Opeth - Instrumental album?

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

that's fine with me....i am from the FDNY! i know everything about fire....i have facts like...it's hot...and it burns and stuff....i am wise like elrond!


np: death - together as one!

 

[taken by the reaper]

Wise you are quite, my friend.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

thank you!

I'll go now, I don't care..............Who cares?

- maybe someone cares...i dont care who cares...

 

[taken by the reaper]

lol...dont make fun of my quote!...

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

Wise you are quite, my friend.

the wise are quiet!


never would i dare to ridicule your sig!

 

[taken by the reaper]

Only a fool would dare to ridicule a quote like that...

a fool that i will fucking kill with a wiffle ball bat...

if anybody watches South Park they'll kno what i mean

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

i don't watch SP and i don't know what you mean...
who cares?
i don't care...?
who cares for caress...?

 

[Ivanhoe]

Would be nicer with a coveralbum imho.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

ivan the hoe: i dont like this idea...coveralbums suck most of the time...and i dont believe opeth to be a superior coverband!

 

[taken by the reaper]

no they arent that great at covers...they iron maiden covers were great...but they cant touch the originality that opeth has in their own songs

 

[murderedbysound]

i can almost see a pattern here, 6 albums then a slower cd.

 

[City_of_da_Moon]

HEY GUYS....think Dave Caswell (YaYo)

 

[Mariner]

NP: My Dying Bride - My Hope the Destroyer (if u dont have it, then you are gay)

and what if a gay owns it?

 

[taken by the reaper]

and what if a gay owns it?

....then i guess ur still gay anyway?

 

[YaYo]

HEY GUYS....think Dave Caswell (YaYo)

hehe

Well i do have a vocalist now (i think!), but it will be 90% clean vocals, death vocals used in maybe 2 or 3 riffs in the entire album. I think the album will still be largely instrumental, not sure how much vocals i'll actually put in there.

I personally think that instrumentals can be really cool, but that vocals give a song focus. A 10 minute instrumental seems long, the same song with a few vocals seems far shorter. A whole instrumental album would be really cool, but wouldnt be as personal or fulfilling to me.

 

[narcisco]

I agree that LTP has released absolutely mind boggling intense technical metal. But I listen to them once and am completely blown away but then they rarely grace my cd player again.
Why? There are no vocals. Instrumental rock/metal is a difficult thing to do. It needs to grab the listener. This has rarely been acheived. Surfing with the alien is the notable exception. Anyone want to mention any others.
A fusion audience full of musicians, sax players, Holdsworth fanatics, technical bass players can sustain that genre but instrumental metal, I doubt it. Even Cynic and Watchtower threw in some vocals.
Then again maybe as one off it might work. But even though the guitarists in Opeth are talented they don't shred. Now that is of course a good thing but hey guest spot that guy from Bodom with Opeth's songwriting, now that would be worth at least one listen.

 

[BiatchGuy]

hmm... maybe an EP would be cool with instrumental remakes of some old shit. Megadeth did one of those, it fucking rocks.

Of course since Opeth already has so many long winded instrumental passages in their songs, and they're not really a "shred solos d00d!1!!!" type of band to put big crazy-ass solos where the verses were or something like that, such a concept might not work well for them.. or be redundant...

 

[Prozactrooper]

you guys never tire of sucking up their arses do you?

 

[Prozactrooper]

hehe

Well i do have a vocalist now (i think!), but it will be 90% clean vocals, death vocals used in maybe 2 or 3 riffs in the entire album. I think the album will still be largely instrumental, not sure how much vocals i'll actually put in there.

I personally think that instrumentals can be really cool, but that vocals give a song focus. A 10 minute instrumental seems long, the same song with a few vocals seems far shorter. A whole instrumental album would be really cool, but wouldnt be as personal or fulfilling to me.

Finally a full lined up Unthroned gig. It going to take you guys so long to set up with all the members. I cant bloody wait though...One month to go!!!

 

[blackroseimmortal1981]

Opeth should continue being Opeth. Theyll make a new album that noone can predict because thats what they are good at. we all expected the mellow album but did not know how good it would be. i was impressed. i think that the heavy singing is essential and the band has said in interviews that its what they have always done and they will keep doing it. otherwise i would say they are selling out, although i think i would like anything they did but i think they should make a new album involving maybe 1 or 2 instrumentals and the rest alternating between heavy and soft