Porcelain Heart
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sevenmilestones
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Just heard the studio version of Heir Apparent from a finnish radio station. I think it's the bleakest Opeth song ever. It's a big ugly dirty monster !!!
The whole broadcast can be streamed from the internet but I don't know if it's oaky to give the direct link ?
please link!
Acronomic
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Porcelain Heart was awesome from the first listen, and I can say it was actually a better experience when I wasn't watching the video. I guess that's just how I'm used to listening to music, I just want to use my own imagination.
The original track isn't out yet, is it? I'm getting the feeling the music video version is an edit.
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OK, I found the original version. [ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=No15x3EcO64&feature=related[/ame]
I like.
The original track isn't out yet, is it? I'm getting the feeling the music video version is an edit.
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OK, I found the original version. [ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=No15x3EcO64&feature=related[/ame]
I like.
Nakrophile
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Another new Opeth song which I don't particularly care for. It is better than Lotus Eater, but it's still nothing spectacular.
Godhead59
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Got to agree with you there. I also feel it doesn't flow as naturally as other songs.
is it a legal stream on a legal radio station. if it is, i am sure you can mention the radio station by name.
Just heard the studio version of Heir Apparent from a finnish radio station. I think it's the bleakest Opeth song ever. It's a big ugly dirty monster !!!
The whole broadcast can be streamed from the internet but I don't know if it's oaky to give the direct link ?
The Don
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No shit. Just because a musician achieved his intent, or intended to make it a certain way doesn't make it good. If I wrote a piece with the intent of boring my listeners, I can't argue that it's a good piece because they were bored. Again, what I said was I could see Mikael's intent with the piece, but the means in which he achieved it were particularly dull.
And don't say "don't compare this to other opeth albums its new". That's what I like best about Opeth, every album has a unique progression and you can draw similarities and differences. I can say whatever the fuck I want. You're not the moderator. Don't get butthurt over negative opinions or unfair comparisons. It's a fucking message board.
Acronomic
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I can agree that Porcelain Heart doesn't flow very well. I think it's a very unusual Opeth song, because Opeth has always managed to produce varied songs, but they were always practically seamless.
Porcelain Heart on the other hand, breaks off very strongly several times, and contains two extremes - the initial (very evil) riff/blastbeating riff, and the acoustic/clean vocal bit. Opeth has always been progressive, and this song is pretty extreme.
I don't know. It's broken into pieces, but I don't really care as a listener. I've gotten used to the broken up structure, so to me, it's not really a problem.
"Well, in my opinion, getting used to the new stuff, or better put, letting it grow on you, is part of the wonder of it all! That's what makes it progressive. Constantly changing and keeping you on your toes. Too many times, there have been bands that put a song out that I immediately go nuts over, only to end up bored shitless later on. A good song has to grow on you. Otherwise you end up with the same old bullshit any other band will puke out at you. No different from the last lie forced on you. The more straight-forward a song is, for me, the less of a song it is."
Nicely put! I can't tell you how much better The Mars Volta's newest album got after a bunch of listens. I was indifferent the first listens, and headbanging a few days later.
Porcelain Heart on the other hand, breaks off very strongly several times, and contains two extremes - the initial (very evil) riff/blastbeating riff, and the acoustic/clean vocal bit. Opeth has always been progressive, and this song is pretty extreme.
I don't know. It's broken into pieces, but I don't really care as a listener. I've gotten used to the broken up structure, so to me, it's not really a problem.
"Well, in my opinion, getting used to the new stuff, or better put, letting it grow on you, is part of the wonder of it all! That's what makes it progressive. Constantly changing and keeping you on your toes. Too many times, there have been bands that put a song out that I immediately go nuts over, only to end up bored shitless later on. A good song has to grow on you. Otherwise you end up with the same old bullshit any other band will puke out at you. No different from the last lie forced on you. The more straight-forward a song is, for me, the less of a song it is."
Nicely put! I can't tell you how much better The Mars Volta's newest album got after a bunch of listens. I was indifferent the first listens, and headbanging a few days later.
Lachybob
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^ A similar riff and the aahs are also similar to the riff in tgc, but the song has a completely different feel to it, so it doesnt bother me in the slightest
I'm not sure if its really showing off. I think everything he was doing was intended to be is it is for the progression of the song to a like cataclysmic like ending of the part but it never came to that which is why its sick. An easier way of understanding it would be a big train going really fast about blow up then silence. But thats just my take on it.
Shezmen
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Anyone else think that the "aaah" part sounds like system of a down a bit?
Don't hit me
yea i agree absolutely! i had the same dejavu when i heard it the first time! also lotus eater has a "system of a down" vocal part, at 1:52 seconds, like the chorus of malakyan and tankian in a lot of their s.o.a.d albums, i think that mikael probably knows well s.o.a.d style..
you can dog on them being heavy all you want, and you can call their music boring now. But don't say the band's gay because their supposed to make just heavy music. Because they haven't, and their Progressive metal too. Just sad to see so many people not like new opeth licks because they're not distorted or heavy.
The_Yeti
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Oh hell yeah dude. The drum fill makes that part so much more interesting. That riff is pretty "samey" as far as most Opeth riffs are concerned. I think it adds a lot to the part.
Depth Perception
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What setting is Per's keyboard when he doubles the guitar triplet riff at the refrain (last riff of the song)? I'm almost complete my guitar pro tab of it, I'm just revising it now.
