Yeah, I get it. Recording deliverance was a nightmare and Andy Sneap saved everything from being a shit heap (potentially the only rad thing Andy Sneap has done). But the record sounded good. It was dry and brutal and stubborn in its vision (regardless of whether Opeth had a vision recording it, the record as a whole stands out from the rest of their discog and in my ears has a clear aural connection/thread/story).
But this remix sounds like someone has thrown one of Åkerfeldt's prog cardigans on the whole recording, which makes the whole listening experience (and even how I hear the songs) a whole lot worse. The mixing and mastering just does not gel with the material at all. But still, the remix has somehow gotten rave reviews.
This is a completely meaningless rant (though I'm pretty happy with my SPACE-esque subject), but the odds of someone engaging in a discussion about this, or at least posting a picture of jwar's buttcheeks or a LOLcat or something are a much brighter prospect than trying to have this same rant in my everyday life..
