Sounds good Vorph! One could only hope for a Crimson/Crimson II... orhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Q-QtuaynAII
Was just coming to post that. Holy fuck! \m/Gentlemen.. stolen from Vittra's facebook:
I had some catching up to do on this thread and just wanted to throw my thoughts out there on this.Speaking of Opeth, not sure if this was posted:
http://www.metalinjection.net/latest...is-dull-to-him
I will agree with you to an extent with Lopez. I'm not sure how much influence he had but they sure as hell took a different direction when he left. I'm glad to say I got the chance to see him play on basically his last tour with Opeth, which happened to be my first Opeth concert.Yeah I mean Damnation essentially took their same writing style from that era and just removed the distortion and growls. You got epic songs that still had dynamics with obvious emphasis on the beautiful part of their style. But the bass still drives and Martin Lopez does his thing.
They were my favorite band for a long stretch of time. The first that really took me away from the dime a dozen Gothenburg bands that were popular at the time (don't get me wrong. In Flames, The Haunted, DT, Dan Swano, etc all still have a place in my heart and I can still put on early Soilwork today and enjoy myself). Still Life was always my favorite. Today Damnation is all I can really go back to. I don't know if I've grown up or just moved on but I honestly feel like there are a lot of bands out there that do the pretty/heavy dynamic better than Opeth ever has. And I really think it just took exposure to stuff outside of the metal realm for me to realize that.
I do miss old Opeth. If Lopez was still in the band I'd probably find a way to enjoy them still. All in all it just isn't the same anymore.
By the way, has Soen been linked in here yet?
Martin's new group. Nothing too innovative as their influences are obvious, but a super talented group of musicians. DiGiorgio is incredible as expected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWahoNCvVQ
It's pretty hard to find "better than Opeth" if you're talking about "Still Life/MAYH/Blackwater Park" Opeth. There are only a few albums I've heard that can stack up to that, and all of them involve Dan Swan?.If you have some suggestions for any bands that do the "pretty/heavy dynamic better than Opeth", then I'm all ears at this point. I'll admit, I'm somewhat picky with my tastes. Agalloch was breath of fresh air but I'm having a hard time finding other stuff along this style that seems worth a damn.