OPETH: FROM DEATH METAL TO PROG OVERLORDS // Into the Machine
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2016
- Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson discuss the evolution of the band from its early death metal roots, their approach to songwriting and the importance of the album format. FreqsTV presents Into the Machine, A Modern Prog series presented by Metal Hammer (www.metal-hammer.de).
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Say what you wish dudes. It's a "Free Country" in this music business (regardless of the genre). As far as I can tell *OPETH = Mikael Åkerfeldt* is one of, if not the only one band that can play anything: *Metal, Progressive Rock, Lyrical Ballads etc...* and never fails to deliver top notch music which I dearly love. Be it *Opeth* from 60's, 70's, ......... up until now (2018), I still tip my hat to the genius of Mikael and the rest of his bandmates. *"Do What You Love* guys *The money will follow". In short, just be yourself, *The Opeth* !!!
I can't believe I just now realized this, but I could definitely hear some of Opeth's music working really well in a Castlevania game.
Listen to the Tristram theme in Diablo. Could have sworn it was a Mikael song
like white cluster
Just listen to the riff in The Moor at 5:13. Its very similar to some of the existing Castlevania music🧛♂️🏰🤘
Mikael "60s, 70s" Åkerfeldt
That's an amazing akerfeldt
This channel is getting better every day. Nice video production.
Mikael Åkerfeldt is a genius. It is shame that everytime i see something from Opeth, it begins the discussion about how their death metal aspect is gone forever and not seeing how talented these guys are. They are an incredible band and every good band in the history of music needs to change or evolve. Influences and styles are always changing. It is something that we all experience in life.
Saludos.
+Javier Jones Wow thanks so much for the nice thoughts and for the support! We love Opeth, old and new. This is a series about progressive bands and it would be hard to argue that Opeth are not always evolving, progressing and pushing the envelope.
Don't get angry Metalheads, that Opeth genre change is Great cause they knew how to preserve their composition quality, as a many band fan Is hard to find a band cause many which change left their best behind and refreshstart with less Great songs.
ahh.. good old mikael.. Always fun to listen to his wise words! Great production work going on here, I love the video editing.
+sapphireflyer super cool! thanks!
Yeah, I'm totally with you on this one. The production is top notch !
Cheers!
It was nice to hear Frederick speak for a bit. I really enjoyed hearing Åkerfeldt speak about how albums are pieces together and the dynamics. Great video!
+Tony Fischer super nice guys. they gave us a great interview=-)
I love what Mikael said at the end. I couldn't agree more. That's why I still buy CD's and vinyl records, I love listening to a band's entire work of art.
Great video,wonderful production,well done!
+Ovimpendingdoom thanks so much!
Awesome as ever! Awesome production, also. Would love to see the actual show filmed like this
+João Ferreira thanks for checking it out! glad you liked=-)
cant wait for the future of Opeth! Mikaels words are reassuring!
it seems, that "Goblin" was actually made for this clip. Great editing!
very well done. Great to hear a bit about Opeth's history and where they are at now. Between the Buried and Me next week! This a great idea for a doc series!
+allmediareviews.blogspot.com glad that you enjoyed it. we hope you will keep up with the series. we are super nerdy about Prog over here!!!
Mikael is the best :)
Great video editing & production!!!
thanks so much!
Awesome fucking interview. I love these guys so goddamn much. Looking forward to the BTBAM Interview.
+Bobby Torres thanks Bobby. We cant wait for BTBAM either! Stay tuned thursday!
Awesome video! Keep up the good work!
+Sanyam Bajracharya thanks so much! we plan to stick around=-)
Mikeal is a rock god his beyond talented on guitar and vocals, one of my main inspections to become the best guitarist I can be
What the heck is ”itunes” and being able to purchase particular songs only? I think maybe Mikael is stuck in 2003 when it comes to how people consume music online. He did say just a few years ago that he had no idea how spotify works, and he still collects vinyls like a demon. All very charming btw.
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awesome channel
Thanks!!
A minute in, again, wondering why the hell Fred does these interview with Mikael. Mikael always talking about the early days and Fred thinking wtf get me out of here.
Maybe because Fred is the most outgoing (no sarcasm) and that he is a very good musician and a virtuoso whose style actually has an effect on how the record sounds? Mikael notoriously cares more about guitars than the bass and the drums (take a look at their Deliverance&Damnation documentary).
