OPETH | GHOST OF PERDITION | REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Metal Vocalist
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Opeth has been one of my favorite bands since I was 13! Thus, instead of a first time listen, we're doing a deep dive into Mikael Åkerfeldt's performance at The Roundhouse in 2007!
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Currently, this song, and the "higher high yay yay yay yay yay yer" part is my favorite to sing to explore my range.
Maybe try something from bloodbath the wacken carnage 2005. This was about the same era of vocals. I would say it's his best performance of harsh vocals evahhh
I reccomens the cancer of the soul or breathing death👌
Probably Deliverance. Saw them live a year ago today and it was such a banger. They didn't do too many of their heavier songs, but man can he growl with such ease it's crazy. Deliverance provided me with all the head bangerage one could want.
The pain I see in others is one of my favorites.
That's a tough question... but I think it's the climax of "When".
Mikael is one of the GOATs hands down.
O yes he is
I came here for two things: to hear Mark talk about Mikael Akerfeldt’s screams and to see Mark’s camera run out of battery.
Yay for Opeth.
Also as a viewer I prefer you doing songs you already know thorough. The analysis goes deeper, and why would it matter anyway.
Appreciate that, thank you!
Chose the right live performance. His vocals were outstanding here, he was truly one of the best harsh metal vocalist ever. The live video everyone does from red rocks is just him going through the motions, no comparison to this one.
I'm a bit into the video, it sounds way worse here to me.
wat
@@ElliWoelfin Im sorry for your hearing loss
Bloodbath live
@@ElliWoelfin cos the mix is not so polished as on the red rocks.
Amorphis - The Bee is a great vocal analysis for you. Deepest growls turn to angel vocals and back.
As fun as first-time reactions are, it is super satisfying to see someone enjoy, and analyze, a well-loved song.
Thank you so much! This is one of my favourite songs and it's great to have a professional's take on it (even to my noobish armchair ears)
mike’s growls are the best ever imo. i’d love to see you go in depth on how he creates them. (haven’t finished the video yet maybe you do lol)
I've tried for so long to imitate, or find a sound similar to his for his guttural stuff, but man this dude is an absolute angel. The clean sections in this track always gives me chills.
Much of it comes down to your natural tone tbh. I've come close. After a year of trying to learn to control my growls i've realized it really is just his own voice that makes his growls sound so great.
You need strong clean vocals to belt out growls like he does.
Man I love Opeth too. I just listened to Blackwater Park recently after a long time and even after listening to that album for over 100 times I STILL nearly broke my neck a couple times. All time favie is Still Life.
Oh, one of my favorite Opeth moments is the intro into The Moor. Such a beautiful acoustic passage and when the guitars go distorted those first three chords just slap you across the face so hard
I really love how you show your appreciation for Opeth and this song in your reaction. That's basically how I consume Ghost of Perdition myself, except that you're tons more knowledgeable about the vocals than me :P
the snaredrum sounds great and his growls aswell
Cradle of filth analysis by any chance? Lol would love to hear how dani does his vocals...
My favourite two songs are "The Night and the Silent Water" and "Master's Apprentices." Night... has the most beautiful section where the acoustic part transitions into a more metal part at around 7:30. It's interesting to hear how they combine rhythms as gradually the double bass drums take over and then eventually the whispered vocals singing "You sleep in the light. Yet the night and the silent water still so dark." Master... has a brilliant opening followed by an almost ethereal middle which is so suddenly interrupted by a total demon voice which gave me a jump start of joy when I first heard it. I could go on and on about Opeth. My favourite band ever.
One thing I love about watching these analysis videos about Mikael's vocals and music, is the contrast between what Mikael thinks of his own music vs. what people like Mark think. If Mikael saw this, he'd probably say something like, "Huh, he's making it seem like I knew what I was doing." Now I'm not saying that Mike DIDN'T know what he was doing, because obviously he's a genius, but Mike said himself that he doesn't think his music (I mainly mean his lyrics and musical artistic choices here) should be taken too seriously nor looked into too deeply. I love that about Mike because he's so humble about his music. He even said himself that "lyrics are a necessary evil when writing music", and to not look into his too deeply, as I said before.
Just as I started watching this guy and wondering why he hasn’t done Opeth yet I see this! Awesome!
It was meant to be!
I appreciate the honesty. I also happen to absolutely love the Roundhouse performances. There were times where that CD was on repeat in my car for months at a time.
What I love about his vocals is that he makes such great use of his clean vocals. So many metal singers don't really enjoyed that well in their clean vocals of they happen to do both.
As for my favorite moments in their songs, is basically any time they use a great ambient section to build back up.
wow!... I'm an old school metal head and an Opeth big fan btw, and your explanation, description, and man, your intentional demonstration of different kind of growls is flawless my friend.. 🤘.. I had never saw that in a kind of "educational" opinion about metal music vocalization... good job!
