Steve Wilson should STAY!!!

[Demoke]

Hey guys,

I'm going to stick my neck out for Steven Wilson. I've read in other posts that he should go and stop influencing the band. My view is that the band has gained a lot in atmosphere (ATMOSPHERE) and psychedelic sounds since he's around. I think that to anybody with ears it should be out of question the fact that he's a musical genius and that he's enriched Opeth enormously as far as production quality and TEXTURE in the songs are concerned. I think "Deliverance" is a superb album and, if at present you don't think so, try to give it one more listen and wander in those musical landscapes throughout it. "Damnation," it's true it's not much up to most of our expectations. For mine, personally, it overwhelms them! It's such a great musical experience in itself to some extent due to Steven in some big part.

Of course, I love all the previous albums, but they sound honestly too raw and I dare say, old. I don't think Steven's doing a bad job at all.

As for the band, they're great. I'm longing for their next album.

 

[Black_paragon]

i think the wilson albums were great. I prefer MAYH and still life, but wilson is a masterful producer, especially with regard to his vocal effects. Will anyone one person here try to tell me he doesn't sound cool on harvest?

 

[Dem0n0fTheFall4]

I agree that Wilson has done good with the band...after all we wouldnt have that killer melody at the beginning of The Drapery Falls without him plus his vocals throughout the last three albums (not in Deliverance..i dont think)

 

[Black_paragon]

yeah he's on deliverance in places.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

As long as he does not ruin Opeth's music it's OK.

 

[Kains D]

Steve is a god, I really like the touch he put in songs like the ones you mention.

 

[Morfiend]

I agree, keep Steve around, I really like the little things he adds to Opeth's music.

 

[Judas Pissed]

I really like what he's done.

What parts does he actually sing on the albums? Sometimes I find it hard to tell the difference between him and Mikael when they're in the same song.

 

[deliverance]

i inquire the same as judas pissed, i didn't even know steve sang on any of their tunes.

 

[Anarkissed]

For a while i didn't know that Steven sang on blackwater park at all. But I think he does a lot of the vocal harmonizations and stuff - wilson's voice is naturally higher than Mikael's...

 

[FlatteningOfEmotions]

I'm pretty sure that Steven Wilson sings the entire "Devious movements in your eyes, Moved me from relief..." part of Bleak, and then Mikael joins him in harmony in the later lines.

 

[ggggggu]

Yet another one of these! Yippee!

Wilson should stay or leave. I don't care that much. It's not like he's writing the music.

 

[Demoke]

Of course, he's not writing the music, and the question is not whether he should replace Mikael himself; but he has been attacked and criticised, and I don't think he deserves that kind of critique when he's doing a splendid job.

 

[KevyCanavan]

Sure,
Steve Wilson may be indeed a musical genious.

But the fact remains that Opeth were doing amazing albums before he ever came on the scene, to do another album with him will be frankly ripping the piss out of it.

 

[DreamingofUr]

I don't think he is doing a bad job at all but I prefer the earlier Opeth albums over the later ones. His production has always been superb and his vocal harmonies are my all-time favorite. While his effect on Opeth is fine, I don't really like the new heaviness to PT. If I had not been exposed to the earlier PT albums I might see the latest PT album as excellent. But I naturally seem to lean towards the 70s psych. influence of all the music I listen to. Steven should show off some of his songwriting talents on the next album too!

 

[ggggggu]

Steven Wilson is a musical genious? Not by a long shot.