Moonlapse is the underrated gem of Still Life for me. Not that highly requested in general but a fan-favorite for sure, definitely in my top 2 for that album along with The Moor. Serenity painted death is also extremely solid, so looking forward to that. It has some of their all-time best riffs and growling parts for sure. Baying of the Hounds and Serenity sort of seem like the two giants of their respective albums in a way, both really solid and extreme! Anyway nice reaction. I hope to see A Fair Judgement from Deliverance at some point in the future. That, Harlequin Forest and Bleak are my top 3 of theirs I think! So hard to pick.
@@captainmorgan1978 No, the 'r' is like "rato" in spanish. Zoeira means joking or kidding, sometimes it means something at the edge of mocking hehe, brazilians are mad. Cya.
Yea, it felt like the beginning was coming from another song...makes sense..still good standalone, but maybe that's why it didn't stand out as much to me as GC
I agree. I think most if not all of their albums are concept albums more or less but the reaction format isn't really working well with listening to entire concept albums from start to end (except perhaps Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). The Captain would get bored, we'd get bored and nobody would view an hour long reaction video. And even if it's a concept album you can still enjoy single songs off concept albums for musically and lyrically.
@@nikelodeon6852 Oh, really? I've always felt most of the albums had a certain theme they were following but I guess they're not strictly concept albums. So Still Life and Ghost Reveries are the only actual concept albums then?
I think that's the first song I heard a friend play in high school on his phone which made me decide to check them out. After watching Roundhouse tapes, hearing a few songs and then hearing Face of Melinda I knew it was a special band I was listening to.
I love this song so much. The end part always gets me man.. I love when the bass and guitars come in together with that "HUMMMM" during the clean vocals through the end. So good!
@@captainmorgan1978 I can get behind this recommendation. April Ethereal is the second track on My Arms Your Hearse, the first being a short instrumental so April Ethereal opens the story, and in my opinion stands on its own equally well.
This is from Still Life (1999). a concept album which really began their modern, balanced style (which includes Still Life, Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Damnation, Ghost Reveries, Watershed) . The earlier ones are much weaker as far as i am concerned, as they are much heavier and classic death-metal with many acoustic down-tempo melodic sections but with very little clean vocals and that all-important middle ground. since 1999 they really started to use the entire spectrum of this genre. Anyway, you can hear the massive difference in sound here vs the old ones, and in the next one (Blackwater Park) Steven Wilson joined as the producer so the production values as far as sound and mixing is vastly superior.
@@patrikkarlsson9463 Yeah its in album that's the bridge between Orchid and Morningrise and Still life, style wise. But I disagree with the OP, all eras of Opeth have their special moments including their later stuff. Candlelight era has his own flavor.
This is 4th song in the concept album which is meant to be listened as a whole but sound great as individual tracks too. Listen to "Bleak" and "Master's Apprentices" too. Two of the essential Opeth songs!!
I am happy that you liked The Grand Conjuration so much. I am pretty sure you would love The Baying of The Hounds which is as brutal as the aforementioned song. Edit : I found it just now that you are gonna do it next week or so. Awesome! Also, if possible, can you please do Godhead's Lament, Beneath the Mire, Dirge for November, The Funeral Portrait, Wreath, Bleak, Burden and Hex Omega? These are right up your alley. P.S. - Bleak has Steven Wilson's vocals too.
@@captainmorgan1978 Sure, now that you are already doing The Baying of The hounds, I would exclude it. According to my priorities for the songs that you should definitely listen, Burden ruclips.net/video/orwgEEaJln0/видео.html (Clean vocals) Bleak ruclips.net/video/5Zdg4Sbefg4/видео.html To Bid You Farewell ruclips.net/video/7Fa5s7qW5UE/видео.html (Clean vocals) Beneath The Mire ruclips.net/video/QlT1sRHf34M/видео.html Hex Omega ruclips.net/video/DQh60zg3NaY/видео.html (Clean vocals) Godhead's Lament ruclips.net/video/OY4oy4snMsg/видео.html To Rid The Disease ruclips.net/video/tcK-Ar7LBCA/видео.html (Clean vocals) Wreath ruclips.net/video/S-NSvnolVQo/видео.html In My Time of Need ruclips.net/video/razzBeBLDG4/видео.html (Clean vocals) Dirge for November ruclips.net/video/CPb7_Wq2Sn4/видео.html Lovelorn Crime ruclips.net/video/b1vJTzhxm7g/видео.html (Clean vocals) Funeral Portrait ruclips.net/video/KrbtnCHv-Hc/видео.html Cusp pf Eternity ruclips.net/video/JHq9yMXw3iA/видео.html (Clean vocals)
The Moor is my favorite off of this album. You have to listen to this album straight through to really feel the impact of each song. Did you try Master's Apprentice?
