Heir Apparent - Top 5 Opeth songs over 5 days | Mike The Music Snob 

Been slowly realizing how underrated Watershed is. The funky transition on The Lotus Eater gets me every time.

The thing that made me really enjoy Opeth was not just sitting on growls the whole song. But when it comes to Heir Apparent, it's so fucking badass that melodic vocals belong nowhere near it. Heaviest shit Opeth ever did.

Coil and Heir Apparent combo is probably the most epic way to open an album. Coil being so soothing and beautiful and the Heir Apparent hits you like a freight train.

This is how to do a heavy song. Heir Apparent proves that you don't need constant blast beats, production that sounds like godzilla vomiting into a toilet and lyrics about creeping around a morgue at night to play basketball with a disembodied head in order to make some seriously heavy stuff. Watershed was definitely their heaviest album and also one of their best.

Mikael's growls are the freaking best. The first I ever managed to take seriously lol.

Huge coincidence to me that this series kicks off right when I start getting back into opeth again, stellar timing

This song is so heavy, it has it's own gravitational pull. Watershed is a masterpiece.

I'm an Opeth fanboy, so thanks for doing this series Mike

Usually the videos I watch from you is more on the “ snob” side of your channel, it’s great watching you just have fun and love music!

The riffs are so goddamn T H I C C. Easily one of my favourite songs from Opeth.

Watershed is seriously overlooked. The album has such a unique, evil and dark atmosphere

This song is massive! Hopefully we get something off My Arms Your Hearse, that album is grossly underrated but has some of the most beautiful/melodic melodies 🤘

9:20 bro this is one of the best Opeth moments what do u meannnnnnnn gives me such a vibe it almost feels like i'm playing Starcraft 1. I ADORE this short acoustic section

Coil was A beautiful setup and Heir apparent was A beautiful payoff, the outro was probably my favorite part of this one.

Watershed is my Favourite album and this song hits like a mofo sooo heavy love it, loving this series your energy is awesome 🤘🏻 rock on

The first 40 seconds of this song is so perfectly dark with the way those strings ring out against each other it gets me pumped every time

It's so weird to be a fan of Opeth but having problem with meandering, and song structure being random. It's the essence of Opeth. But by listening enough to it, your brain gets the map of the songs, and can dance with them. That's what Opeth is to me. Songs don't need to make sense or to have smooth transitions to be great.

I still think Watershed is one of their top albums, I’m glad they ended their metal era with a bang. Burden is a personal favorite song of mine from this album.

Watershed was all it took for Axe to be my favorite Opeth drummer. Absolute masterful, crushing drumming

I love how this song and Demon of the Fall are so evil and then have that beautiful ending

I feel like I don’t hear people talk about this one or this album enough honestly

People have been asking for literally years to do a top 10 opeth songs, but for me, this is so much better. Love how in depth you go to show just how amazing these songs are.

Amazing song, what I love about Opeth so much is how many of their songs are so haunting yet beautiful. Burden is probably my favorite track from the album.

I am late to the party here, but I think that's one of the reasons I love opeth, they throw at you sections that you never thought that were possible, they seem to don't fit, they don't have much composition meaning, but they sound amazing. I actually think this is my favorite opeth ending, it's the best climax for a song like this, after all that angst you finally get an emotional release, but the beauty is that you don't know if emotionally the release involves good or bad feelings, it's just releasing, you can interpret that as you see fit.

The "negatives" you point out in this song are part of my love for this band. It's so unexpected and it's always great when they make me go "wat" Watershed is underrated as fuck. Great video.

I love this tune and its dichotomy between harsher/softer moments. Great selection!

Couldn't agree more about Watershed. It's their best album in my opinion, and the opening of Coil + Heir Apparent is one of the most powerful I've ever heard. One thing I strongly disagree on is the part at 8:27 though. I think it adds a lot. It was the first thing I went back to listen to again when I first discovered the song. Proves how we are all just different people, in the end ^^

I'm trying to learn this song on guitar rn. Watching this video at the same time. Thank you Mike

You are absolutely right about RU-vid hardly suggesting any of your videos to me, which doesn't happen with the other channels I watch regularly.

