Opeth - Heir Apparent (Audio)

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    LYRICS
    Long days, slow waste
    Sew lies, sow hate
    So many years to clean the slate
    Endless despair within its wake
    His touch soiling what used to be clean
    His gaze burning on the edge of our dreams
    No more
    Long days, long days
    And again he rides in
    It's September and he covets the gullible
    Skeletal wish hunter
    A thousand lies, cast from the throne of secrecy
    Hear him spewing forth a meaning to miserables lies
    See the twisted hand of doubt seal the affair
    The insect trust believer
    Your body a vehicle to to house his disease
    Pearls before swine, they are nothing but blind
    Submit to nothing and swallow my spit of scorn
    Invisible king, dying
    Procession of woe, struck down by sorrow
    A burden so great weighs heavy on old and withered beliefs
    The swift solution crumbles
    Beneath the mock notes of a masterpiece
    Death in his eyes, waiting
    Spiraling judgment, provoked in the rains
    This futile test drowned in the levee of deception
    This futile test drowned in the levee of deception
    In the year of his sovereign
    Rid us of your judgment
    Heir apparent

Комментарии • 993

  • @EsotericStarWarsRubbish
    @EsotericStarWarsRubbish 6 лет назад +1084

    6 string, standard tuning, and they churn out this... Mikael is the MacGyver of heavy riffs.

    • @braindamage7128
      @braindamage7128 5 лет назад +74

      I love that its in standard. Fucken most of master of puppets is standard save thing

    • @IEIAI
      @IEIAI 5 лет назад +42

      I had no idea that this song was in Standard tuning ! This band is short of being creative and in how they deliver riffs and melodies so eloquently.

    • @Rodrigoooous
      @Rodrigoooous 5 лет назад +5

      where does that low note comes from, in the opening chord, then? Is that a growl?

    • @alexandremarchand8815
      @alexandremarchand8815 5 лет назад +58

      @@Rodrigoooous The oppening Chord is 0-1-2-3 starting from the low E string. Try it if you want ! Sounds pretty evil :P

    • @PZMaTTy
      @PZMaTTy 5 лет назад +29

      @@alexandremarchand8815 0-1-2-3, that sound like a diminished chord right?

  • @MurphyMonster
    @MurphyMonster 8 лет назад +695

    Lol, I bet Mikael was sitting there for 3 hours trying to write some ridiculous riff, trying to find his inspiration for a song, then just gave up and played the opening chord.

    • @terrybronson2674
      @terrybronson2674 6 лет назад +51

      MurphyMonster sounds like satan barfing into my speakers \m/

    • @trichila6397
      @trichila6397 6 лет назад +55

      DISSONANCE!!!

    • @thebadger1252
      @thebadger1252 6 лет назад +44

      Coil is essentially the intro to this song.

    • @R3adybreck
      @R3adybreck 5 лет назад +4

      Jeeeeeesus WEPT

    • @prmfirestorm0863
      @prmfirestorm0863 5 лет назад +6

      Hahaha, it takes years of playing to make a chord like that... before then, it sounds like shit.

  • @Allthewrongkeys821
    @Allthewrongkeys821 6 лет назад +147

    The transition from Coil to Heir Apparent is nothing short of magical.

    • @dekideron5199
      @dekideron5199 11 месяцев назад +2

      It's sound like a bomb fell it jumpscared me the first time I heard watershed

    • @giblaz
      @giblaz 9 месяцев назад

      Akerfeldt somehow has managed to put these kinds of transitions into almost every album many times over. He is simply one of the best to ever do it.

  • @cabezadehuevo3117
    @cabezadehuevo3117 6 лет назад +757

    This is a great alarm
    You have 80 seconds to get up or there will be a hellhole in your room

    • @fencingisb
      @fencingisb 5 лет назад +8

      Cabeza de Huevo 1:20 sorry, I had too

    • @ruinsane100
      @ruinsane100 5 лет назад +1

      😂😂😂

    • @jessbian3385
      @jessbian3385 5 лет назад +48

      Actually you have 0 seconds

    • @sanderdavid8626
      @sanderdavid8626 5 лет назад +1

      doesn't it sound like shit on mobile tho? Ill try it in any case :D

    • @guillaumeroussel4845
      @guillaumeroussel4845 4 года назад +31

      I prefer Ghost of perdition -> 7 seconds lmao

  • @SApcGUY
    @SApcGUY 9 лет назад +368

    Jesus christ.... This track annihilated me.

  • @ChristianFisher-lb1bo
    @ChristianFisher-lb1bo 9 месяцев назад +140

    There comes a point in one’s life when Opeth becomes your favorite band and you never look back. What an absolute masterpiece

    • @ihsahnakerfeldt9280
      @ihsahnakerfeldt9280 5 месяцев назад +2

      I remember when I first heard this incredible masterpiece that I kept stopping it and gasping in amazement. I'd heard all the classics by that time and I'd never thought they could outdo themselves like that. A truly peerless band.

    • @charlesajones77
      @charlesajones77 4 месяца назад +2

      This was the album that got me into Opeth, and it is still my favorite. It's a shame that they don't do the "death metal" vocals anymore. Mikael Åkerfeldt was the best at doing them I've ever heard. Watershed is the "transition" album between old Opeth and new Opeth, which is probably why I like it so much. I wish they would make another album like it.

