Illuminatixvx said:
Ghost Reveries is a bad album. It didn’t present any real progression for Opeth’s overall sound.
while musically, you can deny any sort of progression (arguably still, seeing as feel that the new album had a much more experimental edge in it), but the progression in vocals is clear, and a huge change in Opeths sound. Obviously, the album is primarily clean vocals, but thats not what i'm talking about. it also has to do with the arrangement and execution of the vocals, which are done in ways, for the most part, not really seen by them. and they take a pretty nice departure form the usual, toned down, soft melodic clean vocals. Hours of wealth was an amazing showing of Akerfeldts melodic vocals, and is obviously the primary focus of the song (vocals i mean) and something that crisp and powerful, and the way it was done, was quite different. They also had alot more variation within each song in terms of the soft and heavy contrast.
for me, the progression was mainly in vocals...
and from alot that ive read, not just here, alot of people dont like the shift away from death vocals...i for one, think it was tasteful, and necessary.
unless, of course, they only shifted away because mikael is getting old and just cant sustain a growl like the old days
