This post was adapted from the BWP production question thread which asked if BWP was great production etc etc- Now does Opeth have great production Well yes I believe they do.
Let me put forward one approach to test the production values of Opeth
First a discalimer.
To test out the production elements of any contemporary well produced album you need a capable system- an obvious and perhaps extremely dumb piece of perception or in other words stating the obvious.
OK you have said system. Place BWP in cd player and skip to last track. When the heavy distortion comes in on that ever so twisted and beautiful acoustically played intro and you ARE NOT MOVED I SAY, I say:
1. You need new speakers
2. Earbuds on your MP3 will not transmit the power
3. Turn it up
4. Smoke more drugs
5. Have another beer
6. Your neighbours have threatened to call the police if they hear another glass gargling excuse for singing
7. You don't like Opeth
8. Maybe you prefer Bleak or the Drapery Falls
9. You are a Morningrise tragic
10. I bought Damnation then I bought Blackwater Park and I did not think that a man with an intensely sore throat was duelling with Akerfeldt. I mean that guy is not even credited on the album.
After the Metallicshock that has been around and with no Opeth release in sight let us have some fun and humour ourselves. Please post.
Let me put forward one approach to test the production values of Opeth
First a discalimer.
To test out the production elements of any contemporary well produced album you need a capable system- an obvious and perhaps extremely dumb piece of perception or in other words stating the obvious.
OK you have said system. Place BWP in cd player and skip to last track. When the heavy distortion comes in on that ever so twisted and beautiful acoustically played intro and you ARE NOT MOVED I SAY, I say:
1. You need new speakers
2. Earbuds on your MP3 will not transmit the power
3. Turn it up
4. Smoke more drugs
5. Have another beer
6. Your neighbours have threatened to call the police if they hear another glass gargling excuse for singing
7. You don't like Opeth
8. Maybe you prefer Bleak or the Drapery Falls
9. You are a Morningrise tragic
10. I bought Damnation then I bought Blackwater Park and I did not think that a man with an intensely sore throat was duelling with Akerfeldt. I mean that guy is not even credited on the album.
After the Metallicshock that has been around and with no Opeth release in sight let us have some fun and humour ourselves. Please post.
