'Warning: Explicit Language'

[Ermz]

I've always wondered why you can find this sticker on Damnation. Are the people who categorize CDs so narrowminded that they will instantly assume anything related to metal is explicit? Maybe Mike slipped in an f-bomb somewhere and I can't hear it. What's the deal?

 

[bmh]

I have seen no such sticker.

 

[Moonstruck]

Me neither.

 

[Ermz]

There's one stuck right here on my Damnation jewel case.

 

[FUBAR]

Opeth never swear, they're too classy.

Its ironic that they put the sticker on Dammnation considering its their 'least likely to offend' album

 

[Ermz]

That's what I don't get. What's explicit about Opeth's lyrics? Ok, at times they get fairly morbid and personal, but I'd hardly call it 'explicit'. Not to the extent of Eminem who swears simply because its a staplemark of his over-produced, over-hyped trendy bullshit.

Is it simply because they are metal? Is there some expectation that if they are 'Progressive Death' that their lyrics are offensive?

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

well dunno, i am glad we dont have these stickers here.

 

[George]

The sticker could be in reguard to the actual content in the lyrics. Which if found to be too as someone said morbid or blasphemous, then it could bare the label. But with Damnation that seems to be a false accusation.

 

[ChrisAHC]

...or it could be some kid who went round taking all the stickers off and putting it on other albums

 

[Luz]

Hi Chris, Would you please recommend me a Solefald record?
Thanks.
\m/
Luz.-

...or it could be some kid who went round taking all the stickers off and putting it on other albums

 

[stefan86]

"Explicit Language" on a pretty much all-acoustic prog cd? all I can say is haha.

 

[B Crouch]

They must be biased towards metal music, but I haven't seen the sticker anywhere here.

 

[Hamtaro]

It was probably a me-stake

 

[suislidE]

maybe just cause the cd was named damnation.. who knows lol.

 

[Hamtaro]

Damnation in its regular definition isn't profanity

 

[Protected Witness]

You obviously have a limited edition, Loonmapse. Sell it on EBAY.

 

[Justin S.]

Are the people who categorize CDs so narrowminded that they will instantly assume anything related to metal is explicit?

Most definitely. Its rather absurd isnt it?

 

[KeithPars]

Hmmm...I just thought ----

Right before he goes, "And you were just like them all, stained by the name of father....I'm greeted by downward fall, yah ya yahhh ya yahh, yeah."
It sounds like he says "FUCK, the [nucleus of joy*]"




*He said this

BTW, would that be the nucleus of a radiating Uranium-237 atom by chance? I mean I personally don't think so...but, ....ahhh screw it

 

[Alex78]

do all Opeth albums carry those stickers in Australia? if at all, Still Life deserves one, as some parts of Serenity Painted Death are quite violent, I think

 

[Seance]

wherever you bought Damnation at, was there a warning on each copy? I've never seen that myself sounds strange lol