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 Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 3:02pm |
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^ That's half the album then. Will check it out later. Already have the album pre-ordered.
Update - Brilliant! Edited by Nightfly - 27 Sep 2024 at 3:16pm |
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Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 11:40am |
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Blood Incantation here just dropping a 20 minute long music video. As you do.
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Posted: 21 Sep 2024 at 5:33am |
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^ Yes me too, especially as I've gone for the boxset. Disappointing nevertheless as it's my most eagerly anticipated album of the year.
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Posted: 19 Sep 2024 at 1:11pm |
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I'd rather the wait than get an inferior product though.
Back in 2012, there was a fuck-up with Epica's Requiem for the Indifferent album. The album shipped with the last track in some sort of pre-production version missing most of the vocals. I've never, ever bought the physical CD because of that because even though it was fixed, there's no way to differentiate between the releases to make sure I'm be getting the fixed product. The band and label have never confirmed a definitive reissue that is guaranteed problem free.
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Posted: 19 Sep 2024 at 12:59pm |
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That's almost Christmas!
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Posted: 19 Sep 2024 at 12:15pm |
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Opeth delayed to November 22nd due to manufacturing issues.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2024 at 8:59am |
Less of a surprise than the first one and though still solid not as good. High hopes for the new album though.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2024 at 7:21pm |
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By far the best single so far, though I do think this is a rare case where an abbreviated version would have been even better. Still, if there's more tracks like the first few minutes of this, I'll be very happy!
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Posted: 10 Sep 2024 at 1:14pm |
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Both tracks have been voted as primarily prog metal on RYM, and I agree, so it definitely does look like it could be their hvaviest album since at least Watershed. I also really like both tracks, and I already enjoyed their previous album a lotwhen I listened to it recently, so I have a feeling this could be my favorite since Ghost Reverie, if the remaining tracks deliver.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2024 at 9:58am |
To my ears there the metal riffs and hard edged playing is back, so it matters less that probably not all tracks on the album features growling. That´s not a deal breaker for me. But I´ve missed the metal riffs and heaviness of their metal oriented releases.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2024 at 12:54am |
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There's a lyric video premiering later today, but the song is available already. Just about to listen:
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Posted: 06 Sep 2024 at 3:37am |
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More symphonic than you'd expect from an Opeth song. No growling in this one, so it's a completely different sounding track to the first one.
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Posted: 21 Aug 2024 at 12:22am |
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I like this track more on first listen than Unchained. I so like Unchained but see it as among the weaker songs the band has put out.
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Posted: 20 Aug 2024 at 8:13am |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2024 at 1:31am |
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I must say as well that things are looking very promising this next few months:
August 16th: Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm Re-recorded 2024 Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals August 23rd: Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us Simone Simons - Vermillion August 28th: Lovebites - Lovebites EP II & Memorial for the Warrior Souls September 1st: Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon September 20th: Nightwish - Yesterwynde Esoctrilihum - Döth-Derniàlh October 4th: Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere October 11th: Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja October 18th: Frozen Crown - War Hearts October 25th: Gaerea - Coma
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Posted: 13 Aug 2024 at 11:38pm |
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So after listening again and having given the first listen time to sink in, I have to say that The Day Of... has grown on me. There is a certain quirkiness to it that gives me a vibe of Imaginaerum and as much as I love Floor that's my favourite post-Tarja Nightwish album. It still perhaps doesn't scream out that it should be a single but I do actually feel more positive about the new album now and that it will at least improve on the last, which I really don't care for.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 11:32am |
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I mean it's not horrible but...ever get the impression Tuomas has lost the plot? Maybe it works better in context of the whole album and as such really, really should not be picked as a single. Not that Nightwish has the best track record with songs to pick as singles. I've never forgotten when they first got Annette in after kicking Tarja out and everyone was waited with anticipation for what the new singer would sound like and they go and choose Eva of all tracks they possibly could have picked from Dark Passion Play to introduce her. The gentle ballad.
I will say that Perfume of the Timeless has been growing on me, but nothing's going to change the production and mixing issues. I can't say I honestly expect to buy this album when it comes out whereas so far Opeth and Simone are must have's.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 11:22am |
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Yeah, I'll always prefer their classic sound, but the new albums are much better than I remembered them being, with In cauda Venenum being easily the best. I thought the album as a whole still leaned more towards prog rock, but there were definitely some more metallic tracks there, especially the first two full songs and Charlatan.
Speaking of bands who have NOT aged well: WTF even is this? At this point, you can just laugh and/or cry at what they've become, compared to their classic albums
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Posted: 08 Aug 2024 at 11:00am |
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Pale Communion was the one that took the longest to click with me. I like it a fair bit now.
I really enjoyed In Cauda Venenum. There's more metal on it that Sorceress. I'd say it's as much a prog metal album as it is prog rock though obviously a different kind than what will now be thought of as their classic era. I think Mikael said the Swedish lyrics are actually the true album but I tend to go for English first personally. Worth listening to in both versions though. I don't listen to the prog rock era Opeth as much overall, my first reach will typically always be either Still Life, Blackwater Park or Ghost Reveries, but unlike some other bands who changed their sound Opeth never completely lost me. With that said the hype for the new one is real.
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Posted: 02 Aug 2024 at 8:05am |
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I re-listened to Pale Communion last night, and liked it far more than I did before, so I'll probably do Sorceress tonight and then finally give In Cauda Venenum a listen, since I actually never got around to that one yet, despite it being the most popular of their last few albums. The new track definitely got me hyped.
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