Melodic Yearning

[A. Iverson]

just wondering why they decided to cut out on their old melodic style,, i miss hearing two different tunes in each speaker

 

[colin007]

just wondering why they decided to cut out on their old melodic style,, i miss hearing two different tunes in each speaker

because their sound has matured. mike got sick of the gothenburg sound. i never liked it either, i really dont like orchid or morningrise.

 

[apostle]

I miss the old style, but its good that they find new things to do

 

[in limbow]

Please elaborate what do you mean melodic sound>

 

[MasterOLightning]

There are many other bands to listen to if you like that sort of thing. In Flames' early work is the best of the sort.

 

[Demilich]

Please elaborate what do you mean melodic sound>

harmonized dual guitar leads i.e. mike playing one thing and peter playing another, one mixed to the left speaker, one to the right

see: Iron Maiden

 

[steel102]

i like the older style of playing as well. Mikael might say it was an overplayed style, but I have not come across another band with the same sound. no, old in flames, dark tranquillity definitely do not sound similar IMO. Definitely not as melancholy or whatever, and not the same, beautiful acoustic passages and clean singing.

 

[SpanglishEggroll]

It took me a while to get used to Orchid and Morningrise because I was never really big into that style. I'm still not but I still like their old stuff. Although I prefer the newer material more.

 

[Ermz]

It gets kind of old after a while. It's a cool novelty, but I can definately see where Mike was coming from when he said he got tired of doing it.

 

[in limbow]

Oh, I see what you mean. I love how the duel guitar melodies are used on Morningrise. Morningrise for me is amazing. Orchid, I just got and i'm about halfway thru right now. I loved the melodies at the ending of In Mist She was Standing.
Though I love their newer style just as much, or probably more. I do like the whole melodic guitar lines thing but it just couldn't stretch out for an entire career. Like most great bands, they changed drastically, and managed to pull it off.

 

[SpanglishEggroll]

It gets kind of old after a while. It's a cool novelty, but I can definately see where Mike was coming from when he said he got tired of doing it.

I know what you mean too. Orchid and Morningrise are GREAT albums. But I can't listen to them as much as GR or MAYH for example.

 

[Yoda]

Morningrise and Orchid are definitely amazing albums, but MAYH is ALOT better, and obviously a step in somewhat of a different direction, especially when it comes to the guitar parts.

 

[NickFBM]

I love twin lead, and Opeth do it brilliantly. It's much cleverer then most bands who exclusiveky use thirds, and the odd sixth now and again. I love that style, but I see why they moved on. You can have two seperate guitar parts without doing the panned twin lead style. I think the start of In Mist she was Standing is one of, if not the best bits of twin lead ever.

 

[Autumnal]

The twin sound is cool and actually has just recently begun to really click for me, though I immensely prefer the newer style. Some people might not see exactly where I'm coming from, but having been weaned on so much thrash, the twin lead would sound better to me if there was a third guitar that played lower notes, plam-muted, more riff based maybe, underneath the twin leads. Part of the problem is I heard Morningrise and Orchid after hearing Still Life, MYAH, and BWP, and that style was so distinct to me, and sure I could hear influences hear and there, but it seemed like a style wholly their own, with the occasional influence alluding to bands past, whereas the guitar work on the first two albums yes is unique in terms of composition and the acoustics, etc., but the twin leads do sound like a lot of things I had heard already, some Maiden, parts of Garden of Shadows, some sections of the other Gothenburgs bands, the difference being that Opeth only had the leads and not really the riff-based rhythm ever. It just didn't strike me as much when I heard it, and I guess I was underwhelmed, especially after the immense riff/lead/harmony/chordal/acoustic layering of still life and bwp era the music felt lacking to me.

That being said, I keep listening to Black Rose Immortal on repeat (It's a weird moment when you listen to a song three times in a row and realize you have just spent over an hour listening to the same song).

 

[Dreadful]

depresy, dissection, eucharist, ceremonial oath, a canorous quintet, schaliach....go get em' folks. If you like that mid 90s melodic death, as well as twin guitar harmonies

 

[aestusmaris@hotmail.com]

Personally, I fucking love the old sound of orchid and morningrise, jumping from that to My Arms, Your Hearse (lucky enough to be a chronological opeth listener) was a hard one, and for a while MAYH just couldn't click with me...it did in the end though and I think it's one of their best, but I think for the next album they should try to bring back a little of that gothenburg sound into their current sound, cos I think some of the newer stuff is lacking in some epicness.

 

[All else failed]

The dual harmonies were definetly brilliant. I just wish they would bring them back and quit this GR style nonsense.

 

[Benighted Joe]

I thank God they always change style in the music. I know it's hard when you put on the album
for the first time and everything is new and unfamiliar. But as you listen to it again and again things
tend to clear up and so you can enjoy it more! That's the beauty with Opeth they don't make the
same records over and over again, they go further, experiment and mature all the time...

Peace.

 

[opeth_353]

Hamonising lead style guitars is cool every now and then, but when it's for nearly all of the song it's not so good. I much prefer new opeth.