Mikael, sent a “hello” via my tour manager and he told me that he covered my song “Death Metal
*Perfectionism at its finnest*, the good old Opeth I loved in the 90's and that I love more today.
+SOGNAMETAL1984 we are also great lovers of the 90s Opeth and the progression the band has made until today.
+FreqsTV Two bands that made it to the good old 70's in a very elegant way: *Enslaved*, and *Opeth*, you don't find too much bands who have this talent: keeping their old trademark while progressing perfectly.
+SOGNAMETAL1984 agreed.
+FreqsTV Very nice to see that we have something great in common, and you have expressed it in a fantastic way with this excellent video production.
I still remember meeting you in Guelph and I've seen toyou guys like 10 times but you getting sick from the indian food across the street killed me. Also Mike ate some big mac someone brouht to him I will never forget that.
only 5 mins?
Best.
Nice up
I want that scarf that Mikael is wearing!
+Steven Mal they were selling them at the merch table. a great Opeth scarf!
+FreqsTV That explains why I didn't find it on any website yet. The last show I was at was the 25th Anniversary show in New York City and the merch table sold out before the show began, long before I was able to get to it. Bummer!
Steven Mal oh man. that sucks. yeah they had those awesome scarves on sale at the merch over here in Germany. next time!
Can anybody tell me how he defines progressive music should be? I don't understand the word because I've never heard it I'm spanish speaker
2:28 here is for all the guitar players that wonder what effect we are using.
STILL LIFE forever...
And orchid 🤘🏼 everything else they did is meh
Could you guys tell me please wich song is playes in the intro of that video? thx from Germany!
+Mux Mastermann its from another cool prog band, Tanertill...check em out: www.tanertill.com the site is only in German but you can hear music and watch videos in English. cheers!
+FreqsTV oh you are in Germany...dann viel Spass damit!!
Goblin from record Pale communion
mmm I thought we would see at least a session of five or six songs per band :( it was nice to see the guys talking about how they mix all together to come out with songs though.
+JrMedieval thanks for tuning in. how do you mean exactly? you wanted to see a live session with the bands?
yeah I mean, usually when I see a south american rock band, they have a little interview and a live segment along the way. but it was great to see Opeth's guys and their opinions. good job guys!
+JrMedieval thanks for the feedback! We decided early on that the web was missing good documentaries about rock and metal fans. There are a number of good places to see live shows, acoustic or full band, so we focused our efforts on storytelling. If there is enough demand in the future perhaps we will create some kind of live event. Thanks again for tuning in!
thanks a lot for making time to read our comments, I really appreciate that, everything was just perfect, from cameras to using the right questions, great work over all, but like you said, based on the demands perhaps on the future we see a performing section so that we can also enjoy not just what they have to say in-front of cameras but what they have to show when performing.
But Mikael's wrong, because of The Baying of the Hounds, the greatest death metal song ever even without the vocals. But the vocals helps, and mesh well with a disted hammond.
The Baying Of The Hounds isn`t death metal, and the rest of Ghost Reveries as well, except maybe The Grand Conjuration
Glad to see someone as fanatical about Baying/Hounds!!! Its one of the best tunes ever in any genre. Its an absolute cinematic composition that puts the listener "in" the story....not merely a soundtrack either. Genius.
4:28 People are really doing that ?! Thats insane !
I miss Peter Lindgren and Per wilberg but love till dead do us apart
MENDEZ LIVES IN BARCELONA? Nigga that's my city. I need to meet him.
Best thing about mikael is he just doesn’t give a fuck. Not at all. He shifted his music from progressive death metal to more of progressive psychedelic rock sound because he simply was bored. How many artists have the balls to do that? It’s not like he went from being a complex technical prog death metal act to a radio friendly metal act with verse chorus catchy melody songwriting. He went weird. His folky psychedelic prog rock is so interesting and different. I’m glad he’s doing what pleases him artistically rather than just chasing anything monetarily or try to just please a group of fans who can’t open their minds to different stuff
Did I see a disco ball on stage?
+Aaron Gentry Yes, you most certainly did.
The biggest problem with Opeth now is not that they don't play heavy anymore. It's that they don't even know who they are anymore. Damnation is the least heavy album from their discography but ironically it sounds more like Opeth than their last two albums. I'm not saying that their latest albums aren't bad is just that it doesn't sound like Opeth at all. They already had an identity as a band, a unique sound that no band has been able to replicate yet, and they completely dished it out in favor of sounding more like Deep Purple . That's whats underwhelming and frustrating. They used to be my favorite band :/
+Battossai3000 who were you 7 years ago?
