HardSide said:
you telling me i actually have to defend my opinion of a band when i say they are boring? you kidding right, its my opinion, i just dont like there music period, and no i didnt even know they were "popular" before i even made my decision they were a horrible band.
If its strictly your unspoken opinion, then obviously nothing more needs to be said. However when you hit the point where you're actively telling people you hate the band, they're quite naturally going to be inquisitive as to how you came about that opinion.
I guess in simple terms it's: If you're gonna talk shit, back it up with something.
DemiUrge said:
for what it's worth, opeth uses very conventional song structures, but disguises them with wanton acoustic passages
I'd like to know which of the 7 albums you're reffering to there. Over time the way they structure their music has changed quite substantially. The first two albums can be criticised for a LACK of structure moreso than it being convential. The two albums that followed developed a more cohesive structure, yet quite far from conventional. MAYH had minimal riff-recurrences, if any at all... so the album was always pushing forward, fitting the concept. Still Life is when Opeth started making dependencies on repeating riffs, which made it their most conventionally structured album till that time. Yet, by no means was the thing conventional. Blackwater Park followed suit, mainly recurring the core 'thematic' riff of each song further down near the end of the song. Good examples of this are 'The Leper Affinity' and 'The Drapery Falls'.
Deliverance however, and most notably Damnation do have conventional structures. Deliverance, still disguised as an Opeth album, may give the illusion that the structure follows the old, but it quite frequently repeats riffs until you're in tears, not to mention bringing them back and looping them to death.
Damnation wasn't trying to be anything unconventional, so it has to be given slack. I don't like either of the two new albums all that much, but at least Damnation wasn't trying to be more than what it was promoted as by the band.
So having looked over their entire discography, I can only really find two albums that are at the most, quasi-conventional, and one was even trying to be.
