Opeth in Towson, MD

[Zeta7]

To my understanding, they played one or two old songs. I got AIM, feel free to contact me and send me some of the better older stuff where there's actually some dynamic.

I got respect for them doing what they love (I assume). They've made it to the US on tour with OPETH all the way from Sweden. That takes some hard work.

I just cant dig what I heard. It was mainly seeing the band in person that really just drove me insane. I heard a few songs online a couple weeks ago (to get an idea of what to expect) and I was like "Well, it ain't bad, but it sounds common." But jesus fuck... when they came out... I was trying to convince myself that it was a joke.

And by the way, how old is that bassist in DTB, he looked like he hadnt even grown pubes yet.

 

[EternalMetal]

i think hes confused. thought devin townsend band was dark tranquillity and vice versa.

Fuck off, The Devin Townsend Band is better than Dark Tranquility will ever be.

I'm not gay... if you like Dark Tranquility, then you don't shit about music in the slightest. Jesus, the band even seems to think they suck. The only two people in the band that seemed to care were the bassist who spent more time posing in front of the audience than playing and the singer who was dancing around on stage like a woman screaming the same time the whole way throughout the set (aside from a 2 second part in a song where he sang 1 line).

Wow dude, have you ever heard about musical preference? I like Dark Tranquility, and I do know shit about music. I think you need a better reason for not liking them. You could just say that you dont like how monotonous they seem, and how their riffs do not seem inspired. At least give a reason before you call everyone who likes a certain band ignorant.

And for anybody who didnt like the DTB's performance, can I ask why? Although his vocals can be a little off live (can you blame him, he taxes the shit out of his vocal chords while playing some really complex guitar), everything else about the band is spot on and really well done.

 

[Zeta7]

OH, I think Opeth's fanbase definitely expanded when those records came out. Unfortunately I hadn't been exposed to Opeth until I heard Drapery Falls when the CD came out. I'm saying that Opeth's older stuff, I can see why it would appeal to the classic metal fans. But it seems like old Opeth fans don't like later Opeth because it's not "METAL" enough. I just had the narrow minded views. Whatever happened to enjoying music. Why does it have to be a specific sound?

Arch Enemy is laughable. Soilwork has some moments. In Flames... I didnt even like them when I first heard them around 8 years ago. I guess I just never got into THAT sound. The "gothenburg" sound as you call it. I just remember all the silly kids in high school that would hang out at coffee houses and pass poetry around on napkins while wearing all black and being sad because their parents are parents.

I just can't take metal like that seriously.

 

[Zeta7]

Eternal Metal.... I took back the personal insults I had responded with (when someone else called ME gay for thinking that DT is gay). It's sillyness. I understand your point. Yea... it's just boring, dude. There's nothing to it.

 

[marin1133]

I didnt get introduced to Opeth until Blackwater Park, but still, my favorite albums are Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse... and I still love their new stuff too. I enjoy it all...

 

[Zeta7]

In my opinion. Opeth doesn't have a "bad song".

Speaking of bad songs... My friend and I were saying that next time Opeth comes through town we're gonna make a billboard saying something like "Play 'Hip-hop sucks'!!!" I bet he still remembers that song.

 

[Zeta7]

Maybe I've just become spoiled by progressive music.

 

[Lina]

I'm saying that Opeth's older stuff, I can see why it would appeal to the classic metal fans. But it seems like old Opeth fans don't like later Opeth because it's not "METAL" enough.

No, not at all. Old Opeth fans (like myself ) don't like newer Opeth because it lost a lot of the beauty and variation of the older stuff. The song structures, the riffs, just everything is more basic/boring/cliched now. The acoustic and clean parts used to be woven in perfectly, with flawless transitions. Now they seem forced and disjointed. Entire albums flowed from start to end; now each song has a distinct character and structure, with little thought given to the overall album.

Like you (I gather), I, too, have a music/theory background, and so did most fans of the old stuff. It's the new stuff that's attracting all the knucklehead jocks who just want to mosh to some "heavy shit" and who talk and cheer during all the soft parts. I actually left halfway through last night's set because the crowd was so distracting to me. (Not to worry though, I've seen them 12 times already, lol.) So if you haven't done so already, you should work your way back through their discography, because if it's the typical metal sound you want to avoid, you'll love the older stuff even more than the new stuff.

 

[Zeta7]

The riffs are not as noodly anymore, that's for sure. The riffs themselves are more basic... but that's necessarily a bad thing at all. As music... new Opeth is great. I dont think it's disjointed unless it's meant to be. Like in Ghost Of Perdition where the heaviness just stops dead and it's a sole acoustic guitar. That's not "Disjointed". It would be one thing if it went from 3 measures of skull crushing guitars that build up to the 4th measure in which 2 acoustic guitars play halfnote-triplets and then the song is suddenly back in the middle of the riff.

 

[Lina]

And for anybody who didnt like the DTB's performance, can I ask why?

