Listening to Opeth - Heart In Hand
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2019
- Listening to Opeth - Heart In Hand
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Absolutely sensational. Opeth at peak in clean vocals era.
It is clear that Mikael Akerfeldt is focusing heavily on his vocals. He did covers in both swedish and english so its obvious that it was a focus for him! This is the best his voice has ever sounded imo. I believe Opeth 3.0 is coming and they're gonna be legendary in the prog rock world.
@@andrew6226 Gonna be? Maybe i have been living under a rock but the only prog bands bigger than opeth this century are tool, dream theater, and maybe Steven Wilson. At least that i can think of
Absolutely brilliant song. Super unique sound. No one on Earth sounds like Opeth. I love the Swedish version too.
YES!!!!!!
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@@chris_htepo not even close
@@DonSampa you must be deaf
@@chris_htepo This band sounds like Opeth because they're trying to sound like them. It just sounds like they took bits from multiple Opeth songs and mashed them together.
Easily the best new music I listened to in months! Opeth seems to come back to long lost heaviness, without neglecting their 70ies prog rock vibes. I love it
Love the song. DOPETH!
Wow! Amazing song! Reminds me of Pale Communion (my favorite Opeth Album). Cant Wait for the new album in September.
Its going to be a good month, New Tool on August 30th, then a couple days later its my b-day on the 5th and then the new Opeth album on the 27th!
It’s amazing that within the next few months we are getting new Tool and Opeth albums back to back!
YES!!!!
Great video/reaction, Jim...thanks! As a 55 yr old music lover, it pains me to say that I only discovered Opeth in the last few months. So much to catch up on, and what a nice glimpse into the future! atb
Better late than never as they say, I actually envy you still having your first with so many amazing tracks ahead of you.
Enjoy!
I just started a couple weeks ago. Amazing.
OPETH are My Favorite Band on Earth! NOBODY ELSE I've ever heard combines Beauty with BRUTALITY so skillfully as they DO! I agree 1,000% with your Impressions, Jim!
Love this song, been on repeat since yesterday. I think the upcoming album is going to be spectacular.
I knew you'd like Opeth! And your channel helped to get me into Devin Townsend,
That's one thing that I think is really great about reaction channels, you find new music.
That ending leaves me in peace
Ear candy for all us fans that stick to whatever they want to create. I follow them since the 90's and i've loved every single album they create. Just love them. Great reaction video. Cheers!
Great video. It’s a phenomenal song. Really feel like the band have captured the very essence of what is Opeth. Can’t wait for the album
I had no idea about this till your video popped up in my feed. Thanks mate.
Opeth are in my top 5 bands of all time. I do like their new stuff took me a while to get into sorceress but I did enjoy it in the end. But I do miss the growling. I know with age you lose the ability to be able to project the growl and if they can't do it live then why write an album with growling on. But I do still miss it. Great reaction as always Jim most appreciated 👍
The Anunnaki the live growls are still pretty good if you ask me
It's not that he can't do it anymore. He just doesn't want to do it in their new songs. Live growls are still one of the best ones you'll ever hear
Loved the Swedish version... It has more (personally) more passion
Long life to Opeth (Lots of Exclamation marks)
Thanks for sharing this, I just hearing now with you! :-) I must say that I really do love the growth and evolution of Opeth, toghether with Satyricon, Katatonia, Orphaned Land and Deftones.
Love how you almost are on the verge of tears at some point. Totally immersed in the music and allowing the emotions it creates impact you to it’s full value.
Thanks for review! Loved this song a lot! I like that when you hear Opeth, even without growls, you hear always Opeth. Despite of any direction they take, they just remain themselves.
I guess that's why we love them - they have strength to stay open-minded and loyal to own self, music expresses this so much!
I love your honests reactions please do Opeth The drappery Falls
Damned BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! These guys are a gift (since the beginning)...
I love how in-depth you go into discussing each song. Many reaction channels skim over the actual "reaction" part and it leaves you to wonder if they are genuine. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Jim, for the good news! I haven’t heard this, neither that Opeth’s releasing a new album. I’ve been living in a cave or something. Absolutely brilliant song, but what else could one expect from them!
Heard it already..... I LOVE it. Can't wait. Great reaction... I have missed Lopez's flow on drums when he first left the group , but Axe has really blossomed in the last 3 albums ( he's always been very good technically , he just sounds more fluid now, and good musicians always strive to improve!)
