I saw this about a week ago and chose not to post it for fear it wasn’t genuine and was just trolling. Is the album really being done mixed already that it’s being played for journalists 3-4 months before release? And I could be off base, but doesn’t it take even more time to encode into 5.1 surround sound?
Maybe I’m just making a last ditch prayer for growls by not believing the article just yet.
DarkGift du you have the link for the swedish review they talk about on the opeth-forum?
edit: nevermind, google is my friend.
lol, well everyone has been complaining "why no damnation 2? "
now we'll have an eternity of damnations
U mad, Metalheads?
For owning so many damn records, Mike really proved himself to be an utter tard in the realm of metal with various posts/opinions/etc. I mean he's said countless times that he's disappointed with the metal scene today, and yet the only bands he really mentions being disappointed in are bands that no self-respecting metalhead gives a damn about anyway (ie Killswitch Engage).
And then he goes on to say things like "but Gojira are pretty cool" or "Bloodbath is death metal the way it's meant to be played" or gems like that NITND comment. I mean Mike probably thinks that Bloodbath is God's gift to death metal just because it's a little more interesting than irrelevant non-metal names like Slipknot, and yet he remains woefully ignorant of the fact that, compared to some death metal acts, Bloodbath is basically third tier.
I could go on and on but gee wiz Mike despite some of your awesome musical output, I really wonder some times if your ego is just too big or if you perhaps have some existing mental condition.
I'm having a hard time believing hes totally done with growls though, but if his throat has taken a real beating (looking at those horrible live recordings lately) then maybe he is.
What about bloodbath then?
Well, looking at his statement that hes been tired of DM since the nineties and the probability of his throat being somewhat fucked, maybe hes done with it? Who the hell knows.
I haven't even listened to watershed entirely ghost reveries was opeth's last good album to me.