The making of Opeth's Heritage
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2020
- I've no clue how this hasn't been uploaded yet. So... here ya go! Also, if you're in the market for some new psychedelic prog metal and other music from the other side of the fence, please like and subscribe!
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When he say is a musical genius, turns into a paradox, cause he is beign sarcastic but he actually IS a musical genius xD
thx for explaining!
No doubt about it. His confidence doesn't bother me. Some call it arrogance, some call it egotistical. I call it reality.
כל כך נכון מה שכתבת . ואני אוהבת גם את השירים שלהם בשוודית , הם ממש מקסימים. אני כל כך שמחתי שהם הגיעו לישראל ואני מקווה שיגיעו שוב .
@@jerryboone1093 and he doesn’t loose his sympathy by doing it jokingly.
@@jerryboone1093 he's insecure af.
Man, I would kill to hear what Mikael composed before he decided to throw it away!
An extension of watershed for sure
Wish he would have saved it for future reissue bonus tracks or something.
@@sleepinggiant4083 Since Mikael is such a funny person he'd have demanded the record be called "Watershit". I doubt the record company would have allowed ;)
yep, Watershed is my fav album, so bad he deleted it, he could take a new direction with Heritage, but still release this 2 songs like a bonus demo or whatever, damn
I bet he used many of those riffs in heritage. A person like him would sooner die, than let a good idea go to waste, so it's not all grim
Heritage strangely is one of my favorite albums by opeth. It just has so much character, even when its slow it feels right in the guise of the entire album. Really reworks some of the romantic, gothic, and fantasy elements into a cohesive collection of songs. For sure their most underrated album.
When I went to see Opeth live for the first time during Heritage tour, they played NONE of the growl songs because Mikael was done with his "growling phase". Really dreadfully boring gig. I respect that they wanted to do something new, but to completely bury their entire discography because it's their "old sound" was a dumb egotistic mistake.
In a vacuum, Heritage is an okay album, but it made Opeth sound like a completely different band. Usually a transition like this happens over several albums, but the fact that they changed their sound do quickly really didn't sit well with me at all. Songwriting-wise they were trying too hard to emulate the 70s prog instead of coming up with something original.
5:06 "doesn't really take much just my mixing thing ... shit lyrics..... drum machine....started singing." got to love his sense of humor.
40:33 "We recorded him walking up to the microphone" Haha goddamn, all these years I never knew
Fredrik is an absolute beast. So glad he joined. A true virtuoso.
The drumming on Lines in my Hand is fucking astonishing
I must be one of the very few fans who have like everything they have done through the years.
Nah, Opeth is a band that ages like a fine wine. just keeps getting better with age. More rounded as a band. A little hint of so many genres in their music.
@@cohaagen90 No
@@ronaldpvincent11 yes
My very favorite Opeth album. I’ve listened to it more than 50 times and gets better every time - always discover new things about it with every listen.
Fredrik speaks in two octaves
Goddamn Mikael is a musical genius. Actually, he's a musical god.
I laugh at the people who bitch and gripe about this album. I think it’s great, one of my favourite Opeth releases oddly enough.
It's a great album, I agree. I think it's funny how some fans of the death metal Opeth hate this Opeth, in my opinion it's not too different. I prefer the albums before watershed, but I still love all their new stuff.
It is great! Watershed, Pale Communion, and Sorceress are as well. I’m not really feeling In Cauda Venenum though.
They were prog metal masters, and now they are prog rock masters. I hadn't heard anything like Opeth before I found them. They are a prog band so change is literally part of the deal, idk how people dont get that. Heritage and Pale Communion are absolutely incredible, I'd put them both near the top of my prog rock album list. Famine is my favorite song composition that I always find my self listening to
@@Nope-sq6dv Give it some time, the same happened to me, I'm starting to really like it (:
@@Nope-sq6dv In cauda venenum is now my favorite opeth album. It just needs time to grow on you.
Yeah thanks man! This is one of my all time favorite "Making of" documentaries.
Every single time I watch it, it makes me want to write more music :D
Same dude
Same here!
Same here in 2023.
first Opeth album I heard. Love it and everything since.
I didn't dig it when it came out....now I can't get enough. Mikael has the midas and evil touch! He is a genius.
So true about Keenu Reeves in Dracula.
That single take of Axe nailing Lines in my Hand is so fucking good..
Thanks for reuploading the making of!
thank you for uploading this, I love it!
Thank you for uploading this video
You know I'm a musical genius
One of my favorite albums from Opeth. Don't care what others think about it.
Thank you for this album! My ticket to Opeth! ❤
Heritage is a brilliant record, each song has it atmosphere, layers, an different experiment, plus the classic dimness and the calm elements from past albums, a complete album. It demands patience indeed, to absorve and feel each song, but when done it, you love more and more on each listening, and don't wanna stop it.
