^Then it wouldn't be COB, Alexi is COB after all.
Looking for retarded reasons? What are you talking about? I even state IMO, which just in case you didn't know means... IN MY OPINION. And I never, NEVER, once said it was becuase of his hair color or hair length, so I don't know which ass you pulled that out of.
You can't deny that the sound and style changed since Alexander left and Roope joined. And if you are, you must be deaf.
1) the hair and stuff are extra retarded style reasons that I made up to show what I meant, I'm not saying you said them. But that doesn't affect that thinking that a guitar player that wrote nothing being replaced by another that also writes nothing has anything to do with the music. And Sinergy is a great example that Roope and Alexi can play super-melodic things together.
2) I'm not denying the change in the sound, it's as obvious as day and night, what I'm saying it's that it's retarded to blame that on the Ale-Roope swap.
I'll let you know why you think this way. It's because my opinion is different than yours and you can't accept it Trust me I've listened to the album plenty of times, it just doesn't have feeling to it (IN MY OPINION!!!). I can't deny there are some good songs, but come on, some of the tracks are like "what the fuck was that supposed to be?". And about the whole Alexander and Roppe thing, I don't really know what to think, because Roppe was in Sinergy, right? And they had epic songs and solos. For all I know, the problem might come from the whole long USA touring. Their live tone changed a lot as well. I mean compare TW and Seoul sound to the concerts after that. What the hell happened there?
I'll let you know this, you're wrong
I don't give a rats ass if our opinions are different, but nobody with a good pair of ears can say that the solo on NMF is killer (yes, not super technical, yes not super fast, yes whatever, but fits the song perfectly, lifts it up like a solo is suposed to, serves it and sounds cool as fuck), that SK doesn't have a great atmosphere or feeling or whatever the fuck you want to call it or that Ugly or COTN don't mix quite well melodic playing with nice heavy stuff. I wouldn't care if you came and said "I don't like it because it doesn't have fast, rabid, sensless Slayer style solos, black metal vocals, super fast double bass, raging hich pitched screams, ..." or whatever other thing, but to come and say the solos feel out of place and weak and that it has no feeling I'm sorry but that's a stupid statement, and it's not because it's not my opinion. I hate Opeth from the bottom of my heart, and I think Mikael Akerfelt or whichever his name is is an absolute arrogant ass, but you will not hear me say that their music is a piece of simplistic punkish boring shit with the dumbest vocals and child-like solos, because it's simply not true.