Mikael said they did a lot of guitar layering on riffs he wasn't happy with lol. He discovered the E-Bow during this recording and it's been all over their music since.
@@Wolf1910RTS @Maciej Burski Awesome one haha, I've been meaning to recommend that next. But maybe Second Life Syndrome would be a better song first, I'm not sure. The ending of Escalator shrine is amazing though. I've seen them twice live, the second time was 2 weeks ago, they're great live.
I love Still Life! I wanted to call my daughter Melinda like the character but given the dark story surrounding her, my wife didn't let me do it. Please, keep track on the requests for Bleak because I don't think I'm the only one who loves that song hahahaha.
Great vid. You should react to The Amen Corner from Opeth sometime. It is from the My Arms your Hearse album. The song When is great also and from the same album.
I knew you'd love The Grand Conjuration. As I wrote when I first requested it, it's the one that Dream Theater fans (at least the ones I know) seem to love the most when it comes to Opeth. Moonlapse Vertigo is off Still Life, the last of the four albums in their first era (before Blackwater Park arrived, kicking off their second era which lasted until Watershed) and on this album his clean vocals had begun to evolve a little (nothing compared to later albums but I like the melodies and rhythmic thingies). As for quality of mix and master, this album (Still Life) was recorded and produced by Opeth but well done and this album gave them the support and influence to go next level when it came to recording, mixing and mastering what became Blackwater Park (and from that album onward they've got top notch production).
Baying of the hounds and Serenity painted death are fantastic. Actually in the middle of learning Serenity painted death on Guitar. Also, Still Life is one of the greatest albums ever written. You can see the whole story unfolding as you listen (especially when he loses his mind in serenity painted death haha)
As other people suggested already, I'll recommend Riverside - fantastic polish prog band with great atmosphere. Something like "Second Life Syndrome" or "Escalator shrine". As for Headspace - I love "Soldier" - hauntingly beautiful with great lyrics (with great delivery by Damian Wilson) but maybe "Fall of America" would be better.
As always, great reaction man. I know that The Baying of the Hound and Serenity Painted Death (can't wait for you to react to this one) is next on your list, but I would appreciate it if you can react to The Lotus Eater from Watershed album after that. Love to hear your feedback on it. 👍🏻
Dude, I'm currently dying of boredom because of the "quarantine", can I do anything to make you react and upload faster to more Pain of Salvation, Opeth and Haken? :D
@@captainmorgan1978 Already did that :^) But currently I like your reactions the most, as you have mostly the same thoughts about the music as I had, when I first discovered those songs/bands, and it's fun to "relive" those moments through your channel :) Also you don't fake your reactions (as far as I can tell :P) and you are honest (Taking the Pain of Salvation Song for example), which I like a lot more than all those "ooommggg this is sooo awesoomeeee, thank you guys
@@Zitronenparty haha well, I am glad you are reasonable, as I have had many replies the exact opposite of yours. It isn't my goal to make money off the channel so it is much easier to be honest. I can totally understand the reliving part. I do the same with new listeners to DT and I have literally cried with the reactor in a few cases. It is such a great thing on YT....when they don't block shit! :)
@@captainmorgan1978 Man, listen to Demon of the fall and Credence together. Leave Baying of the hounds. Enough of Ghost reveries. Check their older stuff.
His clean vocals are better on the earlier albums to me, there’s a sensitivity there that is lost with the newer more “confident” delivery. It may be blasphemy to say that for many but I love the breathy vulnerability in his clean voice on these earlier albums. Vocally My Arms Your Hearse, this album and Blackwater Park are my personal favorites....
Moonlapse is the underrated gem of Still Life for me. Not that highly requested in general but a fan-favorite for sure, definitely in my top 2 for that album along with The Moor. Serenity painted death is also extremely solid, so looking forward to that. It has some of their all-time best riffs and growling parts for sure. Baying of the Hounds and Serenity sort of seem like the two giants of their respective albums in a way, both really solid and extreme!
Anyway nice reaction. I hope to see A Fair Judgement from Deliverance at some point in the future. That, Harlequin Forest and Bleak are my top 3 of theirs I think! So hard to pick.
haha awesome...do you mean the song Deliverance, or that is a band?
