So now that Opeth has re-released some albums, have any of you heard any of 'em?? I know the quality on MAYH and Still Life needed to be better so i'm curious as to how they sound.
Re-releases
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dolphz
Black Heart
The sound quality on MAYH needs to be better?
I think that MAYH is one of the most perfect sounding metal cds of all time.
I think that MAYH is one of the most perfect sounding metal cds of all time.
Brutalizer
Troll #2
I get annoyed by all these re-masters, re-relases and so on!
Why change and play with the sound of an old cd? It's better to leave it be. It just destroys the atmosphere of it and the real feeling, by re-mastering them! At least i feel this.
And concerning re-releases, it's good that they release old out-of-print cd's again, but why do they always have to change the booklet layout and so on? For example the old Sepultura releases. Now they have changed the layout of the entire booklets. It looks so modern, and that doesn't fit the music, which is, in this case, old and cool and it has a great atmosphere, but the new booklet layout destroys it.
Grrr! This is annoying me!
Just leave the cd's be as they was when they were released.
Over & out!
Why change and play with the sound of an old cd? It's better to leave it be. It just destroys the atmosphere of it and the real feeling, by re-mastering them! At least i feel this.
And concerning re-releases, it's good that they release old out-of-print cd's again, but why do they always have to change the booklet layout and so on? For example the old Sepultura releases. Now they have changed the layout of the entire booklets. It looks so modern, and that doesn't fit the music, which is, in this case, old and cool and it has a great atmosphere, but the new booklet layout destroys it.
Grrr! This is annoying me!
Just leave the cd's be as they was when they were released.
Over & out!
Duvall
Ia!
Each Opeth album is an experience. To mar that experience by tacking some extra tracks on would be unsavoury (in my ears).
I think throwing in a second cd (maybe a mini-cd) with the bonus material on it would avoid hearing something other than silence (silence in which I contemplate, usually for several minutes about the music which has just ended) after Epilogue, or To Bid You Farewell.
Too bad my Opeth cds are worse for wear and I'll need to pick up some new copies soon.. I don't want the re-releases, damnit!!
I think throwing in a second cd (maybe a mini-cd) with the bonus material on it would avoid hearing something other than silence (silence in which I contemplate, usually for several minutes about the music which has just ended) after Epilogue, or To Bid You Farewell.
Too bad my Opeth cds are worse for wear and I'll need to pick up some new copies soon.. I don't want the re-releases, damnit!!
"..why do they always have to change the booklet layout and so on?"
Yeah, that's something I never understood. They're making the copies so people can get one, but they're changing them just enough to make it seem like...you never got your copy. They don't make those anymore. Now you can only get them like this. Like the way they put the Opeth logo on the covers and how they initially didn't have it like that. I know its a small thing, but I've always wondered why bother changing anything if so many people want them enough to have to make re-releases!
I never did really like the idea of the bonus tracks being added to the albums. I think an EP would have been best personally.
Yeah, that's something I never understood. They're making the copies so people can get one, but they're changing them just enough to make it seem like...you never got your copy. They don't make those anymore. Now you can only get them like this. Like the way they put the Opeth logo on the covers and how they initially didn't have it like that. I know its a small thing, but I've always wondered why bother changing anything if so many people want them enough to have to make re-releases!
I never did really like the idea of the bonus tracks being added to the albums. I think an EP would have been best personally.
Re-releases useless?
I really would liek to hear DT- Skydancer "re-recorded" with Stanne in vox and better sound quality... and maybe let those blast beats a little less
That would totally ruin the greatness of the album.
Misanthrope
Latin, NOT Mexican.
Re-relases should be used only as a tool to be able to get rare out of print cds. The first version of None So Vile was virtually near to impossible to get until CM did the re-relase. THAT was extremely useful i can finally buy None So Vile
I'm not a fan of the rare stuff tacked on the end of albums. Just then I ran to press stop before 'Circle of the Tyrant' came on after 'Epilogue'. Same goes for 'Morningrise'. The beauty of 'To Bid You Farewell' ends before the grating sounds of 'Eternal Soul Torture' (I mean, for fucks sake!) comes on.
Yeah, Eternal Soul Torture slightly ruins the end of Morningrise. That track is just awful (especially the soundquality of it).
I don't see why any of the Opeth albums would need to be remastered though (as someone above here said). They all sound fine to me.
I think remastering is great when it comes to very old albums though. Maybe it destroys the atmosphere when you are very used to the old album, but if you buy an old album right now that you had never heard before then the bland sound quality sometimes ruins things slightly (I have this with old Metallica and Megadeth albums). They sound like the sound is coming through a wall or something. Like your speakers are in the next room, eventhough they're not.
I really wouldn't mind a cleaner sounding version of those. But none of the Opeth albums suffer from that. Infact I don't think any CD after 1990 does. Heh.
I don't see why any of the Opeth albums would need to be remastered though (as someone above here said). They all sound fine to me.
I think remastering is great when it comes to very old albums though. Maybe it destroys the atmosphere when you are very used to the old album, but if you buy an old album right now that you had never heard before then the bland sound quality sometimes ruins things slightly (I have this with old Metallica and Megadeth albums). They sound like the sound is coming through a wall or something. Like your speakers are in the next room, eventhough they're not.
I really wouldn't mind a cleaner sounding version of those. But none of the Opeth albums suffer from that. Infact I don't think any CD after 1990 does. Heh.
Bleakest Harvest
\m/Misanthropic Hippy\m/
Poison Godmachine
Atheistic Existentialist
I just bought My Arms, Your Hearse and I'm not sure If it is the rerelease or not. I think it is though.... What is the added track?
Obyeybyeogone
New Metal Member
Poison Godmachine
Atheistic Existentialist
SaintJoshy
City of the moon.
Ya I wish the bass was much louder on still life, my friend and I were talking about how you can barely hear it at times. BWP has the loudest bass of them all tho. And I love the bass on morningrise. Especially when you hear it by itself.
Originally posted by Hearse
Well can't you see the irony of these two comments?
my points is, you can't possibly please all. I don't find re-releases any bad but I don't find them any good neither. I mean, its all the same to me if it is an orginal release or re-release (unless theres some great bonus track ofcourse).
And I don't see how that DT re-record would ruin it? you don't have to buy it if you don't want it.
I guess you didn't realize that albums are usually reissued when they are out of stock. Otherwise it's just a money making gimmick from the label.
On the Dark Tranquillity issue, the sound quality is just perfect opposed to the clinical sound of today and I never would've thought I'd say this but Friden's gruff vocals fit the album better than Stanne's.
