What if New Opeth Sounded Like Old Opeth? 100-Watt Ifs #1
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2020
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Better or worse in death metal?
The first in the new series kicks off with covering one of the most renowned progressive death metal bands in the world, and discussing their change in musical output over the last decade through the medium of a full band cover.
A more detailed version of the question would be - If we took one of their new songs, and converted it to their old sound, what would it sound like?
So that's exactly what I've tried to do here - 'Heart in Hand' which is a new release from their 2019 album 'In Cauda Venenum' but taken back about 15 years; with a production styling influenced by 'Watershed' and 'Deliverance', adding elements of death metal vocals, blast beats/double kicks, chugging guitars, a drop of tempo, and a more discordant/diminished guitar solo (provided by James Davies, who is an incredible professional session guitarist, check out his links below).
I decided to keep the acoustic end of the song the same, as I feel that if they did the song this way they wouldn't have changed this section personally.
DISCLAIMER
I would like to go ahead and say that Opeth are still putting out incredible music, and their latest album is one of my FAVOURITES of theirs. By doing this video, I am not in protest of their new sound, I fully support it and I am glad they are doing the music they want to do. I don't believe that my version in this video is better in any way to the original song.
The purpose of this video was to just have some fun, and ask a question that might scratch the itch of some fans of the band who might wonder the same. Conjecture! :)
I do not own any of this song, and it is not being monetised.
James Davies' Channel:
/ jamesd2004
/ jamesdaviesguitar
Gear:
DRUMS
Tama Starclassic B/B Performer Yesteryear
Tama SLP Big Black Steel Snare
Paiste Cymbals
GUITAR
Ibanez RGA32 w/ Bareknuckle Holy Diver Humbucker set.
BOSS Katana 50W Combo
2x SM57 mic placement with Fredman configuration
BASS
Spectre Legend 5
BIAS AMP + Sansamp DI
VOCALS
Audio Technica AE5400 Handheld Condenser Microphone
KEYBOARD
KORG microKEY
DB-33 organ
Addictive Keys Modern Upright PIano
PRODUCTION
Audient id44 + ASP800
Pro Tools
Windows 10
Challenge me in the comments! What would you like to ask next? 
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Can u guys do the last 3 albums and call yrselfs OldOpeth
Oldpeth?
i love you....i agree 100% !!!!! do ittttt
Great call
OGpeth 😂
This is a great idea, man!
I will buy that album, for sure.
Wow, this is very accurate.
Mikael needs to see this.
Thank you! I hope he does.
Now we want What if Old Opeth (My Arms, Your Hearse up to Watershed) sounded like Very Old Opeth (Orchid, Morningrise)
u mean young opeth lol
@@saidreysanchez163 yeah kinda
@@ritualdeathmetal Early Opeth, I think it would fit the better :D
huh?? My Arms Your Hearse is part of Oldpeth. Basically Orchid and Morningrise, just themed album and shorter songs. Its also the 3 albums with bad recording and production.
@@daghetto101no
Sounds like a Ghost Reveries unreleased track
This needs so many more views
Nice
True that!
And subscribers too
The songwriting is still there. People don’t realize that. The aesthetic and vocal delivery has been changed is all.
1000%. Amazing how this could slide right into Watershed and it’d fit without an issue.
Exactly!
thing is the aesthetic and the delivery are extremely important
Not true at all.
@@Casmael01 They are, and the new songs have good aesthetic and delivery, if it's just not your cup of tea it's just not your cup of tea there's nothing objectively worse about it compared to the old stuff, I know plenty of people who like both eras and prefer the newer stuff, it's just a stylistic change
This is amazing. It makes me want to give new Opeth another shot. I'd love to hear Bleak, but with growls and clean vocals swapped.
2:56 That riff was pretty nasty on the original already but this...
Man your growls are so clean, awesome
Good job! Love both new and Opeth but 2:44 sounds like it was made for growls!
I have to agree with everyone else. This is absolutely incredible. Your growls sound spot on dude!
Heart in hand+Heir Apparent
And not changing the last mixolydian part was also the most Opeth thing ever. Great work guys
Strong Ghost Reveries and Watershed vibes
I love all of Opeth's albums. In Cauda Venenum really isn't as much of a stretch as some people want to think. They have always been very dynamic. I love this new version of Heart in Hand. Keep it up!
