"For 'My Arms, Your Hearse' it was like a ghost story. The basic theme was that this person dies. He's kind of reborn as a ghost, and he stays in the same environment. He sees his loved ones, like family members and friends, going on with their lives. It's almost like a film - what's it called? The Sixth Sense - he doesn't understand that he is dead - but I wrote it actually before the Sixth Sense came out. It's almost like a film." - Mikael Akerfeldt
You need an *_Opeth day_* like you did with Metallica. They have such a vast discography with one amazing song after the other, and experiencing one every 12th month just isn't realistic, and listening to the albums off camera would be such a waste :)
The album is from the perspective of a recently departed person. He finds himself lingering in the land, soon lamenting as he watches his lover continue life, which gives him the false sensation that she has betrayed him. This track is his terror and rage as he strives to make his presence known, after being unable to do so previously. The song turns as she flees his and he grasps the reality of the situation. The next (and final) 2 tracks brilliantly paint the picture of his evolution from this phase of excruciating denial, to numb existence, to rapturous departure at the end of “Karma.” The gorgeous way this album culminates has literally had me in tears more than once.
Interesting fact: Every song on this album ends with the title of the next song. E.g. the last word of Demon of the Fall is credence, the next(and also very good) song on the album.
The digital streaming one has a cover song at the end... I hate when bands put a cover song after a concept album! The point being, it wrecks the song lead-ins lol
"when" is my favorite track from the album. The entire album is amazing though, even the cover songs at the end (remember tomorrow by Iron Maiden and Circle of The Tyrants by Celtic Frost) it's a concept album and this song makes more sense in context of course you guys need to listen to all three of Opeth's concept albums. My Arms, Your Hearse; Still Life; and Ghost Reveries
Mine's April Ethereal :) .. this is a close 2nd (maybe tied for 2nd with Blackwater Park) for me in the Opeth catalogue - Still Life being the first. So many great songs especially in that 3 album run.
@@ayeewtasko2601 I nearly cried when they played the Bathory Aria and Malice through the looking Glass - the only blemish on the set was no Dusk and Her Embrace - and you know where I've been hiding - family life!
Jason Kramer my native tongue? That would be Arabic. When I was a kid I used to hangout at this place where we would smoke cigarettes and play LAN-parties (Counter Strike, red alert.. etc) not sure how I ended up at Opeth’s MySpace page and I wasn’t familiar with MySpace let alone the internet. But, there were free songs and I kept listening. Advent was the first Song I Listened to and when he goes “time grows short” I almost got blasted out of my seat by the sheer viciousness of the growl.. good times! After that, I would go on to listen to Opeth every day - still do!
This is my favorite Opeth song! This song and the album it's on are so good. I used to sit for hours in the evening on my front steps in the summer about 19 years ago, just listening to this on CD on repeat.
@@ruinsane100 - Hardly underrated imo. Every I know that listens to Death Metal knows of, and praises, Bloodbath fairly often. @Steve Conley - It certainly is, though that one, as you probably know, was sung by Peter Tägtgren. My first experience with Bloodbath was coincidentally with Nightmares Made Flesh.
I remember the first time i heard Bloodbath. It was back around 99/2000. They only had Breeding Death EP out. I came home that day with about 30 cds from a pawn shop which was a regular thing for me. I always found rare cds back then and Bloodbath was 1 of them and been a fan ever since that ep. Still my favorite release.
am I the only one who thinks morningrise album owns them all? "Black rose immortal" and "The night and the silent water" are the best two songs they ever did in my opinion.
Underrated album for sure, Morningrise is one of my favorite Opeth releases. It doesn't get much love though - probably because it's very atmospheric and progressive.
Old school Opeth is the best Opeth for sure. Gotta listen to the song In Mist She Was Standing, it has some of the most badass riffing of any song ever written.
Now this is the Opeth i love. I remember 1 of my bandmates giving me this cd back in 2001 for a graduation present. My favorite album will always be Morningrise. I've been following them since 97.