Have a great weekend Jim!🤘🔥🤘
Loved it at first listen! Brilliant song.
If you like scandinavian rockbands you should give a listen to Katatonia from Sweden and Ghost Brigade from Finland. Very melodic and epic!
This operatic metal stuff always takes me back to King Diamond.
Mikael was and is a fan of King Diamond, of course. He once said he during his youth fell asleep to Them every night. Moreover, King Diamond was his main inspiration for doing a few concept albums, esp Ghost Reveries where he uses his growls to play a character (like King Diamond does.)
Great channel sir! The lead singer and songwriter oft mentions his love of Miles Davis....I'm sure that ace drumming and the way the band transitions is owing to the group's love of jazz! Such an ace band...
I'm Chuffed too about the new CD, Mate!!! I can't wait!!!
Well damn thats some good stuff, cool time signature and rhytm. That is what i love about prog stuff. Every Band basically does the same... odd time signatures, mixing other genres together, focusing around single elements and combining them into something extremly complex... every single prog band does that.. and yet they all have something totally unique about them... like we can say: that sounds opeth!... oh that was so Steven Wilson.... isn't that awesome when yopu think about it? :) love it!
Great video!
Great song, great reaction!
Jim, Opeth - Bleak
Excellent My friend !.. happy you Enjoyed The new side of Opeth ; try also Sorceress song , Will O’ The Wisp , or The Wilde Flowers from Sorceress record (another new era Progressive Opeth record from 2016 year) . THANK YOU!.. and i love your passion for music ❤
Seems so far, Fredrik Akesson wasn't kidding when he said the new album will be energetic! It's also more coherent than some of the stuff on the previous records. I just hope the rest will be this good and we can say Opeth are back to full form!
Few people already listen to the whole album. It's amazing.
i like the text at the beginning. really bumping up that production value lol. Also, great start to this new opeth album.
edit: having seen the whole video i think you would really like something off Pale Communion! Eternal Rains Will Come or Faith in Others.
The evolution of Opeth is unparalleled in my opinion this is so razor sharp, not a wasted second.
Great Song!!!
I think he came about 10 times during this song
Listen to Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name (the music video doesn't matter, it's kind of a joke/troll video anyways)
Good song. I love the acoustic section at the end. I got a Devin T vibe at the start.
Probably one of the best Opeth tracks of the post-growl era 🤘
Yeah, agreed!
3:10 Jim's in a Howard Moon jazz trance!
Fantastic song! Also check out the version with swedish vocals!
New to listening to Opeth. They remind me an awful lot of Rush.
That outro though.
Before this, I just listened to the swedish version. But this a really nice piece and I feel like this album will be better than the previous one
I've been listening to since it came out...needless to say I'm in love again. And yeah they have abandoned death metal vocals and tuned down guitars for quite some time exploring new territory.
This is the exactly reaction that i expect to see when someone discovere opeth. 😁👍
album cover and most sections of this song have a King Diamond/Mercyful Fate vibe (sure, not the vocals)
That is a good comparison. Not sure about MF but definitely some KD in it.
Man Jim need to listen to some Mercyful Fate - Melissa album. Shit the bed that album is quality. If you like guitars then that's the place to be :)
The beginning reminds me of immigrant song and barracuda
I have been waiting to see what you would think of this! :)
I am more of a fan of their old sound but there are some songs I like from their recent efforts but not more than one or two per record. The last 2 minutes of this song might be the most beautiful thing Mikael Åkerfeldt has ever written and sang. In fact I love this record and didn’t think I would. Yes, I miss the gutturals from the old but his clean singing voice has gotten so good that he impresses me more with it than the dark singing. There is another song on this record I absolutely love; “Lovelorn Crime.” Give it a listen if you haven’t.
Agree! Hälsningar från Sweden
The first solo completely melted my face, until now one of my all time favorite solos where the one from Era (Sorceress Album)... Geez these guys get better every time, I don't know how the hell they can deliver that consinstently over decades!
Not a SINGLE Opeth record turned out to be a turd.