I don't normally comment on stuff but dude, HOLY SHIT. The growls are uncanny, what the hell.
This is perfection. Fucking insane man, bomb job.
Thank you man!
I grew up with Opeth and honestly this really is a superb homage to the band. The whole sound is very coherent and whoever mixed it really knows what they are doing. Well done on all fronts.
edit - Mikael needs to see this!
Thank you very much, I did the mix also :) unfortunately RUclips seems to have somehow crapped on the quality, so look out for a link to a higher quality upload in the next couple of days!
This is incredible work! I love new Opeth as much as the old Opeth, but this is something I didn't know I needed in my life. Now I want to hear the inverse, one of their old songs in their prog style. Anyways, kudos, dude! Can't wait to see what you do next.
I dont understand how people can like both, you probably have a tumor or something.
@@danielg6996 I don't understand how people can't accept other people having differing opinions
This confirms my opinion, that in a compositional sense, Opeth's new stuff is not all that different from the earlier stuff. It's more of a production and arrangement issue. And yes, a growl-or-not issue.
Not an issue, just a change
this just make me miss old style opeth even more..... it's really not the guitar and drumming i have so much of a problem with but his style of clean vocals on the last few albums.. they seemed forced and trying to hard....thing is mikael naturally has such a beautiful sounding voice, it's just not necessary for him to bloat his vocals so much like he does now...
this was brilliant! would love to hear more from this album done by you duders!
Let’s be honest, before Ghost Reveries, his cleans were weak. He can sing incredibly on ICV
@@Meshuggapeth blackwater park is were his vocals were starting to polish..... damnation and ghost reveries is were his cleans were at the peak, and blackwater and deliverence is were his death vocals peaked... IMO of course lol
Thullin But Mikael’s best growls were on The Grand Conjuration, IMO, and the cleans on Damnation were great but still lacking the confidence Mikael started to enjoy on Ghost Reveries
the 'prog-' albums are pretentious nothingness.... and his crooning and sighing and chuckling is unbearable like a David Coverdale karaoke-night
@@cedricflattery4287 i don't agree with the nothingness bit, because i truly believe mikael is still writing and creating what he sincerely believes is good music.... but he sure is going a very pretentious route with it all. i mean when you compare songs so well composed as deliverence,bleak, harlequin forest, moonlapse virgo
This was absolutely great! I'm so impressed by your growls, they are spot on!
Bro. This is incredible.. well done.
Please, please do more of these, man. Fantastic work.
pretty damn cool. I think the coolest part was the growls during the "war in utopia" part. Had a stank face going on!
I can’t stop listening to this. It’s absolute perfection! Thank you for this!!!
Frellin incredible! Ugh😍 I am craving the whole albums done like this!
Thank you, I would love to have the time 😅
@@Inflections If only! I can't even imagine how much work went into this one alone!
Mikael Akerfeld should listen to this. Just great work, the growls fits perfect.
That was great ! Well done :)
Really well done! Kudos to the production as well, you really nailed the Opeth sound
Thank you!
This was the most impressive thing I've seen in a long long time. Absolutely stellar job man! Here you show that the songwriting on Mikael is still there, it's just, let's say, buried under a new style
Holy shit, didn't realize this was Geeorj when it popped up in my recommended. Used to listen to all your stuff a few years ago! And this was really great. The low grows really hit home with the old school Opeth style! I like new Opeth, so I don't feel like it's a competition, but it's really interesting to hear sort of what could have been. Thanks for this!
Wow, so much work! Just brilliant!
Absolutely amazing work!! I hope to see another "what if" of Opeth's newer music from you!
Amazing work mate, genuine chills of awesomeness when I listened to this!
Man, wow. IT'S AMAZING!!!! Great job! Miss old Opeth even more now!
Everything about this is spot on. Seriously, I'd think Opeth was your solo project if I didn't know, from the growls especially. I know this series isn't exclusively an old vs new comparison of bands but I'd love to see an episode on Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Ulver, Leprous etc. as they've all gone through major changes.
Some interesting ideas here! Something to ponder on...
This is just amazing! Gave me goosebumps
This is truly amazing work. Breath of Fresh air to hearing growls Incorporated with the new music. Great work
i smell it
dude!! this is amazing!!!
amazing arranging, performance and mix!!! really good job!!!