I have been an Opeth fan for 20+ years... still my favorite band. The beginning of this song (right before the lyrics come in) is such a chilling harmonic phase, it's amazing. The end, equally good (during/after the "run away, run away") part. But especially the beginning, which I feel is easily overlooked until you've heard the song a few times. Other Opeth songs that have insane harmonic passages and just generally amazing sounds are The Night and the Silent Water (from Morningrise), and The Twilight is My Robe (from Orchid). So many amazing guitar harmonies that are in themselves, unique. You will hear them and realize no other song has these chord progressions. Yet they sound amazing.
My friend from high school covered this song on his graduation from music college, or something like that lol. He's now in Oceans Of Slumber, so I guess things worked out pretty well for him lmao. That's another band you guys should do, btw. They're a doom/prog band from here in Houston.
Literally one of my favorite top ten albums of all time. And that's saying a lot. I have 2000+ albums since I started collecting as a teen w/ my first job.
I’m proud to say I saw these guys with their classic lineup from this album, Still Life, Blackwater Park, and Deliverance. I saw them on Devildriver’s first tour. They played this song, too. I miss their original formula (more extreme), but I love Opeth regardless.
@Dry Ferr This is Opeth, trust me I take no offense! That song just has every single element that makes them so legendary. I’m sure me and you could sit and talk for hours of the countless songs/albums that are just pure bliss not to mention the mind blowing and almost overshadowing covers such as Remember Tomorrow, Soldier of Fortune, and Would just to name a few. Then there’s “Damnation” 😍😍🤩
I'm still trying to learn to appreciate the death growls. Songs like Ghost of Perdition are good mixtures of the new and old styles and easier to absorb. Personally I prefer the newer proggy stuff with clean vocals though.
Heresy! But I get it - I got into early Opeth first, so naturally I don't really like much after the Ghosts of Perdition album, ironically- I'm the same with the band Death - love their later work, not so much a fan of the early stuff (even though it's probably more important in terms musical history). For Death growls - I've always said that I consider them to be another instrument, for most bands- the lyrics aren't so much a concern for me as the delivery and how the delivery makes me feel. In this - Mikael is delivering an absolute masterclass in growling - you can hear the emotion, the tortured Soul, pain and anguish is the growl, the subtle variation (which can take time to attune your ears to) in each phrase. For some bands - who I love the vocals for and I've loved for ages - I still have no idea as to what the lyrics are, because they aren't relevant to how the delivery makes me feel.
As an old school Opeth fan since the 90s, it's so good to see you react to the music and it's physical effects (like the chills). Just like when I first heard them. Very cool.
I think you NEED to do this entire album in one video! This used to be their main Encore in gigs back in the 2000s. Reverse the intro, it is backmasked on the song! That snippet is from a live gig from their early days! Here in Australia, the safe seasons are Autumn and Winter.... SUMMER is the season of DEATH! *fires everywhere.......*
this album changed my life when it came out. it is a perfect album to listen to in a severe blizzard in the middle of the night on a very remote road in northern lattitudes.
Wow Opeth again! Thank you! Opeth combines the sinister and the artistic like no other! Absolute masters in songwriting. Loved your reaction. It was almost like a Dan Brown novel as you tried to uncover the real meaning of the poem and that aha moment when you discovered he is a ghost! Like solving a puzzle!
If you guys like Opeth, check out the masterpiece that is song "Back to Times of Splendor" by Disillusion (from the album of the same name as the song). It's a long one, but it's truly an incredibly rewarding musical journey.
You guys should do a reaction to the faceless - autotheim movement 1,2 & 3. I'd be interested in hearing your opinions of Michael Keene's lyrics against religion, not to mention the dude is probably one of the best guitarists in the genre.
I used to believe this song was all just an allegory for seasonal affective disorder, very common in Scandinavia. The Demon of the Fall is the haunting sense of the coming depression. The silent dance with death is depression. Dagger close at hand is the booze / meds / coping device. Turning to face the demon for the first time is becoming self aware and seeking help. That's the turn point to real resolution. I'm wrong but it sounds cool.
You guys really gotta do Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse full albums. They are quite the experience. They are much more organic and ethnic maybe? More so than everything that came later, for sure.
