I’m so familiar with the early era of Opeth that I kind of forget that first listens can give someone a bit of whiplash from the constant changes. I know they were young and finding their way but there’s something so magical about those pre BLACKWATER PARK albums. Takes you to a different realm altogether. Magic.
Yeah. It becomes a relaxing, dark, ambient experience once you get used to the rough transitions. It's just poorly composed if we're being brutally honest, but I've grown to enjoy the chaotic aspect of it.
Well written my friend.... Imagine if he heard Blood Bath as an inclusion 👌 Furthermore 👍Would you not agree the contrasts between "Deliverance" and "Damnation" would be very befitting for this theme??
a couple of small channels that have done all of Opeth's discography have actually done this song. most just dont have anything to say so they are boring to watch
Great reaction man, Orchid is underrated af, never understood the hate it got. Yea it’s more raw than their other works but that’s what makes it stand out IMO, it’s the core of their old sound before expanding on it with every subsequent album. If you’re into the more death metal side of things, you should react to “White Cluster” off of Still Life, or “By the Pain I See in Others” from Deliverance. If prog rock is more your thing, “Chrysalis” off of Sorceress, or “Lovelorn Crime” from In Cauda Venenum are great for that style.🤘🤘
@@TheFbiFilesRepeat whether it sounds good or bad is totally subjective. For those unfamiliar with black metal, yea, Orchild will sound “bad” until you throw on Transilvanian Hunger, Under a Funeral Moon, or In the Nightshade Eclipse. IMO Orchid is the best sounding “black metal” album and it stands MILES above the aforementioned albums in comparison to sound and mixes.
@@thecrypticstench Orchid definitely sounds good compared to typical black metal, but this is really more melodeath than black metal. There are some damn good sounding black metal albums these days, even going back to the 90s. Emperor's Prometheus sounds pretty damn great. Overwhelmingly dense, but surprisingly clear. Later Immortal sounds pretty good too.
@@jonathanhenderson9422I agree, there’s some hidden gems within the BM scene, I really dig Emperor’s discography, specifically ItNE and Anthems, as well as Dissection, Burzum and Enslaved. I only put Orchid in the same vein as those albums cause of the vocals, the mix, and the folky melodies Mikael used on the record. It feels every bit black metal (though it isn’t), but sounds fuller and almost like a 70’s rock band in the extreme metal setting
I've often used early Opeth as the example of a great prog metal band that started out with a lot of great ideas, but without the skill/craft for how to craft those ideas into coherent songs. I think this is a good example of that, where basically one riff will end and the next one, that's completely different, just starts; or where they go back and forth between two completely unrelated riffs/ideas. Their first two albums (for the most part) were like this. I still enjoy them because the riffs are just so consistently great and the atmosphere is still there, but, man, when they finally started figuring out how weave these great riffs into coherent songs on My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, and Blackwater Park they immediately became one of the best metal bands on the planet. There are a few things I miss from these early albums, including their emphasis on dual lead (often quasi-polyphonic) guitar lines rather than the more complex chordal work they evolved towards on the later albums, but that's just a personal preference. Fun(ny) fact: when I saw Opeth at a small club in Dallas called Trees, Mikael said that when they first started he considered their genre to be "forest metal," so they felt at home in that club. I guess "Forest of October" could've been that fake-genre's theme song. :D FWIW, I was a bit disappointed at some of the choices for this week because I don't think the more "popular" choices were the bands/artists that changed all that much. I mean, Opeth basically went from proggy melodeath to just prog rock: it's a change, sure, but still in the same ballpark. There are bands like Talk Talk that somehow went from synth pop/new wave to essentially inventing experimental post-rock; or The Gathering who went from doom metal to shoegaze/dream pop; or Tom Waits going from acoustic folk to the experimental rock of his late work. I find those kinds of radical changes fascinating, but most of the popular picks are just bands that just evolved within their own genres.
That's a perfect way of looking at this first track -- you can tell the passion is there to think outside the box but they lack the experience and maturity to do so well. That isn't to say Forest of October was a bad song, but it's easy to see what they might have been aiming for back then just by looking at what they're making now.
If it doesn't get randomly picked during the week, I hope either Ulver or Paradise Lost make it on here for the final pick. Both bands have had huge shifts in sound over the years and I think out of all the bands in the poll they've had the most drastic changes.
