discuss the beauty, intricacy, and power of [motw] music

[YaYo]

I dont even know more than 1 or 2 song names, and those are the mp3's i downloaded before i heard the albums. I pretty much always listen from the start of an album to the end..

I couldnt talk about specific parts either, i love them when i hear them, but in afterthought its hard to pinpoint them... or explain what it is i love.

I have, for a long time, been heading towards metal bands that are as skilled and diverse in their clean sounds as they are in their metal sounds... and thats what motW provide for me. Its not just 'hey we played some wicked riffs so now we'll strum an Am chord for contrast".

I will greatly miss female vocals, some of my favourite moments, though i think the sparing use of them is one of the greatest things.

This band isnt perfect, but at this point in time they are perfect for me.

 

[YaYo]

.. or are there female vocals still?

 

[FuSoYa]

and the best moment has to be when the drums come into it, and violins surge and soar. Man, that part is beautiful

To quote my good friend Alex Nagle, "The string arrangement on that section... BLECCHH!!"

 

[Static]

If only I knew what BLLEEECHHH means....

I assume it's something good...

 

[Baliset]

Originally posted by Static

There's quite a few solos, but often they are quite short and such.

well when you are dealing with such "intense" guitar work its hard to keep it up for very long.

PS. FuSoYa...

 

[Static]

So your saying its 'hard' to play like that!?

 

[Baliset]

dude the sheer "weight" of the music is enough to kill an unexperienced soloist.

 

[FrostGiant]

Shit's gettin' deep now.

 

[xfer]

1. Is it ok if I burn Jake on the Opeth board?
2. Is it ok if I burn Jake if I burn avi at the same time? (I could get a lot of mileage out of village-idiot jokes)
3. Yeah, Static--soon after hearing "Geography" for the first time, I read an article about death rituals and how in many cultures the washing of the corpse was considered to be very intimate, kind of like your last moments with the deceased but on a level you never generally reach with someone in life. So "let me wash you" taps into a lot of different and powerful emotional levels.

 

[avi]

xfer, it's not okay to burn me. However, Jake is fair play.

 

[xfer]

argh. well. not 'til next week.

 

[YaYo]

In another expression of love for this music, on such a rare opportunity..

The layering, this is probably the biggest attraction to me. One thing i despise about Deliverance is how simple it is in these terms, on a single listen you can focus on everything there is to focus on.. most of the time its even basically a single doubled guitar riff. motW however do music the way i love it done (the way ive been doing it since before i found them), theres always more ways to view the music, more things to focus on. Theres one part in one song (hey i said i wasnt good at saying what the moments were) where in the background there's a whole bunch of the trumpets or something all playing weird chromatic stuff.. I only noticed it after a few months... its insanely obvious and not hidden at all, yet i gained complete enjoyment from simply focusing on a small section of the music up until that moment. I was indeed quite shocked to see i'd never heard such an obvious part of the song, and i know there is much i am still not hearing.

I think thats what creates lasting music, where on the 1000th listen you can find something new.

 

[deadair]

i'm all alone...

 

[azal]

I'm here for you.

 

[FrostGiant]

I'm not.

 

[The Dope]

Originally posted by azal
I'm here for you.

Azal (right) comforts a depressed and lonely deadair after deadair's claim that he was "all alone." They enjoyed tea and biscuits afterward.

 

[azal]

I'm glad that you feel deadair is the fat chick.

 

[xfer]

I sense a derailment in the near future.

 

[deadair]

...in the future?...

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

beauty....intricacy...power......