Opeth - Deliverance || Jana's First Listen and Song REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Welcome to ‘Prog Song Sunday’, where we listen to a Progressive Rock song together and then discuss our thoughts about that particular piece of music. In each episode, you get two different perspectives- the seasoned Prog fan who has 20 years of experience listening to the genre (Nathan), and the fresh new listener who is only now discovering the world of Progressive Rock (Jana).
In this episode, we are featuring "Deliverance" by Opeth! Please listen along with us, and continue on to our discussion to see how Jana feels about her first dedicated listen to this prog metal gem and Nathan’s background and history with this particular piece of music!
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Growling is not for everyone, we all understand that. But the music Opeth produce is phenomenal!
Also I doubt many listeners are bothered by you doing Opeth. For the most part, anyone that has the ear to appreciate good progressive music also appreciates what Opeth does.
Thank you!
Throwing Jana in the deep end with this song. Love this song. The single syllable 'De-vil-guides-the-flame' etc. part is great, glad you both enjoyed it.
I hope more Opeth songs are on the Shuffle.
When she asked who she might know in the band, there is a Steven Wilson connection she might like to know.
Opeth is amazing! The good news is the early stuff is full of softer pieces in between the brutality, and the newer stuff is just straight prog; hardly any metal at all. So, something for everyone's taste!
More Opeth. So much diversity.
loved the video! Opeth is one of those bands that people who dont like growls grow to appreciate Mikael's growls because the music is so good lol But at first listen its tough for someone who doesn't listen to death metal
Yep we all go through that. The two bands that got me into growls or extreme vocals was Opeth and Death (mostly their later stuff). Then Gojira and jinjer and bands like that. It’s hard to pull of but when pulled off right it adds an element.
Making my wife listen this Sunday morning myelf. I said get ready for one of the best outros of all time.
Nice reaction! Thank you
Opera are one of my favourite bands because I love death metal and I love prog so it’s a perfect marriage for me and I also like the later stuff when they are just prog and micheal is an absolute genius
Opeth has TONS of great non growly songs:
Windowpane
Face of Melinda
Moon above sun below
Lovelorn Crime
Sorceress
Harvest
Burden
It goes on and on…
Opeth is awesome!
Their last albums are all with clean vocals.
the growling is an acquired taste, you get used to it and then you love it. It absolutely adds to their music atmosphere and their prog metal albums wouldn't be NEARLY as good without growling, it's a big part of why it's so good. also, listening to their songs multiple times makes each successive listen better, when you know the song back to back that's where the magic begins. Been listening to them nonstop for the better part of an year, still not tired. To me, the best band to ever exist, ever.
that said, if you just can't get into the growling, all albums from Heritage to the latest are all clean vocals, with less agressive distortion as well, more rock/hard rock, while keeping the phenomenal, flawless quality!
It’s based on a similar event that happened to his friend who had a run in with a mental person that held them hostage at knife point at a lake cabin. The growls are the voice in his head(madness) and his voice, the soft part is also a voice in his head that’s “righteous” and imposed “salvation” through purification.
Lyrics:
*Floating on mist
Crept up the caverns of my brain
Receiving no warning
From nothing to a life code*
Walk with me, you'll never leave
Wait to see your spirit free
Tell me how your heart's in need
As I drown you in the sea
Unwinding snares of distrust
Your wrist in my fast grip
Look me in the eye, I'm clear
This is your time
Face down beneath the waterline
Gazing into the deep
From love to death in a time span of seconds
Oblivious to regret, pushed into belief
In liquid cellophane gasping for air
Mercy in my eyes is the shade of the night
Face down beneath the waterline
Gazing into the deep*
The piercing sounds you make
Soaring higher, higher now
And once left in my wake
Your memory is nothing but the scars on me
All over now, forgotten why I needed this
Standing down, disappear into the obscure
Resting days waiting for new disease
Biding time, looked inside insanity
It always burns within
The downward spiral never ends
When driven into sin
Your salvation's found in a sinner's deed
All over now, forgotten why I needed this
Standing down, disappear into the obscure
Resting days waiting for new disease
Biding time, looked inside insanity
The devil guides the way, tells me what to say
Pours himself inside and snuffs the final light
Deliverance
Thrown back at me
Deliverance
Laughing at me
Deliverance
Thrown back at me
Deliverance
Laughing at me
[Instrumental Outro]
Fun reaction! I've grown to like growling vocals in some contexts, although growling itself isn't something that would draw me into a band. Growling vocals provide rhythm and emotion that wouldn't be available through regular singing. I don't usually listen to lyrics anyway so not being able to make them out isn't a huge deal for me, although I do like a good story both lyrically and musically. In Opeth's case, growls are often very fitting to the strong contrasts within the songs. And they do sound badass.
24:04 growling doesn't wreck your voice if done correctly. It's not supposed to be loud like shouting even if it mighth sound like that.