Sure, but I'm not too keen on them and would prefer artists and soundchanges more to my liking 😁 Do agree that the point is to hear major changes in sound/style.
I really like how you do these themed- week series. Really helped me broaden my horizons and discover lots of new bands and artist. Been an Opeth fan for years so it's also cool seeing in videos like this how much they've changed and grown over time.
This is from their debut(they have released 13 albums), not bad, but I don't like it as much as the rest of their catalogue. P.S. "Forest of October" is such a stereotypical Opeth song name, lol.
Dyad harmony in Opeth comes a lot from their Swedish folk influence as well as fitting with some of their contemporaries at the time with the Melodic Death Metal scene (At the Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, etc.). It’s essentially Iron Maiden with Death Metal vocals and tendencies. At the Gates, Carcass (Heartwork album) and Dark Tranquility pioneered this sound.
I recently did a re-listening of all Opeth albums, 1 per day, from Orchid to In Cauda Venenum. You can very clearly see their development from the debut up to Pale Communion, which obviously completely shifted the nature and direction of the band.
Wouldn't you say Heritage rather did? But I also think there was finger pointing to that in Watershed - despite all the unmatched heaviness at times he seemed more keen on developing everything else (including heavy but not death metal)
@@progperljungman8218 Yeah, you're right, now that I've thought about it. Pale Communion might've been a one-off, like a "Damnation 2", if you will, while Heritage to In Cauda Venenum are all roughly in the same prog rock style, indicating the change.
@@progperljungman8218 Oh, I'm an idiot. I kept thinking Pale Communion came before Heritage, right after Watershed. Don't know how I got that mixed up.
The two first albums are very much in style of black metal, gradually going towards... I don't even know. Opeth is one of the bands that always evolves. Sometimes the evolution is a bit quicker than other times, "my arms, your hearse" to Blackwater park, and Ghost reveries to Heritage are notable spots where the writing changed rapidly over the span of 3 albums. But really, they never linger, but are always "Opeth". Only one of the elements that makes them great imo, but an important element.
What a wonderful analysis!😍 I'd say that duality has been present in their whole career - although mostly not as harsh transitioned and/or contrasted in latter days. Love this band. Got my critique, but their like family of sorts...
I like a lot this Opeth's songs (those of Orchid and Morningrise) because the construction of melodies with the guitars, and for me, that I haven't much music knowledge, sound amazing. Could you explain us more about this form harmonization?
I believe this song was also on one of their demos from the early 90s. That means Mikael akerfeldt would have been at most 18-19 when writing it, which explains some of the lacking cohesion in the song... (but also blows my mind at how good he was at such a young age)
Interesting choice, Opeth. Not that they did not evolve, they certainly did, but even here, so early on, the blueprint of 70's prog influenced Metal is already laid out. They just became better at arrangements and recently became bored with the harsh vocals and ditched them, but you can definitely see that it is the same band, especially if you listen to a couple of tracks from each album in succession, the evolution is clearly a frog being slowly boiled kinda thing. It's doubly interesting because possibly the closest bands in kin to them are Katatonia and Edge of Sanity, and all musicians of the aforemented bands are, or were, at least, pretty close. Katatonia and Opeth were very similar in sound in the debuts, and what set them apart were the fact that Katatonia were way doomier. Later the lines would get blurred further as Mikael sang on a Katatonia album, just before Katatonia did their own monumental shift in style from doom/black to essentially metallized The Cure. Edge of Sanity predated both bands in the being weird category, their mid career albums would be like 10 death metal songs, 2 or three Marillion ripoffs and a Goth song or two in there for good measure. And then they released a 40 minute track about extinction through infertility. Bands I'm hoping to see here are, along with the aforementioned Katatonia, Anathema (From Death/Doom Metal to mellow rock via Pink Floyd and Radiohead), and Ulver (which have the craziest early career of all time, going from melodic pastoral black metal, then an acoustic album, then a very, VERY harsh black metal album, so raw you can listen to jacks being plugged and unplugged and they don't even bother to clean out the feedback, then... Trip Hop.). Like I keep saying and I'll keep championing it, the 90s had a hell of a wild ride in terms of creativity, even when the ideas somehow transcend the execution, as is somewhat the case here. So many bands doing abrupt career shifts, experimenting and expanding the genre, sometimes with very precarious recording conditions, but it more often than not was interesting. Haggard are from this era. And you'll be interested to know, I'm sure, that there was a duo of composer doing metal influenced classical in the shape of 16th century baroque church music themed around Milton's Paradise Lost, infusing metal screams and the occasional Penderecki sense of chaos. You're curious now, don't lie. They're called Elend.
