Yeah 100% agree - his vocals are terrible and ruin even the older classics when they do them live. The recent live dvds they have put out are ruined by him unfortunatley. That plus his declared hatred of guitar reverb which I simply cannot fathom.
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Yeah 100% agree - his vocals are terrible and ruin even the older classics when they do them live. The recent live dvds they have put out are ruined by him unfortunatley. That plus his declared hatred of guitar reverb which I simply cannot fathom.
Been listening quite a lot to the new Overkill album and its a corker. 2nd half is the strongest. Even the 2 bonus tracks are enjoyable in their own special way. Great guitar sound, great drumming...a big step up from The Electric Age which I rarely listen to...
Getting impatient for my new Goatwhore to arrive....also hanging out for my new Novembers Doom album "Bled White" to arrive. I read a review where it was kinda described as a cross between "Turn Lose the Swans" and "Paradise Belongs to You". Holy s**t.....
Getting impatient for my new Goatwhore to arrive....also hanging out for my new Novembers Doom album "Bled White" to arrive. I read a review where it was kinda described as a cross between "Turn Lose the Swans" and "Paradise Belongs to You". Holy s**t.....
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What I would give to be there.....could do with some more MF stuff though....
King Diamond setlist @ Grona Lund, Sweden.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/king-diamond/2014/grona-lund-stockholm-sweden-13c171e5.html
King Diamond setlist @ Grona Lund, Sweden.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/king-diamond/2014/grona-lund-stockholm-sweden-13c171e5.html
solstafir yes indeedy
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Amazing.
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Just came across this, really digging it. Sounds like it's up the alley of the latter 2 Woods of Desolation releases.
You talking about the riff or the lyrics? Cause Kirk wrote the riff when he was 15 or so:
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Saw Pelican last Friday. The band were great but they only played for an hour....
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New Opeth record leaked, Pale Communion. Had a few listens, another Opeth take on 70's prog. Similar to Heritage, massive Camel influence.
Right now there's maybe 3 songs I see myself going back to listen to in the future. Will give it a good play until it's release in a couple weeks, will look at buying it then if it's grown on me
Right now there's maybe 3 songs I see myself going back to listen to in the future. Will give it a good play until it's release in a couple weeks, will look at buying it then if it's grown on me
I meant the lyrics. I read an interview with him (Holt) where he said it kinda annoyed him once at a Metallica concert that thousands of Metallica fans were singing his lyrics during the song and they never knew it...
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Interesting..... Orchid, Blackwater Park & Still Life are all the Opeth I ever needed.
If I was stuck on a plane for 8 hours though, Mikael Akerfeldt would be one guy I reckon would be great to be stuck next to. So would Sofia Vergara come to think of it.
Never thought I would be saying this ...but...I am really enjoying the latest Mastodon album! There, I said it. Do not like anything this band has done previously and cant understand the fanfare they seem to attract (media darlings much..??) but the new one is cool. The Motherload is freakin catchy...chorus of the year.
It's a ******* great album, more prog rock than most of the other stuff I've heard from them which seems more prog metal but it's great. And it's got the best artwork I've seen in a long time, tempted to buy the vinyl just for that.
Astra - The Weirding, sped up
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Was gonna go to one of the West Coast US shows but decided I'm better off taking the family to Singapore for a week.
Ahh Singapore. Very nice. Have you been there before?
Opeth really should change their name, they are a completely different band to the one that blew me away with the mixture of prog and death metal. Their new album isn't too bad, better than Heritage but I don't consider that album an Opeth album.
Wolves in the Throne room have also gone and created some average synth heavy album that is a departure from their previous work. They should change their name too.
Mastodon may have become a lot more commercially friendly this decade, but at least they are still decisively Mastodon. Their albums this decade are more 'turn on a song here and there' kind of albums though. Can sit down and listen to Leviathan in its entirety, that's the best way to listen to such an album but can't do the same with The Hunter or Once More around the Sun, got a few tracks I gravitate to.
Wolves in the Throne room have also gone and created some average synth heavy album that is a departure from their previous work. They should change their name too.
Mastodon may have become a lot more commercially friendly this decade, but at least they are still decisively Mastodon. Their albums this decade are more 'turn on a song here and there' kind of albums though. Can sit down and listen to Leviathan in its entirety, that's the best way to listen to such an album but can't do the same with The Hunter or Once More around the Sun, got a few tracks I gravitate to.
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This will be my fourth visit. Nice place.
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Wacken 2015 already sold out in 12 hours. Crazy stuff. Although from what i've read about the festival just gone, they were charging people a few Euros to enter parts of the merch/market area.....
Doesn't surprise me. I think if you're from overseas - if you've done it once or twice, move on and spend your dosh elsewhere on less expensive, smaller and slightly more intimate festivals where the beer, food and merch is more realistically priced and the walk to the stage area doesn't take half an hr.
That'll be my mindset if I ever go back, it doesn't help that I'm 3 feet tall in a crowd of 75,000 either, so a less packed stage area is also a good selling point for me also.
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I agree, i went once in 2010 and that was enough for me. Like you mention it's too far a walk to the stages and it's almost like one big tourist trap, heh. But yeah, plenty of better festivals with more affordable prices and better bands.
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Whenever I come to Bigfooty I only ever shelter myself in the video games forums and had absolutely no idea this forum or thread existed. Not sure where and what to jump in with so I'll just throw in a few things that often find their way back into my rotation and probably as close as I could get to saying are my favourite things
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MVii is my favourite album of theirs closely followed by TWTTG. Don't mind the 777 trilogy but just don't find it as memorable. If I was going to back into playing in a band again it is definitely the kind of sound I would draw from the most.
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