@@captainmorgan1978 I mean the album deliverance :)
@@captainmorgan1978 by opeth!
@@ryudo113 Got it, I did a reaction to the song, so that is why I asked :)
this is my favorite track on still life album, the intro and outro is just beautiful, insane song.
Its in my top 5...:)
I dare to say... simply the best intro I've ever heard in my humble life.
My intro or the song... Lol jk it comes with feeling for sure!
@@captainmorgan1978 hahaha this sense of humor is common among the people of my country! We call it "zoeira".
@@kazenriq Do you roll the 'r" ? :)
@@captainmorgan1978 No, the 'r' is like "rato" in spanish. Zoeira means joking or kidding, sometimes it means something at the edge of mocking hehe, brazilians are mad. Cya.
@@kazenriq I just remember a few things from middle school Spanish and know nothing about Portuguese :(
This is from a concept album. It's meant to be listened to as a whole.
Yea, it felt like the beginning was coming from another song...makes sense..still good standalone, but maybe that's why it didn't stand out as much to me as GC
I agree. I think most if not all of their albums are concept albums more or less but the reaction format isn't really working well with listening to entire concept albums from start to end (except perhaps Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). The Captain would get bored, we'd get bored and nobody would view an hour long reaction video. And even if it's a concept album you can still enjoy single songs off concept albums for musically and lyrically.
@@scyphe they have just 2 concept albums..
@@nikelodeon6852 Oh, really? I've always felt most of the albums had a certain theme they were following but I guess they're not strictly concept albums. So Still Life and Ghost Reveries are the only actual concept albums then?
@@scyphe Ghost reveries is not a concept album. My arms, your hearse is the other one.
Yes man I cant wait for your reaction to Serenity painted death! One of my favs!! 🤘
When you struggled over serenity painted death I was in total suspense. My personal favorite
It is coming :)
I think that's the first song I heard a friend play in high school on his phone which made me decide to check them out. After watching Roundhouse tapes, hearing a few songs and then hearing Face of Melinda I knew it was a special band I was listening to.
@@Bellathor I have a lot to get to and look forward to every minute of it...
I love this song so much. The end part always gets me man.. I love when the bass and guitars come in together with that "HUMMMM" during the clean vocals through the end. So good!
No disagreements here! Lol
For really dark side of opeth i'd suggest April Ethereal. A bleak song in their darkest and probably saddest album
haha nice noted!
@@captainmorgan1978 I can get behind this recommendation. April Ethereal is the second track on My Arms Your Hearse, the first being a short instrumental so April Ethereal opens the story, and in my opinion stands on its own equally well.
@@ProgressiveVinyl Noted!
I fucking love that album.
Opeth is the best of prog with metal injection and combines both with a technical ability that makes them outstanding.
Such a fantastic song. Thanks for listening to it!
Agreed 😁🍻
This is from Still Life (1999). a concept album which really began their modern, balanced style (which includes Still Life, Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Damnation, Ghost Reveries, Watershed) .
The earlier ones are much weaker as far as i am concerned, as they are much heavier and classic death-metal with many acoustic down-tempo melodic sections but with very little clean vocals and that all-important middle ground. since 1999 they really started to use the entire spectrum of this genre.
Anyway, you can hear the massive difference in sound here vs the old ones, and in the next one (Blackwater Park) Steven Wilson joined as the producer so the production values as far as sound and mixing is vastly superior.
Great info thanks! Good stuff!
I think My Arms Your Hearse definitely belongs in that list, and so would be the album that marks the departure from their earlier stuff
@@patrikkarlsson9463 Yeah its in album that's the bridge between Orchid and Morningrise and Still life, style wise. But I disagree with the OP, all eras of Opeth have their special moments including their later stuff. Candlelight era has his own flavor.
Oooof looking forward to serenity painted death now. Its got some epic brutal riffs. You sir, got a new sub!
Awesome thbaksnfor the sub and you are in luck.. Painted coming Mon ☺️🤙
This is 4th song in the concept album which is meant to be listened as a whole but sound great as individual tracks too. Listen to "Bleak" and "Master's Apprentices" too. Two of the essential Opeth songs!!
Maybe after Baying and Serenity :_)
I am happy that you liked The Grand Conjuration so much. I am pretty sure you would love The Baying of The Hounds which is as brutal as the aforementioned song.