Still only scratching the surface of Opeth. You need to listen to the early albums in their entirety, they're mostly concept albums. Listen to Still Life already!
Yes! Yes! Yes! All credit goes to that one user (forgot the name), who had been relentlessly requesting a reaction to this song for ages, and I wished for the same.
The album is basically is a ghost story and this song tells the part where he tries to kill her to be with her in the afterlife (they were a couple and this is what he's been trying to do for the entire album) but what he does is make her afraid and run away from the house and lost any feelings or mourning she had for him. Or at least that's how I interpret the song
My Arms, Your Hearse is a full concept album. It starts with the protagonist dying and his ghost following his girlfriend around. Eventually, she ends up with another man and that's where this song comes into play where the protagonist manifests and tried to murder her but eventually doesn't follow through.
This album is definitely worthy of a full reaction. The album is a concept album of a ghost returning to his love one. This is the 6th song in the story. Truly one of there many masterpieces
Vin should re-listen to Harlequin Forest without the ending. Give it a few spins and then slowly put the ending in there. He keeps saying he couldn't stand that song but the truth is he just didn't like the ending.
The man is a ghost, like you were saying, but he doesn't kill her or anything. Metal doesn't always need to be violent! The woman was his lover. He's been trying to communicate with her (i.e. haunting her) because he still loves her, but he's scaring her. She knows it's him but she's just trying to move on with her life and he keeps interfering. He feels betrayed by this --hence the line about her "false love" for him. He becomes frustrated by this and appears before her in a form that she can see, but it only makes things worse. She runs away traumatized, full of pure hate. Left all by himself, he realizes that he's tarnished her view of him forever, and he's left to wander in limbo all alone. In the context of this song and its final lyric, "credence" means "acceptance." 😭
"For 'My Arms, Your Hearse' it was like a ghost story. The basic theme
was that this person dies. He's kind of reborn as a ghost, and he stays
in the same environment. He sees his loved ones, like family members and
friends, going on with their lives. It's almost like a film - what's it
called? The Sixth Sense - he doesn't understand that he is dead - but I
wrote it actually before the Sixth Sense came out. It's almost like a
film." - Mikael Akerfeldt
I never knew that he did not know he was dead.
I think he knew that he was dead (I believe he came to the realization on either April Ethereal or When)
Old school Opethians the moment is finally here!
True words =)
@@ControllerOfMinds indeed!
Yeah man. They need to do When and Credence. As well
Bought God Damn time! Lol!
Finally!
Damn, Mikael had such god-like growls back then.
If by "god" you mean Satan, then yes!!! ;)
@@ruinsane100 and if by Satan, you mean that his voice sounds like a little girlish squeaks in comparison with Mikael's brutal growls :>
He was good in Bloodbath.
Mikael was untouchable those days
Appearently he had a cold for this song's growls.
This song is part of a concept album. The protagonist is a ghost trying to reconnect with his lover
You need an *_Opeth day_* like you did with Metallica.
They have such a vast discography with one amazing song after the other, and experiencing one every 12th month just isn't realistic, and listening to the albums off camera would be such a waste :)
Especially since they’re concept albums. Listening to just one isn’t the same a as listen to the entire album that they’ve CRAFTED.
The album is from the perspective of a recently departed person. He finds himself lingering in the land, soon lamenting as he watches his lover continue life, which gives him the false sensation that she has betrayed him. This track is his terror and rage as he strives to make his presence known, after being unable to do
so previously. The song turns as she flees his and he grasps the reality of the situation. The next (and final) 2 tracks brilliantly paint the picture of his evolution from this phase of excruciating denial, to numb existence, to rapturous departure at the end of “Karma.” The gorgeous way this album culminates has literally had me in tears more than once.
Interesting fact: Every song on this album ends with the title of the next song. E.g. the last word of Demon of the Fall is credence, the next(and also very good) song on the album.
Whoa! Opeth is my favorite band and I never knew that. Thanks!
@@ruinsane100 Well, a few of the songs don't have lyrics (the intro song) and have poetry that was only written in the lyrics/liner notes.
