Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (English) - Final Thoughts
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (English) - Final Thoughts
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Give the Pale Communion album a go!
Yes! It would be awesome!
The swedish version is far superior to me. Mikael confirmed the swedish version is the original and he made the english version after.
I'm in love with this album right now. The more I listen, the more I discover details. It is a very rich album. Continuum was my least favorite track on the album too but it has grown on me over the last few days! Give it a few spin, then ending part is beautiful :) ! So glad you liked the album, keep up the great videos !
Bleak (Old Opeth)
Eternal Rains Will Come (New Opeth)
Bleak is probably one of the most hauntingly beautiful metal compositions that I've listened to.
Jim, if you let Continuum hit you a few more times, you may find that track is actually a monster of a tune. The vocal harmonies along with the great, dry tonal crunch of the guitars makes for, for me, a real grinner of a tune. Intro to the album sets the tone but it's a smidge long winded, I agree. But no real clunkers, as far as individual songs go. The album reveals all its layers, with repeated listens. There's a wide swath of music happening here. Musically and sonically speaking, these guys breathe rarefied air.
A good nose length ahead of Pale Communion and their best since Ghost Reveries.
I agree with you regarding Continuum. Smashing crunch guitars and amazing vocal harmonies. The whole of that part in the song put me in mind of Alice in Chains. You could say that Opeth are now the pioneers of a new genre: Prunge ;)
@@socialbox8092 I also get a Scorpions vibe, circa early to mid 70's.
Agree
Thanks for taking the time to listen and review such an incredible band and album. This is my favourite album since Watershed. I really didn’t resonate with the previous 3 but personally i understood this one from the first listen, just like when i heard Still Life for first time many years ago. Thanks for the videos i really enjoyed watching you experience :D
Great and fair reaction to the album Jim, I've followed their career from the early days and for me this is up there with their best.
Really happy you’re enjoying this Jim. I personally haven’t really clicked with an Opeth album since ghost reveries and I’m really liking this one. Mikael sounds so good on this!
You didn’t like Watershed?
Never got into it. Some tracks were decent
I’ll still go back and give them another go
I have listened the Swedish version. I don’t understand a word but I still like it very very much. Musically it reminds me of all the prog rock and hard rock music from my teenage and later years. I have to hear the English version and then decide which one to buy.
Thank you, Jim, for doing this album review. I feel this is Opeth's magnum opus. A pleasure to watch this. I loved the fact that you decided to keep listening.
Jim, It is a must to listen, react and experience - Storm Corrosion (2012) (Full Album) It is a crossover between Mikael Akerfeldt and Steven Wilson. It is literally my favorite album of all time! Go in expecting something very unique. Such a hidden gem in music. Here is the Tracklist - 1. Drag Ropes. 2. Storm Corrosion. 3. Hag. 4. Happy. 5. Lock Howl. 6. Ljudet Innan. Listen in that order. Waiting for the reaction video.
Ghost Revries is a quality album any song of that is worth a listen. For my suggestions.
Dream theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence disk two
The Faceless - Autothiest Movement part 1 to 3
Carcass - Heartwork
"I'll be back"
Awesome video, i think that this is one of their best album
Your reactions always make me feel uplifted. It's the honesty I guess. Thank you again for this! I agree. Tool and Opeth this year are my favourites too.
Totally agree( I waited to comment until the end )....and for me , the album is at its best in one listening , front to back, much like "Wasteland".
Opeth had lost me on Heritage and Sorceress, but they grabbed me again with this album. Continuum kind of sums up those two albums for me. I definitely agree with you on it being forgettable. Everything else I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you Jim for the listen along and have good week.
Just a reminder: Pain of Salvation.
Songs you should've heard before you die, unless you wanna waste your life :P
- Iter Impius / Martius Nauticus II
- Nightmist (live version from Ending Themes)
- Enter Rain
- Beyond the Pale
ua-cam.com/video/fmrU2NahT2Q/v-deo.html - Idioglossia, man I love that scream at the end. The Perfect Element is a fantastic album. "12-5" - the acoustic live album is also fantastic, as well as "Be Live".
@@Bellathor All their live albums are impressive. I actually prefer every single performance on Ending Themes to the studio versions. Not that their studio albums are less than stellar - they're all very good in their own unique way. I find it hard to suggest single songs, though. Especially for albums like Remedy Lane, The Perfect Element and Be, as the context of the whole album is so important there.
This is the first Opeth album in a very long time that truly worked me, and that I was interested in hearing others' thoughts on it, and yours were quite insightful Jim, thank you.
A recommendation: Borknagar's recent song, Up North.
P.S.
You definitely won't have a lot of, if any, others recommending this. I suspect there's little overlap between even your metal crowd and the average Borknagar listener.
Thoroughly in love with the album. It was great listening back to it with you again! You have great subscribers Jim, you always do the videos I want you to listen to without me having to request it! Cheers to the community!
