I love the guitar stuff going on. They have a Gridlink sound to them.
Listen - https://beatentodeath.bandcamp.com/album/unplugged
Really strange grind album. Catchy as hell. I love the guitar stuff going on. They have a Gridlink sound to them.
Listen - https://beatentodeath.bandcamp.com/album/unplugged
Bootleg Fireworks
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I'd like to post a reminder that Perris Records have re-issued Keldian's first two albums, "Heaven's Gate" and Journey of Souls", and for the first time ever released their latest album, "Outbound". So, if you're into pretty inoffensive power metal with catchy melodies and lyrics about space and shit, check it out!
On a completely unrelated note, genrewise speaking, Steve von Till has apparently released a new album, "A Life unto itself". Pensive as fuck, as you'd expect.
On a completely unrelated note, genrewise speaking, Steve von Till has apparently released a new album, "A Life unto itself". Pensive as fuck, as you'd expect.
Dangerblade
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What's the general view on Opeth in Metal-GAF?
I adore everything from Orchid to Damnation (Morningrise being my favourite; one of my favourite albums ever), found Ghost Reveries and Watershed to be kind of boring with only a couple of standout tracks, and have listened to Heritage and Pale Communion once only, with zero memory of anything on them. It's not like I view them as not heavy enough or whatever (I love their earlier mellow stuff), they just sound so...dull now.
Got to see them live back in 2008. They played a 20 minute version of Deliverance which was especially incredible.
I adore everything from Orchid to Damnation (Morningrise being my favourite; one of my favourite albums ever), found Ghost Reveries and Watershed to be kind of boring with only a couple of standout tracks, and have listened to Heritage and Pale Communion once only, with zero memory of anything on them. It's not like I view them as not heavy enough or whatever (I love their earlier mellow stuff), they just sound so...dull now.
Got to see them live back in 2008. They played a 20 minute version of Deliverance which was especially incredible.
I love Opeth. All of Opeth, from Orchid on through to Pale Communion. I can see why people didn't like Heritage, but it grew on me a lot. It doesn't really sound particularly like anything else, so I can't say I can scratch that itch elsewhere. Also, seeing a lot of those songs live really helped. One of the best Opeth concerts I've been to was on the Heritage tour. Loved Pale Communion, too. Great prog album. Again, I can see why people who prefer metal would like it, but I loved that one. A certain part of me does miss their old stuff though.
I think if forced to pick a favorite nowadays I might actually say Ghost Reveries. I got into them with Deliverance, so that has a lot of nostalgia to it, but for a long while I'd probably say My Arms Your Hearse was my favorite. It's probably slipped to 2nd behind Ghost Reveries. 3rd would probably be Still Life very closely followed by Blackwater Park.
I've really never thought of how I'd rank Pale Communion and Heritage next to the others though. I feel like eventually Pale Communion will be pretty up there, but I need to let it sit a bit like the rest.
I love My Arms Your Hearse and Damnation. Still haven't gotten around to Heritage or Pale Communion.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Terrible, boring band
DamagedInc
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I don't mind some of their earlier stuff if I'm in the mood but they're the only band I've ever walked out of a gig that I'd willingly paid for, the Heritage tour was utterly boring, on the other hand my next gig is Voivod,Napalm Death,Obituary and Carcass all on the same bill, I reckon that will be anything but boring!
The general view is pretty divided. I try not to bring up the band.
That said, they're responsible for getting me into extreme metal and I still listen to them regularly. Easily my favourite metal band, next to maybe Maiden.
Andrew Korenchkin
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There's no real general view, but it's to be expected with that band. Polarizing for people, but eh, opinions and tastes are....well differ. Not much else to say about that.
For myself, they were my favorite band, still one of my all time favorites (BWP is by far my favorite album of all time), and I still regard the time in which I was SUPER into them as one of the most (if not the most) emotionally intense times I've ever had with music...just fucking wow. Aside from that, it's one of the few bands in which I almost refuse to discuss with almost anybody else, my most relevant personal feelings are nobody else's business.
Weird. I've seen Opeth like 3 times now and the Heritage tour was probably my favorite time. That's despite being a pretty low ranked album for me. They played the shit out of that stuff that night.
Royal_Flush
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I don't get Opeth. It's really weird. I totally understand why people like them and I even think I might like them once it "clicks", but right now I don't like them. I actually saw them life for the first time at Summerbreeze this year and I just was bored.
DamagedInc
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Yeah I think it split opinion from what I read, me and the missus just found it boring and it was full of people just talking away, maybe it was just a bad night.
Dangerblade
Member
All this talk is making me want to dig out my old Opeth CDs are re-rip them to 320kbps rather than the 96kbps I settled with 14 years ago...haha.
Andrew Korenchkin
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One of the few bands I refuse to listen to other than CDs with high end head phones, everything else just doesn't their music justice.
That's Devin Townsend for me.
Not that I refuse, but still it's so much better on headphones.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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I was into them the most when Deliverance came out. It was a statement album, it just all came together. The last part of the song Deliverance was a powerful first listen, unforgettable. They couldn't follow that album up. No band could.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Probably my second favorite album from them. Even the last song I love.
How about Steven Wilson? Probably one of the best producers in music today. The layering and the detail of his albums are insane.
Don't get me wrong, I purchase all his shit on blu rays and listen to really high quality when I can, but Wilson's music has a strong melody to it that doesn't degrade terribly much when put into my car's speakers or something. Townsend's albums, especially some of the earlier ones (Terria, mostly) rely a lot on layering that gets diminished pretty quickly with lower quality.
That and I've listened to Wilson's music so ridiculously goddamned much that most of the sounds exist in my head, too, when I listen in my car or something.
Bootleg Fireworks
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I bought "Orchid" around the time it was released because Åsa Jonsén (then writer for Close-Up Magazine in Sweden) had praised it to no end and the record had been bigged up by a number of publications. They were generally regarded as the next big thing in the underground, or that was what I had gathered from reading fanzines etc. Anyway, I get the album, put it in the cd player and it sounds pretty good. Kind of like In Flames (which were really coming into their own at that time) with the swedish folk music sensibilities. And then it just goes on and on, the fucking song just won't end. Riff after riff, the structure is all over the place. Nay, the structure is nowhere to be found at all; it just sounds like a collection of riffs with no discernible direction...
I sell or trade in that record lickity spit and manage to stay away from listening to them for about five (?) years, until a friend of mine acquires a copy of "Blackwater Park", from Mikael Åkerfeldt himself at the music store he used to work at. Such a big difference a couple of albums can make. BWP stands as the magnum opus of Opeth to me. "Still Life" is pretty good, but everything after BWP is just insufferably dull and toothless to me. I see "Deliverance" get thrown around a lot, but I just don't get it, there's no bite to it. Which is basically what I feel about Opeth as a whole: there's no bite. Anyway...
Secks4Food
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To put it simply, I don't listen to them that often anymore, but they're still my favorite band; many of my most special times listening to music were with Opeth. They still make good albums, but they just sound like a different band and the old magic is 100 percent gone.
stump sock
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You're alright.
Hesemonni
Banned
Younger me used to love them to bits. Morningrise is my all time favorite album and I'll fight anybody who denies the greatness of it. But after Ghost Reveries I kinda lost them. Maybe it's because because of work and family I have less time to spend on music I just haven't managed to 'get' those records.