    • @mcoppola07
      @mcoppola07 Месяц назад +1

      @@charlesajones77 Looks like you got your wish! I'm so pumped for Last Will and Testament

    • @charlesajones77
      @charlesajones77 Месяц назад +1

      @@mcoppola07 Yes!!

  • @mastercyconide7660
    @mastercyconide7660 8 лет назад +253

    5:37 "INVISIBLE CAT!"

    • @socialabuse104
      @socialabuse104 5 лет назад +22

      DYINNG

    • @Merlin0fCamelot
      @Merlin0fCamelot 5 лет назад +2

      And now you know why all of the dishes be flying out of your cupboards n shit. 😹👌

    • @lorz8940
      @lorz8940 5 лет назад +17

      Rip invisible cat

    • @Jesterlee995
      @Jesterlee995 5 лет назад +1

      Jebus!

    • @thomashinds3308
      @thomashinds3308 5 лет назад +16

      You laugh now but you would be wise to heed Mikael's warning, the invisible cat was once one of the greatest threats to mankind

  • @MAFiA303
    @MAFiA303 6 лет назад +1142

    if you are a musician, look into the music notes and see the amazing mastery of Opeth; they put notes that hate each other together and force them to make love.. i keep falling in love with opeth over and over

    • @MAFiA303
      @MAFiA303 6 лет назад +45

      nice words past me

    • @bithon5242
      @bithon5242 5 лет назад +93

      God, that's the most beautiful description of Opeth I read thus far.

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 5 лет назад +57

      What's great about Mikael's writing is that he always uses some "nicer" chords right after dissonant chords so it resolves nicely and you wait for the next attack of dissonance at the end of the musical phrase. This song goes crazier with the dissonance though.

    • @rsmeaton
      @rsmeaton 5 лет назад +24

      Yeah, there's a transition in Baying of the Hounds that really comes to mind when you say that - with 2 guitars playing in unison, but a minor 2nd apart.

    • @XiyuYang
      @XiyuYang 5 лет назад +29

      There’s no such thing as notes that hate each other, there are resonance and dissonance, Opeth knows how to use dissonance, that’s all there is to it.

  • @dannybearblaster7398
    @dannybearblaster7398 6 лет назад +248

    I started learning this song, and my jaw dropped when I found out that it was recorded in standard E tuning. So heavy!!!

  • @2112dim
    @2112dim 8 лет назад +261

    The ending of this song haunts me

    • @nataliee6410
      @nataliee6410 8 лет назад +5

      Right?! Ugh.

    • @GhANeC
      @GhANeC 7 лет назад +6

      the ten second ending or the whole outro?

    • @williamiceman9939
      @williamiceman9939 3 года назад +5

      @@GhANeC the part from 0:00 to 8:51 I’m sure he was referring to

    • @aaronbones4290
      @aaronbones4290 3 года назад +1

      The bass bruh the bass

    • @raulramirez9657
      @raulramirez9657 Месяц назад

      That outro is amazing

  • @Nerenthil
    @Nerenthil 8 лет назад +100

    Even this song isn't downtuned.
    Opeth is obviously doing witchcraft.

    • @toad15fan
      @toad15fan 7 лет назад +2

      Nerenthil I can believe it.

    • @HELLCHILDFAN101
      @HELLCHILDFAN101 7 лет назад

      standard E

    • @pritsky4219
      @pritsky4219 7 лет назад +16

      It's because they actually use a bass guitar.

  • @familyguy8494
    @familyguy8494 5 лет назад +443

    I wrote my PhD thesis listening to this album over and over again.

  • @dominacangelucci930
    @dominacangelucci930 9 лет назад +279

    One of the most hard hitting tracks by opeth, perfect blend of bloodbath brutality and opeth ambience.

  • @xhinoteque
    @xhinoteque 8 лет назад +358

    This song is one of the metal's finest

    • @DarkMustard1337
      @DarkMustard1337 8 лет назад +9

      i wish the cd started with this song

    • @skepticmonkey6923
      @skepticmonkey6923 7 лет назад +1

      it does...

    • @knightsolaire5348
      @knightsolaire5348 5 лет назад +6

      @@skepticmonkey6923 It starts with Coil, this is the second track

    • @skepticmonkey6923
      @skepticmonkey6923 5 лет назад +1

      @@knightsolaire5348 bit late man, between your reply and my comment ive listened to the album at least 3 times.

    • @Haxprocess
      @Haxprocess 5 лет назад +4

      @@knightsolaire5348 not sure if this is correct but i think coil is an intro to this song. Could be wrong tho

  • @SeanAmunsen
    @SeanAmunsen 10 лет назад +777

    I misread that as Hair Appointment

    • @ryankurtbass9904
      @ryankurtbass9904 10 лет назад +139

      You think that dude's wavy locks happen on accident?

    • @SeanAmunsen
      @SeanAmunsen 10 лет назад +3

      Ryan Kurt Bass hahahahahahahaha

    • @brantjensen2517
      @brantjensen2517 10 лет назад +5

      lmao, you guys win the internet!

    • @mrinalpramod913
      @mrinalpramod913 9 лет назад +55

      You would need a hair appoinment after headbanging to this.

    • @martinvanerp99
      @martinvanerp99 9 лет назад +1

      got no hair

  • @macacodorado
    @macacodorado 8 лет назад +179

    I totally love the part from 0:40. It creates this weird tension, anxiety. Where you know the heavy part is comming.