My pleasure, I'm glad you found it useful! I try and do that for most of the videos on this channel, so feel free to check out more!
Not done with this yet (Loving it!!)... but Elizabeth, The Charismatic Voice, just did Opeth's "Blackwater Park", and she got to talking about her efforts with Will Ramos & the Medical Community to understand "Harsh Vocals"... have you considered undergoing those tests to contribute data? You've got a darn great talent to add to the study! I feel like you'd have to repeat "this is temporary" often during those tests tho...
LoL, 24m in sorry someone did commented on my comment that ive missed an episode with You and Elizabeth... thought still stands...You... Vocal Tests??? And What A Masterpiece, this song is!!!
Yo thanks for watching, I appreciate it! I've definitely expressed my interest in participating and offered to make the time. We'll see what happens from there!
What an awesome performance, Long live Opeth
I love Opeth
Me too!
I love these videos. I learn so much by just watching. Never would I have ever even thought of screaming through grit teeth before. This adds a whole new layer of complexity to vocals and I LOVE it.
00:45 I'm glad you said that, after saw you miming the chorus I was like whaaaaaa? Lol but thanks for clarifying and bringing your expert analysis!!! I was at that show in the front row! I'm the brown guy wearing the only white (Rush) t-shirt out of of everyone on the front row! \m/
I remember seeing a video a few years ago of Opeth in the studio and the bass player wanted to add a cool little bass part to a song and the rest of the guys told him nobody would hear it. I have always wanted to reassure him that I hear him and respect all those bass parts he puts in there.
Bruh made me tear up 🥲
About time!
Hey! You should do veil of maya's new song Viscera! they are my favorite band and id love to hear you break down how the vocalist does what he does! Love your Videos!
great vid bro. this song takes me back to when i started working at this record shop with one of my buddies. this was the first vinyl i bought after working there... good times :)
Hey, I really love your vids and think you are one the best reaction channels out there. The more educational aspect of your videos are very intersting to see and make me realise just how much vocals vary from eachother in the metal genre. If there is a band I would like to see a breakdown of from you, any The Black Dahlia Murder song would be cool. Keep up these awesome videos!
Oh! My prayers have finally been answered!
This is one of my favourite videos of the channel! Fantastic insights as always 🖤
Absolutely agree with your take on his vocals in this video vs Red Rock (the bluey shots one), I also think a lot of it has to do with his maturity and evolution as a vocalist over the years which he has talked about as turning him away from heavy vocals, hence albums like Sorceress (which I also love) and Bloodbath being an excellent outlet for the heavy vocal back in the day. Saw their second ever live gig in France in 2010, amazing stuff
Opeth, one of my favorite bands of all time
Best band in the world and the pride of us Swedish metalheads. Love this song, but my favorites are probably The Funeral Portrait and Heir Apparent. In Cauda Venenum in Swedish is also a real trip.
Also..I enjoy the fact that so much of this is straight up Swedish folk music!
Demon of the Fall is the first Opeth song I heard and it's still my favourite; though on a completely diff vibe, To Bid You Farewell is a super chill masterpiece.
YES MY FAVOURITE OPETH ALBUM ❤️❤️❤️🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I absolutely love this song and have since the year it came out.
5:45 some other singers with the speech-level singing are Lorde & Troye Sivan. Over the years, Mikael has learnt to properly use his singing voice and now, he sings high notes perfectly, as can be seen in the latest album. In the early albums like Morningrise, he was speech-singing.
Finally! Opeth!
Edit: You are dead on about the change in screams. I've been saying this for forever; it really sounds like he's gone toward false cord since Ghost Reveries (something changed heavily after Deliverance). But pre Ghost Reveries is fry for sure. I think around the Royal Albert Hall concert when his screams were at their worse, he stopped trying to do fry all together and switched to false cord, which has gotten really good recently.
Why does everyone get this wrong
He started with false chords. Because Mike himself has said his early technique was quiet. Listening to morningrise, you can actually hear it's really hollow and close to the mic. This went on until deliverance. In Ghost reveries he started to just belt out his growls. There is a significant change in volume and the tone is much fuller.
There is an isolated vocals only of a few songs on Blackwater park. Studying leper affinity and listening, i quickly discovered he uses false chords but does them with an open mouth and low larynx. There is not much modulation going on. His mouth movement is pretty natural. And the behind the making of Deliverance confirms this. They're really low in volume and he practically whisper screams. On ghost reveries and watershed however, they're more akin to traditional death metal growls.
And in RAH he simply had lost his voice, and they're not fucking false chords lol, they're just all he has left from his fry screams. I do both myself and the tone matches.
