Opeth is dead

^I can already find an example in the same song I am talking about, the beginning of The Baying Of The Hounds is ultra cheesy.
 
The part where the soft section where Mike sings "beneath the mire" etc... flows into that heavy ultra epic riff. Don't have the song on this pc so can't get the exact timing, but you'll probably know what I'm talking about.

"Lined up verses on dead skin, the tainted lips of a stranger resting upon hers."
That part? If so, I agree. That part kicks ass.
 
Yeah I just listened to that part in Baying of the Hounds, it's awesome. I think Lopez's drumming is absolutely fucking brilliant on this album. I wonder where and how he is nowadays..
Also, The Grand Conjuration at 5:20 to 7:00. You can't listen to that unless its at max volume, fucking great.
 
^I can already find an example in the same song I am talking about, the beginning of The Baying Of The Hounds is ultra cheesy.

I don't even know how cheesy is defined in opeths kind of music wth, so can't really argue here. Is it the lyrics, riffing, lead guitar, vocal melodies or rythm? I really don't get it...
 
^I can already find an example in the same song I am talking about, the beginning of The Baying Of The Hounds is ultra cheesy.

That seems to be popular sentiment, and I don't understand it. If anything, it reminds me of Deep Purple. And live, it totally kicks ass.
 
I don't even know how cheesy is defined in opeths kind of music wth, so can't really argue here. Is it the lyrics, riffing, lead guitar, vocal melodies or rythm? I really don't get it...

That seems to be popular sentiment, and I don't understand it. If anything, it reminds me of Deep Purple. And live, it totally kicks ass.

I guess it all depends on how you perceive/define cheesiness. For me, it's mostly the way the synths are used over the rhythm guitar, and then combined with the lyrics "I hear the baying of the hounds, in the distance I hear them devouring". This part just comes off as cheesy to me. Of course, for Opeth, because of their high degree of serious epicness, it sounds more cheesy than it would seem for most other bands. I think it's mostly because of the contrast with the rest of the music.