Even though I don't like the direction the music has taken with Opeth, I will always be a HUGE fan, like, my favorite dudes from Sweden!! Love from Canada!
מיכאל הוא מלאך . אני אוהבת את חוש ההומור שלו ואת ההתמדה היצירתית המגוונת של הלהקה לאורך השנים . כל הכבוד
21:47 Love the RE20 on the hihat. Never would have thought of that, it just goes to show you can do whatever you want in the studio if you know your shit and you have great musicians.
Mics are mics. So many have been used in most different applications. To each his own. My sound teacher used to show me recordings done with cheap behringer mics kits that would blow us away buy how incredible it sounded.
almost 10 years on, you made the right choice mikael
Watching this a year later? and I'm like, "Oh that is a great song!"
This album is a masterpiece!!
Hell yea, Heritage got me into Opeth, still my favorite next to Still Life, even though that's pretty much 2 separate bands, they're both bad ass albums. I wish they would play more off it live. I got to see the Heritage tour with the acoustic and electric sets, fucking fire!!!
Tbh I think Heritage and SL have a lot in common, with the exception of the extreme metal elements of course. Both are written in a very complex intricate style especially the acoustic parts, and both have some serious jazz influences going on. Oh and on SL they used a less saturated heavy guitar tone like eg MAYH or BWP. I think a song like Face of Melinda could appear on Heritage and something like Famine could appear on Still Life
I got into them around Still Life, but I'd agree that Heritage is peak Peth.
love opeth and heritage is a killer album
Subbed - thanks for a cool channel :)
can't stop thinking of the movie spinnal tap
The best band in the world. Heritage is a amazing album
Lines in my hand has serious Ian Paice/Cozy Powell vibes
Heritage is such an underrated record!
28:50 -2 great takes, but the last one is jaw dropping. Pozdro666
"Please, don't touch".
All opeth albums are there own style and should rated on there own and not against the rest if you had privilege of hearing them live it makes everyone else live playing seem second rate no one is as clear sounding and no ear plugs needed please come back to Sydney Australia we love you guys
18:46 exactly the type of Drummer that my instrumental Doom Metal needs
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i do love my Doom Metals and Scandinavian Metals
just a Belmont report that no shall give a damn
It's about time that you realized you are a genius,you didn't say anything about a musical one,but hey can't have it all,love ABBA grew up with them through my parents,and Lenny also,but I discovered him on my own.Rock on Opeth,love you all, greetings from the states🤘
YHEA THANK YOU
Yes is a damn TROLL!
but give me the SG is just sitting there
Mr Troll
27:13 there's my Black Beauty of Gothic Honor
although it looks odd with that missing 3rd Humbucker in the middle..
also that Legit sounds beautiful from the instrumental OST stand point of view of beautiful 41:10
the hammer on the table, yes!
13:08 they seem to be very good friends :D
What I would give to just casually peruse Mike’s Pro Tools sessions
41:07 absolute legend
27:58 Dont mind Mikael playing a Dream Theater classic chord here
Honestly this album is the masterpiece of opeth
I mean its not bad, but you can’t tell me its better then Still Life and Blackwater Park?
@@blackwatercat4263 honestly, technically speaking, this is the best of opeth
@@hamidrezasaberyoun7772 No it isn't 😂
@@TheMrAdax YESS IT IS😡
@@hamidrezasaberyoun7772 Deluded! Still Life is way more technical!
@8:20 does Fredriks keyboard have a....keyboard? Where can I get me one of those?
My god 10 and 2 is the most unsafe way to place hands on the wheel 😂
I think Heritage Album has the best mixing than any other albums.
31:00 mikael chewing gum is all I can hear
Brian Adams?? Woo-hoo! Canada!
I started off with Watershed, and in the beginning, I couldn't stand Heritage. Then later on, I was playing Damnation near daily in the car with the wife, and this album was actually the only album my Viet wife didn't hate with passion, so, I kept playing it. And then it was like I was bitten. I was ready for Heritage, and for me, it takes ages for me to add a new album into my listening. You know when you just aren't ready for it? I'm selective like that. I haven't really added much of the later albums into my listening, because it's sort of like you have to be ready for it. This album has become my favorite. I won't play it very often though, you just don't want to ruin it by listening too often. Now, I can't go back to Watershed.
And this isn't even my main genre of music, I'm more into electronic synth based music. Opeth is pretty much the only band of this genre I listen to. The closest would be King Crimson's later stuff. Good music grows on you, good music you often hate the first few times around. I know I grew up with a lot of angry metal, getting older and I reach a point where you can't listen anymore. Get this album, wait until you are ready for it. :P
I had the same experience! It took me 4 years and then I fell deeply in love with Heritage. It's a masterpiece.