    • @OljeiKhan
      @OljeiKhan 7 лет назад +19

      As if the intro isn't heavy AS FUCK lol

    • @timirdas2905
      @timirdas2905 4 года назад +1

      Actually the most haunting part of the song..

  • @valve_girl
    @valve_girl 3 года назад +270

    Mikael Åkerfeldt mastered every genre he ever touched, death metal, prog metal, prog rock, folk, etc. He is the ONE

  • @dylans4626
    @dylans4626 8 лет назад +339

    Does it occur to people that Mikael is a Swedish Metal God

    • @binvantbajwa9101
      @binvantbajwa9101 7 лет назад +14

      He is dude! He is!!!!!

    • @marc2000z
      @marc2000z 7 лет назад +2

      The Swedish “Rob Halford”

    • @TheAskald
      @TheAskald 6 лет назад +28

      I love how he looks like the chillest guy ever, that funny skinny friend everybody has. But when he growls holy shit...

    • @joshysgyfte
      @joshysgyfte 6 лет назад +3

      He legit is

    • @icaro9382
      @icaro9382 5 лет назад +2

      yes he was

  • @Jaytecx
    @Jaytecx 7 лет назад +317

    2:30 One of the most devastatingly unholy riffs I ever did hear.

    • @samwisebagcheese7207
      @samwisebagcheese7207 5 лет назад +26

      Was...until 5:29 came around.

    • @adrianstoreide7029
      @adrianstoreide7029 5 лет назад +6

      @@samwisebagcheese7207 Alternate picking doesn't count IMO

    • @H.E.M.
      @H.E.M. 5 лет назад +17

      Za3boor but isn’t tremolo just alternate picking really fast. 😂

    • @nickforshaw4286
      @nickforshaw4286 4 года назад +2

      @@samwisebagcheese7207 love that part but not even close man. That's just a bunch of chuggas

    • @heliosophist334
      @heliosophist334 2 года назад +2

      One of my favorite riffs of all times. Such a pleasure to hear and play.

  • @yoe91
    @yoe91 9 лет назад +468

    that outro... I've rarely heard music (metal, classical, rock, wtvr..) that depicted sadness so romantically with so much simplicity, that lead is nothing technically, yet *SOOO* effective. Superb tail-riff also, awesome buildup. Pure.

    • @lordiblees
      @lordiblees 9 лет назад +38

      yoe91 Well-said. Akerfeldt has a special knack for doing outros.

    • @samiranroy2245
      @samiranroy2245 8 лет назад +1

      +yoe91 This was the best explanation for the outro.:D

    • @GhANeC
      @GhANeC 7 лет назад +20

      Funny, I don't get that sadness or romanticness vibe off of that outro at all.
      Specially compared to such other songs like Isolation Years or Faith In Others.
      I do find it very beautifully melodic, though. Awesome riff. Mikael has always been a master of those.

    • @MegaTattoo79
      @MegaTattoo79 7 лет назад +9

      This one is great, but the outro of "Floods" by Pantera is my favourite! Dimebag's essence.R.i.p.

    • @pfisterbuddy
      @pfisterbuddy 6 лет назад +8

      These guys are master composers. The Mozart and Beethoven’s of our time.

  • @NickMenzaofficial
    @NickMenzaofficial 9 лет назад +93

    This is produced by Steve Wilson . Huge tones on everything. Great Mix. the drums are massive . The best sounding tones on this album .

    • @DentApSten
      @DentApSten 9 лет назад +35

      NICK MENZA Actually only Blackwater park, Damnation and Deliverance are produced by mister Wilson. Jens Bogren produced Watershed and Ghost Reveries.

    • @ancientruinsofficial
      @ancientruinsofficial 9 лет назад +1

      Hey Menza, this is Paul from Ancient Ruins from the LA OC area. I would love to play some shows with you and get you in the studio. Looking for a permanent drummer. I'll send you over a track ( Evil will always pervail ) let me no if it's your style of music.. Its a comanation of Iced earth, Death and Iron Maiden. Definitely looking forward to hearing from you or just you thoughts...Thank You for your Time.

    • @rodrigoandrade3715
      @rodrigoandrade3715 9 лет назад +1

      NICK MENZA Steven Wilson "just" mixed the album, not produced

    • @SirRunk666
      @SirRunk666 9 лет назад +1

      +NICK MENZA Jens Bogren produced it.

    • @rahbeat9785
      @rahbeat9785 9 лет назад

      +NICK MENZA
      hey man . what do you mean "tones " ??

  • @dawidjezierski3434
    @dawidjezierski3434 8 лет назад +80

    Don't get me wrong, but after all the brutality going on in this track, the ending is like a well-deserved clearance that gives you goosebumps from outer space... nails me every single time!!!

    • @Daniel.Miranda
      @Daniel.Miranda 4 года назад

      It's like a well deserved bonus stage for listening to such a mester piece

  • @racewiththefalcons1
    @racewiththefalcons1 8 лет назад +707

    Opeth's most brutal song.

    • @edamix3184
      @edamix3184 8 лет назад +6

      +racewiththefalcons1 And most awesome !

    • @tymongoji
      @tymongoji 8 лет назад +76

      Also their only song to feature no clean vocals of any kind.

    • @chrisstone-streetlightinte5629
      @chrisstone-streetlightinte5629 8 лет назад +21

      +tymongoji I never thought about that before...it really is there only song to feature nothing but growling.

