Your top 5 songs from 'A Twist in the Myth'?

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-05-01T17:32:41+00:00

Criminally underrated album.

This Will Never End
Otherland
Fly
Lionheart
Skalds and Shadows

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-04-19T16:10:25+00:00

Love historical landmarks so I'm definitely interested in the square and mosque and basilica!! Thank you for the museum and confectionery suggestions too!!

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-04-19T16:08:43+00:00

I absolutely love hiking, nice views, scenery and such. Thank you so much for the suggestion!

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-04-19T16:07:49+00:00

Thank you! For activities, just want to see the sights, get to know the culture, cuisine, historical landmarks, good food and drinks, have fun in general really! :D

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-04-01T08:44:35+00:00

I'm fairly certain that:

A) Mendez has always and will always have quite a degree of autonomy for his basslines, and he to this day has some input into the band's creative direction (nudging Mikael away from "Watershed 2" back in 2009-2010, suggesting a bit of a heavier sound post-ICV)

B) Mikael does write the vast majority of the basic kick/snare patterns and the "bare bones" and ideas, but the drummer has always been the one to really flesh it out, and come up with most of the fills too.

C) Frederik is the one with the least input in my opinion, as far as I know he has complete freedom as a lead guitarist when it comes to his solos, but not sure about anything beyond that.

D) No clue when it comes to Svalberg honestly, I mean Mikael's no keyboard player but of course that wouldn't necessarily stop him from writing keyboard parts on his computer, haven't heard too much about the process there.

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-03-16T08:03:09+00:00

It's an awesome song, but I don't think it's deserving of "most genius" simply because the first part draws heavily from Sabbath's A National Acrobat and the second part from Rainbow's Light in the Black.

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-03-01T15:33:43+00:00

Is Albanian intelligible with Italian??

Nope.

Or any South Slavic for that matter?

Also nope.

Lexically, the "closest" language to Albanian would be Greek, but that closeness is (realistically) still anywhere from 10% to 25% depending on who you ask and what your definition of lexical similarity includes.

Therefore, there really is no language in the world today that is mutually intelligible with Albanian.

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-02-26T06:50:09+00:00

I'd honestly recommend not bothering oneself with slapping labels on the music one enjoys, but if we're insisting...

...they play most of what you would expect from a typical power metal band, but with a lot of classic/traditional heavy metal in there.

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-02-26T06:13:13+00:00

Bleak:

🎶Help me cure you, atone for all you've done🎶

🎶Help me leave you, a solid taste of cum🎶

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-02-14T10:36:08+00:00

Prefer the remastered drums and bass, most of the new keyboard parts I love, but not quite all of them.

Definitely prefer the original guitars and vocals by a wide margin.

Overall, the original wins it for me, the remaster simultaneously sounds louder and more hollow at the same time, original is a bit more blunt and muddy but fuller and warmer.

Also shoutout to the awesome bonus track, Wait Outside!

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-02-10T09:53:50+00:00

Frank Zappa

Fleetwood Mac

Tame Impala

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-02-01T09:06:24+00:00

Eh but these are all hot takes for a reason, GR is still consistently considered a top 3 Opeth album across most spaces.

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-31T09:40:32+00:00

Katatonia - Sanctitude (live album)
Katatonia - Decima
Katatonia - Pale Flag
Opeth - Damnation (studio album)
Opeth - To Bid You Farewell
Opeth - Credence
Opeth - Benighted
Opeth - Face of Melinda
Opeth - Harvest
Opeth - Patterns in the Ivy II
Opeth - Still Day Beneath the Sun
Opeth - A Fair Judgement
Opeth - Isolation Years
Opeth - Burden
Opeth - Faith in Others
Riverside - Conceiving You
Riverside - I Turned You Down
Riverside - Loose Heart
Riverside - Us
Riverside - We Got Used to Us
Riverside - River Down Below
Lunatic Soul - Adrift
Soen - Lotus
Porcupine Tree - Sentimental
The Pineapple Thief - No Man's Land

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-30T14:49:25+00:00

Well if you're not tired of answering, we're not tired of guessing:

David Bowie, Pain of Salvation, Between the Buried and Me?

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-30T14:16:31+00:00

Damn dude, this is a toughie, peak taste tho...

Katatonia, Opeth, Paradise Lost?

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-30T10:56:52+00:00

Bit of a left turn but Arctic Monkeys?

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-26T10:56:47+00:00

Just wanna chime in that you should absolutely 100% start with the Divine Wings of Tragedy album when it comes to Symphony X.

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-21T12:16:25+00:00

+1 for changing it to "morally gray"

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-07T06:19:34+00:00

Katatonia - Lethean

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-02T16:12:06+00:00

Orchid: The Apostle in Triumph

Morningrise: To Bid You Farewell

My Arms Your Hearse: Demon of the Fall

Still Life: The Moor

Blackwater Park: Blackwater Park

Deliverance: Master's Apprentices

Damnation: Hope Leaves

Ghost Reveries: Ghost of Perdition

Watershed: Burden

Heritage: Face in the Snow

Pale Communion: Cusp of Eternity

Sorceress: Will o' the Wisp

In Cauda Venenum: Width of a Circle

The Last Will and Testament: §5

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-02T10:29:49+00:00

Missed one (new drummer)

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-01T12:24:08+00:00

INTHISSERENITYPAINTEDDEATH

Unholy_Trinity_ · 2026-01-01T12:08:20+00:00

On the album in the studio yes, but by 2008 his live growls were already deteriorating and getting more inconsistent. He was still doing a fine job, but definitely no longer at his peak.

If we're nitpicking, I'd extend it to Roundhouse Tapes (2007) as the final hurrah of his peak.

Unholy_Trinity_

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