You mentioned all great bands. 90's european metal is full of gems of contaminations and creativity. Pestilence, Amorphis, Dissection, Paradise Lost, Dark Tranquillity, the list is soooo long
@Simon Achebe Yep. Ulver is quite obvious as to why, really, they really fit the theme for these two weeks. Katatonia are interesting yet on another level, though, especially in light of Opeth. I don't remember these first Opeth albums quite as well and on listening to the reaction, I was amazed at how similar this is on some levels to Dance of December Souls. Namely the construction of guitar melodies and the overall tone. Yet, at the same time, this and Dance are quite different and already foreshadow the wildly different directions their music would take.
The first two Opeth albums have some really good songs, but damn they can be rough around the edges. Still life and blackwater park is where they really hit the mark in songwriting and sound imo. (when it comes to their harsher style)
@@pascalg16 April Ethereal was one of my favourite songs for 10-15 years ^^ So yes I really like that album. I think Still Life sounds like Hearse but with a more matured sound.
24:04 About the smooth transitions... Opeth is known for their smooth transitions , among other things of course, but yeah, not too much of that in this song, as it is really early on their career, they were creative but still immature.
Duuude the there's one specific transition that is so effin good in the song deliverance, and that's still pretty early . but if you know the song (assuming you do 😂) and I'm only talking about a specific one I'd hope you know which one I'm talking about 🤟
Ghost of perdition's transitions are anything but smooth..doesn't mean it's bad. There are times when stop start or sudden transitions don't work and other times it works perfectly as a stylistic choice or to convey chaos/ rapidly shifting moods.
@@nikelodeon6852 That's correct, but I didn't say that ghost of Perdition has the most smooth transitions, I didn't even mention the song in this comment.
@@pascalg16 Your og comment was the not smooth transitions were because this was early in their career. I gave you an example of a song with non smooth transitions which is not from an early album...
I think for tomorrow the ideal song from opeth is the amazing "Universal Truth" from their latest album , In Cauda Venenum. Beautiful song with great transitions,string usage, harmonies, and dynamics.
Hey, just loose suggestion imminence recently released their new song named heaven in hiding. This is a Swedish, metalcore/post-hardcore band combing some violin into metal. It will be fun to see your approach to this song :)
softer haunting parts are definitely influenced by Camel...."the great marsh" it has so much opeth vibes...especially their blackwater park album sound
I have never heard the term diads... the guitars are just playing in harmony. Simple as that. Sometimes they might play counterpoint or different melodies as well but mostly it's just harmony.
@@toprak3479 There is no such thing as two voice counterpoint cause it can't be done with just one voice anyway. Just like the most basic harmony requires two voices so it's a redundant statement.
@@nikelodeon6852 That's true. Though since it can be done with more than two voices I think it can be useful to further specify. Also because Bryan felt the need to specify the dual-voice aspect of it too (by calling them diads). Otherwise counterpoint by itself works just as fine of course.
If you´re going to listen to Any song from In Cauda Venenum, I´d suggest Allting Tar Slut, and, as the title indicates, the Swedish version of the songs, they were meant to be the original version. Cheers!
I've checked out both bands half a dozen times so I'd prefer to give some other bands a shot on the channel, but I agree. In the limited listening I've done to both of these bands I've heard some very diverse music from them.
If you want to listen a band that evolved a lot you should go with early Katatonia, old Opeth's friend (Mikael Åkerfeldt has sung in all Katatonia's "Brave Murder Day" record)
I don't think the harsh transitions are an artistic choice. It's their first album so they weren't as proficient in switching from one part to another back then. They got better on later albums.
@@progperljungman8218 I also find Orchid to be better than Morningrise. Can't get into Morningrise except for The Night and the Silent Water and the post 10 minute mark of Advent.
