The New album is called Watershed : Out June 2nd

[spigot]

Brutiful!!!!

 

[DarkGift]

Ok, don't really want to grow my e-penis here (ok, just a little! ), but I've just heard "Heir Apparent" from start to finish... Seriously, I sat listening to it with THIS big a smile
This is easily the most brutal Opeth has ever created, it has blastbeats, heavy-as-fuck guitars, Mikes vocals fucking crush... and lastly if ANYONE still has doubts about Axe... I will kill him. Ok, not really, but he will lose 2500 internets. Or something.

Oh, and Fredrik is a really nice guy

Melloboat, here I come!

 

[Blind Guardian]

How were you able to get to hear THAT? *jealous*

 

[DarkGift]

^The second to last line is the keyword

 

[nizzon]

sanamabitch

 

[DarkGift]

^mwahahha seriously, I feel like a child at christmas...

 

[Lothlorien]

^mwahahha seriously, I feel like a child at christmas...

where'd you happen to hear this at? and u should definetly break the song down bit by bit for us!

 

[opeth_353]

Yeh.. I ... Really want to hear this album.

..I won't even pretend.. If this leaks, i am going to be on it in a second.

 

[DarkGift]

^^Heard it at Fredriks place
I just heard it once, and it's pretty long, don't remember a lot it was very good though but it starts off very heavy, then a piano enters and plays by it self for a while, and then it goes back to ultra-heavy
There is no clean vocals in this song, just straight through heavy. Would've been nice to hear the cleans though, especially since Fredrik said that Micke has evolved quite a bit!

 

[Blind Guardian]

Do you remember anything about the production? Anything you could compare it to?

 

[DarkGift]

^Fredrik said it wasn't the final mix, so can't really say anything accurate about the production... The most concrete I can say was that you heard the instruments, except for the bass, but that could be just me ^^ doesn't matter if you hear the bass anyway though, bassplayer is sellout (cut his hair) all the bass will sound like 50 cent or something

 

[TehLeperAffinity]

holy shit this production is gonna be sick, you can hear every god damn instrument

 

[Blind Guardian]

^ Not the 50-cent bass!

 

[DarkGift]

^
But as I said; I only heard a rough mix of the album, don't know how the final one will sound All I can say for sure is that it sounded great!

 

[TehLeperAffinity]

will the guitars be panned?

 

[DarkGift]

^I don't know what that means, sorry ;P

 

[opeth_353]

bassplayer is sellout (cut his hair) all the bass will sound like 50 cent or something

1 HAET BASEPLAYeR!!!

 

[DarkGift]

^He also changed his name to BassHunter, and did a bad song called "boten anna"

 

[Maggai]

guitars panned? like pan flutes? that would be cool!1112!1++020

 

[Eugenics]

I wish I knew Fredrick.