@@Celatra no
@@williamreynolds3487 uhm, Mikael himself has stated his screams on Orchid were quiet and low on volume, suggesting they were false chord screams. what backs this up is video footage of him doing vocals pre 2002. from there on he changed his technique, leading to his actual voice coming through alot more.
@@Celatra the fact that they were quiet proves even further that they were fry screams. Fry is simply quieter than false cord (99% of the time; I won’t use absolutes). If you’ve ever compared the two, either hearing someone else or doing it yourself, you’d hear that. The fact that his screams were really tight, but somewhat breathy is a clear indicator of fry. Just listen to the Lamentations show or The Drapery Falls pro shot footage from 2001 and you’ll hear it. As for the first two albums, we won’t ever know for sure, but I’d assume he was still perfecting his vocals and didn’t have full cord closure or great technique (if you wanna hear an extreme example of this, listen to Katatonia’s first album; that dude had as close to no technique as you could). Nonetheless, he was still clearly doing fry screams on those first two albums. Nowadays, and even after Deliverance, you can hear that Cookie Monster-type scream that is associated with false cord, not fry in the slightest; I’ve never heard anyone’s fry sound like that. Tbf, though, we’ll never know for sure and everyone can have an opinion, of course. However, considering multiple people who know what they’re talking about have stated that the screams are fry, and I do fry screams and sound very similar to his vocals (which is not the case when I try to replicate known false cord vocalists with my fry screams), I’d say it’s a pretty solid assumption they are fry screams. Not to mention the volume, like you had said and the tightness of the vocals that you usually see with fry, but not much with false cord. Anyway, that was fun to type up! Have a good day!
Edit: I also never said they were false cord at the RAH; I said from Ghost Reveries to the RAH he was starting to go toward false cord, which was indicated by the breathy-ness, but lack of cord closure.
@@williamreynolds3487 so hang on a second here
you're telling me false chord screams are the ones where your entire vocal tract is doing the growls and fry screams are when only the tip of it is...
but that makes no sense?
Came here after charismatic voice's April fools song, and scrolled until I found a song I'd heard.
Haven't heard your first time reactions yet, but I think this analysis of a known track is fucking dope man. Also, looking forward to the new Kardashev, I'll give it a listen once it's all released.
I'd love to hear more analysis of some metal "classics", if you will. Maybe Bloodmeat by protest the hero? Just about every vocal technique I can think of in that one, lol.
Glad I found you, subbed for more!
Hell yeah, thanks for the sub dude! Y'know, I've never actually listened to Protest The Hero, if I'm honest! I will check them out.
love this reaction, how about more Opeth like Blackwater park/Heir Apparent/Deliverance! :)
Opeth for the win
YEEESSSS! Great song from my favourite Opeth album!
Yes! Been waiting for this
I love Mikael Åkerfeldt's vocals during his Bloodbath years.
Mikael is the King of growls to me (subjective).
Evidence- his singing in Bloodbath.
Wish i could take some classes with you. Thanks for analysis and indirect classes over the videos. Hi from Brazil. o/
I'd really love to hear some like, Stabbing the Drama era Soilwork around these parts. Strid's one of my favorite vocalists ever, and that's my favorite era of his performances.
Kinda sad that they decided to not do that kind of vocals in their recent works anymore (love them though!).
Mikael is one hell of a vocalist in any regard... but his growls. One of a kind for me. THAT part of blackwater park (lepers coil beneath the trees) gives me goosebumbs every time.
Ghost of predition though is a song that has it all. Prog-stuff, growls, cleans, ambience. Love opeth for their mix of it all.
Also great analysis!
Any chance you want to give "Sulphur Aeon" a try (do you know them)?
As a specialist, it would be interesting to see your take on Kind Diamond's (deeper) growls and his usual falcetto style. Cheers
Anyone do his other band bloodbath because that would be a cool analysis as well
Opeth and Katatonia were the first live bands I ever saw.
Want to hear your analysis of Rob Flynn from machine head.. always loved his vocal quality.
I'll check it out!
YES
We need an in depth interview with Mikael. We all want to know what he does and how it's changed in the last 25 years. I'm personally convinced he used much more fry screaming on the older albums like Morningrise and Orchid, especially for the long, drawn out screams. But the newer stuff is definitely more false chord. I'm sure he can and uses both techniques though. And he excels in everything.
You got them Mixed up. First 2 were false chord. Then he started to fry scream
@@Celatra I disagree.
@@AbsoRuud76 you shouldn't.
We have a confirmation from Mikael he started with false chords. He has in interviews said his first screams were low on volume but didnt require much effort. I want you to go to listen to morningrise and really pay attention to just how hollow his vocals are. It is very clear he does it with false chords but with an open mouth and is really close to the mic. Want more proof? listen to the isolated vocal tracks of the leper affinity.