?
A bit different I imagine?
+Battossai3000 But it's your fault for having a progressive metal band as your favorite. You should have known this could happen. They don't make heavy albums anymore. But they sure as shit play those songs live. And as amazingly as ever.
+Battossai3000 sound like deep purple? wtf. I don't think you've actually heard their last 2 albums.
I hate the direction they've gone with their music since Watershed. At least they still play good old ones at their concerts.
1st: Porcupine Tree / Steven Wilson
2nd: Dream Theater
3rd: Tool
4th: Opeth
All great, but after a long hard period of thinking and comparing, this is my order.
Dont like Dream Theatre...the other 3 are my top 3.
Who the F**K buys a portion of an album??!!!
you know it's the truth now a days no one knows wtf good music is for some reason technology has ruined the precursor of wat went into a single song now if you don't like it just as akerfeld said just one push of a button & it's gone how bout actually putting in a CD or caset or even vinyl go back to simpler times & actually enjoy fuckin music now a days it's just ridiculous so many tape manufacturers have gone outta business cause of technology so many music & recording studios shut down cause of technology it ashame that's there's not many people out there that do the old school way idk maybe it's just me nothing wrong with being left back a few generations as this one goes 1000miles blindingly into a brick wall lol can't wait to see this generation crash & burn
This editing is extremely satisfying and extremely unnecessary at once.
Thanks for noticing! Actually, all of our series start with a shooting, editing and color concept. For "Into the Machine" we wanted to explore prog music as a machine with a lot of moving parts. For the editing, we decided on going for split screens to illustrate the different moving parts of the machine. We stuck to a lot of slow motion shots to keep the split screen images from being too hectic. However, as this was the first episode of the series, we went to the extreme end of split screen usage. If you follow the rest of the series, you will see how we minimalized this effect to keep it in, but to not distract as much with it. In fact, here is another video where me and the co-creator talk about the concept of the show. Thanks again for watching! 😊 cheers, Randy ua-cam.com/video/Q8NfB8-moKU/v-deo.html
@@FreqsTV The editing Cinderella story. Wow.
@@toprak3479 haha i don't know what you mean. but cool!
@@FreqsTV I'll elaborate. The way you experimented with mixed results and found a middleground that worked for you. I (somewhat jokingly) compared it to the story of Cinderella, in that they both start off from an iffy point and end on a good note, happily.
"evolving"... by going back to a 70s sound?
bibby5000 yes.
Yes
Can’t wait till they change there musical derection again, will keep checking back , until then ....
R.I.P. Opeth
because he is a whiny moron
The Article Because they went from being a band that had their own unique sound within Progressive Metal, to a Prog rock band that sounds like every other Prog rock band since the 70's. More like Regressive to be honest.
agreed
The never ending jumpcuts and random images/videos that cut in and out of the interview is incredibly annoying. Incredibly.
+Thad White Hey Thad, sorry you don't like the style of our Into the Machine series. We wanted to create a chaotic, machine like atmosphere for a genre which is can also be, at times, chaotic and beautiful at the same time. However, I would invite you to check out our tour series, Ghosts of the Road, which is much more subtle, moody and introspective. It also includes some great prog artists like Steven Wilson, Devin Townsend and Protest the Hero. Hope you like it!
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+FreqsTV I will check those out. I commend you for successfully creating a chaotic and mechanical video, even if it's not to my liking. knowing now this series intent, I can appreciate it a little more. cheers m8s
+Thad White Thanks Thad! We really appreciate the comments and support.
They lost me after Ghost Reveries
For me it was Watershed. I think that was it as far as the Metal aspect of it was concerned. I mean I love prog-rock, but that was not what got me and many others into Opeth. It was the fusion and juxtaposition of Death Metal and melancholic prog-rock that got me into them. Now in essence they are just another prog-rock band.
Dude, "The Lotus Eater" from Watershed is just as amazing as anything before it.
Ironic that "Goblin" is the only good track off Pale Communion. The output has been utterly forgettable since GR, but Sorceress (the track itself) sounds brilliant. Perhaps they've finally found a balance between the 70s sound and the metal they want to do now.
Are you deaf?
dereksmallsuk nope. Are you?
pardon?
cant wait for the future of Opeth! Mikaels words are reassuring!
The Future is now! old man. 🤣