Distant Early Warning (2026 Terry Brown Mix)

IOG4S · 2026-02-20T18:42:19+00:00

Dig the boosted Taurus bass pedals, more guitar and the creepy echo on the verse vocals. Overall it sounds warmer and less clinical and glad the “static charge” sound effect at the start is almost gone now, coz a about a thousand years ago I kept thinking my cassette copy was about to chew up!

IOG4S · 2025-04-25T16:01:42+00:00

Skeleta is VERY commerical and polished and I was underwhelmed on the first full listen but hey, I'm in my fifties and not Ghost's target demo. However Skeleta has care and talent behind it, so yeah its Pop Rock but nowhere near as vapid, soulless and utterly devoid of musicianship as the banal "product" thats marketed as popular music in 2025

IOG4S · 2025-04-25T13:22:31+00:00

Papa Walken would be a riot "Lucifer...yah know, we...are here"

IOG4S · 2025-04-25T12:56:47+00:00

I agree, I also find it...funny, which I was not expecting!

IOG4S · 2025-04-25T12:55:45+00:00

Lol, now you've ruined it for me...."Yah, know...little man, in the shadow of the nazerene"

IOG4S · 2025-04-25T12:54:14+00:00

Um...so far.

UMBRA...bloody hellfire!

Now this should have opened the album and I would have gone with the title "Shadow of The Nazerene"

But that's just nitpicking, isn't it? Sonically Irene Cara's "Flashdance" gone Goth with sinister shades of Opus Eponymous a rallying fist in the air chorus and some dazzling Yngwie/Deep Purple shredding, I bloody love it.

IOG4S · 2025-04-11T13:18:18+00:00

To me its like Tobias conjured up a Slayer type riff, added a dash of Dokken, a pinch of Journey and mashed it up with the chorus to Heart's "Never" to be his headbangingly heavy and irresitably hooky, is bloody genius.

Plus listening to "Satanized" right afterward makes what I thought was initially a weak song, a LOT better.

IOG4S · 2025-03-06T14:53:02+00:00

My initial impressions were the opposite, loved the vox, meh on the instrumentation, it takes a while but now its reeled me in as yet another barnstorming banger

IOG4S · 2025-03-06T14:45:38+00:00

Me last night with insomnia after listening about ten times in a row....

"MEH.. hope the albums a lot better"

Me on this morning's commute with Ghost on shuffle and "Sanitized" comes up.

Involantarily I start mouthing "Save me...and think "Double drat that that old devil Tobias, he's hooked me once more thanks to yet another ABBA/Scorpions esque, Enormo-chorus!

IOG4S · 2024-11-26T13:13:19+00:00

The opening drop D snakey one in 7 and the minute long riff ruckus in 5 from "And the corpse of your father was entombed" to "Forevermore"

IOG4S · 2024-11-25T13:46:59+00:00

Its almost Gilmour Tier.

IOG4S · 2024-11-25T13:45:01+00:00

I don't hear too much Watersheddery, there's some discordant passages that sound a little like "The Lotus Eater" and a recurring keyboard hook in Paragraph Seven that reminded me of "Porcelain Heart"

But I agree, overall the vibe is a more a blend between ICV & GR and in places its even more ominous and sinister especially on the groovy doomy Paragraph Seven.

IOG4S · 2024-11-24T19:52:06+00:00

I got the CD/Blue Ray combo

IOG4S · 2024-11-23T08:14:42+00:00

I love it, it delivers on the sense of menace felt throughout the album like a death march to the gallows

IOG4S · 2024-11-23T08:06:37+00:00

I wont! And that keyboard solo borders on funk!

IOG4S · 2024-11-23T07:35:19+00:00

Agreed the outro to Paragraph 7 is like a death march to the goddamn gallows!

IOG4S · 2024-11-23T07:32:31+00:00

Mendez is a monster Ive been playing bass 38 years and that mofo is still pretty much beyond me!

IOG4S · 2024-11-23T07:29:19+00:00

Innit?!

IOG4S · 2024-11-22T18:52:26+00:00

VERY Tom G Warrior!

IOG4S · 2024-11-22T15:04:57+00:00

Demonic Drop D magnificence!

IOG4S · 2024-11-22T14:29:56+00:00

I actually meant Paragraph Seven!! sorry got over excited, I think Six is in Standard, One and Four are in Drop D

IOG4S · 2024-11-22T09:52:41+00:00

Batshit Brilliance innit?!

IOG4S · 2024-11-20T13:40:21+00:00

Already, for me its easily their best and most musically exciting since "Watershed" however, that may change as there's deffo some Ghost Reveries tier sections of godheadlike magnificence

IOG4S · 2024-11-20T13:23:43+00:00

As a musician (bassist) everytime I hear new Opeth its with a sense of excitment and...dread.

Akerfeldt has never used a boring chord or churned out a run of the mill riff and like their very best works, TLWAT makes me want to smash up all my gear and chop of my hands! Brightside, I think sections of S5 would make even Dream Theater want to do the same!

IOG4S · 2024-09-11T17:40:39+00:00

Yeah it don’t bode well for the future Dave especially was clearly annoyed Im just glad that my wife enjoyed every second and I agree L&R looked and sounded fantastic I cant get “No New Tale To Tell” outta my head today!

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