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[Master_Yoda77]

Deadwing and In Absentia are the only two I have listened to. Good albums.

 

[Belligerent]

Everyone on the Opeth forum seems to recommend In Absentia. It's really far from their best. I think it has the most filler on it. I don't think it's any more accessible than any of the other albums they've done in the last 10 years.

Deadwing is far from their best tbh

 

[XSASweet]

what? FCTMAM is great.

This.

Seriously, how can you not like it?

oh, and I also really like FOABP too. It's got metal elements, but definitely not metal. Steven wilson has a new solo album coming out too, looking forward to that.

 

[Belligerent]

Anesthesize off of FOABP is brilliant. Alex Lifeson from Rush contributes a solo on that song along with Robert Fripp from King Crimson.

 

[challenge_everything]

Everyone on the Opeth forum seems to recommend In Absentia. It's really far from their best. I think it has the most filler on it. I don't think it's any more accessible than any of the other albums they've done in the last 10 years.

I agree 100%, and add that Stupid Dream is probably their most complete album, though not necessarily with the peaks of some of their others. Nil Recurring and FOABP I don't care for at all.

 

[Xorv]

it's meh so far....Riverside is really getting my hooked way more recently.

sometimes I can hear roger waters picking in the background

 

[Xorv]

wat

 

[MasterOLightning]

Riverside is fucking terrible. Possibly the most derivative band I've ever heard.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

WOW, "Up the Downstair" & "Lightbulb Sun" are incredible. I'm really going to enjoy getting into this. "Voyage 34" is just really trippy.

 

[Xorv]

Riverside is fucking terrible. Possibly the most derivative band I've ever heard.

you can't really judge a band you've never given your time.

 

[challenge_everything]

I've given them time and yes, they really are derivative.

 

[Xorv]

and they derive from?







wait...who are you?

 

[Psychonaut]

Belligerent hit it pretty good. It really depends on what you're in the mood for. The early works have more Floydish atmosphere to them and the latter are more hard rock. I fond the early stuff up through Lightbulb Sun the ones I play the most but I love all of their albums.

I just started collecting their vinyl WAY too late. That shit is insane expensive.

 

[CAIRATH]

and they derive from?

Anathema?
Porcupine Tree?

They clearly wear their influences on their sleave and then some. Though I don't think they're a bad band by any means. Just not very original.

 

[Xorv]

Anathema?
Porcupine Tree?

They clearly wear their influences on their sleave and then some. Though I don't think they're a bad band by any means. Just not very original.

? I don't see the correlation between anathema and riverside. I haven't heard much porcupine tree yet to determine that one though.

Then again both those bands take their influence from Pink Floyd so in some respects your logic is flawed when we can trace all 3 bands back to the great Pink Floyd, and the one who feel less like a Patchwork of Floyd idolizing is Riverside in my opinion.

 

[MasterOLightning]

You can't see the similarities between the last four Anathema albums and Riverside? Wow. And those Anathema albums kind of have much more to do with Radiohead than Pink Floyd, namely the last two.

 

[Belligerent]

WOW, "Up the Downstair" & "Lightbulb Sun" are incredible. I'm really going to enjoy getting into this. "Voyage 34" is just really trippy.

You are on your way son.

 

[CAIRATH]

? I don't see the correlation between anathema and riverside.

Yeah well, you're special. If you cannot hear a huge similarity between Riverside and post-Eternity Anathema then I don't know what to tell you.

 

[challenge_everything]

Plus the heavier riffs are archetypal Dream Theater.