Porcelain Heart

[all_sins_undone]

@ walls1441: basically. i can't recall seeing a bigger collection of fanboy's anywhere.

i know the band was going for the "chaotic drum fill before the melodic verse" but i really just think it wasn't executed properly. about 10 seconds into it, you have to stop listening to the song and wonder "what the hell?". anyways, as always, no disrespect meant to opeth and mike, and that applies for any of the inevitable discrepancies that will exist between the band and it's fans in the future

 

[foodforthegods]

Never hear a drum solo part in a song???Listen to Tool, Dream Theater, LTE, etc... There's plenty of drum part like this.

 

[all_sins_undone]

no ive never heard a drum solo what is that

 

[Nailed Reaper]

2:15 for like the next ~20 seconds.

Thanks.

Listened to it... so what? I listened to that song for about 10 times last 2 days and I haven't noticed that part at all. It fuckin' fits.

 

[magicelf]

Never hear a drum solo part in a song???Listen to Tool, Dream Theater, LTE, etc... There's plenty of drum part like this.

Tool blows and Portnoy is a pretentious fuck. So w/e man, keep on rockin' in the free world I guess.

 

[Walls1441]

Brann Dailor is the king of this kind of stuff.

 

[Nailed Reaper]

Agreed about Brann!!! Mastodon fuckin' rocks and Brann is an incredible drummer!

 

[Walls1441]

Lotus eater needs that snare+symbol fill/drum thing that Lopez did all the time during the fast double bass on songs such as April Ethereal, Leper Affinity, The Moor, Masters apprentice @ lamentations.

 

[BrutalD]

Both tracks are immense, I love them. I prefer the Lotus Eater but 4:30 onward in Porcelain Heart is insanely good.

Mike, you are a genius.

 

[Koi]

no ive never heard a drum solo what is that

seriously, stop talking about the fucking drumfill, there's more to the song

 

[all_sins_undone]

there is indeed. the part @ 5:00 is one of the most beautiful Opeth sections i've heard

 

[Nailed Reaper]

the part @ 5:00 is one of the most beautiful Opeth sections i've heard

My thoughts, really.

 

[ometh]

@ walls1441: basically. i can't recall seeing a bigger collection of fanboy's anywhere.

i know the band was going for the "chaotic drum fill before the melodic verse" but i really just think it wasn't executed properly. about 10 seconds into it, you have to stop listening to the song and wonder "what the hell?". anyways, as always, no disrespect meant to opeth and mike, and that applies for any of the inevitable discrepancies that will exist between the band and it's fans in the future

I have to agree with you. I can understand what they were going for by doing that, but IMO it just doesn't work. Apart from that though, I liked it a lot.

 

[BurningSky]

Kinda surprised how many people dislike the drum fill. It was the last thing I expected to hear and I think that's what makes it even better to me. Has a 46 & 2 feeling to it, which I like a lot as well. Oh well, can't please everyone. The song is fucking top notch, by the way.

 

[Obtuse]

Both excellent songs. Lotus Eater owns. Especially 5:43-6:23.
Unexpected... but awesome.

 

[old user1]

Does anyone else get a very Axamenta vibe from this album?

 

[nadavnaz]

Does it cost $1 really? Wow!

Well, I guess some of you simply don't understand the Axe fill here. It's meant to be chaotic, not a "nice" fill. The effect when it goes back into the verse to me is amazing, and that's what we're looking for. I guess everyone can't have the same vision as we do and there'll always be complaints.

On the contrary to this last poster I found that bit to be one of the highlights of the song actually. I fucking love it! And it was a magic take as well...

Cheers people
Mike

You gave me 5 orgasms today (well, the songs did.)

God bless you

And the fills give the doom-filled riff such an awesome break-away to the silent riff. The metal-gazm breaks into a beutiful acoustic riff coloured by piano. I LOVE IT

 

[the opeth affinity]

im gonna wait till i get the album in the post, although all this drum chat is making it difficult not to buy the mp3. It totally spoilt GR heraing it before i got the album but you learn from ur mistakes

 

[nadavnaz]

^

I will still be waiting for the whole album release 0.0

I hail you guys. How can you manage? so fucking hard. I know I just ruined 3 songs of the album for me (heir apparent+lotus+porcelain)

Nearly half. I hate myself.



The things I noticed on the two tracks:
1. Riff compositions, WOW! The riffs themselves are fantastic, but the think that I feel strongly about in this album is the riff structure.
Not as many of the standard repeat 4\8 times riff and go on structure. The lotus eater has some pretty amazing breakdowns and passages that catch you unready!! Amazing.
2. More complex harmonic structure within each riff.
3. Mikes voice is fucking fantastic.
4. HOLY CRAP.

 

[aprilethereal251]

I love Axe's fill. I think Mike achieved exactly the effect he wanted by having it there...I think it really adds a good bit of un-predictability (i don't know if that's even a real word, hah) to the song. Both song are completely fuckin' brilliant!