Is Mikael losing his growling voice?

DanLights

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I tried searching and haven´t found any official information on it, and the new album shouldn´t be considered a sign of it, but there are other "clues" that lead to it.

Exhibit A:


He´s almost speaking in some parts.

Exhibit B:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/opeth/2011/the-palladium-worcester-ma-7bd0228c.html

The setlist to their first US tour show, 0 growls in the whole setlist. Seeing that had me stunned. Now, they did do growled songs in the festivals they played before going to US, but those are short sets and sparce dates, my guess is he really can´t keep growling every day on long headlining sets.

Btw, I hope they change it for the European tour, I´m gonna go see my favorite band for the first time and not hear Demon of The Fall, or Bleak, or Grand Conjuration or fucking ANY of the great songs from their catalogue that feature death vocals?
 
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never been a fan of Opeth but the first clip sounds pretty darn good to my ears. Not that many deathmetal growlers sound that good live when especially does who have a more speaking growl as Mikael does
 
Because he's been liberated from the shackles of metal. :lol: (Check this month's Terrorizer cover).

Either he's losing his voice or he doesn't want to do growls anymore. I've been checking their last few concerts and obviously there's something wrong.
 
Watch the videos that Terminus posted in this thread: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...lbum-streaming-online-now-5.html#post10001216
He talks about the vocal "problem" and explains why.

It's all one interview, split up into 5 youtube videos. The part he starts talking about it is toward the end of the 2nd video, and it continues into the beginning of the 3rd video.

He claims it was using in-ear monitors that was causing him to "over compensate" and change his technique, which was leading to sore throats. He also claims it's better now and he's back to just using ear plugs live and hasn't had any problems since.

It sounds like it's not a permanent issue. Hopefully he's better. Hope he doesn't end up like Dan Swano and not being able to sing live. I know Katatonia went through the shift of having growls to being all clean vocals. I wouldn't be opposed to Mikael and Opeth doing that if it came down to it.
 
He has been a smoker for quite a while too. It catches up to everybody eventually, it's just a matter of how soon.
In this case, it seems to be catching up to him and his vocal chords now that he is in his mid 30s.
I might be wrong now that I'm seeing the above post, could be temporary and his voice is getting better again, but the smoking WILL catch up to him eventually if he doesn't quit
 
Watch the videos that Terminus posted in this thread: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...lbum-streaming-online-now-5.html#post10001216
He talks about the vocal "problem" and explains why.

It's all one interview, split up into 5 youtube videos. The part he starts talking about it is toward the end of the 2nd video, and it continues into the beginning of the 3rd video.

He claims it was using in-ear monitors that was causing him to "over compensate" and change his technique, which was leading to sore throats. He also claims it's better now and he's back to just using ear plugs live and hasn't had any problems since.

It sounds like it's not a permanent issue. Hopefully he's better. Hope he doesn't end up like Dan Swano and not being able to sing live. I know Katatonia went through the shift of having growls to being all clean vocals. I wouldn't be opposed to Mikael and Opeth doing that if it came down to it.

Cool, thanks for that, I missed those videos don't know how.
 
Thats just a benefit ....lol

I wasn't complaining. hahaha

Because we all know prog-rock is where the cunt's at...

Chicks that listen to prog tend to be hotter and appreciate music more than most of those nasty ass hot-topic girls that listen to black veil brides, metallica, slayer -- most of them refuse to shower and have swamp-ass beyond belief.
 
Chicks that listen to prog tend to be hotter and appreciate music more than most of those nasty ass hot-topic girls that listen to metallica and slayer -- most of them refuse to shower and have swamp-ass beyond belief.

+1000000

besides most chicks who listen to prog are thin girls who wear glasses and are intelligent. I take a smart bitch over a hot bitch any day. i dont need a bitch bringing my IQ down just cause she is eye candy.
 
wtf? Where the hell do you guys hang out? If it wasn't creepy to do so, I'd post pictures up of the chicks in my immediate friendship group who listen to metal... Each one is easily boner inducing and most are in tertiary courses and quite smart.

Maybe this is just an australian phenomenon?