Edit : I found it just now that you are gonna do it next week or so. Awesome!
Also, if possible, can you please do Godhead's Lament, Beneath the Mire, Dirge for November, The Funeral Portrait, Wreath, Bleak, Burden and Hex Omega? These are right up your alley.
P.S. - Bleak has Steven Wilson's vocals too.
hahah love the suggestions but could you number them in priority order and add a few links? lol
@@captainmorgan1978 Sure, now that you are already doing The Baying of The hounds, I would exclude it. According to my priorities for the songs that you should definitely listen,
Burden ruclips.net/video/orwgEEaJln0/видео.html (Clean vocals)
Bleak ruclips.net/video/5Zdg4Sbefg4/видео.html
To Bid You Farewell ruclips.net/video/7Fa5s7qW5UE/видео.html (Clean vocals)
Beneath The Mire ruclips.net/video/QlT1sRHf34M/видео.html
Hex Omega ruclips.net/video/DQh60zg3NaY/видео.html (Clean vocals)
Godhead's Lament ruclips.net/video/OY4oy4snMsg/видео.html
To Rid The Disease ruclips.net/video/tcK-Ar7LBCA/видео.html (Clean vocals)
Wreath ruclips.net/video/S-NSvnolVQo/видео.html
In My Time of Need ruclips.net/video/razzBeBLDG4/видео.html (Clean vocals)
Dirge for November ruclips.net/video/CPb7_Wq2Sn4/видео.html
Lovelorn Crime ruclips.net/video/b1vJTzhxm7g/видео.html (Clean vocals)
Funeral Portrait ruclips.net/video/KrbtnCHv-Hc/видео.html
Cusp pf Eternity ruclips.net/video/JHq9yMXw3iA/видео.html (Clean vocals)
@@omkarbharambe8673 Perfect thanks!
The Moor is my favorite off of this album. You have to listen to this album straight through to really feel the impact of each song. Did you try Master's Apprentice?
Did Moor too :)
i agree about listening to it straight through. each song is like a chapter of the story.
Yes, my favorite from this album.
Request: Native Construct - "Mute".
Attempt #2.
So sad they only put one album out, just like Dream Theater they formed at Berkley. My favorites Come Hell or High Water just because it's so fun.
Noted again Thanks!
Mikael said they did a lot of guitar layering on riffs he wasn't happy with lol. He discovered the E-Bow during this recording and it's been all over their music since.
Nice info thanks!
Just a friendly reminder to check out Riverside and Headspace sometime :)
Word! :)
You have a link for that? I can't find it.
How about this one? Riverside - Escalator Shrine ruclips.net/video/9QVextqpcnI/видео.html
@@Wolf1910RTS @Maciej Burski Awesome one haha, I've been meaning to recommend that next. But maybe Second Life Syndrome would be a better song first, I'm not sure. The ending of Escalator shrine is amazing though. I've seen them twice live, the second time was 2 weeks ago, they're great live.
@@captainmorgan1978 I can recommend second life syndrome as a first song to listen to: ruclips.net/video/QLhLKLLJOnA/видео.html
I love Still Life! I wanted to call my daughter Melinda like the character but given the dark story surrounding her, my wife didn't let me do it. Please, keep track on the requests for Bleak because I don't think I'm the only one who loves that song hahahaha.
Nice Bleak Noted! :)
It's like a trip to the moon with some ups and downs
Caught that 😊
Great vid. You should react to The Amen Corner from Opeth sometime. It is from the My Arms your Hearse album. The song When is great also and from the same album.
Awesome, Baying and Serenity are up next but will note it! :)
I have to say you would enjoy Riverside. Second life syndrome or dance with the shadows.
Been requested alot recently! :)
I knew you'd love The Grand Conjuration. As I wrote when I first requested it, it's the one that Dream Theater fans (at least the ones I know) seem to love the most when it comes to Opeth.
Moonlapse Vertigo is off Still Life, the last of the four albums in their first era (before Blackwater Park arrived, kicking off their second era which lasted until Watershed) and on this album his clean vocals had begun to evolve a little (nothing compared to later albums but I like the melodies and rhythmic thingies). As for quality of mix and master, this album (Still Life) was recorded and produced by Opeth but well done and this album gave them the support and influence to go next level when it came to recording, mixing and mastering what became Blackwater Park (and from that album onward they've got top notch production).