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I’m so familiar with the early era of Opeth that I kind of forget that first listens can give someone a bit of whiplash from the constant changes. I know they were young and finding their way but there’s something so magical about those pre BLACKWATER PARK albums. Takes you to a different realm altogether. Magic.
Yeah. It becomes a relaxing, dark, ambient experience once you get used to the rough transitions. It's just poorly composed if we're being brutally honest, but I've grown to enjoy the chaotic aspect of it.
I much prefer Opeth's earlier albums. The harsher/less polished sound feels more natural and atmospheric to me.
It's interesting to hear the germination of musical ideas that would develop into staples of Mikael Åkerfeldt's writing.
Well written my friend.... Imagine if he heard Blood Bath as an inclusion 👌
Furthermore 👍Would you not agree the contrasts between "Deliverance" and "Damnation" would be very befitting for this theme??
Anyone else hear tons of Iron Maiden in these old Opeth songs?
The riffing style is really similar at times to a more sorrowful Iron Maiden
Katatonia, Ulver or Anathema would be perfect for this theme.
Still kinda bummed out about Ulver's progression. Kveldssanger is one of my favorite musical masterpieces.
Hell Yeah!!! This is one of my favorite songs of theirs, and I don't know of anyone else that has reacted to this.
a couple of small channels that have done all of Opeth's discography have actually done this song. most just dont have anything to say so they are boring to watch
Great reaction man, Orchid is underrated af, never understood the hate it got. Yea it’s more raw than their other works but that’s what makes it stand out IMO, it’s the core of their old sound before expanding on it with every subsequent album. If you’re into the more death metal side of things, you should react to “White Cluster” off of Still Life, or “By the Pain I See in Others” from Deliverance. If prog rock is more your thing, “Chrysalis” off of Sorceress, or “Lovelorn Crime” from In Cauda Venenum are great for that style.🤘🤘
Did it get hate? Great albums, bad sound
@@TheFbiFilesRepeat whether it sounds good or bad is totally subjective. For those unfamiliar with black metal, yea, Orchild will sound “bad” until you throw on Transilvanian Hunger, Under a Funeral Moon, or In the Nightshade Eclipse. IMO Orchid is the best sounding “black metal” album and it stands MILES above the aforementioned albums in comparison to sound and mixes.
@@thecrypticstench Orchid definitely sounds good compared to typical black metal, but this is really more melodeath than black metal. There are some damn good sounding black metal albums these days, even going back to the 90s. Emperor's Prometheus sounds pretty damn great. Overwhelmingly dense, but surprisingly clear. Later Immortal sounds pretty good too.
@@jonathanhenderson9422I agree, there’s some hidden gems within the BM scene, I really dig Emperor’s discography, specifically ItNE and Anthems, as well as Dissection, Burzum and Enslaved. I only put Orchid in the same vein as those albums cause of the vocals, the mix, and the folky melodies Mikael used on the record. It feels every bit black metal (though it isn’t), but sounds fuller and almost like a 70’s rock band in the extreme metal setting
I've often used early Opeth as the example of a great prog metal band that started out with a lot of great ideas, but without the skill/craft for how to craft those ideas into coherent songs. I think this is a good example of that, where basically one riff will end and the next one, that's completely different, just starts; or where they go back and forth between two completely unrelated riffs/ideas. Their first two albums (for the most part) were like this. I still enjoy them because the riffs are just so consistently great and the atmosphere is still there, but, man, when they finally started figuring out how weave these great riffs into coherent songs on My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, and Blackwater Park they immediately became one of the best metal bands on the planet. There are a few things I miss from these early albums, including their emphasis on dual lead (often quasi-polyphonic) guitar lines rather than the more complex chordal work they evolved towards on the later albums, but that's just a personal preference.
Fun(ny) fact: when I saw Opeth at a small club in Dallas called Trees, Mikael said that when they first started he considered their genre to be "forest metal," so they felt at home in that club. I guess "Forest of October" could've been that fake-genre's theme song. :D
FWIW, I was a bit disappointed at some of the choices for this week because I don't think the more "popular" choices were the bands/artists that changed all that much. I mean, Opeth basically went from proggy melodeath to just prog rock: it's a change, sure, but still in the same ballpark. There are bands like Talk Talk that somehow went from synth pop/new wave to essentially inventing experimental post-rock; or The Gathering who went from doom metal to shoegaze/dream pop; or Tom Waits going from acoustic folk to the experimental rock of his late work. I find those kinds of radical changes fascinating, but most of the popular picks are just bands that just evolved within their own genres.
