AboutAGirl
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I freaking love Heritage... makes me feel like I'm 13 again and listening to Crimson, Yes, Captain Beyond, Bloodrock and early Floyd for the first time. Fantastic record and they nailed the sound perfectly iyam!
I like that Opeth plays different styles of music. My biggest complaint against modern rock is that they don't have the free wheeling approach to genre that bands did in the late 60s & early 70s where you'd have a pop song, a blues jam, something avant garde, and a hard rock thrasher all next to each other on the album. Heritage might not be as great as Still Life but Opeth was getting a little set in their ways after all, it's good to see them branching out more.
Metal is one of my favorite genres but the idea in the metal community that every band needs to remake their first album for their entire career is unprecedentedly detrimental to, well... everything good about music. At least Opeth went in a classic and respectable direction, unlike Cryptopsy or Morbid Angel who decided to go modern and will never be forgiven for their "insolence."
It astounds me how metal fans can themselves love Dio and Gorguts and Velvet Cacoon, but if Gorguts puts out a Velvet Cacoon type record, or Gorguts makes a Dio-sounding song, suddenly this is a grave injustice. Me, I've always pined for exactly that type of thing to happen. I can have fifteen Darkthrone records and that's all fine and dandy, but Darkthrone'll never top their first few records anyway. But if Entombed recorded a two-bit second wave styled black metal that would be astronomically novel and they'd actually have a chance at putting together something new and meaningful, unlike the 20th Darkthrone record which we know will never be their best.
Based on what Mikael has always said about his influences, it always seemed to me that he wanted a chance to do something closer to a Porcupine Tree vein. I just think that like a lot of veteran rockers who have run out the clock on making waves with their original innovation, he finally felt free to make a record he has been wanting to for a very long time. The same goes for Tom Petty on Mojo.
I like that Opeth plays different styles of music. My biggest complaint against modern rock is that they don't have the free wheeling approach to genre that bands did in the late 60s & early 70s where you'd have a pop song, a blues jam, something avant garde, and a hard rock thrasher all next to each other on the album. Heritage might not be as great as Still Life but Opeth was getting a little set in their ways after all, it's good to see them branching out more.
Metal is one of my favorite genres but the idea in the metal community that every band needs to remake their first album for their entire career is unprecedentedly detrimental to, well... everything good about music. At least Opeth went in a classic and respectable direction, unlike Cryptopsy or Morbid Angel who decided to go modern and will never be forgiven for their "insolence."
It astounds me how metal fans can themselves love Dio and Gorguts and Velvet Cacoon, but if Gorguts puts out a Velvet Cacoon type record, or Gorguts makes a Dio-sounding song, suddenly this is a grave injustice. Me, I've always pined for exactly that type of thing to happen. I can have fifteen Darkthrone records and that's all fine and dandy, but Darkthrone'll never top their first few records anyway. But if Entombed recorded a two-bit second wave styled black metal that would be astronomically novel and they'd actually have a chance at putting together something new and meaningful, unlike the 20th Darkthrone record which we know will never be their best.
Based on what Mikael has always said about his influences, it always seemed to me that he wanted a chance to do something closer to a Porcupine Tree vein. I just think that like a lot of veteran rockers who have run out the clock on making waves with their original innovation, he finally felt free to make a record he has been wanting to for a very long time. The same goes for Tom Petty on Mojo.
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