New Opeth Album…Watershed

So, Opeth has a new album coming out titled Watershed, due the 3rd of June. If you don’t know who Opeth is, go look em up on Youtube or imeem. If you’re a metal fan, and you don’t like Opeth, you deserve a backhanding. Opeth is one of the few great innovators of metal. Hailing from the land of melodic death metal mediocrity (Sweden if you haven’t figured that out yet), Opeth combine their breed of Scandinavian Death Metal with elements of almost every other genre of music, including jazz, fusion, progressive, and many more. Luckily they haven’t done country or rap yet. And frontman Mikael Akerfeldt switches from clean singing to growls many times per song, but it doesn’t feel one bit disjointed. Like bands such as Type O Negative, most of their songs clock in in at 7 min+, and are essentially 2 or 3 songs rolled into one. But needless to say they are without a doubt one of the most interesting metal bands of our time. The download track off of Roadrunner’s site, download it, listen to it, love it, by the new album. MP3 is on this page.

 

 

Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts….Free?!

Well, sorta. I used to be big into Nine Inch Nails, but I’ve lost interest in the past few years. But now this is interesting. Now that Trent and Co. are out of a recording contract, they released Ghosts I-IV, a four-disc, 36 track collection of instrumental pieces. But here’s the clincher, the first album is a free download! Yes, believe it or not, you can get the first 9 tracks off their site. And even better, you can buy the other three discs for $5! I mean, come on, four discs of music for 5 bucks, even iTunes doesn’t even have sales like that. Also there are collector’s editions (the real boxed packages) for $75 and $300 respectively if you area NiN collector, and like the pretty packaged stuff. But still, this is quite some news. My iPod will be happy, and I need some new tracks to help get me through the hell that is learning XNA. Click the album image to go to the site.

Before the Dawn

Okay, so if you read my About Me section, I mentioned I’m a huge metal fan, especially Melodic Death Metal. And as we all know, the majority of such music tends to come from Sweden, and lately it’s been really fuckin boring. If I have to hear another band that sounds like In Flames or At the Gates or the like, I’m going to scream. But I happened to stumble across this band the other day, and I am liking their newest album, Deadsong. Now, I can’t say they aren’t any different from your usual Generic Gothenburg Sounding band (which I guess isn’t the best title for them since they are Finnish), but I have to say it’s some catchy stuff. Anyway, you can listen to them on their site, and let me know what you think.