    • @lorenzopratolli6877
      @lorenzopratolli6877 8 лет назад +244

      +Christopher Brickwedde That's not true, there are a few Opeth songs without cleans. Blackwater Park is the biggest example.

    • @mrdeathamore
      @mrdeathamore 8 лет назад +64

      +racewiththefalcons1 Serenity Painted Death imo.

  • @whrussy
    @whrussy 4 года назад +92

    I love this song for a lot of reasons -- but I also see it as Mikael's last hurrah when it comes to death metal. I know there were other heavy songs on the album, but because this was their last death metal album, and this was not only the heaviest song on it, but one of the only songs ever of theirs to feature no cleans, I have to imagine he was like "Okay, I'm going to write my last death metal song ever, and this is going to be one of my best". That's what I tell myself.

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 3 года назад +15

      Considering they were planning to write another prog death album after this, but scrapped it halfway through the process, this is most likely not what happened. But it certainly feels that way.

    • @PacdemonStudios1
      @PacdemonStudios1 Месяц назад

      ​@@toprak3479that puts it more in a place of "I've exhausted every corner of death metal that I can find" and I respect that he decided he didn't want to retread old ground

    • @raulramirez9657
      @raulramirez9657 Месяц назад

      And he’s back growling again!

  • @xhinoteque
    @xhinoteque 6 лет назад +60

    This song is a masterclass in how to write a heavy song

  • @CarlosOliveira-jp3yx
    @CarlosOliveira-jp3yx 7 лет назад +58

    7:21 Opeth melody ® max quality

    • @tremal-naik7897
      @tremal-naik7897 5 лет назад +6

      Reminds me of past albums.classic sound.

  • @EinarGudjonMarinosson
    @EinarGudjonMarinosson 7 лет назад +97

    Mikael is a god. These tempo changes and riffs are simply way ahead of us and far away from where anyone else is today.

    • @jshaw1503
      @jshaw1503 6 лет назад +3

      Scriptorification those are both fantastic suggestions, I’m gonna throw animals as leaders in there as well. Btbam is such a good fucking band.

    • @jooplin
      @jooplin 5 лет назад +1

      @Klangedin Morgan Honestly it's good new music but it just doesn't scratch the itch, never had goosebumps

    • @marcusking8507
      @marcusking8507 4 года назад +1

      Great call with BtBaM; Parallax II and Automata are easily on the level of Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries.

    • @DonSampa
      @DonSampa 4 года назад +5

      @@marcusking8507 not even close

    • @truthseeking3818
      @truthseeking3818 2 года назад +2

      Mikael is a fantastic musician… but FAR from a God.
      There is only one God. Nobody could ever compare to the infinite one.

  • @Brokenscam
    @Brokenscam 9 лет назад +173

    This song is so heavy, it does not compare to the feeling of being hit by a ton of bricks nor is it similar to the pain of being hit by a tank, the only thing that is equivalent to the heaviness of this song is the one of the most powerful forces in this world and that is adulthood... And everybody knows that once you get hit by adulthood, you are never the same again.

    • @ieatplaydo
      @ieatplaydo 9 лет назад +11

      BrokensCam so it's about as metal as adulthood is what you're saying?

    • @Brokenscam
      @Brokenscam 9 лет назад +13

      Hello, my friend, thank you so much, for responding to my previous statement; when I made this comment, I was trying to compose a metaphor, on the impact that this song has on me as a member of the audience, because I think in my opinion that this has not only change my view on music of genre but on music in general, which is a change that is forever unchangeable, like the progression of adulthood.

    • @ieatplaydo
      @ieatplaydo 9 лет назад +11

      BrokensCam ha, what a pleasant and eloquent comment. Cheers!

    • @Brokenscam
      @Brokenscam 9 лет назад +11

      Thank you so much, it has been an honour and a privilege speaking to you, thank you.

    • @louiscritchie
      @louiscritchie 9 лет назад +7

      BrokensCam Yes, exactly BrokensCam! Once you see the beauty in heavy music, you can never un-see it.

  • @thetribalist6923
    @thetribalist6923 Год назад +62

    My favorite folk band of all time.

    • @josuemoran16
      @josuemoran16 Год назад +6

      Opeth Is Death Metal! Swedish Death Metal from Orchid to Ghost Reveries which are the best albums

    • @youreokayboah2128
      @youreokayboah2128 Год назад +9

      @@josuemoran16
      Very much so,
      Progressive death metal.

    • @Esmeagolly
      @Esmeagolly Год назад +3

      @@youreokayboah2128the fun thing with progressive is anything goes and reprisals.

    • @DMT1985
      @DMT1985 Год назад

      isfolk!

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 Год назад +1

      Yeah Watershed is definitely my favourite hardstyle / trance album

  • @goodndead8064
    @goodndead8064 8 лет назад +132

    The intro riff is so evil may face gets stuck in a huge psycho smile.

    • @sonricssss
      @sonricssss 5 лет назад

      Accurate profile picture haha
      Have you listened to Flesh & Metal from the new DOOM game? And the Cyberdemon one, or Rip & Tear. Check them out

    • @cowboycalicojakk9685
      @cowboycalicojakk9685 3 года назад

      samsies...

  • @Jartny
    @Jartny 8 лет назад +100

    Gotta love the tritone

    • @randytauren
      @randytauren 8 лет назад +9

      one of the most beautiful things in music

    • @TheAskald
      @TheAskald 6 лет назад +4

      I love how it's just three notes but you can make an infinite amount of memorable riffs with it.

