This is Mainly For Sire

My current desktop background. Opeth is what I call Ghost Metal. It's impossible to explain in a single blogpost. If you're that intersted in knowing just what the fuck I mean by Ghost Metal, we can talk.

I matched a nice deep brown with the tan of the "O" for the desktop frame of this pic. For those of you who still STRETCH desktop images--fucking-shame-on-you! One nerd to the uninitiated: Never stretch ever. You get me? NEVER. It's as tacky as tacky gets. Warhol would tile. Pollock would splat. No one fucking stetches. Borders make the painting. Think of desktop-framing as the under-appreciated grammar of the best sentence ever--if that does it for you.

I thought Sire might specifically appreciate this pic since after all of my prompting with previous albums, only "Damnation" would do it for him. He says that "screeching" vocals is laughable in the other albums; but he means "growling," and even then he's sadly too Americanized to understand the importance of growled vox. Whatev. "Damnation" is perfect, with or without Cookie Monster vox.

But... Sire, you're missing out on important synchopation because you can't let yourself appreciate growling--growling that YOU can replicate easily! I've heard you do it! Even Danecek would be jealous of your uninitiated growling prowess! Honestly, Sire, you'd make for a great Anything-Metal voxist.

Mace...out