Yeah that's because is a conceptual album. Each song is attached to a season and is even a loop disc.
The digital streaming one has a cover song at the end... I hate when bands put a cover song after a concept album! The point being, it wrecks the song lead-ins lol
What about "epilogue" then???
there's no lyrics lol
No other song has been able to provide deep and layered chills for the entire length like Demon of the Fall. This version is just perfection.
Demon Of The Fall is perhaps my favourite Opeth song. Love this album. Glad we finally got around to reacting to it!
"when" is my favorite track from the album. The entire album is amazing though, even the cover songs at the end (remember tomorrow by Iron Maiden and Circle of The Tyrants by Celtic Frost)
it's a concept album and this song makes more sense in context of course
you guys need to listen to all three of Opeth's concept albums. My Arms, Your Hearse; Still Life; and Ghost Reveries
When is a masterpiece.. the Highlight of the album imho :) the live version with Peter Lindgren is also worth watching
Mine's April Ethereal :) .. this is a close 2nd (maybe tied for 2nd with Blackwater Park) for me in the Opeth catalogue - Still Life being the first. So many great songs especially in that 3 album run.
@@bojanadavidovic9430 They've reacted to Bleak, Ghost of Perdition, and Reverie/Harlequin forest
When is such a masterpiece track. Awesome lyrics and instrumental. Mikael is a genius
When is one of my favorite songs of all time by any band
Massive shout out to the Trve Kvlt and Damon Sage for letting me have my song played!! I couldn't be happier :)
Finally mate, you of all have been relentless in the pursuit of getting this song played so good for you
Heh - why am I not surprised to see you amping here?
@@MajesticDemonLord MDL! Where you been hiding dude?! Did you enjoy the CoF set? It was EPIC!!
@@ayeewtasko2601 I nearly cried when they played the Bathory Aria and Malice through the looking Glass - the only blemish on the set was no Dusk and Her Embrace - and you know where I've been hiding - family life!
I think i've seen you for entire years requesting this song
I bet Vin would like Harlequin Forest if he gave it another try. They've listened to so many bands by now, it must have broadened his tastes.
Your chilly feels were right. Love seeing you piece it together that he's actually dead. That's why I subbed, reactor's with some thinking power
TBomb yeah...I enjoy the content because it’s part reaction, part discussion. Good stuff!
the outro of this song and that of Credence are among the best melodic Opeth outros..
Finally some Opeth! Best prog metal band in the world.
Most underrated Opeth album of all time.
Morningrise though
and my favorite. It has 4 monster songs: April Ethereal, When, The Amen Corner and Demon of the Fall.
By who? Not by opeth fans fs
@@mauricioantonioreyesmontab1573 Nah, just real fans. Guess you're not a real fan buddy, harsh news.
@@thewildhealer541 lol
I got this album when I was 17. It had a big impact on me.
Think they are converting into opeth fans lol this whole album is a story
i seriously listened to their entire discography twice at work yesterday xD
deminybs I learnt English listening to Opeth - true story.
@@yaroubthayer-752 that's pretty rad
@@yaroubthayer-752 what was the first language?
Jason Kramer my native tongue? That would be Arabic.
When I was a kid I used to hangout at this place where we would smoke cigarettes and play LAN-parties (Counter Strike, red alert.. etc) not sure how I ended up at Opeth’s MySpace page and I wasn’t familiar with MySpace let alone the internet. But, there were free songs and I kept listening. Advent was the first Song I Listened to and when he goes “time grows short” I almost got blasted out of my seat by the sheer viciousness of the growl.. good times! After that, I would go on to listen to Opeth every day - still do!
God damn, I remember walking around the streets ditching class playing this with my CD player in 7th grade. Absolute nostalgia.
I feel old now. I did the same with metallica and a cassette player & I was 18 , not in 7th grade, school/college in Europe 😋
Yaasssss! FINALLY YOU PLAYED MY SONG!
Dayum...that tattoo is dope
Sorry but it's my song.
@Carlos Júnior Come at me bro! 😂
"Still Life", the whole album deserves a review. My favorite Opeth for sure.