That's a perfect way of looking at this first track -- you can tell the passion is there to think outside the box but they lack the experience and maturity to do so well. That isn't to say Forest of October was a bad song, but it's easy to see what they might have been aiming for back then just by looking at what they're making now.
I can just picture Mikael growling as he walks his cat through the forest
harsh transitions as well as dyads are certainly a core part of their first two albums
If it doesn't get randomly picked during the week, I hope either Ulver or Paradise Lost make it on here for the final pick. Both bands have had huge shifts in sound over the years and I think out of all the bands in the poll they've had the most drastic changes.
I'd say Ulver in that case. P.L has kinda return to their roots, but yes, they have had some drastic changes along the way.
I totally agree 👌
Nothing like an early era Paradise Lost example of contrasting ✍️
Guy used to burst blood vessels in his eyes belting growing 😳
Ulver for sure!
Sure, but I'm not too keen on them and would prefer artists and soundchanges more to my liking 😁
Do agree that the point is to hear major changes in sound/style.
Love the bass lines on the first albums :)
I really like how you do these themed- week series. Really helped me broaden my horizons and discover lots of new bands and artist. Been an Opeth fan for years so it's also cool seeing in videos like this how much they've changed and grown over time.
This is from their debut(they have released 13 albums), not bad, but I don't like it as much as the rest of their catalogue.
P.S. "Forest of October" is such a stereotypical Opeth song name, lol.
Impressive reaction. Not being musically inclined myself, I still enjoyed what you had to say.
And more 💖Opeth💖 tomorrow is a definite plus!!
Ghost of Perdition (Live) and Harlequin Forest showcase a balance between Opeth's earlier and later stuff.
Dyad harmony in Opeth comes a lot from their Swedish folk influence as well as fitting with some of their contemporaries at the time with the Melodic Death Metal scene (At the Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, etc.). It’s essentially Iron Maiden with Death Metal vocals and tendencies. At the Gates, Carcass (Heartwork album) and Dark Tranquility pioneered this sound.
I recently did a re-listening of all Opeth albums, 1 per day, from Orchid to In Cauda Venenum. You can very clearly see their development from the debut up to Pale Communion, which obviously completely shifted the nature and direction of the band.
Wouldn't you say Heritage rather did?
But I also think there was finger pointing to that in Watershed - despite all the unmatched heaviness at times he seemed more keen on developing everything else (including heavy but not death metal)
@@progperljungman8218 Yeah, you're right, now that I've thought about it. Pale Communion might've been a one-off, like a "Damnation 2", if you will, while Heritage to In Cauda Venenum are all roughly in the same prog rock style, indicating the change.
@@KenoxProductions Just saying that Heritage was first in the ongoing row of clean sung and less death metallic albums. Then came Pale Communion.
@@progperljungman8218 Oh, I'm an idiot. I kept thinking Pale Communion came before Heritage, right after Watershed. Don't know how I got that mixed up.
The two first albums are very much in style of black metal, gradually going towards... I don't even know. Opeth is one of the bands that always evolves. Sometimes the evolution is a bit quicker than other times, "my arms, your hearse" to Blackwater park, and Ghost reveries to Heritage are notable spots where the writing changed rapidly over the span of 3 albums. But really, they never linger, but are always "Opeth".
Only one of the elements that makes them great imo, but an important element.
What a wonderful analysis!😍
I'd say that duality has been present in their whole career - although mostly not as harsh transitioned and/or contrasted in latter days. Love this band. Got my critique, but their like family of sorts...
Anathema. Have a huge drastic change.
I like a lot this Opeth's songs (those of Orchid and Morningrise) because the construction of melodies with the guitars, and for me, that I haven't much music knowledge, sound amazing. Could you explain us more about this form harmonization?
