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Another famous prog album, 'Blackwater Park' by Opeth. This second song, 'Bleak', captures my attention more than the first, reminds me a bit of newer Melechesh. It's solid prog death so far but I still don't quite see the brilliance of the album just yet.

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Another famous prog album' date=' 'Blackwater Park' by Opeth. This second song, 'Bleak', captures my attention more than the first, reminds me a bit of newer Melechesh. It's solid prog death so far but I still don't quite see the brilliance of the album just yet.[/quote'] Give By the Pain I See In Others from the following album Deliverance a chance, that was the song that got me into Opeth. You could also try some of their more proggy later tracks like Harlequin Forest or The Lotus Eaters. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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'Dela' by Johnny Clegg from the George Of The Jungle soundtrack. Song reminds me of my parents.

Give By the Pain I See In Others from the following album Deliverance a chance' date=' that was the song that got me into Opeth. You could also try some of their more proggy later tracks like Harlequin Forest or The Lotus Eaters.[/quote'] Well, I am still going through Blackwater Park so once I've done with that then I suppose I will try that song. Do the songs you mentioned use distortion? My main complaint about Opeth is the preponderance of acoustic stuff they do. Same goes for Porcupine Tree.
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'Dela' by Johnny Clegg from the George Of The Jungle soundtrack. Song reminds me of my parents. Well, I am still going through Blackwater Park so once I've done with that then I suppose I will try that song. Do the songs you mentioned use distortion? My main complaint about Opeth is the preponderance of acoustic stuff they do. Same goes for Porcupine Tree.
Deliverance is the album with their mid-period sound that has the least clean sections. They wanted to do a double album, one clean and one heavy, but the label released them as separate albums, Deliverance being the heavy album and Damnation being the clean one. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Meshuggah- Destroy Erase Improve I'm digging their 90s sound more than I expected. Kinda reminds me of a more technical Chaos AD-era Sepultura and even a little bit of Mudvayne. Is this weird? :P
Still their best album IMO. But saying it reminds you of Mudvayne is like slapping the music gods in the face with a donkey dick. For shame!
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Still their best album IMO. But saying it reminds you of Mudvayne is like slapping the music gods in the face with a donkey dick. For shame!
I know. I'm not saying it sounds *like* Mudvayne; just that I can hear a tiny little bit of the Mudvayne sort of sound in it. It could just be that Mudvayne took influence from this album and that's why I hear a slight link. I dunno; I'm not really into Mudvayne anyway.
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Yes! More lyrics! I still need to do music for the existent non-existent nothingness thing. I started on something but it turned into a retro-death track. I need to rescue it from the abyss by not taking it too seriously. Re: Opeth -it took me a while to get into them initially, and my appreciation of each album grew over the course of several listens. The most extreme case is Ghost Reveries, which I actively disliked for years, and then fell in love with several months ago. Don't expect it to all happen at once. And the clean/acoustic elements are a huge part of their sound, so you're pretty much stuck with embracing them, unless you just want to buy the heaviest tracks and ignore everything else. NP: Enslaved - Isa

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'Son Of Sodom' by Persuader. Lyrically this album is either a good deal more intelligent or stupid than it appears. I'm going with intelligent since I'm predisposed to be charitable to Persuader. As for the music...well, it's OK so far but doesn't quite have the melodic energy and clear direction of either of their previous albums. In particular Carlsson's superb voice seems a maladroitly handled element. I suppose I'll see in a week's time what the whole thing is really like.

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