I absolutely love Opeth, incredible musicians, amazing songwriting. React to literally any other song, they won't disappoint. Amd definitely don't ignore their recent albums, they're fantastic 👏
Opeth is the best. The vocals alone sets them apart. Musically way ahead of the curve. The leader Michael is brilliant he also writes the drum parts and the drummer Martin Lopez is my favorite.
Always blows my mind when someone’s able to go from Fry. Vocals to clean vocals. Musically pretty cool. Definitely hear some Steven Wilson influence in this song.
🔥🔥❤Opeth❤🔥🔥 Definitely a rabbit whole to go down! They're from Sweden, one of a kind (in my opinion )band and masters of transitions, melodies, exceptional musicianship & more. The 'current band' members - Mikael Åkerfeldt/vocals (clean and growling), lyricist, 2nd lead guitar & acoustic, composer and overall master of everything he does. Fredrik Åkesson also lead guitar Martin Mendez - bass Drums - Was Martin Axenrot until recently, but he left. New drummer - Opeth announced last week (approx. Sept 7th)the new drummer to replace Martin Axenrot is Waltteri Väyrynen who left Paradise Lost to join Opeth. Joakim Svalberg- keyboards/mellotron
Opeth are fantastic,started as a death metal band Upto their current stuff which sounds like 70,s prog,mikeal akerfeldt the singer no longer uses growls on their recordings,but live you get a good mix of old & new, definitely a band you should check out more.
There is no other band like Opeth. That's really all I know to say, other than that they're one of the best ever. The death metal aspects faded away over the years and now they're still heavy, but in a different way. They're more of a prog rock band but the music remains ridiculously good. Hope you dive down that rabbit hole, man. Given this reaction, you'll never leave it.
I’ve been a huge Rush fan for years, also PT. Do yourself a favour and dive down the Opeth rabbit hole. They have such depth to their music and have all the best guitar riffs.
Actually Opeth are big fans of Rush. Their early albums are progressive death metal but later they started to incorporate clean vocals and now their recent albums are mostly clean vocals.
Mikael actually explains all of that very well in a video made for Nuclear Blast Records: ua-cam.com/video/Oj5IrsHzeno/v-deo.html "I've moved on, so should you."
So many things to say. First is I have always loved his guitar tone. Always has a great sound on his leads and solos. Steven Wilson has worked with opeth a lot and has actually performed on some tracks both vocally and on keys. He also did album with the lead singer under the name Storm Corrosion. I despise it. Others love it. Not many are in the middle. It’s very experimental. As far as Opeth, they are perfect definition of prog. They have always been all over the place with some of the heaviest rifts and vocals to beautiful guitars and clean vocals. They did a double album release where one was a standard opeth album and one was all acoustic/clean vocals. There is a making of damnation and deliverance albums that has Steven Wilson in it. In fact, the touring keyboard player you saw in this video is there because of SW influence on opeth. While all their early albums have fry vocals, starting with Heritage, they dropped the fry and went mostly clean. And Pale Communion really took them to their current sound which is best described as 70’s psychedelic/prog rock. I LOVE that album. This is another rabbit hole as you stated. I’d probably do Steven Wilson stuff first as I think it’s more in your wheelhouse.
Never heard them before. Great musicianship. Didn’t realize they prog, always thought they were just death metal. Don’t really like the fry vocals but it wasn’t too much.
They’re pretty much the kings of super progressive death metal, they moved into more straight up prog metal and now even more just straight up prog rock without any harsh vocals, up through their album watershed they still did progressive death metal stuff but since very on they’ve always mixed clean vocals and softer stuff into their music so it wasn’t just 100% death metal the whole time. Their ability to go from real heavy death metal stuff to really soft beautiful sounding stuff with cleans is one of many things that makes them special. If you haven’t checked out more of their stuff since your comment I highly recommend you do, they’ve got an all time great discog with a ton of variety in it. If you like the more clean vocal stuff highly recommend their album damnation and then any of their last 4 albums heritage/pale communion/sorceress/ in cauda venenum, there are no harsh vocals on those 5 albums
Really great selection. Opeth are legends, giants in their chosen genre. Classic Swedish metal madness. So much going on here in terms of interesting riffs, strange accents, and grand orchestration. Don't know if you've ever checked out any of Death's work. The Human album is a monumental recording featuring one of metal drumming's biggest innovators, Sean Reinert. His work on that album is stunning. It's like Vinnie Colaiuta said, "Screw jazz, fusion, and session work, I wanna play death metal!"
Opeth up to and including Watershed is fantastic. After that, I just can't dig it. Check out The Funeral Portrait on the album Blackwater Park. It's Mozart-esque. Incredible.