The new one is beautiful.
This is my favorite Opeth song! This song and the album it's on are so good. I used to sit for hours in the evening on my front steps in the summer about 19 years ago, just listening to this on CD on repeat.
Opeth: many layers; 250 listens later, still figuring it out.
This Band has so many good songs, do Drapery falls or deliverance!!
This is the best song you've reviewed so far, Opeth are in A League of Their Own
Oh yes! Old Opeth 😍
Jump and listen to Master's Apprentice. Talk about some serious headbanging.
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Moonspell - Full Moon Madness
@@Juhaliza I've been request Moonspell for the last 14 months. 😒
Well, some day, I hope... 😂😂
I'd be happy to see any Moonspell song, they never get enough credit. Wolfshade, Nocturna, Alma Mater, and Trebaruna are some of my faves.
I really miss Mikael's growling, especially in Bloodbath...
Eaten is a bad ass song.
Bloodbath is WAY underrated and underexposed.
@@ruinsane100 - Hardly underrated imo. Every I know that listens to Death Metal knows of, and praises, Bloodbath fairly often.
@Steve Conley - It certainly is, though that one, as you probably know, was sung by Peter Tägtgren. My first experience with Bloodbath was coincidentally with Nightmares Made Flesh.
I remember the first time i heard Bloodbath. It was back around 99/2000. They only had Breeding Death EP out. I came home that day with about 30 cds from a pawn shop which was a regular thing for me. I always found rare cds back then and Bloodbath was 1 of them and been a fan ever since that ep. Still my favorite release.
Steve Conley Eatens vocals were done by the great Peter Tagtgren
Lord Opeth has cometh for you, Sori.....
_"hath come for thee"_ to be correct
PLEASE DO ‘STILL LIFE’ THE WHOLE ALBUM.
Thanks for doing this one. This band and song are one of my favorite.
I'm so happy for the one who wanted this for so long ^_^
ayeew tasko
am I the only one who thinks morningrise album owns them all?
"Black rose immortal" and "The night and the silent water" are the best two songs they ever did in my opinion.
Underrated album for sure, Morningrise is one of my favorite Opeth releases. It doesn't get much love though - probably because it's very atmospheric and progressive.
Advent bro
@@gabifromhell and Nectar :)
Under the weeping moon is one of my favs but I love earlier opeth
Nectar is the best song on that album it's so beautiful 😩, other than B.R.I of course
Old school Opeth is the best Opeth for sure. Gotta listen to the song In Mist She Was Standing, it has some of the most badass riffing of any song ever written.
Ben Webb hell yes dude. And then under the weeping moon is the next track. Great 20 minutes of musical bliss
Listen to the whole album on a cold winter day or overcast day, perfect.
Now this is the Opeth i love. I remember 1 of my bandmates giving me this cd back in 2001 for a graduation present. My favorite album will always be Morningrise. I've been following them since 97.
I have been an Opeth fan for 20+ years... still my favorite band. The beginning of this song (right before the lyrics come in) is such a chilling harmonic phase, it's amazing. The end, equally good (during/after the "run away, run away") part. But especially the beginning, which I feel is easily overlooked until you've heard the song a few times.
Other Opeth songs that have insane harmonic passages and just generally amazing sounds are The Night and the Silent Water (from Morningrise), and The Twilight is My Robe (from Orchid). So many amazing guitar harmonies that are in themselves, unique. You will hear them and realize no other song has these chord progressions. Yet they sound amazing.
My friend from high school covered this song on his graduation from music college, or something like that lol. He's now in Oceans Of Slumber, so I guess things worked out pretty well for him lmao.
That's another band you guys should do, btw. They're a doom/prog band from here in Houston.
The Moor next! April Ethereal is my favorite off this album.
opeth - the drapary falls , or deliverance
Welcome to opeth, your lives will never be the same again
I see Opeth I click
Opeth - Godhead's Lament
Small hint: he is a ghost, stuck in the purgatory, wanted to to farewell her. Listening to “When” will help make more sense of the lyrics.