    • @Danmashinigamikuro
      @Danmashinigamikuro 6 лет назад +10

      +TheAskald A tritone is two notes, it's the name of an interval.

    • @TheAskald
      @TheAskald 6 лет назад +3

      Barri cade I was talking about the tritone interval actually, it's true that it's just an interval between 2 notes, but it's often used twice at the same time (0-1-2 on E A D string or 7-8-9). It never gets old.

    • @Danmashinigamikuro
      @Danmashinigamikuro 6 лет назад +1

      That would also be two notes as adding another tritone would make you end up on the octave.

  • @sadvvitch
    @sadvvitch 8 месяцев назад +10

    someone need to make a lovecraftian horror movie and get opeth on the soundtrack

  • @psychonautseventen2249
    @psychonautseventen2249 Год назад +40

    this is one of the heaviest songs ever made

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 Год назад +4

      The intro's gotta be among the top 5 heaviest standard tuning riffs

    • @almost3869
      @almost3869 Год назад

      Can't forget Deliverance

    • @youreokayboah2128
      @youreokayboah2128 Год назад +1

      @@toprak3479
      Even in standard tuning, it blows most black metal out the water that’s for sure.

    • @fifthhoven
      @fifthhoven Год назад

      @@youreokayboah2128 Black Metal ain't not heavy be, but at most strangely groovy. Death Metal doth the heaviness hath.

    • @DMT1985
      @DMT1985 Год назад

      meshugga strenght can dual with it, but yeah!uright

  • @BTBAM819
    @BTBAM819 5 лет назад +9

    I love how heavy this song is. This song features some of Mikael's best growling for sure.

    • @Celestial_Being666
      @Celestial_Being666 Год назад +1

      Compared to like Blackwater Park? No way

    • @BTBAM819
      @BTBAM819 Год назад +2

      @@Celestial_Being666 No need to compare them. This song is heavy on its own beautiful way. But of course, nothing beats Blackwater

  • @lucasmoreno3213
    @lucasmoreno3213 8 лет назад +35

    When i first discovered this song my neck was sore for a week

  • @morganpierce7720
    @morganpierce7720 7 лет назад +61

    this song is awesome while lifting.. also recommend oldschool gojira

    • @paulpv7
      @paulpv7 6 лет назад +4

      'L Enfant Sauvage' and 'The Heaviest Matter of the Universe' will make you lift twice as heavy at least.

    • @francismcalister7811
      @francismcalister7811 6 лет назад +6

      If it's old gojira we're talking about, I'd recommend Clone/Lizard Skin/Fire is Everything as well

    • @ricardomartins3791
      @ricardomartins3791 3 года назад

      @@francismcalister7811 and Space Time

    • @NooDLES411911
      @NooDLES411911 3 года назад +1

      New gojira is good as well though but yeah the vocals were a bit more brutal in their early days.

    • @thegallyfreyanfujoshi3389
      @thegallyfreyanfujoshi3389 3 года назад +1

      @@francismcalister7811 If you want older stuff, listen to Possessed or Victim, they were Godzilla at the time. Even heavier.

  • @joshuaaurien3514
    @joshuaaurien3514 8 лет назад +183

    Best song on Watershed.

    • @spodermanVEVO
      @spodermanVEVO 8 лет назад +66

      hessian peel

    • @Doener2go
      @Doener2go 8 лет назад +9

      i cant decide which song is best, because every song on this album is so awesome

    • @GhANeC
      @GhANeC 7 лет назад +45

      I find The Lotus Eater to be one of Opeth's best and most accomplished songs ever.

    • @jackrobber2527
      @jackrobber2527 7 лет назад +9

      you are all wrong - the best one is still Black Rose Immortal xDD

    • @matiasbazaese.7725
      @matiasbazaese.7725 7 лет назад +81

      When everyone names different songs, you realize that it's a great album.

  • @Neuffey
    @Neuffey 5 лет назад +77

    Opeth is proof that if you down tune your guitar, you're not heavy enough.

    • @foolishball9155
      @foolishball9155 11 месяцев назад +3

      This song is in standard tuning and one of the heaviest songs ever

    • @PacdemonStudios1
      @PacdemonStudios1 Месяц назад

      If you *have to downtune your guitars, always do a standard tuning check of your downtuned riffs to make sure they're not whack

  • @adrianstoreide7029
    @adrianstoreide7029 5 лет назад +41

    SO MANY YEARS TO CLEAN THE PLATES

    • @lije927
      @lije927 4 года назад

      Adrian Storeide 🤣

    • @petegrusky2715
      @petegrusky2715 4 года назад +2

      "What happened to a life-guard" - Deliverance. ;)

    • @Carguylogan
      @Carguylogan 3 года назад +2

      "I will outrun this guy" April Ethereal

    • @Haxprocess
      @Haxprocess 2 года назад

      "There is a penis I am certain" - Master's Apprentices

    • @tikhongilson3770
      @tikhongilson3770 7 месяцев назад

      So many years to pray to Satan.

  • @dcourt2724
    @dcourt2724 5 лет назад +8

    Possibly the heaviest band I've heard in standard tuning. The drumming on this track(like so many others) is fucking immense !

  • @Yashiro-nene_dies
    @Yashiro-nene_dies 10 лет назад +194

    This has to be the best death metal song ever.