This really makes it apparent that they haven’t changed all that much. Especially the fact that you didn’t change the clean section at the end at all, just a really heartfelt cover of it. Respect man.
This is such a welcome edition, really good growls, I like both eras but damn this remake is so cool
you make an amazing transformation of the new songs, keep it up!!
This is so awesome. Thank you so much!
I subscribed so I can listen to more Opeth covers. You're doing great work by covering their new songs into Oldpeth. Please continue your fantastic work, more people need to listen to this!
Thank you, I have an older cover of The Lotus Eater if you check out the Full Band Covers Season 1 playlist :) there might be more Opeth in the future!
@@Inflections Absolutely! Thanks for letting me know you have more already.
Mind blowing! Vocal delivery is absolutely top notch. Especially the growls are so Åkerfeldt-esque
Sounds like deliverance mixed with watershed such an amazing mix 😎
What if Old Opeth sounded like New Opeth. Do a prog version of Deliverance lol
Dude, Deliverance is Prog
bro, Deliverance is prog....
@@ramazgeradze3460 progressive and prog isn't necessarily the same thing, prog can be, and traditionally were referring to the 70's way of doing things, which opeth is more about nowadays, rather than how they sounded on deliverance
It is progressive..
@@kalas-kurt hot take, Opeth isn't doing it in a 70s prog rock way at all. They're more 70s jazz fusion. Return to Forever adjacent.
A lot better! Sensacional display, congrats
WOW DUDE! This is so sick!
This is amazing! Love it
Dude! What I never thought I needed so much to hear!
Absolutely brilliant. You are my new favorite RUclipsr.
Thank you so much :) lots more to come!
@@Inflections I'll even hit the goddamn notification bell.
Dude you're slowly becoming one of my favourite channels on RUclips. Quality content, truly. Keep it up. :)
Thank you for doing this
this is a blessing
Thank you so much for this!
You made me cry dude, that was amazing
Omg bro, i am sad and happy at the same time. This was great!
Omg your a Genius! 🤟🏻absolutely love this! I’m a huge Opeth fan and this is amazing! Very talented my man! Keep pumping these out please! Michael would be impressed!
Incredibly well done. Bravo.
I needed this in my life so badly
I want to hear every opeth song from the past four albums like this.
This is all I needed to subscribe. Awesome job! =) Thank you.
This just makes the feel of the newer album so much better
awesome work dude!
This is amazing! Very Watershed vibes!!
Wow! Excellent job!
Never thought someone can perfectly replace the sound of Opeth making it better
This is the superior version! And your growls sound just like his!
WOW!!! Thank you for this ...
i miss heavy Opeth in my life so much. thank you
Apart from the growls in corners - loved t he super mellow ending as well! 💖🙌🏻
Absolutely stunning
Please, for the love of god, more of this. I love this experiment.
Perfect job bro! Your growls are amazing!
Cheers from Bolivia, Southamerica
you are incredible!!!! holy shit well done i would listening to this version anyday
that kit is mic'ed really well. sounds great
When the song started I was like, ok, nice. Then the vocals kicked in and I knew I stumbled upon something special
really looking forward to more opeth what ifs🤘
Whoa! Amazing!
Thanks!
This is painfully underrated... BRILLIANTLY executed
That's wonderful dude.
this is AWESOME mate
Thank you!
wow, impressive. I loved the experiment.
i foresee a long series of successful videos. outstanding
gawd, my ears never pleased anything so well made
The tone is TOO spot on
10/10. Well done!
OMG broooo, awesome!!! I miss old Opeth.
Just fantastic wow
You are my hero!!!, I was thinking of making a death metal version of cusp of eternity, But man this is so good, so fresh, so amazing, so catchy, if you make a version of cusp of eternity, I would feel complete :)
that is awesome ! i like the transformation to death metal ...i also like the original song too but that was a great cover
Dude, this is actually really fucking sick!
No. Your version in this video is WAY WAY better. Way. Oh my. So much better. Thank you.
oooh man, adding death vocals makes this song 100 times better....
Fuck! This is sooooooo good! I miss the old opeth! Tremendous work! Thank you for this!
Amazing!
What a goddamn banger. Great job.
Thank you!
@@Inflections I honestly listen to this over the original album version. This is lightning in a bottle. Can't praise you guys enough.
incredible!
This is so damn good.