Godhead's Lament

[Jayde]

Your thoughts?

 

[SentencedToBurn]

its pretty cool. i like the other songs on still life much better though for some reason.

 

[Jayde]

My only complaint is that there are a few to many "ah's" and "oh's" and such. You know what I mean?

 

[E V I L]

Originally posted by Jayde
My only complaint is that there are a few to many "ah's" and "oh's" and such. You know what I mean?

MAYH: I love it because of the chants.

BP: I love it because of the grunts, though they're everywhere.

Godhead's Lament: I love it because of the accoustic and clean vox section.

 

[Heliologue]

it has the great 6/8 bounce to it, but what's really cool is the same triple-layer guitar effect as on Dirge For November: they start out with base, Peter on harmony, and Mikael on melody, but after a statement of that, they layer on a third guitar above that.

and yes, it has a wonderful clean section

 

[Kushantaiidan]

Originally posted by saturnix
it has the great 6/8 bounce to it, but what's really cool is the same triple-layer guitar effect as on Dirge For November: they start out with base, Peter on harmony, and Mikael on melody, but after a statement of that, they layer on a third guitar above that.

and yes, it has a wonderful clean section

Agreed.

This was the first opeth song I heard. I heard it on the radio, and I went insane.

9 minutes, such a long song, it started heavy, went clean, and heavy again. I loved the structure, I loved his voice.

I was hooked.

Fantabulous song.

 

[The Nomad]

My favorite off SL. It has a really active driving, which I love... similar to The Night and the Silent Water, and a little to April Ethereal. And, of course, the clean sections rule.

yeah.

 

[StorTroll]

Originally posted by saturnix
it has the great 6/8 bounce to it, but what's really cool is the same triple-layer guitar effect as on Dirge For November: they start out with base, Peter on harmony, and Mikael on melody, but after a statement of that, they layer on a third guitar above that.

and yes, it has a wonderful clean section

It´s funny how almost every song of theirs is in 6/8 (or 12/8).
It makes the riffs sound very round...

 

[YaYo]

Originally posted by StorTroll


It´s funny how almost every song of theirs is in 6/8 (or 12/8).
It makes the riffs sound very round...

yep, listening to Opeth too much caused me to write every single riff in 6/8!!!! With great difficulty ive overcome it, but i dunno... theres still something about 6/8.. its.... uh... well its not 4/4.

 

[Jo]

'red eyes probe the scene, all the same'...

'searching my way to perplexion, the gleam of her eyes, in that moment she knew'...

...oops, I got lost in the guitars, uhmm, it's all gooooooood!

'still brooding, soothing calm'...awww

 

[Jo]

and that growl Mikael gives after 'in that moment she knew'...to finish you off....

 

[~Zeanra~]

My opinion:

 

[redblueyes]

Godhead's Lament is my absolute favorite track on Still Life. I think it's perfection.
They played it live one time! Life doesn't get much better than that ....

 

[IllHead]

this song is awesome...It was the first one that kept my attention on still life...

Those beautiful arpeggios that starts up the clean section are simply amazing and then the clean singing enters to completely overwhelm me!

MARAUUUUUUUUUUDERRRRRRRRRRR!!!

 

[Vortex]

I love it above all. What amazes me the most is how bare emotions are shoved down your throat one after one so explicitly. Dammit, the song covers basically all of a human being's emotional scale, from murderous rage to sweetest love. On a lighter note, it's a real "swinging" song too.

Guitar-wise, it's definitely the band's high point.