I know what you mean about some songs/albums taking a while to grow. I liked some of the songs almost immediately on Heritage, and others took a while longer. ICV and Sorceress however; no amount of listening there will help unfortunately.
In Cauda and S have great beautiful moments
Somehow I feel Mikael might have been a better choice for casting in a Dracula movie. No offense to Keanu 😂 20:20 OMGGGGGGGGG LFG 🥳🤩🥳
fender stratta
Fenderstrattah
6:53 IKea chair 🤣
I found out sweeds speak better English than most of the English speaking people’s . Not just nick lindstrom and others
My girlfriend is Swedish and I have to agree with you.
@32:22 Will someone be kind and explain what is happening when Per Wiberg walks pass Mikael here, when Mikael is saying: "There he goes"? Is it where he got fired / quit ?
A second before that Wiberg says: "Verre enn krig" - meaning worse than war. Did they just have a meeting discussing his departure? What was Wiberg's role, only keyboard? Somewhere it says vocal's - how come - isn't Mikael the vocalist? I am confused.
I have a question friendly people of the internet I wanna listen to in Cauda venenum but which version is better the English or the Swedish ??
The Swedish is the "original" so it sounds a bit more natural in my opinion, but for some of the more emotional songs, the English is better so you can understand what he's saying (unless you speak Swedish of course)
madelyn sturman thx
Either. The English lyrics aren’t as flowery or descriptive as opeth lyrics usually are but they flow just as good as the Swedish version. Akerfeldt says the Swedish version is the original version and his favorite though so it depends what you want.
Funny you should ask..., the album didnt click for me. Something was off. I read that the original intention was written and recorded on Swedish. So, not understanding a word of Swedish, I said screw it, and three disc 1 in. Now I like it very much. It flows well, I dont need to know what he's singing about anyway.
Pete Thoresen I listened to both and i prefer the Swedish version not for the “Swedish” lyrics rather than that i don’t care for the lyrics really im more of an instruments person
At 42:00 - is that how you mic'e up a flute? Seems like the wind part is what you want the least of.
It’s wireless
The question is not how is made, but WHY is made!
Do those old, grey DOD 250s belong to Fredrick?
24:23 sad akerfeldt
Funny i was just listening to the new Bjork right before i watch this...crazy...
the drummer so serious makes me laughh
which speakers do thei used inthe cabinet
25:35 That fart was C sharp i can just smell
Mikael vlogging lol
Absolutely golden
Seriously, I love when he asks open ended questions then fucking answers himself 😆
16:37 A reference to the Friday the 13th movies lol
throwing just a bid shade toward Per it seemed. Probably got tired of Mikael's ego driven shenanigans... too bad. Loved Per in the lineup.
So is this Michael Akerfelder guy the one who wrote Hotel California?
Did the "Fredrick" song end up making it on the final album?
Idk actually... was that mentioned in this video? If so at what point? Maybe I could recognize it from the album at this point. I honestly don’t remember. I haven’t seen this in years actually. I should watch it again.
@@CelestialInferno at 4:43 I've never heard that section anywhere on the album but it sounds so... "lush"
Yes :-) It's "Pyre" on the special edition.
mikael looks depressed
Kjell Höglund!
25:35 😂😂😂😂
39:17 the guy looks like a young Bill Ward (drummer Black Sabbath)
31:58 is that a joint? 😂
And a fart!
20:28 holy shit
Such a good drummer it's sad that he's left the band
@@SplendidFellow he kind of peaked with this album. He became sloppy and started to drag and fall behind the tempo a lot. Ultimately it's his choice. If he wanted to stay in the band he would have just gotten vaccinated so they could tour when they needed to. The new guy is fantastic.
very pleased a troll is a troll!
när micke drar på med stocholmskan så skär det lite i öronen...... låter som tomas uggla..
7:04 so all of this is Mendez's fault
"Fault"
Thank god for Mendez
@14:49 😂😂😂
Did he say that because he thinks women should rather wear dresses or because her pants were just ugly?
which song is this? 4:45
Pyre, one of the bonus tracks on the special edition.
37:10 he's never beating the steven wilson allegations lmao
HAHAHAHA
Please don't to touch don't to take pictures
lol flowers or ur fired
Opeth: 💩Fans: 🥰
I call BS on the deleted Watershed 2.0. You're telling me that you made a whole album and delete it just cause you didn't feel it? Come on... If Mikael's not lying about a Watershed 2.0 (which I don't believe he is), he will release it in a distant future as a "demo" for another re-release/anniversary of Watershed or some type of rarities album, he knows we Opeth fans are thirsty for some old Opeth and there's money on that.
Thought it was a song or two. Not a whole album. I could be wrong.
