IS IT TRUE?

[Pseud0]

i spent 4 days with them in the studio while they recorded Ghost Reveries. i was there to record each member (except for the newly added keyboardist) for the Death tribute CD and i can tell you something about what i saw.... 5 guys busting their ass on music... and whoever wasn't recording was usually watching a football match. no reading sessions. the ONLY employee in the Studio was Jens.. the guy who recorded and mixed everything... and he was far too busy recording to do any extra-curricular religious reading.

i didn't think ALL of them (besides pear) would be on the tribute cd! Awsome

 

[polarity]

a Band's attitudes and beliefs have nothing to do with teh quality of the music that they produce.

I didn't say it does; in fact, I left the idea of quality down to subjective interpretation. I said that a band's ideology is like to influence the kind of music they produce, which may then produce music compatible or incompatible with the listener's ideological preferences, and thus be respectively liked or disliked. Of course, if you had a brain you would've understood this

 

[Kenneth R.]

making money off your music is too christian.

that's so false it made me laugh.

if this is true i think its cool.
if it isn't, they're a great band anyway.

 

[deliverance]

Holy fucking hell guys, did James Murphy just post here?!

...he has his own forum right here on UM, in which he posts often.

 

[fhare]

Personally, I thinks Opeth are talented enough that they could survive being born again... has their been much evidence to date that they would all of the sudden start making suckbag music? I'm pretty sure I heard MA say on Lamentations outakes Opeth will forever be a death metal band right? Not sure that would go over well with the brothers...

 

[bball_1523]

I agree with polarity about people's values, beliefs, etc, affecting what kind of music they listen to and play.

Personally, I come partially from a Christian background and I do believe God exists. I stay away from most black metal bands because of their ideologies and purpose. I listen to metal, but I don't believe metal is anti-christian at all. Some bands may be, but who said music is?

From my beliefs, attitudes toward life, and personality, I listen to the music I like. For example I listen to a lot of emotional, melodic, and depressing music such as Opeth, Pain Of Salvation, Nevermore. I am not depressed, but rather from the way I grew up, I can feel the music that way. From my attitudes in life, I feel the music I listen to and it pleases my ears. It's hard for me to listen to a band like Iron Maiden, because their music doesn't agree too well with my personality. It's too happy happy for me, as is most power metal.

The music I make will agree with my personality and views in life.

Now I don't care how you all see it, this is the way I see it. I'm not gonna state all this as Fact, but rather it's the way I view music. I think Opeth would change their music a little because of their beliefs, but even if I were a Christian I probably wouldn't make a happy happy christian album, but rather I would add messages about my beliefs, but I probably wouldn't force a christian message in every song. I'd be like a lot of other metal bands that have Christian members, who don't really talk about religion in their music.

 

[NeverIsForever]

I'm always a little surprised by what a big deal people seem to make of what religion a given band identifies with, regardless of whether their music reflects their beliefs. Honestly, I don't see how a band's religious affiliation matters in the slightest, unless its influences are present and/or obvious in their music. And then it only matters if you personally are bothered by such expression.

I'm not.

 

[Mr Samsara]

I'm always a little surprised by what a big deal people seem to make of what religion a given band identifies with, regardless of whether their music reflects their beliefs. Honestly, I don't see how a band's religious affiliation matters in the slightest, unless its influences are present and/or obvious in their music. And then it only matters if you personally are bothered by such expression.

I'm not.

Well said.

 

[deliverance]

you are obsessed with that smiley

he most definetly is

 

[Caca Volante]

i agree with the_drip

 

[bball_1523]

I'm always a little surprised by what a big deal people seem to make of what religion a given band identifies with, regardless of whether their music reflects their beliefs. Honestly, I don't see how a band's religious affiliation matters in the slightest, unless its influences are present and/or obvious in their music. And then it only matters if you personally are bothered by such expression.

I'm not.

I kinda agree with that, that's why I don't listen to a lot of black metal.

 

[PeeWee1473]

i heard during the recording process of ghost reveries one of the employees at the recording studio read The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren to mikael and peter and they are now christians... i read it in a christian article about metal music

Yes, that's why he dedicated Deliverance to "our lord Satan" at the Philly show. Certain people should die choking on their own blood and I think you just volunteered.

 

[Arnold Layne]

Yes, that's why he dedicated Deliverance to "our lord Satan" at the Philly show. .

And thier tour shirts say "In the year of our lord" a christian concept. I think they jsut want to make music really, religion has little to do with it.