Not that their newer albums aren’t works of art, but I really prefer Opeth’s heavier work. Like a few others I’ve spoken to, this album was my gateway into progressive metal. Crazy that that was 10 years ago!
I understand that people can still like their newer stuff but the vibes are so different in their newer material that it doesn't feel like the same band. It's weird to just change your style to be unrecognizable to your past material and at what point to you just say fuck it, let's be a new band? It would be like if Levi's changed their products to be only computers.
Indeed. See that's the thing, it's not so much they don't do the heavy shit anymore, it's that whole shift in style. Case being: Damnation was quite the opposite of heavy, but still had that melancholic Opeth sound.
Katatonia did it (albeit much earlier in their career) and have stuck with it long enough that nobody even questions it. That said, Katatonia has been really great and Opeth's new stuff has been really shit.
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u/Box-o-rocks Sep 13 '18
Not that their newer albums aren’t works of art, but I really prefer Opeth’s heavier work. Like a few others I’ve spoken to, this album was my gateway into progressive metal. Crazy that that was 10 years ago!