I didn't expect that song but definitely it's masterpiece

Heck yes I was SO hoping for Heir Apparent to be part of the series, one of my alltime Opeth faves as well

Like clapping thunder right after the acoustic intro. gets me every time

This happens to be one of my favorites. Right off the awesome intro into this track with the dirty, I mean dirty evilness. All this combined with Mikael's growls and that solo. Jeeeez!

Thanks for helping me discover opeth a few years back. In the past year or so they have probably risen to be my favourite band. Especially mid era still life- watershed and everything in between.

The outro is so good. Another gem of an outro by Opeth.

Fair critiques of the acoustic interlude and the ending section; their musical relation to the rest of the composition is dubious or non-existent. Despite that, I love them, they're amazing, and I'm glad they're part of the song.

This track is the most heavy, loud and violent song in E standard tuning... it's the last part that hook me first with opeth, that became my fav band since 15 years now.

This album is exhausting to listen to, in the best way possible. I feel like I was ran over by a truck everytime I'm done listening to it. The heaviness, the constant and nearly instant switching between heavy and mellow parts and Mikael's ungodly fucking growls.

Love this album!!! Somehow I have an notion its underrated.... As u said about production....this album sounds amazing in prod, mix & ballness

So glad you chose opeth for this series. Love it! Also the pure disgust this one brings after the calm first track is too good.

these videos are helping me getting into Opeth :D

Thanks Mike love your videos, another band I love is Porcupine tree. It would be fantastic if you could make a top 5 porcupine tree songs video, like this one.

So far this is very close my top 5 great choices man 🤘🤘

this song is underrated thank you for giving it the love it deserves

My top 5 as an Opeth listener who’s probably listened to 30/40% of their catalogue: 1.) Heir Apparent 2.) Ghost Of Perdition 3.) Blackwater Park Ok wait this is harder than I thought… 4.) Hessian Peel 5.) Beneath The Mire Honourable mentions: In My Time Of Need, The Moor, Benighted, Persephone, Bleak, A Fair Judgement

Didnt expect this song. Best series so far. Thanks Mike

There are a lot of section in Opeth songs that I see more as interludes that most bands would just create as a separate track but you know Opeth were never ones to do that. I think the ending helps set you up for Lotus Eater. Brings you back down a bit into his soft humming intro before slamming you again.

Great video as always.

can‘t name many songs that i have been more shell shocked by when i heard them for the first time than this one, fucking masterpiece

Quite possibly the heaviest riff ever written in standard tuning.

I never heard any Opeth-Song ever ,(yes, shame on me), but i think this new format by Mike will change this. Always nice to discover new bands.

loving this kind of series i know you are not a big meshuggah fan but i would love to see u talk about their music

Won’t Be Saved is my favorite Opeth song😆

Great review, I almost forgot how good this song is, and I agree with your criticism with this song (and honestly many Opeth songs) about interesting sections that sometimes don't add to the theme, or a part that should be trimmed down. Criticism aside, Opeth is still my favorite band of all time and I own all 13 studio albums and a few live albums as well.

Damn that tritone in the beginning hits always so hard after coil

Great song 🤟🏻🔥 my favorite Opeth riff

What do you think of Beneath the Mire? That has always been one of my favorites!

One of my personal favourites that i found while looking through opeth's discography

I just saw them live in Quebec last night so super hyped from their co cery

This song give “I want to destroy you!” Energy. I love it. Thank you for getting me into this beast of a band. This is what also got my brother into this band!

The "Skeletal wish, hunter" line always hits me lick a truck. Love this song.

I remeber first time hearing that dmding to Heir apparent and it reminded me a lot of the release in Bleak and a little of one pf the parts in The Funeral Portrait.

I don’t even care if the ending doesn’t fit. It needed to go in a song somewhere or I’d sue.

Watershed is probably my 3rd favorite album of theirs after MAYH and Deliverance

glad to see this one on the list, this song punched me square in the face first time i heard it. great feeling

Probably my favorite Opeth song.

Great choice. Curious if you’ve ever listened to the band Pagan’s Mind? Very heavy dream theatre influence, I enjoy them a lot. 🤘🤘🤘

Was hoping you'd pick this song, just 5 days ago I listened to Watershed again for the first time in over 10 years, always loved this song.

