YTSEJAM Digest 6416
Today's Topics:
1) the mighty Opeth
by "Paul W. Cashman" <pellaz@attbi.com>
2) Re:Opeth
by Kurt Hampton <kurt.hampton@juno.com>
3) Re: Re:Opeth
by "Carlos A. Alfaro Hernandez" <calfaro@yunque.net>
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:06:38 -0500
From: "Paul W. Cashman" <pellaz@attbi.com>
To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
Subject: the mighty Opeth
Message-ID: <3E0E125E.1937@attbi.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:43:03 -0000
> From: "Antony Gelberg" <ag@antgel.co.uk>
> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
> Subject: Opeth
>
> Hi all,
> I just thought I'd bring up Opeth in a vain attempt to stimulate some
> discussion. I don't usually like cookie monster vocals, but I bought
> Deliverance and what an outstanding record it is. Such a heady combination
> of heaviness, melody, structure, and a total lack of cheese! The sound is
> awesome, the performances are too.
>
> I would be shocked if no-one on this list has got the album - so what do
> people think of it? For me it breathes new life into a metal genre that had
> gotten really stale.
Opeth are one of the best discoveries I've made in the last three years,
and I can honestly say they've triggered a paradigm shift in my musical
tastes: I'd never given death- and black-metal the time of day before,
but now I've gotten really into the melodic/progressive bands in the
genre and do a largely extreme-metal radio show here. And it's all
Opeth's fault. :)
If you like Deliverance, you really -do- need to get Blackwater Park,
Still Life and then work backwards from there. Also note that their
mellower CD, DAMNATION, is due out in March/April. My current fave is
Blackwater Park, followed closely by either Morningrise or My Arms, Your
Hearse depending on my mood. :)
Someone asked about tour dates. This is reallly timely! Their US tour
starts on January 18th in Mass. and concludes -- apparently -- in
California on Feb. 3rd. Their website, at www.opeth.com, has all the
dates. Unfortunately there are no Southeastern dates and it's
basically just a swing across the northern tier from east to west. I
keep hoping they'll add a date closer to Atlanta, but it looks grim.
I'd post the dates, but their website is annoying and doesn't seem to
allow copy-paste.
I must toss in a nice comment or two about Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt,
too. Not only is he reallly cool in person and totally unpretentious,
but he's also "one of us" in many ways. I had a feeling he'd be kewl
when I read that, like me, he was an Ozric Tentacles fan. :)
-- +--- Paul W. Cashman, ICQ #4151223 www.paulcashman.com ----+ | email: pellaz@attbi.com | | website address: http://home.attbi.com/~pellaz | +---------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 03:35:17 GMT From: Kurt Hampton <kurt.hampton@juno.com> To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Re:Opeth Message-ID: <20021228.223536.5926.652422@webmail6.nyc.untd.com>
Steve Wilson has topped Any Sneap as the best producer in the business right now. Take the song Trains on In Absentia, that is a PERFECT sounding tune...
Anyways..Opeth rules....I have all the cd's except for Still Life, which many consider the best. I think that will be my next purchase.
Speaking of purchases, just got these in:
Pagans Mind Celestial Entrance Edguy Vain Glory opera Avantasia Part I...(that album smokes)
Kurt
Kurt
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:32:07 -0500 From: "Carlos A. Alfaro Hernandez" <calfaro@yunque.net> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Re: Re:Opeth Message-ID: <000a01c2af36$4e8f1590$0a01a8c0@carlosbook>
> Steve Wilson has topped Any Sneap as the best producer in the business right now. Take the song Trains on In Absentia, that is a PERFECT sounding tune... >
YES YES YES YES!!!!! Thats my favorite song on In Absentia! I dont think i've ever heard more beautiful acoustic guitars, and every instrument has its space, yet works together perfectly... Wilson is just a genius..
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