    • @maxpain8569
      @maxpain8569 5 лет назад +12

      Ezequiel Santos Symbolic

    • @isaacsalsberry417
      @isaacsalsberry417 4 года назад +6

      My picks gotta be left hand path by entombed

    • @dominicross96
      @dominicross96 4 года назад +2

      not really death metal. I can't classify opeth, so I just call it metal.

    • @Yashiro-nene_dies
      @Yashiro-nene_dies 4 года назад +31

      @@dominicross96 they've been classified as progressive death metal.

    • @joshuachristopher9039
      @joshuachristopher9039 2 года назад +1

      Your so wrong...opeth has other songs aswell😉

  • @nescaudrummer
    @nescaudrummer 2 года назад +24

    Started listening to Opeth way back in high school, around 2011~2012, for literally a decade. I started with their 'metal' era with, beginning with "Ghost Reveries", which made me go down a rabbit hole and listen to everything they'd released. In this decade of constantly following up with their sound, they were there during my ups and downs, helping in so many aspects of my life, metal-wise.
    I had to deal with personal issues, I felt lonely a bunch of times in those years, and even struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts. Opeth's music to me was an escape from reality, I could always go back and find comfort, I felt connected with so many of Mikael's lyrics, it made me rethink my life decisions and start to improve.
    Thankfully I've found a way to deal with my inner problems and traced a well tough path for my life. I managed to overcome my depression, which I never felt ever again so far, managed to get my bachelor's degree, and started to take care of my body by eating healthy, exercise and and stopping using drugs. And all and all never abandoned listening to their music. It helped me a lot. I mean it.
    Got me an Opeth tattoo on my arm, I dunno, I am grateful for knowing this band, thankful for all the good times I had with them, and plus, ITS FUCKING AWESOME
    In ten years, I have not been able to attend an Opeth concert, because they rarely played in my hometown, Sao Paulo, Brazil. And this was on my bucket list, for years I've been wanting to see them live for the first time.
    But the universe granted me my wish, next year, on February 8th, 2023, Opeth will play a gig in Sao Paulo and guess what, I got the tickets!!!! I am so happy that I will watch my favorite band for the very first time!!!! I feel so good
    Thank you, Opeth

    • @jocelynadkins3320
      @jocelynadkins3320 Год назад +1

      You are in for a real treat. They are amazing live. I also have the O tattoo.

    • @anselmohenrique7289
      @anselmohenrique7289 Год назад +1

      Po mano, que foda! É incrível o poder da música na vida de uma pessoa. Felizmente ou infelizmente, conheci Opeth há poucos meses (queria ter conhecido eles antes) e todo dia fico impressionado com o som dos caras. Os caras são mestres demais. Espero que o show tenha sido top.

    • @tikhongilson3770
      @tikhongilson3770 7 месяцев назад

      The Opeth logo must be a killer tat.

  • @TheKentuckyBibleIncident
    @TheKentuckyBibleIncident 7 лет назад +47

    Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus Christ has returned to earth in the form of Mikael Akerfeldt.

  • @whrussy
    @whrussy 8 лет назад +60

    My favourite Opeth song. It's a tough call, but I always come back to this one. Brutal as fuck.

  • @The_Nightman_Knives
    @The_Nightman_Knives 9 лет назад +25

    6:41 is one of the greatest things I've ever heard

  • @demonizer123
    @demonizer123 7 лет назад +51

    YES! They played this song last week here! And to top it off, their closing song was Deliverance. I felt like I was on music heaven.
    Thank you Opeth.

    • @gozdeylmaz2977
      @gozdeylmaz2977 3 года назад +1

      Reading this during pandemic... I hope we go back to these days.

  • @KilianxFire27
    @KilianxFire27 8 лет назад +24

    Drums at 4:10 are insane

    • @BossDrSample
      @BossDrSample 7 лет назад +4

      Not really, it's just fast double bass.

    • @eduardomelo6046
      @eduardomelo6046 7 лет назад +5

      he is not wrong though

    • @lucasbrucas9632
      @lucasbrucas9632 6 лет назад

      Eduardo Melo It also is fast in the hands and played clearly and flawlessly, so it isn't _just_ fast double bass.

    • @ferdelance.
      @ferdelance. 6 лет назад

      If you like that drumming listen to the deliverance album haha it's fucking brilliant.

  • @finnthehu200
    @finnthehu200 7 лет назад +25

    7:20 I want this to be played at my funeral.

  • @vishyonkeys
    @vishyonkeys 8 лет назад +33

    2:30 - 3:30 , Brilliant portion in the song... What a groove, and then again what a solo following it!

    • @bettastudios7078
      @bettastudios7078 3 года назад

      couldn't agree more

    • @frugihoyi
      @frugihoyi Год назад

      It's one of the best metal riffs ever written, if not the best.

  • @sjn_
    @sjn_ 2 года назад +18

    Watershed will always remain one of my favorite albums. This album has some of the best memories attached to it.

    • @ved2859
      @ved2859 10 месяцев назад

      I remember seeing them at the glass house at a sold out show right after this album came out 👌

    • @eon14873
      @eon14873 4 месяца назад

      Going on cycle rides in the countryside very stoned with this in my ears. Magic

  • @dalchimsky
    @dalchimsky 8 лет назад +13

    Not even the most insignificant flaw, boring or misplaced note here.

  • @reflectallbutwhite9839
    @reflectallbutwhite9839 6 лет назад +29

    The production on this album is just amazing.