Ulver would be a really cool example for this special week :)
I believe this song was also on one of their demos from the early 90s. That means Mikael akerfeldt would have been at most 18-19 when writing it, which explains some of the lacking cohesion in the song... (but also blows my mind at how good he was at such a young age)
Interesting choice, Opeth. Not that they did not evolve, they certainly did, but even here, so early on, the blueprint of 70's prog influenced Metal is already laid out. They just became better at arrangements and recently became bored with the harsh vocals and ditched them, but you can definitely see that it is the same band, especially if you listen to a couple of tracks from each album in succession, the evolution is clearly a frog being slowly boiled kinda thing.
It's doubly interesting because possibly the closest bands in kin to them are Katatonia and Edge of Sanity, and all musicians of the aforemented bands are, or were, at least, pretty close. Katatonia and Opeth were very similar in sound in the debuts, and what set them apart were the fact that Katatonia were way doomier. Later the lines would get blurred further as Mikael sang on a Katatonia album, just before Katatonia did their own monumental shift in style from doom/black to essentially metallized The Cure. Edge of Sanity predated both bands in the being weird category, their mid career albums would be like 10 death metal songs, 2 or three Marillion ripoffs and a Goth song or two in there for good measure. And then they released a 40 minute track about extinction through infertility.
Bands I'm hoping to see here are, along with the aforementioned Katatonia, Anathema (From Death/Doom Metal to mellow rock via Pink Floyd and Radiohead), and Ulver (which have the craziest early career of all time, going from melodic pastoral black metal, then an acoustic album, then a very, VERY harsh black metal album, so raw you can listen to jacks being plugged and unplugged and they don't even bother to clean out the feedback, then... Trip Hop.).
Like I keep saying and I'll keep championing it, the 90s had a hell of a wild ride in terms of creativity, even when the ideas somehow transcend the execution, as is somewhat the case here. So many bands doing abrupt career shifts, experimenting and expanding the genre, sometimes with very precarious recording conditions, but it more often than not was interesting. Haggard are from this era. And you'll be interested to know, I'm sure, that there was a duo of composer doing metal influenced classical in the shape of 16th century baroque church music themed around Milton's Paradise Lost, infusing metal screams and the occasional Penderecki sense of chaos. You're curious now, don't lie. They're called Elend.
You mentioned all great bands. 90's european metal is full of gems of contaminations and creativity. Pestilence, Amorphis, Dissection, Paradise Lost, Dark Tranquillity, the list is soooo long
@Simon Achebe Yep. Ulver is quite obvious as to why, really, they really fit the theme for these two weeks. Katatonia are interesting yet on another level, though, especially in light of Opeth. I don't remember these first Opeth albums quite as well and on listening to the reaction, I was amazed at how similar this is on some levels to Dance of December Souls. Namely the construction of guitar melodies and the overall tone. Yet, at the same time, this and Dance are quite different and already foreshadow the wildly different directions their music would take.
I am glad my suggestion made it as a theme
One of my fav albums ever
The first two Opeth albums have some really good songs, but damn they can be rough around the edges. Still life and blackwater park is where they really hit the mark in songwriting and sound imo. (when it comes to their harsher style)
I would put My Arms your Hearse quite high too.
@@pascalg16 April Ethereal was one of my favourite songs for 10-15 years ^^
So yes I really like that album. I think Still Life sounds like Hearse but with a more matured sound.
@@randomstuffzofdoom April Ethereal is...Ethereal.
Excellent idea, this themed thing!!!
I recommend checking out the live version, certainly better mixed than their first two albums
24:04 About the smooth transitions...
Opeth is known for their smooth transitions , among other things of course, but yeah, not too much of that in this song, as it is really early on their career, they were creative but still immature.
Duuude the there's one specific transition that is so effin good in the song deliverance, and that's still pretty early .
but if you know the song (assuming you do 😂) and I'm only talking about a specific one I'd hope you know which one I'm talking about 🤟
Ghost of perdition's transitions are anything but smooth..doesn't mean it's bad. There are times when stop start or sudden transitions don't work and other times it works perfectly as a stylistic choice or to convey chaos/ rapidly shifting moods.
@@nikelodeon6852 That's correct, but I didn't say that ghost of Perdition has the most smooth transitions, I didn't even mention the song in this comment.
@@pascalg16 Your og comment was the not smooth transitions were because this was early in their career. I gave you an example of a song with non smooth transitions which is not from an early album...
