Detric said:
"I'm more after mid-tempo or even slowed-down BM with cool droney, repetitive riffs, tortured vocals"
black one fits his description perfectly, why do you always have to be such a perfectionist when talking about genres, its disgusting
- its like comparing an apple to an orange. Mid tempo minimalistic Doom and mid tempo minimalistic Black Metal ARE NOT the same. Do you put oranges into your apple juice? No.
- I've noticed over the years that for some reason hardcore Opeth fans (ie this forum) have incredibly stupid conceptions of what Doom and it's related forms are or sound like. Its fucking annoying.
- Music is one of my biggest passions. I take it seriously, it's part of my enjoyment of it.
- I'm obsessive compulsive. Go figure.
Prognostic said:
yes, thats a good album but now that i think about it, the work has more twists and turns than mort, which seems predictable, more repetitive, and stripped down. except for track 5. its better than anything on the work in my opinion
Admittedly, I'm still yet to finish going through Mort properly.
Well there's a couple of ways to look at it I guess: our exposure to The Work Which Transforms God could have dulled our experiences of Mort. Had the previous been Mort, I'd say an opinion of Mort would be a different one.
The same could be said of Damnation and Ghost Reveries. I'm sure my perception/opinion on Ghost Reveries would be very different had I not ever come across Damnation.
It's not the easiest thing to do, for anybody, to judge a piece of work without comparisons to works before it. We'll do it with all forms of art, written, painted, musical, etc.
Is this the right way to judge an artists merits? Who can say?
** shrugs **
