Solos on Still Life

[Slaydon]

I think the solos on this album are among the best Opeth has ever recorded. Who agrees with me? Just listen to that fast transition solo on "Godhead's Lament"! It must be Peter's. Or the solos in "White Cluster". All as good as they ever got for Opeth.

 

[jimgreco]

I agree, all of them are great. especially Serenity Painted Death!

 

[Slaydon]

Yeah, that one too. And Moonlapse Vertigo.

 

[{-sapob-}]

Yeh, id agree with this thread.

 

[Chinese Whispers]

And 'Benighted'...

And 'The Moor'...

All good, haha.

 

[Anesthetize]

+1 to whole thread

 

[Annihilat0r]

No, Still Life's solos are usually all standard Mike-Peter licks. I don't find anything special with them.

 

[{-sapob-}]

they are just done in a nice way id say.

 

[Lateralus14]

Still Life's solos are really nothing special in comparison to most of the solos in later albums, though after Still Life they started putting 2 solos in a lot of their songs so I guess the whole guitar solo thing just became more important to them. They're cool, Serenity Painted Death being probably my favorite one, but compared to solos like those in Wreath, The Funeral Portrait, or Burden (no need to go on with this..), eh...just a solo to me.

 

[nocturno91]

Serenity's solo is really the only one that stands out to me.

 

[Slaydon]

Still Life's solos are really nothing special in comparison to most of the solos in later albums, though after Still Life they started putting 2 solos in a lot of their songs so I guess the whole guitar solo thing just became more important to them. They're cool, Serenity Painted Death being probably my favorite one, but compared to solos like those in Wreath, The Funeral Portrait, or Burden (no need to go on with this..), eh...just a solo to me.

Well YOURE WRONG! I don't really like the Burden solo, I can't find anything special about it. Or The Funeral Portrait. Deliverance has a good solo tho. And BWP songs.

 

[Fields Of Sorrow]

Still Life's solos are really nothing special in comparison to most of the solos in later albums, though after Still Life they started putting 2 solos in a lot of their songs so I guess the whole guitar solo thing just became more important to them. They're cool, Serenity Painted Death being probably my favorite one, but compared to solos like those in Wreath, The Funeral Portrait, or Burden (no need to go on with this..), eh...just a solo to me.

How could you not mention a fair judgement? Is there even any argument against that containing the best solo section in an opeth song?

 

[Dark Winterstorm]

Best Opeth solos:

1. Still Life
2. Watershed
3. Deliverance

 

[Slaydon]

Best Opeth solos:

1. Still Life
2. Watershed
3. Deliverance

The best solo on Watershed is the one in "The Lotus Eater" that begins at 3:41. Fucking amazing work. Wonder who plays it.

 

[billydheyhey]

The best solo on Watershed is the one in "The Lotus Eater" that begins at 3:41. Fucking amazing work. Wonder who plays it.

I disagree. Hessian Peel at around 5:45-6:15.

but, I do agree with this entire thread.

 

[Annihilat0r]

Best Opeth solo: Hex Omega

Deliverance's first solo is very good as well, although curiously Peter doesn't play it with sweeps and picks every note. ??

Solo-wise, Watershed should be the best Opeth album.

 

[HemeHaci]

Well you gotta listen to Annihilat0r, he is great in guitaring and more he knows music theory (I dont know why though) and only second only to John Petrucci (whoa I gotta cool down a bit )

First two things were not sarcasm but truth.

 

[Iki-ilkkuja]

Absolutely. All in all, Still Life is Opeth's magnum opus from a guitar standpoint.

 

[Fields Of Sorrow]

Hex Omega is so far from being the best opeth solo it's not even funny.

 

[Slaydon]

Hex Omega is so far from being the best opeth solo it's not even funny.

No, you're right. It's so average. More technically good than melodically. Harvest solo is one of my favorites, now you all gotta agree that one rules.