Literally one of my favorite top ten albums of all time. And that's saying a lot. I have 2000+ albums since I started collecting as a teen w/ my first job.
Serenity painted death would be great
YES!
probably my one of the best guitar solos ever in serenity. also this song has great solo.
I’m proud to say I saw these guys with their classic lineup from this album, Still Life, Blackwater Park, and Deliverance. I saw them on Devildriver’s first tour. They played this song, too. I miss their original formula (more extreme), but I love Opeth regardless.
Demon of the Fall is my first Opeth song (17 years back), what an intro it has been.
10,000,000 comments late lol I am pretty sure that guy has been requesting this song since you guys only had 4k subs
Haha yeah something like that! I've been trying to do it for over a year at least. Good things take time!
Do The Moor or Face of Melinda next please. Still life is a great album with a great story.
You should listen "credence" of the same album. This song complete demon of the fall. Awesome reaction by the way
Agents of Oblivion- Endsmouth (not demo version) btw love ❤️ Opeth
Opeth- The Drapery Falls
Drapery falls is a masterpiece along with the album. Maybe in my top 10 opeth songs. No offense but they have a lot really great songs
@Dry Ferr This is Opeth, trust me I take no offense! That song just has every single element that makes them so legendary.
I’m sure me and you could sit and talk for hours of the countless songs/albums that are just pure bliss not to mention the mind blowing and almost overshadowing covers such as Remember Tomorrow, Soldier of Fortune, and Would just to name a few.
Then there’s “Damnation” 😍😍🤩
About time!!!
Now do Drapery Falls
Opeth is just amazing, moreee please
the dude who requested this a million times must be happy now
Yay. This is an amazing record. Do April Ethereal next!!!
The real Opeth!!
I think he called Opeth, Otep at one point... It's okay, though LOL. Thank you for doing this song!
I never gave opeth a chance until like 5 years ago because I confused them with Otep back in the day.
Steven Wilson - Routine
This was my favorite song when I was in high school over 15 years ago. Good memories. Thanks guys.
I love Opeth! Great song!
I'm still trying to learn to appreciate the death growls. Songs like Ghost of Perdition are good mixtures of the new and old styles and easier to absorb. Personally I prefer the newer proggy stuff with clean vocals though.
Heresy! But I get it - I got into early Opeth first, so naturally I don't really like much after the Ghosts of Perdition album, ironically- I'm the same with the band Death - love their later work, not so much a fan of the early stuff (even though it's probably more important in terms musical history).
For Death growls - I've always said that I consider them to be another instrument, for most bands- the lyrics aren't so much a concern for me as the delivery and how the delivery makes me feel.
In this - Mikael is delivering an absolute masterclass in growling - you can hear the emotion, the tortured Soul, pain and anguish is the growl, the subtle variation (which can take time to attune your ears to) in each phrase.
For some bands - who I love the vocals for and I've loved for ages - I still have no idea as to what the lyrics are, because they aren't relevant to how the delivery makes me feel.
The song that got me into heavy opeth was the grand conjuration. Now there is no better sound to me then Mikael growling noises like OOOOHH
Mikeal was my introduction in to death growls and the music was so good it got me hooked.
@@0rthogonal same
As an old school Opeth fan since the 90s, it's so good to see you react to the music and it's physical effects (like the chills). Just like when I first heard them. Very cool.
FINALLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I think you NEED to do this entire album in one video! This used to be their main Encore in gigs back in the 2000s. Reverse the intro, it is backmasked on the song! That snippet is from a live gig from their early days! Here in Australia, the safe seasons are Autumn and Winter.... SUMMER is the season of DEATH! *fires everywhere.......*
My arms is one of my favorite albums
this album changed my life when it came out. it is a perfect album to listen to in a severe blizzard in the middle of the night on a very remote road in northern lattitudes.
Can't believe it's been over twenty years since I first purchased this album. Hasn't left my playlist and never will.
6:24 ...that little smile says it all
Please do Opeth - "The Amen Corner"
Wow Opeth again! Thank you! Opeth combines the sinister and the artistic like no other! Absolute masters in songwriting.