@@nikelodeon6852 Ι understand. And yes, many times the transitions aren't exactly smooth, they're rather dynamic and Epic.
Pure gold at 8:00 ✌️
The triplets and dyads are definitely influenced by Scandinavian Folk music. Opeth are from Sweden.
The whole album is perfect
A really good new song from Opeth would either be Eternal Rains Will Come, Faith In Others, or All Things Will Pass
I think for tomorrow the ideal song from opeth is the amazing "Universal Truth" from their latest album , In Cauda Venenum.
Beautiful song with great transitions,string usage, harmonies, and dynamics.
Close enough 😊
@@progperljungman8218 I guess you are a patreon and you already know... Good to know tho.
The Gathering!
Hey, just loose suggestion imminence recently released their new song named heaven in hiding. This is a Swedish, metalcore/post-hardcore band combing some violin into metal. It will be fun to see your approach to this song :)
NIce!
masters of transitions???
🤟🤟
27:27 exactly lol
softer haunting parts are definitely influenced by Camel...."the great marsh" it has so much opeth vibes...especially their blackwater park album sound
I have never heard the term diads... the guitars are just playing in harmony. Simple as that. Sometimes they might play counterpoint or different melodies as well but mostly it's just harmony.
I think "two-voice counterpoint" is the most technically correct term to describe it.
@@toprak3479 There is no such thing as two voice counterpoint cause it can't be done with just one voice anyway. Just like the most basic harmony requires two voices so it's a redundant statement.
@@nikelodeon6852 That's true. Though since it can be done with more than two voices I think it can be useful to further specify. Also because Bryan felt the need to specify the dual-voice aspect of it too (by calling them diads). Otherwise counterpoint by itself works just as fine of course.
This is my all time favorite song and album!
"The Apostle In Triumph" is better composition I think, more coherent although still surprising
idk if you've done this yet but can you react to ne obliviscaris and plague flowers the kaleidoscope?
Pretty sure he's done it.
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If you´re going to listen to Any song from In Cauda Venenum, I´d suggest Allting Tar Slut, and, as the title indicates, the Swedish version of the songs, they were meant to be the original version. Cheers!
2 good bands that changed a lot from when they started to now are BTBAM and Leprous. Those would be 2 good contenders for this.
I've checked out both bands half a dozen times so I'd prefer to give some other bands a shot on the channel, but I agree. In the limited listening I've done to both of these bands I've heard some very diverse music from them.
Anathema! Maybe Katatonia?
If you want to listen a band that evolved a lot you should go with early Katatonia, old Opeth's friend (Mikael Åkerfeldt has sung in all Katatonia's "Brave Murder Day" record)
Mickeal (Åkerfeldt) and Jonas (Renkse - Katatonia singer) have even referred to each other as best friends 😊
@@progperljungman8218 indeed Jonas best friends are darkness and loneliness
@@HateMich in your dreams 😉
@@progperljungman8218 self-irony, man
Infant Annihilator - Behold the Kingdom of the Wretched Undying.
Power chords are diads tho? You don't count the octave.
Yup, great catch. I certainly mispoke there.
react to utopia ost the British one
blackwater park training grounds
You should do a contrasting reaction to Ulcerate and their switch to doing nothing but ABBA covers 🤔
Nothing but ABBA covers? How did that come about? 🤣
Please react to opeth bleak
I don't think the harsh transitions are an artistic choice. It's their first album so they weren't as proficient in switching from one part to another back then. They got better on later albums.
Vintage opeth was the best.. First 3 albums are pure gold. Not the garbage they play nowadays.
I wouldn't call any of opeths stuff garbage at all, I feel bad for you
This must be very early in their career. Sounded kinda awkward to my ears - at least to what I’m used to hearing from these guys.
Yeah, it's ther debute. But I find it better than Morningrise that feels a bit straind to my ears. (Morningrise is their second, praised by many)
@@progperljungman8218 Morningrise is the only album I don't really listen to, My Arms Your Hearse brought it back around for them imo
@@16dbuse Couldn't agree more!
@@progperljungman8218 I also find Orchid to be better than Morningrise. Can't get into Morningrise except for The Night and the Silent Water and the post 10 minute mark of Advent.
Man I love Opeth, but this song is wack…