Have tried to get into these guys due to the SW connection, but... nope. Cookie Monster vocals have no place in my collection. But the video of Mikael and SW doing a prog quiz in a pub is comedy gold. ua-cam.com/video/h2InJpqo_bw/v-deo.html
I can understand not liking growls, but to say mikael is not a good singer... That's blasphemy.. My best tip for you is to treat growls as you treat distorted guitars..
Gaahhhh. Cookie Monster !!!! Naw. There is enough horror in the world with glorifying this garbage. Hard NO. Grown men pretending to be monsters. Like Kiss without the make up but with some serious musical skills. Excellent musicianship! Vocal styles?? Save for the clean stuff😂😂😂😂😂
@@JustinPanariello I could tell you like it, I meant to respond to the original comment. I have an irresistible urge to jump in when I see someone belittle harsh vocals. You don't have to like it, but don't put it down. I think, done right, it's pretty fucking cool that humans can sound like monsters.
![OPETH - GHOST OF PERDITION [RAPPER REACTION]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/elGA_UsKiAo/mqdefault.jpg)
Opeth is one of the best bands out there. Incredible musicians.
Thanks for checking this one out dude! This might be one of my favourite songs of all time.
I absolutely love Opeth, incredible musicians, amazing songwriting. React to literally any other song, they won't disappoint. Amd definitely don't ignore their recent albums, they're fantastic 👏
Opeth is the best. The vocals alone sets them apart. Musically way ahead of the curve. The leader Michael is brilliant he also writes the drum parts and the drummer Martin Lopez is my favorite.
I didn’t know he also wrote the drum parts and I was ALREADY calling him a generational musical talent. Just unreal.
Harlequin Forest NEXT
"Blackwater Park" is my favorite album of all-time by this band !
Always blows my mind when someone’s able to go from Fry. Vocals to clean vocals. Musically pretty cool. Definitely hear some Steven Wilson influence in this song.
The soul of Alex Lifeson lives in Opeth's music... You're in for a journey my friend!
Great band who created something all their own at the time. You’re really gonna dig it when you make it the Opeth rabbit hole.
🔥🔥❤Opeth❤🔥🔥
Definitely a rabbit whole to go down!
They're from Sweden, one of a kind (in my opinion )band and masters of transitions, melodies, exceptional musicianship & more. The 'current band' members -
Mikael Åkerfeldt/vocals (clean and growling), lyricist, 2nd lead guitar & acoustic, composer and overall master of everything he does.
Fredrik Åkesson also lead guitar
Martin Mendez - bass
Drums - Was Martin Axenrot until recently, but he left.
New drummer - Opeth announced last week (approx. Sept 7th)the new drummer to replace Martin Axenrot is Waltteri Väyrynen who left Paradise Lost to join Opeth.
Joakim Svalberg- keyboards/mellotron
Opeth are fantastic,started as a death metal band Upto their current stuff which sounds like 70,s prog,mikeal akerfeldt the singer no longer uses growls on their recordings,but live you get a good mix of old & new, definitely a band you should check out more.
There is no other band like Opeth. That's really all I know to say, other than that they're one of the best ever. The death metal aspects faded away over the years and now they're still heavy, but in a different way. They're more of a prog rock band but the music remains ridiculously good. Hope you dive down that rabbit hole, man. Given this reaction, you'll never leave it.
I’ve been a huge Rush fan for years, also PT. Do yourself a favour and dive down the Opeth rabbit hole. They have such depth to their music and have all the best guitar riffs.
Actually Opeth are big fans of Rush. Their early albums are progressive death metal but later they started to incorporate clean vocals and now their recent albums are mostly clean vocals.
Mikael actually explains all of that very well in a video made for Nuclear Blast Records: ua-cam.com/video/Oj5IrsHzeno/v-deo.html
"I've moved on, so should you."
Welcome to the rabbithole. Once in it you won't disappear anymore. Congretulations 🍺🤘
Martin Mendez ( the bassist) is the only bass player I've seen use a capo( besides Michael Manring). Solid player , awesome band
The cream of the crop it is! Huge drumming by the way.
So many things to say. First is I have always loved his guitar tone. Always has a great sound on his leads and solos.
Steven Wilson has worked with opeth a lot and has actually performed on some tracks both vocally and on keys. He also did album with the lead singer under the name Storm Corrosion. I despise it. Others love it. Not many are in the middle. It’s very experimental.
As far as Opeth, they are perfect definition of prog. They have always been all over the place with some of the heaviest rifts and vocals to beautiful guitars and clean vocals.
They did a double album release where one was a standard opeth album and one was all acoustic/clean vocals. There is a making of damnation and deliverance albums that has Steven Wilson in it. In fact, the touring keyboard player you saw in this video is there because of SW influence on opeth.