Iv listened to this quite a few times now and my underwear has exploded everytime..... Sublime song
plz react to *vektor* charging the void :) for a french fan xoxo :D
oh and i recommend: The Sea Within - Ashes of Dawn ( i think i commented that lately into an older video per accident). We need more Marko Minnemann here :D
they are releasing it in english and swedish as well
5:50... Jim is tripping....
PS... Voyage 34 pt 4? :)
May I suggest a few songs/bands.
Some great heavy metal British bands you may have never heard or missed.
Cradle of Filth - epic music with horror themes and fast paced rhythms. Give it a go maybe something off midian album.
Carcass - another great British band I would suggest a song off heartwork album.
As always I suggest disk two of Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. It is a true masterpiece.
its a great tune. I haven't heard anything that appealing to my ears since watershed. just didn't click. will be getting this record tho.
It turned to be a meh for me.
yeah, me too.
The conversation between the Swedish puppets in the beginning makes more sense coming off the heels of Dignity...
If Opeth go deeper into that era they might even outdo Blackwater Park by mistake.
Jim since you like this you should try Veil by Haken from the record called Vector
best song they have written since watershed, in my opinion.
I have voted for them before, but I thought I'd throw it out there again. Would you be able to do something from the Tea Party. Halcyon Days is probably the best place to start.
Please try Papir - Monday
Maybe it was the song titles of Pelican that's putting you off Jim, so how's about you try The Tundra or Aurora Borealis, songs both close my heart. Literally more than figuratively.
Listen to The Ungrounding by Earthside!
If you like this record I suggest you the best Prog new era Opeth record : Pale Communion 2014 album. Expecialy the opening track and the song 🎵 River. You will ❤️ love it.
However I love your passion . Compliments!
Listen to Andromeda - Going under
Boring band... they're perfect, for far too many years, constantly... boring, boring, boring ;) Perfect track! I love it! \m/
O.o Is English not your native language or something?
JTNugget , What tipped you off? 😂
Sorry about that. I didn’t mean to butcher your language. I was tired and trying to say many things at once... Became quite weird hahahaha...
😂😂😂
If you wandered who the 100st liker was... Oh, you should get yourself a AKG k712 pro reference headphone, much better low-end:) Even more joy!
SO YOU METALLICA FRONTMAN!! I'M SHOCK
This guy looks close to Aaron Stainthorpe from My Dying Bride.
Listen to Blood Bath and Storm Corrosion två other bands with Mikael Åkerfeldt 🤘
It may seem like an odd thing to say but I think I actually enjoy him less as a singer now that he's more confident at doing it. I've enjoyed Opeth since 1999, I like both their heavy stuff and their softer material like Damnation and I listened to this song about five times and thought about what I liked about it, such as the great drumming, and what I didn't like as much. And then I went back and listened to the first couple songs off Blackwater Park, which I haven't listened to in a few years. And I gotta tell ya... it just pales in comparison.
It's still very good but it's just not awe inspiring and otherworldly like that material is. Production wise it actually sounds muddy here compared to past albums, and the clean vocals are actually harder to distinguish in the mix here than on albums from the early to mid 2000s.
At the same time, technically Mikael's a better singer now than he's ever been. He's much more confident now but he oversings so much on the melody lines that it actually loses something in the process. It used to be this blend of passionate, intense growls and more plaintive, somber yet very memorable clean vocals. Now he tries to do all the emotion with the clean vocals and he's just crooning all over the place and occasionally yelping here and there like at 1:57. I actually don't mind the fact that it's all clean vocals now; I just think he's trying to do too much in each vocal line.
And Fredericks guitar playing is great but it's mainly this standard rock/metal stuff with none of the elegance of either Mikael or Peter Lindgren. Yeah he's a much better guitar player technically than Peter ever was - I get that - but there's just nothing special about the lead in this song or most of his leads in general. It's badass guitar playing for sure but there's nothing timeless about it.
On top of all that, again the mix is objectively muddy. If you A and B comparison older records from them from the early 2000s and mid-2000s to this one there's less clarity in this stuff. It's actually kind of baffling that it's less clear.
All the instrumental playing is brilliant of course, as always, and he sings really well it's just not as memorable as it used to be, especially when the vocals seem so overdone now. It kills the tasteful, soft parts when he does that, like during the section at the end of this very song. Credence, the softer parts of Godheads lament and The Moor, Hope Leaves, Windowpane: there was so much memorable emotion in those understated melodies and vocal inflections that isn't here in this crooning stuff. It's an odd thing to say again I know but it almost sounds like he's too confident in his approach here. I like the line that he sings near the end that ends with "made of glass" but the rest of it honestly sounds a bit too much to me. It's the same singer I've always enjoyed but he's more showy and it doesn't hit me the same way that their more simple, elegant vocal melodies of the past did.
