THE OPETH REFERENDUM MMXXI: Results -> Blackwater Park wins again!

[MrKnickerbocker]

Bump

 

[Brigantium]

Voted

 

[Night Prowler]

Eliminated after Round 18:
The Twilight Is My Robe - 6 votes
Advent - 5 votes
Nectar - 5 votes
The Apostle In Triumph - 5 votes

Promoted after Round 18:
The Moor
Godhead's Lament
Moonlapse Vertigo
Face Of Melinda
Serenity Painted Death
White Cluster
The Night & The Silent Water
Black Rose Immortal
To Bid You Farewell
In Mist She Was Standing
Under The Weeping Moon
Forest Of October

I divided the 42 promoted songs into 3 groups based on their average vote performance so far. We start with the 22 with lowest score, once that group is down to 10, I'll introduce the next 10, once we're back down to 10, I'll introduce the best 10 songs.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Chrysalis
Era
Baying
April

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Baying

Ha
Ha
HAHAHAA

The Wilde Flowers
Folklore
Face in the Snow
To Bid You Farewell
Oh, and R.I.P Advent.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Ha
Ha
HAHAHAA

I don't know why, I just can't get into Baying. I like the song quite a lot and rate it 8/10 (and Ghost Reveries is in my top 3 albums), but it just never hits the same level of greatness as so many other Opeth songs.

 

[Detective Beauregard]

Lovelorn
Chrysalis
Era
Voice

I don't know why, I just can't get into Baying. I like the song quite a lot and rate it 8/10 (and Ghost Reveries is in my top 3 albums), but it just never hits the same level of greatness as so many other Opeth songs.

I like it even less than you do. I’d say it’s a solid 7/10, possibly a 7.5 since I like the intro and groovy dunt-dunt-dundunDEEdunt-dunt-(dun) part in the middle. But the song simply drags on for too long with few too interesting parts to keep it fresh. If I’m on a Ghost Reveries kick, I’m Ghost of Perditioning and Harlequin Foresting all night long.

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Lads, stop talking this silly nonsense. That subdued section from 3:20 onwards might just be my favourite "soft" Opeth part ever - it's just so haunting and mysterious, the riff is so hypnotising.

And the Purplish hammond beginning is fun! Don't you dare to deny it.

 

[Night Prowler]

And the Purplish hammond beginning is fun! Don't you dare to deny it.

I don't want Opeth to be "fun", I WANT SORROW!!!!!!

Voted for The Wilde Flowers, Chrysalis, Era and The Baying Of The Hounds.

Can someone tag other possible voters?

 

[Detective Beauregard]

I don't want Opeth to be "fun", I WANT SORROW!!!!!!

The Baying Of The Hounds

Opeth’s best lyric also lies in this song…

I am devouring
Fresh made tacos of the earth
Diabolical beans

…and there is nothing more fun than tacos!

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Baying has very smooth transitions between the clean and heavy parts, and I freaking love the drumming on it too. And very hypnotic like Judas said.

 

[Night Prowler]

One more voter, who's it gonna be?

 

[Night Prowler]

Bump

 

[Night Prowler]

Eliminated after Round 19:
Chrysalis - 4 votes
Era - 4 votes
The Wilde Flowers - 3 votes
Face In The Snow - 3 votes

@Mosh, @Detective Beauregard, @The Dissident, @Shmoolikipod, @MrKnickerbocker, @JudasMyGuide

 

[The Dissident]

Voting against New-Opeth (Minus Lovelorn Crime) and Ghost of Purdition

 

[Night Prowler]

Voted for Folklore, Baying, When and BRI.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Folklore
Lotus
April
BRI

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Folklore
BRI
To Bid You Farewell
Demon of the Fall, though any of the MAYH songs can go.

 

[Detective Beauregard]

Lovelorn
Voice
Burden
When

I don’t understand the dislike for Black Rose Immortal. It’s the strongest song from their first three albums combined and has so many cool sections.

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Faith in Others, Demon, Black Rose, To Bid You.

Also, I'm really sorry I fucked up and left this game for such a long time. My life has been rather chaotic in the past year and although nothing really bad happened to us, it was really, really hard just to function. Had next to no time for the forum, for listening, for everything.

I still intend to post the write-ups I promised.

Sorry, guys.