How To Sound Like Opeth Used To (LIY#1)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- I explore what it is to make a song in the style of Opeth's Still Life or Blackwater Park. If you want more, subscribe, I'm just getting started.
Full Opeth-like song: • Basically Opeth: Withe...
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"Because Opeth"
Well if I haven't uttered those exact words 973 times in my life before now.
how many times are you up to now?
I've been feeling suicidal and this video has literally put a smile on my face. I'm a little bit inspired by life again. Let's hope it lasts longer than Opeth's prog death era 🤘🏾
This madlad sounds more like Opeth than Opeth
You had some killer riffs and your distorted vocals sounded like a mix between Belakor's and Opeth vocals. Good shiz. Subscribed.
Wow! That felt really authentic. Great work dude!
From one Blackwood to another, you inspired me man!
THIS will improve my life.
Love this channel man, I play Opeth on drums and dream of playing like that on guitar, just a dream mind.
good stuff right here! thank you
Oh man you gave me such a big grin for 7 minutes. Thanks for making it still alive after 20 years!
You mean... Still (a)Life?
i’m losing it this is incredible 😂🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Awesome! Love this! Really nailed the sound and your video style is great, keep it up!
I've studied Mikael, and that's what I thought he did first, but digging more into it he actually uses his entire vocal folds. His growls, especially live are powerful. He doesn't use a closed mouth much, his vowels are pretty neutral. To give you an idea what to aim for, you just have to think about how to sound like a choking old man.
great work friend. You also did it with some humor. Congratulations, you sound more Opeth than Opeth himself currently!
Damn Dude, you deserve more subs. That was legit
your growls and cleans.. both sound amazing! awesome video!
What reverb are you using for the clean vocals? It sounds fantastic!
I often use Freeverb2 with a long tail. Big room size, low wet, 3 second delay, low pass at 500hz, high pass at 7khz. The bigger trick is that the reverb sits between two compressors - the first compressor is mild and before the vocal is "excited" with a mild preamp, that gives you an evenness to work with. The long tail reverb, as described above, is next (the reverb's gotta be subtle and long) then the overall thing is compressed heavily. That way the reverb disappears when you're singing and appears again when you're not. If clean, the final trick is the three part harmony trick inspired by Steven Wilson. That's a bit more complicated but boils down to singing one part for each note in a chord, assuring that the chord inversions are picked so that each part travels the least. Hopefully I get time to show that off in a video soon.
@@DaleBlackwood THank you :)
Mikael would probably enjoy this one. :P
Dude, you are talented as hell!
you nailed the perfect Mikael sarcastic aloofness
Wow man, you nailed it! Your normal voice almost sounds like Mike too! Haha! Nice artwork on the your walls btw!
Beautiful
I miss old opeth, this was great
Awesome, just awesome.
Dude... You are freaking insane 😱
Dude this is killer!! Kudos my friend
You don't perhaps live in my neighborhood, do you? 🤘 Awesome creation.
Bruh
Those vocals are so good
This is great actually. Wonder if Mikael seen this yet he would definitely approve :) \m/ !
woa man you simply nailed it!
Much better than 2020 Opeth
In Cauda Venenum has some bangers don't lie
@@stefanfyhn4668 I don't care about bangers I want strong feeling and atmosphere, I even liked heritage.
That's some crazy stuff. 👍👌
I loved this!
Dammit you beat me to this! I'm uploading a video about How to Write like Opeth in the next day or two. This was fucking awesome man!
Checked your're vid before this. Gotta say man you did an absolutely phenomenal job on it.
4:18. Lol that sounds exactly like Nathan explosion from metalocalypse
id by this song. you done good.
10/10 mateeeeeeeeee
I think I'm for like 10 years into the Opeth-writing style because I just enjoy this music-style for such a long time. Normally the evil open-chords and evil-acoustic sections make Opeth Opeth and it's helpful if you have a warm voice to fit the style.
Nice video btw! Funny to watch!
This was fucking awesome rock on Man!
Haha this is excellent. Can’t wait for the next ones. Give me some sweet AOR plz.
Subbed. Good shit
I wish you would have gone more in depth about the production and the growls, but it was a great vid overall!!
Hey, great video! Just discovered it now. A bit late but can you explain how you nailed the guitar tone?;
My memory's a bit fuzzy on this one - it's a Laney in each speaker and a second performance of the dominant rhythm in the center. Low gain for all, the centered guitar adds a lot to their sound.
@DaleBlackwood thank you!
I enjoyed
sounds right off still life nice
Vintersorg, is that you? XD
HOLY SHIT HE DOES
amazing gutturals man
Good stuff. Subbed.
Fucking genius man!
reminds me of blackwater park
Hey lad, nice surname, same as mine!
What drum vst are you using? It sounds really good.
It's a combination of Steven Slate Drums and Native Instruments StudioDrummer. I think for this one StudioDrummer was the cymbals and SSD was the tubs.
LOL thanks man
What drum vst do you use? It sounds bad ass!
To make like opeth back then you will need a death metal vocalist.
I sub'd to your channel!
How likely would a Carcass LIY be to happen?
Not out of the question though I'm not sure I've got the guitar chops to just casually bust out some Amott.
Oh nice. Can you teach me how to write like Mastodon too?
That'd be cool. If you haven't already seen it, Ben Eller does a fantastic rundown of how to play guitar like Mastodon: ua-cam.com/video/YFop1gTbaj8/v-deo.html
the problem of wanting to sound like Opeth, is that Opeth it's so unique that when you sound like them, it feels like a ripoff
what midi keyboard is he using ?
That's a Keystation 61 but I don't play it anywhere in the song. In my FF / RS vids I'm using a Korg D1.
But... you ARE my dad...
:))
( little lack of groove on drum beat )
Good shit Dale!
this doesn't sound like opeth at all