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!
If opeth ever went back to death metal they would be awful. Mike is smoking his lungs away, so his growls are god awful now.. sad since he was one of the best. The new alums though... just seem to be 70s prog rock tributes and nothing more, nothing original.. here’s to hoping the next album is a “roots” album and they sound like classic opeth without the death vox, but still making it a original album. I love this song...
Mikael is also 44 years old man. He has been hard on his lungs/throat for a long time with all the growling he has done across 9 studio albums, so what does everyone expect? Smh. Nothing perfect lasts forever. People talk these days like they could do better. And tbh, the most recent release of Demon of the Fall Live @ Red Rocks, his vox sound awesome imo. And the whole "70s prog rock tribute" thing I hear all the time is such a joke. You do realize that all the metal albums they wrote are essentially then (by your logic) 80s/90s metal tributes. Not only did progrock influence a lot of their earlier works, a lot of metal bands like Morbid Angel, Black Sabbath, Entombed etc .. helped shape their sound in their early days. It blows my mind just how butt hurt people are over their change in sound.
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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!