Calling all Opeth homos
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Matt
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I like how you specified "modern music still alive today." Because if we were to actually compile a list of the all time great vocalists ever, he'd be on the bottom (if he made the list to be honest). He's nothing more than a pretty average vocalist. Doesn't have a unique sounding voice, or do anything that is amazingly cool. Pretty meh.
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Vamos
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As it stands you are contradicting yourself. You should have added "new" to the first line. Just a small nitpick...carry on.
Skepticism
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Alright then, as if my point was just sooooo hard to comprehend ;
mid - present Opeth = shit
early Opeth = greatness
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I never said he was wrong. I asked him to explain his statement, which lead to his pathetic attempt to cover up the fact that he couldn't explain.
Vamos
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Your point was not hard to understand, nor was the contradiction in your statement difficult to see.
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For the record, not the biggest Opeth fan but I don't think there's any lack of coherent connection between any of their song segments. Having a bunch of different sounds in one song doesn't mean it's aimless. I think it fits quite well. It's very much in line with prog rock.
just about all opeth songs fit together, they have very complex and well thought out structures to them. newer opeth has these more than older opeth, thats why i say GR > anything theyve done (other than mayh of course)
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Alright, Mr. Contrarian Douchenozzle. First of all, I never made the claim you seem to accuse me of making. Learn how to fucking read. Second of all, how the fuck is this so hard for you to understand? An incoherent musical work as a whole entity makes no goddamn artistic statement of any worth, just like a novel consisting of random, unrelated events with nothing to tie them together coherently would be representationally empty. Opeth writes compositions that are essentially collections of parts that make people warm in their cockles, but when looked at as wholes are revealed to be artistically vapid.
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So you know there are going to be a few songs alotted to acoustic / soft rock? What's the big deal? That is the overall gayest argument I have ever heard.
Mort Divine
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He is hardly an average vocalist. You're a right fucking retard if you think he is average, because his range and emotive capabilities are far beyond that of the average vocalist. Or can the average vocalist sing within 3.5 octaves and possibly more? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Let me guess - Jeff Buckley is an average vocalist as well.
Vamos
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A collection of parts with nothing tying them together lacks coherence and continuity. It would be like looking at a color palette where colors are sorted randomly instead of by shades. This I see in bands like Necrophagist but not in Opeth. In my opinion the different parts in Opeth songs flow into each other smoothly and each contributes to the greater whole and they also match the lyrics and theme of the songs. Yes, the songs are varied and change several times but that is hardly a bad thing. There is such thing as unity within diversity after all.
Mort Divine
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Perhaps that is the case for other bands, but not for Opeth. In their case it is that there isn't unity in a clusterfuck.