I love it that you do full album listens for these new albums, really loving these. I think you started these not too long ago, so didn’t do Dream Theater’s full album. Please do that one if you get a chance. Thanks!
If you are accustomed to the growling by now, I'd suggest two metal bands witch are quite high on my metal list: Insomnium and Kalmah.
I can see and respect the level of musicianship that is required to create such an album. That being said, almost nothing since and including Heritage clicked it for me. The past 4 Opeth album to me boil down to: "Eternal Rains Will Come" - definitely the best track they've made after the Watershed album. Then there's the beautiful, very Jethro-Tull-esque "Will O The Wisp" off the otherwise soulless Sorceress album. And last but not least, the title and opening track on Heritage is a beautifully crafted piano and contrabass intro. It's not only the growls I'm missing, it's the overall credible contrasts between sheer aggression/brutality and haunting melancholy/beauty, the elevating and almost classical compositions of tracks like Harlequin Forest, April Ethereal, Heir Apparent, The Drapery Falls and countless other pre-Heritage tracks. I see there's many new fans Opeth found with that style change. I couldn't be sadder to say, but they've lost me on the way. The new stuff I just cannot connect to, and trust me, I've tried over and over and over the past years for dear love of what this band has created previously.
Oh man, that breaks my heart. I'm sorry :(
Sorry to hear, but you've tried! That's all one can do. I hope one day it clicks for you.
Last four albums are very good but I still think that Ghost Reveries is their best yet, closely followed by Watershed and Blackwater Park. Then the last four, all about equal. Then Damnation and Deliverance. Then the early albums from Still Life going backwards. Get the 5.1 editions, they sound wonderful. Hope they change it after this one though, last four all sound very similar, any track could be off any album. The Tangerine Dream sound at the start of the new one might be interesting to hear more of that but then they might sound too much like Riverside. They need to change again though now because after four of these albums, it's in danger of becoming boring, not just yet though.
I think it is a very good album. Lovelorn crime yes. Still waiting for my Lp in New Zealand along with the new IQ album.
Pallbearer - I saw the end
ISIS - Not in rivers, but in drops
Neurosis - Stones From The Sky
My Morning Jacket - Steam Engine
Jim, i am still suggesting, if you enjoyed this one , 2014 Pale Communion Opeth record . their best clean one !.. 😀😃 i already suggested this one a couple Of time some months ago . I am insisting because i am sure you will not regret
Lovely you apriciate this new opeth so much. Its alright but IT doesnt provoke my emosions. Im one of those people who misses the old opeth, IT had the whole package. Their peak was watershed album The last album before they changed completely different direction. Try some more songs from that album Jim.derilict herds or hessian Peel.
My least favorite tracks are Charlatan and Continuum, but I still like them which just says just how good this album really is. But it took about 4 full listens to really get it.
Nice !.. react to Opeth - Moon Above Sun Below , or Cusp Of Eternity or The Drapery Falls. Thank you 🙏🏼
I will check it out
@@JimNewstead yeah!.. up!.. Giacomo James perfect suggestion. You will not regret . All PALE COMMUNION record is perfect for you if you Enjoyed this one
Ill have to watch this a bit later. But would be great to see you react/listen to Cult Of Lunas monster of a track Lights on the hill from theit latest album
I hear a lot of Uriah Heep in this album too.
for a complete shift in pace. here is the direct link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/xpBJzyNMpfs/v-deo.html Tortoise. pleasurable :)
alright even better. A short one. 3 minutes 32. Their "biggest hit" played live on a roof for Pitchfork TV. 'Prepare your coffin' by Tortoise. ua-cam.com/video/tMI58BbchpY/v-deo.html. get your groove on.
I don't like the early Opeth albums, so this is definitely an album for me. I liked Sorceress as well, but prefer this album overall. I doubt Opeth will ever go back to the old style, and hopefully that will clear out some of their more vocal "fans" over time.
Jim please do The Patient by tool
.. missing out till you react to it..
someone tell him to react to tigran - drip :c
this album has the potential but they didn't nailed it
it lacks those opeth moment in there
if you listen to other albums from 1995-2008 there is no boring song even a single one
and those background sounds didn't help the atmosphere at all
this album could be so much better
(suggestion: if you had a chance listen to "still life" it's one of the concept album)
Another typical "Pre death metal Opeth isn't good and relevant" insinuated argument. Move on, listen to the older albums if anything past Heritage is not Opeth. I love opeth front to back (not all works equally of course), but they have some dull songs both older and new. This is fucking brilliant and moving and possesses far more depth than anything they've ever done before.
@@allenvrabac4827 Totally agree
I'm 43 and I listened to Death Metal around 1990-1994 or so. Opeth's earlier more extreme albums are pretty average to me.
I'd like to slap all of you in the face. / Vänligen Kurt