While all their early albums have fry vocals, starting with Heritage, they dropped the fry and went mostly clean. And Pale Communion really took them to their current sound which is best described as 70’s psychedelic/prog rock. I LOVE that album.
This is another rabbit hole as you stated. I’d probably do Steven Wilson stuff first as I think it’s more in your wheelhouse.
Storm Corrosion resorted my faith that Pink Floyd level psychedelia is still alive.
My favorite band
Never heard them before. Great musicianship. Didn’t realize they prog, always thought they were just death metal. Don’t really like the fry vocals but it wasn’t too much.
They’re pretty much the kings of super progressive death metal, they moved into more straight up prog metal and now even more just straight up prog rock without any harsh vocals, up through their album watershed they still did progressive death metal stuff but since very on they’ve always mixed clean vocals and softer stuff into their music so it wasn’t just 100% death metal the whole time. Their ability to go from real heavy death metal stuff to really soft beautiful sounding stuff with cleans is one of many things that makes them special. If you haven’t checked out more of their stuff since your comment I highly recommend you do, they’ve got an all time great discog with a ton of variety in it. If you like the more clean vocal stuff highly recommend their album damnation and then any of their last 4 albums heritage/pale communion/sorceress/ in cauda venenum, there are no harsh vocals on those 5 albums
Yay!
Opeth and Rush is the rabbit hole!!
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The whole set is fucking incredible
Really great selection. Opeth are legends, giants in their chosen genre. Classic Swedish metal madness. So much going on here in terms of interesting riffs, strange accents, and grand orchestration. Don't know if you've ever checked out any of Death's work. The Human album is a monumental recording featuring one of metal drumming's biggest innovators, Sean Reinert. His work on that album is stunning. It's like Vinnie Colaiuta said, "Screw jazz, fusion, and session work, I wanna play death metal!"
Jump Alice... jump!
Opeth up to and including Watershed is fantastic. After that, I just can't dig it. Check out The Funeral Portrait on the album Blackwater Park. It's Mozart-esque. Incredible.
I can't name a band who has 6 albums with the same theme. My arms your Hearse. Blackwater park
Ghost Reveries
Deliverance
Still Life
Watershed
If you like Steven Wilson check out Fates Warning and Arch/Matheos
Start with a death-metal song off of an early album, then jump right to the latest stuff...then decide how to explore the Opeth spectrum.
Era is a great newer song by them as well
Steve Wilson and Mikael from Opeth did a side project together called Storm Corrosion. You should check it out!
Katatonia is one really good Swedish band people need to listen to more. Wht is wrong with people not doing that? 🤔🤔🤔
Its a killer band you all.
Jonas, Mike and Dan - gerat Swedish trio
Have tried to get into these guys due to the SW connection, but... nope. Cookie Monster vocals have no place in my collection. But the video of Mikael and SW doing a prog quiz in a pub is comedy gold. ua-cam.com/video/h2InJpqo_bw/v-deo.html
Then you should check out there albums from 2011 and onwards, no growls on those but still great musicianship and songwriting!!!
Ive never heard them, but I don’t care how good the musicianship is, I can’t with that growling singer. I need a good vocalist
I can understand not liking growls, but to say mikael is not a good singer... That's blasphemy..
My best tip for you is to treat growls as you treat distorted guitars..
Same
I do appreciate good musicianship. The growling is silly at best for me.
Voice on loan from Sesame Street. Lol
Their newer stuff is 70s prog musically, and contains no growls at all.
Not a good vocalist?? He is amazing, his cleans are angelic and his growls still good live but better on the earlier albums
This dream theater stuff nah not for me thx sorry
Gaahhhh. Cookie Monster !!!! Naw. There is enough horror in the world with glorifying this garbage. Hard NO. Grown men pretending to be monsters. Like Kiss without the make up but with some serious musical skills.
Excellent musicianship! Vocal styles?? Save for the clean stuff😂😂😂😂😂
grown men pretending to be monsters!!! Thats hilarious 😂😂😂
If humans are able to produce those sounds, maybe it's not "pretending" to be anything. Maybe that's just expression that you don't understand.
@@darkphoenix2 i like it, dont get me wrong. I just had never heard it described like that before and think its funny 😆
@@JustinPanariello I could tell you like it, I meant to respond to the original comment. I have an irresistible urge to jump in when I see someone belittle harsh vocals. You don't have to like it, but don't put it down. I think, done right, it's pretty fucking cool that humans can sound like monsters.
@@darkphoenix2 my son is 2yo and he roars like a dinosaur all day. Hes great at it. My wife thinks i should do another album with him on vocals lol 😂