I find Opeth without the growling isn't Opeth. They need the growling and the blend, per why I have more or less dismissed all of their records since Heritage.
This is a good tune, although I think it is a bit repetitive, but some of that is the flow, a little like Jeff Buckley's version of "Kanga-Roo."
Nathan should check out some other bands who blend the growling and clean vocals. Namely like Orphaned Land. He might be surprised. When i got used to it, I discovered a decent list of new bands to get into, that he probably is aware of could happen.
Also FTR: Damnation I find better than all of the post-Heritage albums as well. The songwriting I find to be better. I suppose having Steven Wilson involved helped as well.
It is true, I do need to branch out a bit and listen to some bands that mix harsh and clean vocals. I know that it is a barrier between discovering a lot of great bands.
I do agree that the more recent Opeth albums without growling are a bit mixed in quality...although I will say that I do like 'Pale Communion' quite a bit. For some reason, their newer style works for me on that one, while Sorceress and In Cauda Venenum leave me a bit cold...
I do also really love Damnation- a really cool record that is probably them at their mellow best (and I wouldn't be surprised if Steven Wilson's involvement has something to do with that).
The outro is great and very memorable but it stretches out about a min too long. I think their new stuff is great, I mean other than heritage (which is good but a bit “lost”). Pale communion and their last album are top notch and sorceress has many moment too. But I get why oldschool Opeth fans miss their growls and their type of music (which imo still exists in their newer music just different).
Jazz, death metal, prog metal, boss’s nova elements, killer growls and smooth clean voice….yep it’s Opeth.
This is a song I recommend listening to while reading the lyrics. It has a great story and the growls make sense in context.
I would suggest re-listening while reading lyrics, will change the experience. That being said they have many songs that don’t have growls, or songs that are mostly cleans.
Try: Face of Melinda, credence, burden, drapery falls, To bid you farewell, in my time of need.
Or their more proggy rock material, eternal rains will come, all things shall pass, moon above sun below, universal truth.
Btw appreciate the honesty in the reaction.
She forgot to say " I can't dance to it".....🤣🤣🤣 It's okay. Different strokes for different folks.
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@@deminybs Hey there. It's been a while.
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Opening riff and the part with cleans (devil guides the way...) do much more for me than the outtro. Everyone is lyrical about the outtro of this song. And I agree, it's good, but Opeth has got better outtros. A beautiful beginning of the weekend moreover. First beer and than listening to a nice Opeth reaction. Cheers.
Pardon me for being an Imbecile, but what is the album directly above this young lady's head? The black with colorful center? I recognize the others but not that one. Thx for playing Opeth btw. Cheers!
It's no problem! That is the latest Marillion album, 'An Hour Before It's Dark' that came out earlier this year.
@@NathanOnShuffle Marillion! Damn, I wouldn't have guessed that based my experience with Marillion due to any album cover artwork that I have seen was quite dark and depressing. I loved Fugazi but the lyrical content, voice of the Fish, and album cover gave this one a very dark feel to me. Still love it in moderation though. Cheers!
You'd really like the Damnation album from 2002 (I think).
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all opeth is good opeth, granted if you've never been exposed to this "type" of music before it could be real hard to swallow 😂
"Some of my listeners are going to hate this..."
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Vocals hit; I'm out.
More power to you, Jana. You're a more tolerant soul than me.
Oh, wait...
hmm, let's see how long this more mellow section lasts.
Ha, yeah, I know, I know…I’m just impressed Jana hung with it so well 😊
@@NathanOnShuffle
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Pathetic
Too long? Time to hear Opeth- black rose immortal 😂
I just don't understand not liking Guttural vocals with the guttural music. Mikael Akerfeldt's main vocal influence was David Vincent of Morbid Angel. From Still Life to Watershed, those were my favorite Opeth years. I don't much like the new stuff, sounds like 70's leftovers from Camel or Jethro Tull. Not my kinda thing.
Opeth has always been about the dark and the light. The good and the evil.
But hey, you gave it a shot.
My ex-wife hated this type of music, me, I love it.
Guess that's partially why she's my ex-wife.
Fun reaction.
No my arms, your hearse? 😳🤔
I can’t get my wife listen to prog very rarely she will go that sounds beautiful when I’m playing instrumental prog. Has your wife called your music funeral March music yet?
My wife calls prog funeral March music I said yea darling when I die I want people marching around me playing this stuff she just bust out laughing every time I remind her lol.
Ha, I don’t think I’ve heard her describe prog as funeral march music yet- that’s pretty funny!
Somehow, I am not surprised Opeth isn’t too high on Jana’s list. And, of course, we want to hear her honest opinion. I like quite a bit of metal, and the harsh vocals don’t really resonate with me either.
Four and a half minute before you start…🙄
Extreme metal? Lol
Put off your viewers by reacting to Opeth? New subscriber here because you reacted to Opeth 😀
Same here!