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Topic: Pain Of Salvation VS OpethPosted By: progkidjoel
Subject: Pain Of Salvation VS Opeth
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 2:55am
Don't think I've ever seen this poll before, so here goes
Can't decide between the two myself, will vote later.
There can only be one winner!
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Replies: Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 3:09am
2 TOTALLY Different Bands
I vote for Variety is the spice of life . . .
Therefore I choose Opeth . . .
and Pain of Salvation, Peter Murphy, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Chicago, Ayreon, Death, Yes, ELP,
Genesis, Dream Theater, The Quiet Room, Meshuggah, Necrophagist, Haken, Bjork, Kansas, Marty
Friedman, Allan Holdsworth, RUSH, April Wine, Heart, Boston, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow,
Dixie Dregs, Goldfrap, OSI, Psychotic Waltz, The Beatles and and and . . . (the list then enters
infinity and we all implode).
Oh, and yes, there is only 1 winner
. . . me.
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Posted By: Ragnar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 4:46am
How could you even...
Opeth are Gods amongst mortals.
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 4:58am
Ragnar wrote:
How could you even...
Opeth are Gods amongst mortals.
I'd say they're both absolutely Godly bands... Still can't vote though
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Posted By: Ragnar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 5:37am
Opeth are more Godlike than PoS. Opeth are Zeus and PoS are, like, Hephaestus. At most.
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 6:32am
Opeth for me.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 7:56am
Pain of Salvation by just a bit. I love Opeth dearly, but The Perfect Element, Be, Remedy Lane, and Scarsick (yes, Scarsick) are some of my all-time favorite albums.
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Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 8:43am
I think we all know my vote on this one...
OPETH!!!!!!!!!
Now PoS is pretty good of course, buy my Opeth love is well documented
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 8:44am
I haven't found any POS that I've liked, but am willing to listen to any suggestions. I'll choose Opeth.
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 9:09am
Opeth = One of my all time favourites.
Pain of Salvation = One of the very few bands in our collection that I absolutely never listen to. Perhaps I'll get them some day.
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 10:46am
I voted PoS: They have many, many, many more moments that affect me than Opeth. Besides, I find Opeth a bit dull sometimes.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 1:16pm
Stooge wrote:
I haven't found any POS that I've liked, but am willing to listen to any suggestions. I'll choose Opeth.
Buy The Perfect Element and Be.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 1:39pm
Pain of Salvation for me. A funny thing to say on a metal site, but I don't get the appeal of growls. Damnation is the only Opeth album that I can really listen to.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 2:38pm
rushfan4 wrote:
Pain of Salvation for me. A funny thing to say on a metal site, but I don't get the appeal of growls. Damnation is the only Opeth album that I can really listen to.
Growls are something that's definitely an acquired taste. I personally love them (when done well), but I can fully understand why some people don't like it. These are the types of people I like to call "wimps".
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 3:05pm
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
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Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2010 at 3:11pm
Youre such a WIMPY Metal fan
THANK YOU THANK YOU, I'll be here all night . Remember-the 2nd show is different from
the 1st . . . GOODNIGHT!!! waa wa waaa WAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaww (record player LP then
slows down to a halt . . .)
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Posted By: Phonebook Eater
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2010 at 7:24am
Pain Of Salvation, by practically nothing.
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2010 at 9:32pm
OPETH
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2010 at 5:45am
Finally gone for PoS! Opeth are so bloody brilliant, but PoS get me on a higher, more emotional level overall. Still two of my top ever bands.
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2010 at 6:41pm
Opeth
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 9:54am
Opeth!!!My favorite band!!!
Posted By: Iron Nate
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 7:09pm
Opeth for sure. Although I don't mind PoS I find them rather boring and dull at times.
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2011 at 4:03pm
Ohh this is a hard one... While Opeth has Watershed and Still Life, PoS has BE and the Perfect Element. But, to break a trend here, I'm going with PoS.
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Posted By: Pelata
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 8:11pm
Opeth because I can still listen to Opeth...
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Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2011 at 5:07pm
Easy, Opeth is much better in my opinion. PoS is a decent band, but I don't like the way Gildenlow express emotions. It's banal to me. Opeth is more sophisticated in term of melodies.
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Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 28 May 2015 at 10:29am
Pain of Salvation
much more interesting to me than Opeth.
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 28 May 2015 at 10:59am
Opeth are more consistent in my view. PoS are a very decent prog metal band though, for sure.
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 28 May 2015 at 11:47am
PoS make use of some cheap melodies and are too pretentious (even for me, that says something) in general IMO. They are very skilled musicians, though, and put those skills to use all the time, I guess that's what gets people.
PRE-Watershed Opeth hands down! The stuff they release today is okay but... well.
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 28 May 2015 at 12:26pm
Opeth for me easily. I really like PoS, 'Entropia' is one of my favorite debut albums, but Opeth has the better discography. PoS's 'BE' and 'Road Salt One' are among the worst albums I've ever heard.
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 28 May 2015 at 12:50pm
Opeth by miles. Although POS have done some good stuff there's too much by them that leaves me cold.
Posted By: Dobbie03
Date Posted: 29 May 2015 at 1:15am
Opeth by a long shot. I do like Pain of Salvation but Opth just leave them for dead.
Posted By: 666sharon666
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2015 at 5:00pm
Opeth. I've never managed to get into Pain of Salvation.
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2015 at 10:15pm
Pain Of Salvation has some pretty awful stuff (of course some great material as well), but Opeth seems to have a much more complete and less flawed discography.