and notice how I didn't agree with arasmas either, but I disagreed with the idiotic call to ban him. learn how to read.
I dont love opeth as much as the rest of you, because unlike you, I realize that opeth isn't the best fucking band in metal, much less in the world. yes I enjoy them but I'm not a rapid fanboy like so many of you are.
example: I dont like the solo in heir apparent. cool, it's flashy and weedly wah. but it doesn't fit the music behind it. whereas, you imbeciles blindly swallow everything and anything that opeth will give you, because it has the name "opeth" on it. if mikael shit on the ground, but put the opeth logo on it, you'd be lapping it all up.
that's the kind of rampant fanboyism that turned this forum to shit, not to mention the stagnation and the lack of topics to discuss without being redundant. what the fuck happened with it being okay to challenge something opeth did, as long as a discussion could come out of it? granted, starting a thread like "akesson is terrible" probably won't get much discussion on this forum, but irregardless, why the fuck do we now have to blindly follow everything opeth does without challenging it one bit or voicing out opinion one bit?
I've been lurking on here since late 2002/early 2003, before I joined in 05, and it has never been this bad. ever. then again, with the rapid influx of morons that came with the releases of ghost reveries and then watershed...well...it's gotten worse than it could have possibly been imagined.
and again, I'm noticing a trend of people who joined in mid/late 2008, are the only ones calling for the banning of arasmas.