It is really well done! already listening to it again atm :)
Hey man good job♥♥♥...try reacting to Pain Of Salvation...a prog metal/rock band from sweden...this is my favourite band along with Opeth and HAKEN
Already did brother...check for it :)
Baying of the hounds and Serenity painted death are fantastic. Actually in the middle of learning Serenity painted death on Guitar. Also, Still Life is one of the greatest albums ever written. You can see the whole story unfolding as you listen (especially when he loses his mind in serenity painted death haha)
Sweet, I am looking forward to the next 2 for sure!
Heaven shal burn-endzeit
Heaven shal burn-my Heart ans Ocean
Heaven shal burn-eradicate
As other people suggested already, I'll recommend Riverside - fantastic polish prog band with great atmosphere. Something like "Second Life Syndrome" or "Escalator shrine". As for Headspace - I love "Soldier" - hauntingly beautiful with great lyrics (with great delivery by Damian Wilson) but maybe "Fall of America" would be better.
Word! :)
P.S. Riverside - Left Out is also a fantastic song. Just pick one haha
@@Bellathor Got it
Kings of outros.
As always, great reaction man. I know that The Baying of the Hound and Serenity Painted Death (can't wait for you to react to this one) is next on your list, but I would appreciate it if you can react to The Lotus Eater from Watershed album after that. Love to hear your feedback on it. 👍🏻
Noted thanks!
Good shit m8
Thanks..oh right..the song, I mean :)
"Mr. Invisible" by Thank You Scientist will be a blast! Live performance link: ruclips.net/video/KjsgQ1pdyZw/видео.html
Dude, I'm currently dying of boredom because of the "quarantine", can I do anything to make you react and upload faster to more Pain of Salvation, Opeth and Haken? :D
I think Haken will be coming Mon... :)
@@captainmorgan1978 And what do I do over the weekend? I can't just rewatch all your stuff!... or can I? hmmmmm :D
@@Zitronenparty haha, do what I do, watch others react to the same song...see different reactions to the same song...lol
@@captainmorgan1978 Already did that :^) But currently I like your reactions the most, as you have mostly the same thoughts about the music as I had, when I first discovered those songs/bands, and it's fun to "relive" those moments through your channel :)
Also you don't fake your reactions (as far as I can tell :P) and you are honest (Taking the Pain of Salvation Song for example), which I like a lot more than all those "ooommggg this is sooo awesoomeeee, thank you guys
@@Zitronenparty haha well, I am glad you are reasonable, as I have had many replies the exact opposite of yours. It isn't my goal to make money off the channel so it is much easier to be honest. I can totally understand the reliving part. I do the same with new listeners to DT and I have literally cried with the reactor in a few cases. It is such a great thing on YT....when they don't block shit! :)
Great song dude, please don't forget react to The old man and the sea of Aquiles Priester and Gustavo Carmo
NOted again thanks!
you can react to black rose immortal, the most epic song from Opeth till date, bet that can beat grand conjuration.
ohhh a challenge..we will get to it..put the link in the one-stop post and it will be more likely to come sooner rather than later. :)
@@captainmorgan1978 Hey, find the link :- ruclips.net/video/XLkSFOvhyeI/видео.html,
Definitely better than deliverance
Agreed
@@captainmorgan1978 Man, listen to Demon of the fall and Credence together. Leave Baying of the hounds. Enough of Ghost reveries. Check their older stuff.
@@robin-38- Sorry man, already committed..lol
His clean vocals are better on the earlier albums to me, there’s a sensitivity there that is lost with the newer more “confident” delivery. It may be blasphemy to say that for many but I love the breathy vulnerability in his clean voice on these earlier albums. Vocally My Arms Your Hearse, this album and Blackwater Park are my personal favorites....
I like his clean vocals alot
Who's this cutie.
😘
You must react to Black Rose Immortal, it's a 20-minute song and one of their best tracks.
Baying and Serenity are up next :)
@Rishabh Not usually a fan of 15 plus mintues songs...lol We will see though. Opeth tomorrow though ;)
React Master Apprentice-opeth
Baying and serenity are next up but noted
Opeth just is so... y'know what I mean?
Neal Morse - The Door?
Long, proggy as hell, Mike Portnoy on the drums. But maybe the religious lyrics will be off putting for you.
Too familiar with Neal Morse because of Portnoy... :) My favorite is Waterfall
Awesome! Most projects Mike is involved in are a great 😊 In that case, I’ll suggest something different: Vektor - Recharging the Void
@@wordswordseverywhere9113 nice first time for that one... Noted