In some ways with Opeth the vocals have become more showy now while the music has toned down and maybe that's part of why I'm not as enchanted by it.
I respect them as artists as much as ever and don't get me wrong I still do like this song; it's just not as magical for me as it used to be, and that's partly due to the very much embellished singing approach he's using now and music that doesn't hit as hard in either the heavy or the soft direction as the brilliantly contrasting parts of their past great songs.
Best album since Watershed. You're a spitting image of Stefan Molyneux
00:38 Click here to skip the blablabla
My first time hearing Opeth. The singer has sort of a Mike Patton sound.
Mikael is probably the only dude in metal/rock that has always had fantastic musicians around him and the best out of their skills. People will cry around that the classic era with Peter and Martin was the best and it sucked since they left, but damn! Axe and Fredrik are doing such a fucking wonderful job. I'd even say they do a better job on their Opeth than the other two used to do with their Opeth.
I know some people miss the growl vocals, but to me that is a waste of Michael's great singing talent. Such an original voice.
I'm fine if they dont want to bring the growl back but the beauty of opeth was that they mixed both growls and clean vocals
Mikael is a really good clean singer, but his growls were top 3 *ever*
Him mixing them both was epic, but we can still appreciate it on those old records as well as hear an approximation when they perform live. I’m fine with just cleans as well.
Growling terrible. Never go back.
As Jim says.. 70s prog. Would have preferred it be something new from Opeth. I'm not a fan.
Opeth is getting worse with each record...
Fenri s I disagree. I think this one song is better than the entire Sorceress record lol.
@@alexfilma16 blackwater park was their last good album for me.
@@fenris8477 lol?? deliverance? ghost reveries? how can you like bwp and not those too.
also this song is better than anything off heritage.
Fenri s Yes, my favourite Opeth album. Personally I love Ghost Reveries and Watershed.
Can't forget damnation.
I really dislike this song, and pretty much all of Opeth's stuff since Watershed. The start of this song is okay but you can never shake the feeling that they're about to turn it up to 11 but they never do. It's always middling and struggling to get there. Even the guitars sound so pathetic and weak compared to their earlier stuff. The latter half of this song is like a 4 minute long bridge section of an Incubus song, it's just... not the Opeth I know and love.
You are an asshole.
Sucks for you man
Toastie88 I've enjoyed Opeth since 1999 and still do, but your point has merit. I listened to this song about five times, thought about what I liked and what I didn't like as much, and then I went back and listened to the first couple songs off Blackwater Park and Still Life and it just pales in comparison in every way. He oversings so much on almost every melody line now. It used to be this blend of passionate intense growls and more plaintive somber yet very memorable clean vocals. Now he tries to do all the emotion with the clean vocals and he's just crooning all over the place and yelping here and there like at 1:57.
And Fredericks guitar playing is just this standard metal stuff with none of the elegance of Michael or Peter Lindgren. Yeah he's a much better guitar player technically than Peter ever was but there's just nothing special about the lead in the song or most of his leads in general. It's badass guitar playing but there's nothing timeless about it.
On top of all that the mix is objectively muddy. If you A and B comparison older records from them from the early 2000's to this one there's less clarity in this stuff.
All the instrumental playing is brilliant of course and he sings fine it's just not as memorable and beautiful as it used to be, especially when the vocals are so oversung now. It kills the tasteful, soft parts when he does that now. Credence, the softer parts of Godheads lament and The Moor, Hope Leaves, Windowpane: There's so much memorable emotion in those plaintive simple melodies that isn't here in this crooning stuff. It's an odd thing to say but it almost sounds too confident. I like the line that he says near the end that ends with "made of glass" but the rest of it's just kind of too much.
@@DonSampa why are you calling him an asshole? Because he doesn't like how opeth have changed? Fuck you bud
Song should finish at 6:20. Acoustic passage is ok, possibly as a transition, but the porno flanger effect singing completely ruins it. Shame.
boring song. nothing special. i hope rest of the album is better than this.