Loved your reaction. It was almost like a Dan Brown novel as you tried to uncover the real meaning of the poem and that aha moment when you discovered he is a ghost! Like solving a puzzle!
Mikael Akerfeldt is a fantastic songwriter! Each song ends with the title of the next song.
One of my all time favorite bands!! Have to do the song The Moor off the Still Life album...you’ll love it!
Opeth - The Drapery Falls!
Godheads Lament o Windowpane
If you guys like Opeth, check out the masterpiece that is song "Back to Times of Splendor" by Disillusion (from the album of the same name as the song). It's a long one, but it's truly an incredibly rewarding musical journey.
This was my favourite album for quite a while
You guys should do a reaction to the faceless - autotheim movement 1,2 & 3. I'd be interested in hearing your opinions of Michael Keene's lyrics against religion, not to mention the dude is probably one of the best guitarists in the genre.
I enjoyed this reaction! you stayed on the topic of the song and didnt wander off for 40 minutes! keep up the great work !
I used to believe this song was all just an allegory for seasonal affective disorder, very common in Scandinavia. The Demon of the Fall is the haunting sense of the coming depression. The silent dance with death is depression. Dagger close at hand is the booze / meds / coping device. Turning to face the demon for the first time is becoming self aware and seeking help. That's the turn point to real resolution. I'm wrong but it sounds cool.
You guys really gotta do Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse full albums. They are quite the experience. They are much more organic and ethnic maybe? More so than everything that came later, for sure.
I understand it will never happen but i would LOVE to get a full reaction/review of opeths still life record.
Shout out to Matt Mercer? The voice actor and Critical Role DM? Nah, can't be the same guy...
Hey could you guys react to The Baying of the hounds by Opeth? Thanks
It's a concept album guys, it would be interesting listening to it from star to finish while reading the lyrics
Still only scratching the surface of Opeth. You need to listen to the early albums in their entirety, they're mostly concept albums. Listen to Still Life already!
Yes! Yes! Yes! All credit goes to that one user (forgot the name), who had been relentlessly requesting a reaction to this song for ages, and I wished for the same.
This was good! This was Old school Vin and Sori, keep it up guys
Just now had this pop up, always love an opeth reaction especially to such a great song
The album is basically is a ghost story and this song tells the part where he tries to kill her to be with her in the afterlife (they were a couple and this is what he's been trying to do for the entire album) but what he does is make her afraid and run away from the house and lost any feelings or mourning she had for him. Or at least that's how I interpret the song
Damn I love Opeth
My Arms, Your Hearse is a full concept album. It starts with the protagonist dying and his ghost following his girlfriend around. Eventually, she ends up with another man and that's where this song comes into play where the protagonist manifests and tried to murder her but eventually doesn't follow through.
React to THE DRAPERY FALLS. You will love it. One of the best Opeth songs
That album is so damn good!!!!!
This album is definitely worthy of a full reaction. The album is a concept album of a ghost returning to his love one. This is the 6th song in the story.
Truly one of there many masterpieces
Vin should re-listen to Harlequin Forest without the ending. Give it a few spins and then slowly put the ending in there. He keeps saying he couldn't stand that song but the truth is he just didn't like the ending.
Heir apparent or godheads lament by opeth trust me
Those are both such crushing tunes. Good picks!
The man is a ghost, like you were saying, but he doesn't kill her or anything. Metal doesn't always need to be violent!
The woman was his lover. He's been trying to communicate with her (i.e. haunting her) because he still loves her, but he's scaring her. She knows it's him but she's just trying to move on with her life and he keeps interfering. He feels betrayed by this --hence the line about her "false love" for him. He becomes frustrated by this and appears before her in a form that she can see, but it only makes things worse. She runs away traumatized, full of pure hate. Left all by himself, he realizes that he's tarnished her view of him forever, and he's left to wander in limbo all alone. In the context of this song and its final lyric, "credence" means "acceptance."
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Ah, Happy memories.
Perhaps 'The Drapery falls' next.
Great reaction.. Just don't call them Otep😂😂