Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 10, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 10, 2014 i think its an old tune they've dusted off and re-done for the this live set thats coming out later in the year. Quote
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted September 10, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 10, 2014 (edited) I've been listening to the new Opeth album Pale Communion, they're not one of my favourite bands but I like them a lot and I've seen them live a few times and know most of their stuff. They don't do dirty vocals/growls at all anymore, that put me off their last album at first because what made them for me was the combo of the soft and heavy stuff intertwined, but I knew going into the new one that it would be more of a clean prog album. It is so proggy it's ridiculous, instead of the jazzy soft stuff combined with death metal now it's more like jazzy soft stuff combined with 70s progressive rock, I quite like it though and it still sounds like Opeth, there's a song called Goblin that is pretty much Opeth doing a song in the style of the band Goblin which is pretty fun. It's nice that they aren't scared to try something new and make the music they really want to be making, Mikael Ackerfelt's obviously not into doing death metal at all anymore and instead of going through the motions to make the fans happy he's trying to bring everyone along with him on Opeth's evolvement in a different direction. I hope their next phase is dropping the soft jazzy stuff and doing a death metal/prog rock album but it won't happen. I could see them bringing the heavy stuff back in a few years but for now they seem happy with what they're doing and if a band like Opeth can't experiment then I don't know who can. What do you think of it? Edited September 10, 2014 by Call me Bellend Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 10, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 10, 2014 had a little listen and it didnt do anything for me, its not an instant kind of record though so ill go back to it. Opeth have been announced as Special Guests below Within Temptation (ugh!) on the Saturday night of next years Bloodstock. Wonder what kind of set they pull out for that? Quote
WyattSheepMask Posted September 10, 2014 Posted September 10, 2014 Ebb, you have missed that when i mentioned it yesterday. I still haven't got around to listening to the new Opeth album, but I've said before that not too concerned about its direction so long as it isn't some kind of random dramatic change. They are at that stage in their career were they should be able to make the album they want to make without bowing to fan pressure and simply put out similar sounding albums over and over. Mikael has gone on record and said that he isn't interested in doing death metal at the moment, so people can't complain when they don't get that. He has made it abundantly clear that that isn't the sound he wants to do right now. So long as there isn't some kind of weird mishmash of genres like on the last Morbid Angel album, the fans won't have much to worry about. As for their Bloodstock set, the spot they have will give them about an hour for a set, so with 12 albums to choose from, you will get a good variety. Last time I saw them (2012) it was a decent varied set Quote
Merzbow Posted September 10, 2014 Posted September 10, 2014 Having Within Temptation as headliners seems a little absurd, that's a huge step down from this years headlines, right? I'm not exactly a fan of Emperor, Down and Megadeth but they all seem to be worlds above them. Quote
WyattSheepMask Posted September 10, 2014 Posted September 10, 2014 They are big around mainland Europe and they have headlined Bloodstock before, but I would have though that Opeth were the much bigger draw of the two Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 11, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 11, 2014 yeh, Within Temptation are massive in their own right it aint just aint my kind of thing. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 12, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 12, 2014 i know there's probably a few Therapy? and Manic Street Preachers fans here, but anyway's i went to see Andy Cairns live acoustic last night in Cardiff, and this happened: i guess one of the great things about watching live music is getting the chance to see things that are truly one off's...i've been to many shows where it's just another random run of the mill show but guest slots during live slots can always be kind of special, so to see that in the flesh in a tiny venue with a crowd of 100 tops was pretty awesome, outstanding stuff. Anyone hear seen any good one off guest slot stuff? Quote
Paid Members martyngnr Posted September 12, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 12, 2014 That Andy Cairns/JDB link is wonderful. As one-offs go that is pretty spectacular. I've already got tickets to see Andy when he plays in Aberdeen in a couple of weeks. Just even more excited for it now. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 13, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 13, 2014 yeh man, it's a really good show. Basically Andy burning through 90 mins of Therapy? tunes, proper intimate little venues though with Andy telling stories between songs and whatnot, quality night out. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 13, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 13, 2014 another new Slipknot song, masks revealed an' all. In a time when music videos are not as relevant as they once were and bands usually just stick out lazy performance shot videos (due to lack of money thrown at these things), it's nice to actually see a proper music video with some proper intrigue behind it, that's the kind of video i'd have watched Kerrang TV for hours for back in the day....the song i aint too fussed on, great riff though. The two new members are in the video too, they are apparently Bruce Springsteen's son on drums and the dude on bass is the guy who plays guitar in UK band Krokodil...who's a guy who must have friends in pretty high places (he's a producer) cause he guested with Down at Bloodstock as well. Quote
d-d-d-dAz Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 It's not Springsteens son. It's Max Weinbergs son Jay. Max used to drum for the E Street Band. Springsteens son is a firefighter in NJ, which just seems right. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 13, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 13, 2014 oh i read it was Springsteen's son...maybe i read it wrong Quote
WyattSheepMask Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 (edited) Yeah that's seems to be the common theory but there's still not been any official word. Naturally, there are a bunch moaning about how the drums are sounding on the new tracks. I hate fans sometimes. They'll just bitch for the sake of it ("the drums don't sound right", "Corey's mask looks gay", "the people in the video aren't head banging enough"). And I'm aware of the irony of me moaning about people moaning Edited September 13, 2014 by WyattSheepMask Quote
Paid Members Bettencourt Posted September 18, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 18, 2014 Remember the AB X box set? Well it has indeed shipped. People have started to received the box sets. The box set is full of recycled footage. Not just some things that have been released before, but there are at least two discs of "unseen, never released content" that have a lot of footage shared on the productions. Not to add that people have had pages missing from the coffee table books, their products physically damaged due to inadequate packaging. These have been shipped in just a thin cardboard case. Also another couple of minor things like photographers names being misspelled in the credits, etc. I've yet to receive my box set, but it doesn't look likely that this saga will finish any time soon. Quote
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