NEW OPETH

[ScreamBloodyGore]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/shared ... sEater.mp3

Sounds like a sped up Ghost Reveries, but the Scott Walker influences are definitely present.

[ProstheticHead12]

heard this a few days ago, and less than four minutes of an opeth song is like playing 'just the tip' but i'm still looking forward to hearing the whole song and album.

[Vince]

search for a torrent called 'new opeth' and you can hear full versions of 'the lotus eater' and 'porcelain heart'.

[ScreamBloodyGore]

Watershed leaked.

Pert good so far.

[erock]

its pretty fucking awesome i think... lots of 70s prog

[jswift]

I picked up the special edition this morning.

It's sort of a median album for them. It doesn't come to close to Morningrise or Ghost Reveries, but it's still better than Still Life and Hearse.

The cover of "Would?" is absolutely awesome.

[BlackRoija]

Did you just say that Ghost Reveries is better than Still Life and MAYH


...wat

[jswift]

Yep, I did. I'm a natural born rabblerouser, I tell you.

I think it's really more or less the timing of Ghost Reveries that makes me enjoy it so. The late 90s was a truly stellar time for metal in general, but circa 2005? The fact that it was released on Roadrunner in conjunction with the fact that it still didn't suck is reason enough for me to laud it so.

Now, If I had said that Cryptopsy's latest album was better than "Still Life", THEN it would be the opportune time to drown me in a shallow lake.

[DeathfareDevil]

jswift: How did you get the "Would?" cover?


I just returned from the store and am making my way through a first spin. So far so good. The first song, "Coil," is mellow all the way through, but more dynamic than anything off of Damnation. Akerfeldt's vocals get better every album. "Heir Apparent," which I'd heard last night for the first time, has gotten even better with a second listen: think "Blackwater Park" but slower in the doomy parts and faster in the fast parts. Doesn't build to such a crescendo as "BWP," but then ... nothing does. "Lotus Eater" everyone has heard, and now that track #4, "Burden," has begun, I'm going to shut up and listen to it.

A word about the packaging, however:

It's a quadro-foil outer case which for some reason reminds me of a McDonald's box, inside of which is a booklet (comprised of nothing but cool, themed, mossy-colored photos), and two cardboard sleeves, one each for the CD and DVD. Now then ...

NO LYRICS. Why? Unless of course the last page of the text-free 16-page booklet, which is written in some kind of Martian heiroglyphics, contains the lyrics, they are a no-show.


Oh, and one thing I've noticed, and which I really appreciate, is how much more quickly the two shades of Opeth -- the distorted parts and the clean parts -- alternate on this album. Instead of having a song with a heavy beginning, heavy ending, and mellow mid-section, the songs bounce back and forth between these elements in a more attention-grabbing way. Of course, gone are the days of being totally ENTRANCED by an Opeth song, like "Night and the Silent Water" or the aforementioned "Blackwater Park", so I guess there's a trade-off. Quoth Harvey Birdman, "SIGH."

[jswift]

The cover of "Would?" isn't on the special edition pressing. It's floating around out there in Internet-land, and I was super-pissed that it wasn't included on the set. I did, however luck out and scored the "Mellotron Heart" bonus CD with my set, which means I waltzed out of Best Buy with three discs worth of Opeth-flavored goodness.

Now, how many more months until the next Bloodbath release?

[GameFreac]

Now, how many more months until the next Bloodbath release?

It comes out in October

Can't wait