Blackwater Trails

[BrandonS]

I remember listening to Rush's new album, Vapor Trails, and then a good time later I experienced Blackwater Park... and for some reason, BWP always reminded me of Vapor Trails. Maybe it was the chorus-like section at the end of The Funeral Portrait, or something else... My copy of Vapor Trails has been "missing" for a very long time so I can't even go back to figure it out. Has anyone else experienced this kind of feeling between the two albums?

 

[hibernal_dream]

Silly aimless hippie music

 

[dcat]

^ Mmmm, you need to take a stress pill imo...

lol

 

[flu boy]

I remember listening to Rush's new album, Vapor Trails, and then a good time later I experienced Blackwater Park... and for some reason, BWP always reminded me of Vapor Trails. Maybe it was the chorus-like section at the end of The Funeral Portrait, or something else... My copy of Vapor Trails has been "missing" for a very long time so I can't even go back to figure it out. Has anyone else experienced this kind of feeling between the two albums?

Sure. Every once in a while I catch a bit of a Rush vibe in an Opeth song...and some Abba...

 

[BrandonS]

Sure. Every once in a while I catch a bit of a Rush vibe in an Opeth song...and some Abba...

Well Abba I would understand, since they have similar parts in The Moor, but this Rush thing I couldn't put my finger on... then again, I haven't heard -too- much Rush. Just Chronicles, and Vapor Trails... the new stuff like Snakes & Arrows doesn't really interest me too much.

Did the band ever say if there was a Rush influence?

 

[neognosis]

I suppose Benighted sounds a little like Closer to the Heart, at first.

Whenever I play that song for friends they think it's Silent Lucidity.

 

[Arasmas]

I THIMK BENITED SOUNDS MORE LIEK THAT COAMEL SONG THEN RUSH

 

[Kenneth R.]

these albums sound NOTHING alike.

 

[Firesoull]

Well Mikael is a prog fan, and there's quite obviously a lot of 70's prog influences within Opeth's music but I don't really see any specific similarities.