I'm surprised that there hasn't been a thread on these guys yet. Awhile ago an ex-friend showed me "Back To Times of Splendor" and I can't put it down! This album seriously kicks the cunt of the last few Opeth releases so hard ringworms tumble out. Its moody, its beautiful, its dark, its heavy, its awesomenessnessisticness. And there is never a dull moment.

Check it.

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I have a friend who's really into them, I've never heard them though, I'll make sure to check em' out.

You definitely should.

It's BALLS.

I have Back To Times of Splendor on repeat here.

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Wow. Just got the same album as mentioned above. 'Kicking the cunt of Opeth' is an understatement, though it's not particularly fair to compare the two bands.

i heard them a while back, definately cool.

These guys rule. Finally just found back to times of splendor, its fucking sweet

You guys caught my attention, so I went and checked them out and I'm fucking impressed, to say the least

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This is a very important piece of work.

Does anyone have any of the early stuff, the EPs? I massively want them.

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Definatly. If anyone has them let us know!

I'll rape SS for awhile and see if they show up.

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A friend of mine has the ep's. I'll have them within the week. if you use soulseek my names onemustfall.

Kalmahsawmp (?) sent me in this in a PM. Sweet.

Get it while its hot, Jim: http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=...EH3Q2LE8S3QXREJ

EDIT: FIXED

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Figured he'd have that. You better hold onto it, you Dyldo.

That link doesnt work darko.

Fixed it

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=...EH3Q2LE8S3QXREJ

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hey thx . Eternal duality goes off. Fuck knows how people compare these guys to opeth. There so good haha.

Someone isn't suspended anymore...

I found my Three Neuron Kings album and Red. Can anyone tell me a good way of taking music off of a tape and putting it onto a CD? It'd be much more convenient to have Red on CD (but it was only released as a cassette I believe).

There are stores that will do that for you. I'm sure there are some more DIY methods of analog to digital transfer, but I don't know them. Maybe Dyldo does. Might be worth searching the Gear/Recording forum, too.

Thanks. I take back all those awful things I said about you.

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The only way I can think of would work only if you have a recording interface. If you do Kalmah, PM and I'll show you how to do it (and if you do the quality will match the tapes).

I finally listened to The Porter. The two songs have some of their most badass riffage, but the songs ingeneral aren't tantamount to anything on BTTOS. My Opeth remark didn't have much root and I take that back. They have some Opeth aspects, sure, but their music is accompanied by so many other aspects that its trite to simply isolate one and insult it subsequently creating a feeble and shallow example.

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I uploaded TNK onto Yousendit...PM me if you want it, I don't wanna post it here.

Just finished listening to it. Its great. The drummer does some cool work on here, too.

Both EPs are really different from BTTOS but they still perfectly retain their awesome sound. I read that the next album is going to be more along the lines of the TNK appraoch.

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Everything Opeth should have been.


Does anyone have a copy of The Porter or Three Neuron Kings that they would sell??

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New Disillusion is shit.

I have a feeling that Gloria, like a lot of Ulver's stuff, will make more sense when they've done a few more albums. Whatever they were trying to do with it, well, it really didn't get there.

Curious strategy for following up the best album in the last 5 years though - change everything that made it good and confuse the fuck out of everyone.

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I like bands that do that.