Listening to Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (English) Part 2 

Same, so powerful

Agreed

Hands down

Mine too. Especially when those harmonies hit at the second verse. After that, the song has you totally.

@@ferox965 agree, although the Swedish version is so much more emotional imo.

So bummed out they didn't expand on the choir part, or made it leading into a separate piece.

AliothSenator There is a god. His name is Mikael Ákerfeldt.

That whole outro really hits hard if you speak swedish

Nah, not compared to this

@@kalas-kurt Why not? Pale communion is insanely underrated.

@@DonSampa I don't think it's particulary underrated, it's a favorite album for many, myself included. It definitely gets enough attention

@@moldybongwater3808 not sure about that, I see a lot of people ranking it near the bottom of their opeth albums, tbh its in my top 5-6 for sure

I've been with Opeth for over 20 years, started listening to MAYH, but I can safely say my FAVORITE OPETH SONG OF ALL TIME is a Pale Communion track. Let's see if yall can guess which one.

I love it that old videos still get views, thank you 😀

Discovered this album and reaction this week 🫶

No way. Don't be blinded by the effectiveness of Charlatan as the zenith moment. Universal Truth is such a nice welcome back from that chaos. Start to finish, this album is built like a classic masterpiece.

😬👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@@JimNewstead I will never stop. Or I will stop once you have listened to them. So maybe never listen to them and you will always get a comment on your videos. 🤔

The Anunnaki like my own personal music recommending terminator!!!! I know you’ll be back.......

@@JimNewstead for sure 😂

I've been a fan since the 2nd record. This record just floored me. I'm loving travelling with Opeth.

That is such an untrue statement, I am a die hard Metal head and Opeth fan since 03, to assume though that I am confined to only Metal music is way off the mark, some of my favourite bands are old school prog and as far as this album under review I count it up there with the best Opeth have ever released, if anything Opeth is/was the band to teach me to expand my musical horizons from the get go

I'll add myself to the list of Opeth fans who absolutely love this album as well as enjoy the rest of their post-Watershed material. My first Opeth album was Morningrise which I bought just after it was released in 1996. And listening to their albums from their most successful heavy era (Still LifeWatershed) you can hear plenty of parts and influences that pointed in this direction. They've always been progressive, mixing different genres and creating their own unique sound. The difference these days is that they've replaced some influences/styles. I fully understand the people that can't get into the post-Watershed material. For me Metallica totally "died" when they released Load and Reload. They had lost it and became drama queens etc... note: TO ME, all in my humble and personal opinion. Same with other bands I love where I stop listening to the music they released at a particular stage because the music they recorded was just not giving me anything at all except a strong lingering feeling of disappointment. It's natural and with Opeth the difference from their old metal style is rather extreme which makes the threshold especially hard to climb/cross if you're not used to listen to a wider range of musical styles. I do miss new sick and amazing metal riffs (although the songs on In Cauda Venenum have the heaviest guitars of the last 4 albums). With the growling I can take it or leave it. I love the timbre and quality of Mikaels voice as well as his great clean (and fry) vocal skills that he's got these days. They were quite good back on Still Life as well but nowhere near his current skillset. When it comes to growling, too much growling in a song buries the music behind it since it's pulling my attention toward it. The way Mikael used it in many songs (esp. on Deliverance and Ghost Reveries) was great; he switched back and forth to put emphasis on different parts of the "story" or emotional journey.

i just realized that Jim even said that in the video xD i should listen more closely

Though at the same time I'm enjoying listening English version first time with you Jim of course! Great reaction 🤗

More Alice in Chains than qotsa I'd say!!!

i agree, i dont know any swedish, but the swedish version is better haha

@threestringsomg..... I know, I know. My bad - should have listened to the Swedish version first but oh well....

threestringsomg: Alice in Chains meets Meshuggah, lol

that would be pretty fun to watch him react to yes xD

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