Dave's Reaction: Opeth - Deliverance 

Best description ever! "This is like heavy metal Rush!"

Love Opeth. My playlist is filled with them. Musically they are really great and I don’t mind the harsh vocals from time to time. There are so many really good bands that get overlooked by the mainstream. Thanks guys.

Opeth. Such a rabbit hole. Good luck. Its not all heavy.

Yes, Dave! More Opeth, please! 🌀🌀🌀🙏🙏🙏

🔥🔥❤Opeth❤🔥🔥

More Opeth! Anything from Blackwater Park or ghost reveries is amazing and I'm sure you will enjoy.

Best lineup of Opeth. Nothing came close,

It really took me some time to appreciate the growls. After years of listening to their peak stuff with the juxtaposition of the two vocal styles, I can't go back now.

Amazing band! I think their second era is where to go next. I think their last album "In Cauda Venenum" (heavy but with all clean vocals), and "Pale Communion" (more 70's sounding) are the best two. And there's "Damnation", a chill and soft album that they released during their death metal era that is worth checking.

I just saw this live Jun 30th in Helsinki.

This in my opinion is the best lineup. The drummer in this video is Martin Lopez, who has since moved on from Opeth and is an awesome drummer. I love the latino flair he brings in his cymbal work. I'm not a fan of his new band but in Opeth he was outstanding. As for the mix of heavy and light, clean vocals and growls nobody does it better than Opeth. I am not a huge fan of growling vocals, but Mikael Akerfeldt is excellent with both vocal styles. I love how well he can mix both into one song. Shame he doesn't do any new music with the growls, they are pretty one dimensional now, although they do play the old songs live still with the growls.

Saw them live three days ago and they played this a lot better. They were super tight, so nice!

nice one. now excuse me while i dip myself into a bathtub full of holy water.

This is a must: Opeth - Reverie / Harlequin Forest (Audio) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nIo3lpXrc5A.html OPETH - Ghost of Perdition (LIVE AT RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BAlDEcQMLio.html

Please react to Opeth - In my time of need, it has only clean vocals and the whole song is more melodic

I read somewhere old school Opeth fans dislike Steven Wilson's influence on the band, that he contributed to the decline in the growling vocals. I'm not a huge fan of the death growl so it's an improvement for me. Great song though guys, thanks for posting! Speaking of SW, would you consider running another SW solo reaction by Dave for me? He just announced a new tour (European sadly) and album in 25, and there's a song I am absolutely dying to see you guys react to. It has Steven's original studio crew on it, Guthrie, Marco, Nick, and Adam, but unfortunately I can't find any pro shot footage of them playing it live all together other than a snippet from when they laid it all down in studio. There is footage of them performing it live without Marco and Guthrie (Craig Blundell and Alex Hutchings) if you guys think you would enjoy it more with visuals, but honestly I would tickled to hear your thoughts on either version. Links below live version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tajHRP9Cm8.htmlsi=LVUJK8U7aAQWlO3F studio version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6L1T7tfMQ88.htmlsi=PVs2SWsI3rchpSdq promotional studio footage of Guthrie's solo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IaH2C2Qe97Y.htmlsi=WSr4KJi26NBcf_4y

Glad Dave checked out Opeth. They did Death metally stuff earlier in their careers. I'm more partial to the clean vocal stuff they do. Definitely an extremely talented band. Their last few albums are the ones to get if Dave is into the music (they nearly abandoned the cookie monster vocals lately) Here's one for Dave to check with a really tight groove and nice crisp drumming. It's the band Rendezvous Point and this tune is Presence ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dx8nQuEZ2sA.html

They haven’t done growls in years, so do the newer stuff 👍

Not really understanding the complaints about growled vocals. Its a tonality approach and change. By that logic one must really hate distortion on guitars. Variety is the spice. Read a lyric sheet if you cant understand.

Just curious as to if there will be more A7X soon or if I have to request more 👀

The melodic bits were nice but I just can't make myself like that demonic singing stuff. It just doesn't compute to me.

Whilst I appreciate all proper musicians and their craft, I just can't get down with this style of moo-zac.. If Music is what emotions sound like - then I never wanna feel what this stuff is saying! Gimme some melody, baby! 😮