@Edwa72 no you're right, he literally says it in this video so OP obviously wasn't paying attention lol
This was the beginning of the end for Opeth. A shadow of the band they once were.
If you actually listen to what Mikael says in this, you may widen your perspective.
No they aren’t they’re a different band than they used to be and I love it. If you don’t like it you can still listen to the old stuff
This documentary is pure evidence that Axenrot was the best opeth drummer. Sure, Lopez was a fantastic drummer as well, but very sloppy live. Axenrot is even better at creativity and that's pretty impressive.
Never cared if he got rid of the death metal aspects of the music. I wish he didn’t change the recording sound so much. The guitars sound weak and not as full. The bass sound is so muddy and way to high in the mix. That romanticized idea of sounding “real” or whatever is completely misguided in my mind. Just make it sound as good it possibly can.
Tyler I think you’ve put your finger on a really key aesthetic preference with regard to music production and mixing.
To me, I actually like the current album sounds much much more. I think it really highlights one’s values musically. Like I Love really thick and powerful bass. I find bass to often be more essential to the guts and soul of a song than guitar. And I’m a guitarist haha. I also really really prefer old school mixing mentalities over more contemporary ones. I really like for things to breathe and be open and even a kind of warm analog fatness to it that some may consider muddy. Like I think the drums on the more recent albums have sounded infinitely better to me. That said I do love all the old Opeth records but I find the greater emphasis on ultimate clarity and prioritizing guitars well above and beyond bass is a kind of sterile or clinical sounding result. Like there is soooo much oomph, girth, and punch to be had in drums and bass but if you compress the ever-living fuck out of them, then yeah ALL of it sounds super tight and punching you in the face but you lose overall dynamics and the ability for different parts to hit you much differently. But I totally respect that style of production and appreciate that sound for sure too. Like Meshuggah and Deftones are kind of like the pinnacle of artificial precision in production. But for their style, it totally works and is fucking magnificent. But with the recent Opeth albums I think there current production style really works because of the vintage retro prog vibes. But! I am totally inclined to agree with you on the album Pale Communion shit got real muddy in that at times. Sometimes shit was super muddy on Sorceress too, though I think that was generally a lot more guitar oomph that was appreciated. Their latest though, I find that to be especially masterful. But you’re not wrong in your assessment. That’s what they’re doing for sure. In my mind it’s better and in yours it’s not hah. Funny how shit pans out sometimes
Celestial Inferno yeah that’s just subjective opinion. Neither of us are wrong neither of us are right. With opeth, akerfeldt still uses a lot of the same techniques with the way he writes his riffs and the way he composes in general. The levels of instruments and everything involved should really stay the same. I’m a bassist originally so I like that mendez is more up front. It’s just he’s just way to high in the mix. Sorceress is nearly unlistenable with how loud the damn bass is. So the only thing I understand is wanting to change the style because he’s sick of the same stuff over and over. I get that and I fully support it. The production style I don’t understand other than just nostalgia. Which I’m a firm hater of nostalgia. I fucking hate it. He wants to sound like old prog bands. The thing though is production is light years ahead of where we were back then. Why not just carve out a completely original sound that has the top level production. Like someone like Devin Townsend.
@@CelestialInferno The cool thing about Mikael having so much control over the production is that you know that whatever you're hearing is absolutely intentional on his part, and is the deepest reflection of where he's coming from mentally/emotionally. I'm really really glad that he didn't just keep playing death metal. We would've missed half of the genius of Mikael Akerfeldt.
So far, nothing OPETH has released since Ghost Reveries has been good. I'll be that guy. And the one to point out the truth instead of kiss ass. Just saying everyone, including OPETH. Oh well, we have those records before then to appreciate. Personally my favorite are Blackwater park and My Arms, your hearse. Top notch work right there. Like I mentioned......anything after Ghost Reveries is not even MEH level, it's just terrible. I'm glad they progress as a band etc that's cool but man. Progressed in way I never would have. Oh well, to each there own. I got the previous records to respect and appreciate for all time, so thanks for that
Even watershed and heritage????
Bro Cmon. Yeah their last album wasn’t that amazing but cmon are you fucking kidding me, heritage is one of their best albums. At least have you listen them from start to finish? I can’t honestly believe that you didn’t even like one single song, at least don’t say that they are all garbage man :(
Your opinion is your opinion but if you can't really express your feelings on anything beyond "it's terrible" maybe you need to sit with some of those records more and access a more critical and less biased side of your mind. You just kind of sound cluttered and unable to communicate what your true thoughts are on those albums. How many times have you listened? What genres do you listen to? Is there a diversity to your tastes? Are you generally open minded? These are important questions I have for anyone to just say something is "terrible" only to circularly repeat it over and over.
"Which is fucked up" lol gold