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Cool! Thanks for the interview and that rad panaramic photo. BTW, I went ahead and threw the interview into Google's language translator, I do this at work sometimes when our Asian customers send non-English emails... The Swedish to English is WAY better than Traditional Chinese to English...

Credence and Demon of the Fall (simultaneously).

Hmmmm... I didn't notice the drums from behind, but I should probably have another listen to the 5.1 mix. When I listen to Coil, it sounds like Mikael is playing his guitar, standing right there in my living room. It's pretty awesome.

The panning of the overheads and toms has the biggest effect on the direction, whether you hear from audience or performer perspective. If the hi-hats and ride are miked, then those definitely count as well, but often times they are not miked as they're picked up fine by the overheads. The...

^ What he said!

My vote would be to buy the SE as well, if it's in your budget. The documentary is rad, and the bonus tracks are quite good, especially Bridge of Sighs.

I'm surprised Mikael hasn't been approached to compose for film yet... If I were to make a movie, he'd be one of the first I'd call for the soundtrack.

Yeah, well said! I'd also like to add that Per's involvement (and Mike's, of course) in orchestrating and arranging a backup symphony would be instrumental in successfully pulling off a concept like this. I'll bet it would turn out awesome.

If you have a cassette player that has RCA (l/r) outputs, you can use RCA cables into a stero-split to 1/8" jack, plug into your sound card and record onto your PC using a free program like Audacity, which can convert the audio to MP3. If you don't have RCA outputs, you can output from the...

2001 My friend was serving in the Army, stationed at Ft. Bragg, and he sent me a compilation of various metal bands from Europe (on cassette). The compilation included Credence and Demon of the Fall. After listening to those songs several times and falling in "intrigue" with not just the...

What a band sounds like when they "sell out" is pretty difficult to predict, especially with a band like Opeth, and also considering the definition of the phrase. I think you first need to ask the question: What does it mean to sell out? For me, selling out means that a musician sacrifices...

There are certainly hints of jazz (including small elements of free-form), but I can see how the label would be misleading, because they are definitely more of a prog death metal band than anything else. Folk is thrown around a lot as well, and if you were to play the right snippet from a song...

Word!

You say this as we prepare for yet another cold-front and more snow in the cascades! Thanks for the link!

Ha. You guys are hilarious.