AHHHHH FUCK YES! FINALLY!

[Craysh3]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=150329

This will be better than watergay, I'm 97% sure of it.

 

[Captain Beard]

I doubt that.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

I think it has to be better than Watershed simply because Watershed was a horrible album. But it's going to fail, I know that.

At this point I just want the keyboard out and the guitar leads back in.

 

[Super Mahrio]

I hope its better than Watershed but im not gonna hold my breath. Opeth just isnt the same without Lindgren.

 

[Dead Winter]

I kinda liked Watershed, actually.

Whenever I wanna listen to Opeth, however, I always listen to him instead:

 

[Brooks]

I fucking loved Watershed.

Jens Bogren AND Steven Wilson is a dream come true. My pants are getting tight.

 

[CrackedKnäckebröd]

"The new material has been described by the band as 'good.'"

 

[Brooks]

Saw that. lol'd.

 

[theoden236]

Pretty awesome that Steven Wilson is mixing the record. Always feels like a momentous occasion whenever there's gonna be a new Opeth album on the horizon.

 

[replicated]

Watershed was kickass. I hope, however, that they are far more br00tal with the next release and focus less on the clean vox and jazz shit.

 

[Shpongled]

This band can basically do no wrong imo and I always look forward to new material, but what would really make my frog jump is an album full of nothing but raw and dirty heavy riffs with catchy hooks, and long clean melodies ala Orchid and Morningrise. I know it won't happen but oh man... if it did....

 

[Psychonaut]

This band can basically do no wrong imo and I always look forward to new material

Aye. I'm still hoping Mikael will finish up his prog project with Dan Swano too.

 

[CrackedKnäckebröd]

This band can basically do no wrong imo and I always look forward to new material, but what would really make my frog jump is an album full of nothing but raw and dirty heavy riffs with catchy hooks, and long clean melodies ala Orchid and Morningrise. I know it won't happen but oh man... if it did....

this.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I don't really enjoy anything since Still Life, so this news stirs nothing but apathy in me.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

BWP and Damnation are the last ones I liked.

I don't know how you guys still dig this band. It's become Mikaels personal little progressive fuck around, it isn't Opeth anymore.

 

[Shpongled]

Whatever, it's still awesome music. People change. Bands change. Some bands change bad. Some bands change good. Such is life.

 

[Brooks]

It seems I have the opposite opinion as anyone else here!

I would love nothing more than Opeth to continue in the direction of Watershed, and make the ULTIMATE HEAVY METAL MIND FUCK RECORD, something akin to Scott Walker's 'The Drift', one of the creepiest and darkest records in modern history.

That said, Opeth are always doing something interesting and unique (and always have, so going BACK to a sound is simply not going to happen), and will catch every one of us completely off guard, especially if S.Wilson is at the production helm.

Look forward people, and look forward to a new Opeth opus!

 

[CrackedKnäckebröd]

I'm looking forward to Steven and Michael releasing that album they are making together, too. Interested to see what it might sound like, since it's supposed to sound different from anything any of them have done before (dunno if I believe that or not, but yeah...). And speaking of SW, his upcoming solo album and Blackfield III should be good aswell.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

I didn't believe it myself when I heard it. Unless they plan on doing a jazz album, it's not going to be different than anything we've heard before. Is Mike Porntoy still drumming for it?

Sorry for being so negative in this thread, but I'm tired of being let down by one of my favorite bands and musicians year after year.

 

[Craysh3]

Even if they take it in this kind of direction, it's still fucking groovy and better than watershed: