My Arms Your Hearse

thats one of the few opeth songs I like, demon of the fall is cool

Ahh, that's the one. I don't own any of the albums, I heard it at a mate's house. Semi-decent album, so my vote goes towards that.

Ohh october tide is a band, I get it.

Yeah this originally started out as a general Opeth damnation thread, but hey you know how threads divert. At least its about opeth and Mikael's related subjects. Even still, Its interesting to hear which albums you like by them, which songs you like or dont and why. I'm glad to see my Poll got some leverage too
The thing about damnation I like the most, also, is how well put together it is, not to say the other 6 arent, but I like the way this one was the most, especially the art on the album, it fits the...haunting emptiness and everything else with it so well.

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I like it on days were im tired and just want to chill. But when i really want to get up and kick the shit out of someone i dont listen to Opeth. As good as Opeth are, i cant seem to find a shitload of energy from them.

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I agree with that. Well, Opeth CAN gather a lot of energy with songs like The funeral Portrait, Leper Affinity or anything off Deliverance, and so on, they're more of a thought provoking true to themselves band who likes to experiment with their unique style and they do it well. I wouldn't exactly go to Opeth if i wanted a pure energy raising concert either, I'd go to something more brutal, I love thrash for their energy no doubt.
Damnation definitely suits me on rainy days, especially the song Hope Leaves, put on the cd and go chill outside and watch the rain sometime, you'll know what I mean.

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Opeth is great music when your in a emotional disposition. I like Orchid the best.

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Yeah its great thinking music.

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Another thing I noticed, especially after I bought Blackwater Park,
Was that when I'm tired and go to sleep ( i wear headphones to bed ) BWP or basically any of the opeth cd's will easily put me to sleep by the second or 3rd song. Not to say its boring, but theres just some kind of soporific effect that opeth has when you're tired.
Also, I've never been in a bad mood when i've listened to opeth. Well i've been depressed before, but Opeth only helps, I mean like, I've never listened to Opeth and then been pissed even after i'm done.
Opeth has ended a few fights with my friend before as well.

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I like harvest. its a nice slow song. whatever cd thats off of

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Harvest is off of Blackwater Park. I kinda got sick of harvest because back like 2 or 3 years ago for my senior year I did Harvest for the schools top 40 performance..After hearing it about 500 times in a row for practice purposes, i got bored of it lol.
Its still a great song though

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Yeah, I love that song, but thats what happens in practice, when you practice too much the songs get boring and what you think may suck others may like. Opeth barely practiced their songs for i think it was BWP, simply because they didnt want to get bored with their songs.

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When did they say that?

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they say it all the time
they never practice anything, lazy band
but they say for their next album they're actually going to fully write all the songs and practice them before going into the studio

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They're coming out with a new album?
I'd like to know stuff about it, Like, is it going to be like damnation or will they go back to their roots, even better, transcend all of their previous work even Orchid and go in a harder direction rather than soft, like he does in Bloodbath? I'm really interested now

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Read their Biography on thier site.

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well they're taking a break now because they're been touring like crazy, and they want to write it all before they go into the studio, unlike the others where they just go into the studio all stressed out and record whatever, so look for a 2005 release
mike said that he plans on a concept album closer to the black metal border, maybe something closer to orchid, who knows, when he described deliverance and damnation i completely expected something different, it'll probably be the same

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Well whatever they're going to do, Opeth isn't a badn that Makes horrible choices, so I'm sure what they will do I'll love. Even the new step towards Damnation was something I enjoyed, I had an open mind when I listened and ended up loving all of it. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Opeth do one thing wrong, i love every song they've made, so I trust their decision. Plus they're too good to do anything stupid like Go mainstream, lol, leave that for the impressionable bands.

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i love damnation

Thats great

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Mikael's no longer in Bloodbath... now they got Peter from Hypocrisy I believe. but the stuff Bloodbath have put out is pretty fucking awesome