Recent content by thebigfish

you shouldn't need lessons. i never took lessons, the only thing i got was a book from my father that held some basic chords. that's all. just start with simple material (so certainly NOT opeth!). i started with offspring and nirvana, going through radiohead and tool, and right now i'm teaching...

life in a glasshouse by radiohead you and whose army by radiohead trans-atlantic drawl by radiohead practically everything by radiohead since they've gone experimental. also, 'grace' and 'so real' by jeff buckley. and also 'this otherness' by motorpsycho. trust me, these songs are the most...

i'm really glad there are more people that actually like both opeth and radiohead, i thought i was the only one who liked metal together with other styles of music.

opeth uses all kinds of weird chords, for instance, the opening chord of 'bleak' is, i believe, 0-7-8-9-11-0, quite dissonant indeed. they use a lot of 'diabolus in musica', E-Bb, F-B, stuff like that. they'd throw you at the stake for it in the middle ages. they also use some interesting power...

all i hope is that they stop trying to sound like porcupine tree... i don't know, but since steven wilson got involved with opeth, the band seems to be slowly losing their unique sound. i like the atmosphere on the earlier albums much better. since BWP their music has become a little...

jackson guitars are also fucking awesome (or charvel, their little sister). i started on the charvel, very affordable and most of all robust, you can throw it around as much as you like. opeth also uses jackson guitars on the first two records. they're like BC Rich, without the glamour - really...

Absolutely right you are. The drums are even worse, sometimes the snare is just totally blurred in the mix, like some dude f*cked around with a drumcomputer and cut off the snare-sample or something. and the bass guitar sounds way too sleazy, more like an unplugged electric guitar with loosened...

Opeth - Still life Opeth - Orchid Meshuggah - Contradictions collapse Carcass - Necroticism Tool - Aenima Radiohead - OK Computer Motorpsycho - Phanerothyme Jeff Buckley - Grace

... that use that creative use of notes/chords/whatever, because that's what i really like about opeth... i'm a guitar player myself and so far i haven't heard a band that is as efficient as opeth in using dissonances/awkward notes/whtvr (i haven't done any musical theory...) oh and btw i'm...

definitely nay... in fact it's opeth's only song i consider bad. for me deliverance ends with master's apprentices. well, okay the opening riffs is kinda good... but after that the song falls back into some kind of cut-and-paste cacoffiny... like: every riff that wasn't good enough for the first...

MOTORPSYCHO! + Meshuggah (Scandinavian music really kicks arse!) Radiohead + Tool + Slayer (well... a few years ago... still useful for your average five minutes of adrenalin), well and Carcass maybe. Not all metal, but what the fuck, opeth is barely 50 percent metal

IMO the biggest drawback in metal music is that its composers write riffs, separated pieces - instead of songs. different parts must be sewn together naturally in order to create songs with a unified feeling in it. i mean: i could name my favorite opeth-riffs, but i can't name my favorite opeth...

i liked opeth better before they got involved with steven wilson. he's basically a good producer (i.e. sound quality) but BWP and deliverance sound too 'produced' if you ask me. also, since steven wilson is involved, opeth's music sounds less original and more porcupine tree-like, which isn't...

well the backdraw of that one-guy-concept is that all songs have the same feeling. radiohead, for instance, are like the firmest band ever (probably) and that's really audible in the diversity of their songs. mikael seems to use the same concept over and over again with the same dissonant chords...

'by the pain i see in others' i personally find a big disgrace. like: we have all these riffs and parts and bits that aren't good enough for the first five songs, well just randomly knock them together and let's call it a song. fuck that. that outro is just incredibly dumbfounded... who would...