I love Devin Townsend, everything about him. Terria's one of my most-listened-to albums. And I've seen the DTB twice before and loved both shows. However, last night was a huge disappointment to me. With the exception of Regulator, every song was from the new album. I've been on the fence about this album, and hearing it live made me realize I really don't like it. If I had never heard him before, I would've left that show thinking he was nu-metal. Just repetitive chunking, over and over, without the epic, soaring melodies that I love him for. And don't even get me started about Vampolka. I love his sense of humor, but I hate that he wasted his short set time with that.

 

[plintus]

First off Devin Townsend Band is awesome. Second off... who the FUCK had the idea to put Dark Tranquility on this tour? I was afraid the singer was going to jump off the stage and try to have homosexual relations with me. That band, is the worst, gayest shit I've ever heard in my life. Somehow the audience loved it. It's not original... there's absolutely NO difference in ANY of the songs. The vocals ALWAYS sound the same, and the singer is ALWAYS equally as homosexual. Oh, and Opeth was great.

Mikael is a funny prick... but who would expect any less from "the Oracle Of Metal". Good set list (not telling). Good chatter between songs (which they're known for). The guys actually let a couple up on stage so that the dude could propose to his girlfriend who was apparently caught by total suprise. Mikael mentioned that Opeth are also matchmakers as well as "heavy metal gods" and asked for another couple.

One last rant. What in the fuck was up with the neo-nazi mosh pit. Since when do jock pricks with shaved heads and quicksilver shirts come to Opeth shows just to mosh.

Ok, I'm done now.

I think I've done your mum before.

And you are a cocksucking piece of a cunt.

 

[Zeta7]

Go watch Viva La Bam.

 

[Reign in Acai]

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[Dark One]

<---- Two emoticon reply

 

[Grind Bastard]

I'm not gay... if you like Dark Tranquility, then you don't shit about music in the slightest. Jesus, the band even seems to think they suck. The only two people in the band that seemed to care were the bassist who spent more time posing in front of the audience than playing and the singer who was dancing around on stage like a woman screaming the same time the whole way throughout the set (aside from a 2 second part in a song where he sang 1 line).

It's bands like that that give metal a bad name. And it's bands like that that make me fucking HATE the genre of metal. Watch Headbanger's Ball sometime (which I'm sure you do intently)... EVERY FUCKING MODERN METAL BAND SOUNDS LIKE THAT!!!

There's no fucking depth. WOW... THE GUY CAN PLAY A HALF ASSED SOLO. HE MUST BE METAL ROYALTY. Plus, it's hard to respect a band that cannot even headbang.

Now, I will say this.... in ALL fairness. The band does have potential, but they just need to tone down the fucking keyboards and have some variation to the vocals. Then again I guess it's all good when you're playing to a bunch of stoneheaded grunts.

I don't know maybe i think the band is great and i think you don't have a clue at all about music. But you must be really sad and pathetic to reply twice to one post from me. What you don't have a life? That is why you feel the need to shove your opinion down everyone's throat. Fuck forever off!!! Just because you don't like the gothenburg scene but still like another swedish band opeth i find that funny but to each their own. But your a clueless person who feels the need to tell me that a band sucked when they didn't. But there was plenty of people last night at the show that enjoyed them. Who are you? Since when do you know what metal is? Go write a book! But you must have had a good view up front. Go drink and get out of the front so real fans can watch the show instead of some big cry baby!!! Boo hoo you didn't like them.

 

[Dark One]

No, not at all. Old Opeth fans (like myself ) don't like newer Opeth because it lost a lot of the beauty and variation of the older stuff. The song structures, the riffs, just everything is more basic/boring/cliched now. The acoustic and clean parts used to be woven in perfectly, with flawless transitions. Now they seem forced and disjointed. Entire albums flowed from start to end; now each song has a distinct character and structure, with little thought given to the overall album.

Could not have said this better myself. As much as I enjoy most of the material since Morningrise, it just doesn't hold a candle to the complexity, harmony and majesty of the songwriting style on the first two albums.

 

[plintus]

Go watch Viva La Bam.

Do you like anything at all besides gay music? :Smug:

 

[solefald]

First off Devin Townsend Band is awesome. Second off... who the FUCK had the idea to put Dark Tranquility on this tour? I was afraid the singer was going to jump off the stage and try to have homosexual relations with me. That band, is the worst, gayest shit I've ever heard in my life. Somehow the audience loved it. It's not original... there's absolutely NO difference in ANY of the songs. The vocals ALWAYS sound the same, and the singer is ALWAYS equally as homosexual. Oh, and Opeth was great.

Mikael is a funny prick... but who would expect any less from "the Oracle Of Metal". Good set list (not telling). Good chatter between songs (which they're known for). The guys actually let a couple up on stage so that the dude could propose to his girlfriend who was apparently caught by total suprise. Mikael mentioned that Opeth are also matchmakers as well as "heavy metal gods" and asked for another couple.

thats why I sold most of my opeth cds...

 

[a rofl nazi]

^ huh.

 

[Zeta7]

Do you like anything at all besides gay music? :Smug:

What?