"Paralyzed" video below.
only heard/watched it once. I don't like it as much as Fall Into the Light, but it's still not bad. It's short, concise, gets-to-the-point, etc.
The video reminds me of among other Man vs Machine movies/tv, the INTRO TO HBO's WESTWORLD. That and maybe a little bit of the style of I, Robot along with Ex Machina.
1/11/19
New track "Fall Into the Light"
Pretty good. Relatively tight, concise, but still virtuosoic.
I'm not falling for the whole "they're back!" really but it is refreshing to enjoy a new tune from the guys again. We'll see how the rest of the record compares, but I suppose potentially this could be an album I could enjoy as much as A Dramatic Turn of Events at least.
The piano section made me think of Six Degrees, but also I do hear a bit of Octavarium in this track as well.
12/7/18
yeah, haven't heard it the 1st single below "Untethered Angel". Comments support again how a producer could do them world's of good.
Or the idea, make 2 versions of the album
1) the album with JP producing
2) a version of the album with a producer. hell, at this point, I would take them writing and/or at least RECORDING a song with a producer.
Not happening..probably a much better chance the next Opeth album is purely death metal.
but, art is justifiably selfish, if they are happy making albums this way since SFAM (or even say Octavarium), than I am glad they are.
But I can only say per the track list below, I will listen to this album more times than The Astonishing (which I listend to about 1/3-of once, lol), but I might predict this album will end where the new Janelle Monae album did this past year, on my list next November.
I do want to see them in March at The Ordway play SFAM again.
| 1 | Untethered Angel | 6:14 |
| 2 | Paralyzed | 4:17 |
| 3 | Fall into the Light | 7:04 |
| 4 | Barstool Warrior | 6:43 |
| 5 | Room 137 | 4:23 |
| 6 | S2n | 6:21 |
| 7 | At Wit's End | 9:20 |
| 8 | Out of Reach | 4:04 |
| 9 | Pale Blue Dot | 8:25 |
11/8/18
Release date is February 22nd.
St.Paul, MN concert is at of all places, The Ordway, lol.
New album Distance Over Time coming in February 2019.
11/2/18
Tour dates below including St.Paul, MN on March 28th. The tour is the complete Scenes from a Memory I imagine. And the album cover is the same as the image below with the tour dates.
The clip below? ..doesn't bad, but also sounds like about 20 or 30 other songs from them in the past.
The whole game thing I honestly probably couldn't care less for at this point, but I know many fans will probably get into it.
I guess I just hope it is more back to their roots in some ways. But did they demo or have an outside producer come in? very unlikely, which based on that alone, I don't expect a ton from this album, but maybe they'll surprise me. At least they did SPEND MORE TIME MAKING THIS ONE, which was probably over a year, which may mean they may have demo-ed or refined, edited, re-recorded some stuff.
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