Recent content by Spiritus Solis

Well, if you could read, you would know from my responses that I wasn't really asking a poll so much as bringing what I consider a bit of an injustice to peoples' attention, that Opeth is considered a pioneer in metal while EoS is ignored. Perhaps you should consider that subtlety is not dead...

Then again, i've heard the same criticism of non-cohesion from people about Opeth (and not just Morningrise). Still Life in particular gets criticized for the seemingly random array of riffs. Not that I particularly believe it, but I don't think Crimson's non-cohesive either (and are you...

Well, actually, what I was trying to point out is that Edge of Sanity has gone pretty much unacknowledged outside of metal circles, while most music critics salivate at the mention of the name Opeth. I do think both are influential, and maybe I should've worded the question differently (as...

I'd probably have to go with Morningrise. The drumming in MAYH fits the mood, but Lopez wasn't that great of a drummer then. Nordin just does such a great job working with the bass and melodies on Morningrise. I think that's what makes "Black Rose Immortal" such a great song, IMO.

I was kind of curious what other people thought about this: if Opeth or Edge of Sanity or both should be credited with establishing progressive death metal as a genre? There are of course other bands that mixed death metal with other genres in the '90's (Death, At the Gates [though melodic...