  • @vicrattlehead6386
    @vicrattlehead6386 5 лет назад +25

    All Opeth album covers... it looks like the photos are taken in Silent hill.

  • @lordiblees
    @lordiblees 8 лет назад +24

    God that outro is really something from another dimension. Every single member of the band, from Axe to Mendez, is so prominent during that section, playing their parts with such excellence. Absolutely, hauntingly magnificent piece.

  • @AnaClaudia-qr5cq
    @AnaClaudia-qr5cq 8 лет назад +24

    Nossa minha música preferida ouço para dormir...♥

  • @6Mega6Man6
    @6Mega6Man6 9 лет назад +63

    By far my favorite Opeth album. Such an excellent release. that fucking production too

    • @MrJordwalk
      @MrJordwalk 9 лет назад +2

      Isis are also an amazing band! Panopticon and Wavering Radiant are two of my favourite albums of all time.

    • @UntEyEHero
      @UntEyEHero 9 лет назад +10

      My favorite Opeth album is STILL LIFE.

    • @6Mega6Man6
      @6Mega6Man6 9 лет назад

      Cole Jordan
      WR is deep. Took like 5 listens before I "got it"

    • @Anan66157
      @Anan66157 9 лет назад +5

      Deliverance

    • @LostCake94
      @LostCake94 9 лет назад +3

      Endless Static I agree, Watershed is my favourite too. Everything in this album is in balance, both the death metal and the prog rock elements

  • @rael2099
    @rael2099 3 года назад +9

    Opeth's best album, contrary to popular opinion.

  • @brosephh7130
    @brosephh7130 7 месяцев назад +2

    5:43 is just ridiculously good
    Taken that clip out of context, you could mistake it for Deicide or Cattle Decapitation.

  • @armandsbriedis4482
    @armandsbriedis4482 6 лет назад +13

    Darkness is so comfortable and this song is a perfect companion at 3 am while writing with a single candle lit and tripping hard on lsd. Great artists.

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 2 года назад +9

    Hair Appointment is probably my favourite song by Opeth. It doesn't have any weak points or gets bogged down in repetition.

  • @iqless7313
    @iqless7313 3 года назад +6

    cool detail: he says "heir ap" on the left and then "parent" on the right at 5:28

  • @RoddSantiago
    @RoddSantiago 10 лет назад +27

    This song hits like a truck

  • @eljapi9346
    @eljapi9346 8 лет назад +16

    4:39 holy shit

    • @redemption3111
      @redemption3111 7 лет назад +2

      Stragos how can anyone put such a fine melody of different tones together in a so perfect way is beyond me... That 4:39 part is definitely my fav.

  • @TalonsOfFire
    @TalonsOfFire 10 лет назад +27

    So epic, best song on the record.

  • @NickMenzaofficial
    @NickMenzaofficial 10 лет назад +42

    crushing all !

    • @yigitzeren714
      @yigitzeren714 9 лет назад +1

      Oh, happy to here Nick, i dont know, you are listen Opeth really?

  • @francescoguerra3288
    @francescoguerra3288 5 лет назад +11

    It's already 10 years that I'm listening to this. Never got tired of this song, of this album or even of everything ever done by Opeth.

  • @DanQuijote777
    @DanQuijote777 10 лет назад +19

    i hear coil and this song and i can only relate to tristram from diablo

    • @MrJordwalk
      @MrJordwalk 9 лет назад +4

      I know right! and when the warrior drives the soulstone into his forehead......

    • @toxendon
      @toxendon 9 лет назад

      +Cole Jordan Woohoo I am not alone!

    • @bossmoth9920
      @bossmoth9920 4 года назад

      YES

  • @daduka
    @daduka 4 месяца назад

    This band is something else!

  • @BTBAM819
    @BTBAM819 5 лет назад +8

    Heir Apparent, Blackwater Park and The Grand Cojuration must be my three favorite metal songs ever. And all three from the same band. Way to go Opeth!

  • @aaronbones4290
    @aaronbones4290 3 года назад +9

    Remember that moment when you were listening to this for the first time and you thought the song was over at 7:16
    Then it hit you like life? Yep me too

    • @Heatwave9000
      @Heatwave9000 Год назад

      I like the ending but it doesn't fit the song.

  • @Ahmed---f9291
    @Ahmed---f9291 6 лет назад +12

    I just love how they hit you with this beast right after Coil.

  • @kevincambronero2673
    @kevincambronero2673 3 года назад +4

    I did a vocal cover of this song, if anyone wants to check it out. Thanks!

  • @Firex00
    @Firex00 4 года назад +6

    4:39 kinda reminds me of King Crimson. Also best part of the song hands down

  • @charlesajones77
    @charlesajones77 4 месяца назад

    "So many years to clean the slate"
    I've heard this song at least a dozen times, and I always thought he was saying "So many ways to pray to Satan". I'm glad I was wrong.

  • @seanradford5766
    @seanradford5766 2 года назад +8

    Listening in 2022, 8 years later and this album hasn't aged a minute.

  • @kisielekrlz
    @kisielekrlz 4 года назад +10

    4:08 beautiful, just beautiful

  • @ruinsane100
    @ruinsane100 5 лет назад +22

    My husband has been instructed that, if I am on my deathbed and unable to communicate, he is to play a predetermined soundtrack that includes this song. I want to hear this during my final moments of life so that my soul finds its escape through divine resonance. The dissonance is energetically identical to my brainwaves.