Want even more proof? Look at when he records vocals in the making of Deliverance & damnation videos. He stands VERY close to the mic. Pay attention to his mouth movements too. They're very natural unlike what is demonstrated by this guy. Now compare that to this performance
Further from the mic, you hear more of mike's actual voice behind the growls, it sounds fuller, his highs have volume to them and he has a harder time holding notes out. He fucking belts those growls out. The neck tension confirms this. Plus there is a clear undertone to his vocals and it happens to be a D and a F#.
I've done experiments myself and they match perfectly. He growls with his own voice without any crazy modulations. It's why it's so distinct. It's just his voice.
@@Celatra Thank you for your in depth reply. It's always great to see someone put this much effort into appreciating Opeth! Is there anywhere I can read about this confirmation? You can never read enough about Opeth or listen to enough Opeth. :)
@@AbsoRuud76 it's in the "how Mikael Akerfeldt learned to scream" video by loudwire where he mentions it im pretty sure. Just look at many interviews around this topic. And also look at live videos from over the years
The reason he changed technique in RAH was because he got in ear monitors and thought his growls sounded weird so he changed them.
His growls are so powerful because he has a quite low and powerful voice. Your voice plays actually a big role on how your harsh vocals sound like.
You need to get some Defamed on here you would absolutely love them!!
Vektor- accelerating universe
Can you make a react to Powerwolf? Attila Dorn is such a great singer and the whole crowd always sings with them, its just beautiful
You should really check out Baest!
Any track would suffice, but maybe Hecatomb if I had to pick one out!
You should check out ‘Monasteries - allowing your traitors to die’
Mental Cruelty - Ultima Hypocrita 👏🏻👏🏻
Some Queen analysis? I'd like to hear your thoughts about the singer
😎😎👏🏻
Mark please do a video on Slice The Cake.
If you haven’t, u NEED to hear the band queen kona
To me it sounds like he just belts out those growls. Hence the neck tension. I think you are vastly underestimating the volume of his growls. He does not do traditional false chords. He's belting those growls out and he does them in a higher register. He does them from a D. Not from an A like you do.
To The Grave - Pest Control or Infant Annihilator - Plaguebearer please :)
Opeth is magnificent. But If we’re gonna go heavy, how about Belphagor, Watain, Bohemoth? 😉
Also bro, have you thought about getting a "dummy battery" for your camera? It dying in the middle of recording is kinda clunky for you to edit, I'm sure.
I really learned a lot from this, but I'm not afraid of being bored, so it's possible to slow down a bit now and then in your comments. Perhaps I'm just a grumpy old european guy. Nine of ten is still good, and if my scale had one more level, I would say 9.5/10.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
hi reacts to raphael mendes great singer from brazil does the best cover of iron maiden reacts him singing hallowed be thy name by iron maiden thanks
What is the guitar riff in the title page from!? It sounds heavy!!!
Got to do gorepig mr.pig!!!!!!
You should react to The Price of Grace by Convictions
What I think would be cool if Mark would analyze the song that made him want to learn harsh vocals or some breakdowns of old school death metal or black metal
The patreon request are a bit too much Deathcore for my liking
Nekrogoblikon analysis soon??
They're on the list, for sure! But the list is also very long!
Intro/Outro songs??
What song is playing in the intro?
yoooo what is that intro song??
You pagan I noticed your arm ring?
Mikhael's vocals definitely have changed a lot. His early harsh vocals were more black metal style, his current version sounds more like death grunts. I prefer the earlier form. The live version that is my favorite is the one from Shepherd's Bush Empire, the Lamentation/Damnation session. This session is ok but not as sharp and clear. The newer one from Red Rock Amphitheatre, I don't care to listen to. It might be easier or healthier to do but it just sounds ugly
2:31 But its a pretty short song, couldn't have changed that much
Rode into the dark on a whale
why haven you ever reacted to disbelief? their vocalist is awesome
ruclips.net/video/WJZBjHAjTUc/видео.html is good but their newer stuff also shows his strength
he's the death metal vocalist with the most emotions in his voice imho
You gotta do more Infant Annihilator!!
Whatever he did, he did it wrong for years lol and fucked up his voice for a bit which is why he had to change it up live.
His growling went that way not because the wrong technique he used in 1995-2000 but mosly because of drinking, smoking and losing interest in extreme vocals. Anyway it seems like Mikael has really improved his growls by the end of 2019 year and he takes lesson with a vocal coach now
No, it came down to overuse, drinking and smoking. And age. Almost no one in their 50's can growl like in their prime due to change in their physique.