There’s a consistent war in my brain whether my favourite album is watershed or blackwater park.

I'm partial to Bleak and Heir Apparent also! So far 2 for 2!

The heaviest parts of this song are probably the heaviest and most brutal that Opeth has ever been.

I've always imagine the afterending as the ten thousandth hangover & even implying that this depressing story will be lived ten thousand times more due to its repetition.

Your first video yesterday was the first time hearing opeth…. I’m fucking hooked now

I still remember the day I was listening to Coil and then the transition happen... Holly God what was that??

My top 5: 1) Burden 2) Eternal Rains Will Come 3) Windowpane 4) Will o’ the Wisp 5) Harlequin Forest

I think this is my favorite one from Opeth. The intro is the most lovecraftian thing ever.

Still trying to get used to Watershed, I didn’t care for it at first. That said, Heir Apparent took its massive, beefy pp and smacked it in my face last time I listened to it. The girth on that guitar tone can’t be contained

Imagine playing the second heaviest matter in universe played in E standard. (The heaviest matter is Blackwater Park)

I can’t wait to see what song u pick from Damn Nation

great choice! although this one wouldn't make my top 10 but I still like it a lot. definitely one of the most brutal songs in their discography^^ watershed is the last record where we got the both extremes of opeth. and you're right, that epic ending feels totally tacked on :D and you're also right when you said the part would be a great ending to the album because the actual ending of hex omega is super weird and anti climactic imo

This band is just amazing, discovered them a few months ago and I can't stop listening to Blackwater Park/Ghost Reveries/Watershed

Definitely one of my favorites

My favourite song of theirs.

Watershed was my intro to Opeth. This song blew my mind.

Always loved this song. Heir apparent and Blackwater Park (song) were always my favorites

Watershed is the best and most underrated Opeth album IMO, it's been my favorite Opeth album ever since I've been listening to them (sorry poor en)

I know that following songs on the album have growls and whatnot, but Heir Apparent feels like Opeth's farewell to death metal. Boy oh fuckin' boy, what a way to go out it is. This song is brutal as shit, one of the nastiest in their entire catalogue.

I've been a huge Opeth fan for years... learnt most of their songs whole... Watershed was the pinnacle of their old era. Unfortunately their Prog Era didn't quite resonate well with me, kinda left me cold-turkey. But lately I've been enjoying Monuments. Criminally under rated. Completely different from Opeth in the way that they're more modern rather than classical, but there are bits and moments which I find reminiscent. I urge Opeth fans, esp those who loved the tasteful heavier stuff, to check them out. I, The Destroyer (intro bit) No One Will Teach You (outro bit) Nevertheless, they are a band in their own league, and definitely needs to be checked out more. Saga City Degenarate Vanta Cardinal Red False Providence Makeshift Harmony

So hyped! LOL! This shit cracks me up.

Hey what’s your opinion on mastodon? Any songs you listen to regularly?

Their best song from their best album.

This is one of my fav Opeth songs PURELY for the huge ass ending

The outro to this song is so cool, better than the Deliverance outro imo

i was trying to get into this band but didn't knoe where to start, thanks!

I always loved the riffs and melodies found in heavier songs like this one, but I struggled with enjoying the growls. I only enjoyed certain singer’s growls and screams like Corey Taylor. Maybe I just need to listen to it more and I’ll come around to it. Regardless, thank you Mike for all of the great videos and for exposing me to the album Damnation. Rock on!🤘🤘

I think Watershed is their best album. It might also be the best prog deathmetal album ever made.

Weird, notif bell ain’t given me notif🤨

I wouldn't want a single second to be shaved off this track. That transition in the middle really does stand out, but I don't think in a bad way. It feels like an event, part of the journey. I don't mind having a bit more of a break there either lol. The outro, I disagree that it doesn't have a connection to the rest, especially with the subject matter of the track. The emotion up to that point is anger, but the end feels like a response of helpless resignation. I actually believe that it wouldn't tug on your heartstrings the same way if it was a more standard transition. Makes me wonder how many great musical moments are out there to be discovered by breaking the rules 🤘

I really like Watershed from start to finish.

Watershed is underrated and overhated. It's really good and consistent.