    • @teamatfort444
      @teamatfort444 4 года назад

      wow that is both beautiful and dark
      also do you have voice of the soul by death on that playlist? it would make a great fit

    • @ezekielgoldbergstein857
      @ezekielgoldbergstein857 Год назад

      You are a wonderful woman

  • @andrevilarc
    @andrevilarc 8 лет назад +13

    Lo genial de esta cancion tan pesada es que esta en E Standar Tuning *…*

  • @heromoide4178
    @heromoide4178 7 лет назад +35

    I really prefer the old Opeth, the way that everything can change in a few second can't feel the same with the new albums. I miss you Opeth but I respect your choice

    • @ragegrowler8367
      @ragegrowler8367 5 лет назад +5

      Same here and I have this saying even though Opeth used to be a death metal band they can make songs that are heavy without the death growls.

  • @morganfreeman9456
    @morganfreeman9456 6 лет назад +5

    I just discovered this band and all I can say is fuck yeahhhhhhhh

    • @AlkaC9
      @AlkaC9 6 лет назад

      Morgan Freeman Welcome to Opeth my friend. I must say, I envy you for being your first time listening to the band.
      Enjoy your trip.

  • @2014andon
    @2014andon 10 лет назад +15

    Just another perfect song.... wow

  • @cobraimploder
    @cobraimploder 4 года назад +5

    Everybody's talking about the vocals and guitars, but holy fucking fuckballs, Axenrot totally assassinated this track!

  • @williambollmann
    @williambollmann 2 года назад +6

    All I can say is that this song is heavy as balls and has some of the best growling I've heard in a long time, it's definitely a 9/10 for me and is one of my favorite Opeth songs besides maybe bleak or isolation years.

  • @valejkinas2900
    @valejkinas2900 2 года назад +4

    I think they are Bach, Mozart or Beethoven, name it, in compositional way. Whatever you hear else, is just not, most likely ,a match in terms of how high value is Opeth's compositions. Whatever music is, it has to be creative, beautiful, and insightful like this is.

  • @yigitzeren714
    @yigitzeren714 9 лет назад +12

    That changing on end of the song, incredible..

  • @aggelosmanolis5689
    @aggelosmanolis5689 Год назад +7

    This album is very underrated it's one of their best ones imo

  • @ahnusenuse3309
    @ahnusenuse3309 4 года назад +8

    This is for me the best outro in any Opeth song. Even better than Deliverance, Reverie/Harlequin Forest, The Drapery Falls or Demon Of the Fall.

    • @amanshelare719
      @amanshelare719 4 года назад +3

      Same feelings man. Goosebumps material

    • @alessandromariani99
      @alessandromariani99 Год назад +2

      This, Burden and Leper Affinity.

    • @raulramirez9657
      @raulramirez9657 Месяц назад

      The Drapery Falls, April Ethereal, Under The Weeping Moon and This.

  • @lukaweiss9147
    @lukaweiss9147 2 года назад +1

    6:22 my favorite Mikael Scream ever

  • @FightingTiranny
    @FightingTiranny 6 лет назад +11

    a masterpiece of modern metalry

  • @stepitupandgo67
    @stepitupandgo67 5 лет назад +5

    I so love the deconstruction at 7:03 and then back to such a beautiful strong melody...just really great writing and great musicianship....

  • @alexparadise91
    @alexparadise91 3 года назад +4

    Opeth use the most elegant and beautiful chords and weave such tragic yet lovely melodies. The outro is a wonderful example. These guys are the real deal. I’m incredibly inspired by their music

  • @mg8224
    @mg8224 8 месяцев назад +2

    Ive listened to all extreme metal genres but never heard such monsterous,savage, animalistic riff. And its in standard tuning.
    The whole song is one big metal masterpiece. Opeth is speccial

  • @BretherPadraig
    @BretherPadraig 5 лет назад +5

    Is anybody willing to make an hour long loop video for the outro bit that goes from 7.21 onward?

  • @tylerroland1115
    @tylerroland1115 8 месяцев назад +1

    5:28 Mikael subtly drops the song title-just noticed!

  • @dunkelheit8594
    @dunkelheit8594 3 года назад +4

    "standard tuning can't be heavy" Blasphemy

  • @LordSummerIsle73
    @LordSummerIsle73 2 года назад

    Easily one of the best opeth songs

  • @silverphoenix_1756
    @silverphoenix_1756 2 года назад +4

    7:20 Best thing you can get after an outro like that!
    Heavy, melodic, soulful riffs.

  • @liamkely4846
    @liamkely4846 Год назад +6

    Heir Apparent is a masterpiece nothing comes close to Watershed

  • @castimbayarozarabatanio5754
    @castimbayarozarabatanio5754 6 лет назад +6

    A burden so great
    Weighs heavy on old and withered beliefs
    The swift solution crumbles
    Beneath the mock notes of a masterpiece.

    • @xhinoteque
      @xhinoteque 6 лет назад

      DeLucena SDMF Beautiful

    • @ragegrowler8367
      @ragegrowler8367 5 лет назад

      Death in his eyes, waiting
      Spiraling judgement, provoked in the rains

  • @keithgabbard3539
    @keithgabbard3539 Месяц назад +1

    I have experienced a LOT of fine metal music during my 50 years on this earth but Watershed is truly something very special in my opinion . Subtle almost quiet moments to face melting and everything in between Opeth creates the best .