Old Composer REACTS to OPETH Harlequin Forest | Composers Point of View 

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@@DiskoKDiskoL Haha

100% I'd love to have a drink with this guy after a turkey dinner lol

He's th uncle u sneak off to get high with @ boring family gatherings🍻

I like that he's willing to explore music that has evolved beyond the time that he was really active in the industry.

Amen! (O-Men!)

it's one of these moments which blow your mind

Someone that hears them for the first time that can actually appreciate them right away

Right?! It's such a proud moment. Hahaha!

I couldn’t agree more

He should do either Leper Affinity or Bleak, his jaw will drop.

@@viki2133 could honestly do like 2 tracks from each album just to melt his brain on how drastically different they are

The whiplash from Heir Apparent and Lotus Eater to Nepenthe and I Feel the Dark.

Serenity Painted Death, it'll just f*ck him up

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!

By what metric are they under rated? Most of their albums are met with almost universal acclaim from critics and fans alike. Routinely place on best of lists etc

@@ChromeXk I find that they're very rarely known outside of metal fans. System of a down is basically a household name amongst people my age but hardly anyone has heard of Opeth.

@@ChromeXk definitely not underrated but maybe... unpopular? even in the vast spectrum of the metal scene their work as a whole is still niche and bit too specific to be enjoyable for a major audience.

Right, Opeth is one of very few bands in the last generation that I think of as truly classic in the same vein as Black Sabbath, Zeppelin or Purple.

And that's just science.

has he done Porcupine Tree?

@@masonb9788 Yes sir just one at the moment ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fq2xC5ap4P8.html

@@DanZeevi listening now :)

I too am a simple man. Many cheers to you my good man.

It's so hard to find good reactions to Opeth.

9:26

Yep...such a beautiful moment musically and spiritually..

I did that this week after getting obsessed with Blackwater Park...it makes me sad that ive been missing out on them for 20+ years

Same

Been a loving fan since 1998, when my friend showed me Orchid. Following their journey, the last couple of albums have really let me down about them. But! All these new ‘People racting to Opeth’ trend as of these times, has had me re-experience what Opeth was and has always been all about: exploring new and distant territory. I’ve heard every album to death, but still (because of all reactions) I STILL discover new details in Opeths albums. So I’m with you, I too wish I could experience their albums for the first time again.

@@HanOnkel bing-f**kin-GO brotha! Especially this album, it covers basically their entire repertoire and to see an established musician listen to it for the first time takes you back to your first time

its Iike X you cant ever get the same feeIing "as the first time' no matter the doses. My reboot wouId be TooI

Definitely in the same vein of more progressive, experimental music. Especially with the more recent albums. I'm sure your son's probably heard of Porcupine Tree as well, but I'd give them a shot too if you haven't.

@@theraxis Yes as well as Soen, Riverside and others.

Check out Rivers of Nihil and Ne Obliviscaris too.

@@RandymanB Soen and Riverside are so damn good. Martin Lopez, the drummer on this track, plays with Soen now, so that's a pretty cool coincidence 🤘

54 here. My son got me hooked on Opeth.

preach!

Same here!

So did i!!!

Same

I hope he does Deliverance one day

Haha - "like shooting an asteroid at a barn door" great line :)

Remove the "almost", dude ! ;-)

@@coustryemmanuel1631 Well, the newer stuff definitely isn't AS good

That’s hilarious, and true!

@@justsomejusstsome8994 depends on how much you love classic prog rock dude. I'm not that much into that style but I can recognize the beauty in the new albums as well. Heritage for example is one of my fav albums of all time but In Cauda Venenum is pretty hit or miss.

First ever Opeth song I ever heard. Back when Ghost Reveries was getting ready to come out this dude was super pumped about it. I'd never heard of Opeth before and when I asked him what should I listen to he said "Just get either Still Life or Blackwater Park and listen to the whole thing." which is exactly what I did. I'm not sure why I picked it but Still Life was my choice and from the moment Mikael came in with the clean vocals for the first time I was immediately sucked in and hooked. Right now my CD changer in my car (which yes I actually listen to all the time) has Still Life, Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Your Arms My Hearse in it, all started with The Moor which is still one of my favorite Opeth songs to this day.

Still Life is still my favorite Opeth album.

The only thing I dislike is that I still believe the initial 1.50 intro should have been separated into another track. At least 1.40 of it...

@@Grigeral That would totally ruin the impact of what comes after it!

@@larshaugseth3743 I don't think so, as there's nothing stopping you listening to both. However it's a build up of almost nothing happening for nearly two minutes. It's alright the first few times, but after the hundredth time, I only ever end up skipping to 1:40 anyways. It's my own personal preference, I get that. I just don't think it needed to be 'that' long of a build up.

Blackwater park

I'll second ghost of perdition. Gotta be my favourite from them

Ghosts of perdition

yes to all three of these!

@@jamesc5801 it's a close call on this, and may change as the hour does, but i can agree with you.

I just started, already the best band iv ever heard, favo tracks are all on still life

@@TheFbiFilesRepeat I think that may be the same with me. Benighted is one the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and the ending riff to Moonlapse Vertigo is probably my favorite Opeth ending riff.

It was sensational for me back in the day when I was a 14 years old kid.

I know right!! ppl at my high school at the time thought I was liking optep......I'm like wtf hello its opeth

@@dethrone1300 People would try and correct me saying its "Otep". Umm, no. Not even close.

In Dante's Inferno, people who kill themselves are punished by slowly growing into deformed, twisted and rotten trees. Set to grow in pain forever...

I really miss his drumming with the band, one of my fave drummers

Nailed it 😂

Love this comment

It’s because he’s not screaming at you. Not too deep, not too high-pitched. He’s doing it just right. There’s a vocal coach reacts video that explains it all.

This comment is perfect

Hahahaha cozy growling, I love this definition! He was the one that made me appreciate growling too!! And to the present day, is the only one I really love! It is perfect, not only the cozy sound of it as you say, but also its use in the songs, coming in in the right moments, bringing the perfect energy needed!

pretty much any album by them is a masterpiece

Same, I started listening to Opeth at 15 or 16 years old and I'm now about to be 28. This was the first album I listened to and I was so obsessed that I would literally listen to the entire album every night for months and months. I basically don't even have to turn the music on anymore, I can just listen to it in my head.

Same. This album is definitely one of my top 5 of any genre.

easily.

This song in particular is my favorite Opeth song of all time, and as a fellow Opeth fan you know I take saying something like that very seriously.

Thats exactly what I thought. Especially when he talked about even if they pass tracks back and forth to put them together, they know what the other is dping so smoothly. Opeth is the band that yraveled that westward road to his Northern, and met at the crossroads at the PERFECT time!

Dirge for November

It's great live, so is this one

April Ethereal...

Amen Brother!

@@markblaauw4961 Demon Of The Fall and When!!

Bleak as well! and Demon Of The Fall

totally agree

100% - Blackwater Park is one of my faves; pretty much that whole album... patterns, leper affinity etc.. just awesome.

dude, im exaclty the same

I don't know why, but I was exactly the same, and so was every other passionate Opeth fan I know.

Yeah. Prog-stuff had really to grow on me. But since i used to it casual metal songs boring me.

​@@nietzscheente1271 The thing about prog metal (the real stuff influenced by prog rock, not the weird genre it has become) is, like he said, the intricate layers and re-listenable nature of it. I'm still a sucker for a good hook and will still listen to Dethklok, King Diamond, etc but I generally find a lot of vanilla metal boring. Check out Ihsahn

better learn Swedish if you're going to get their last album digested.

Bleak is the track that got me into Opeth many years ago

Bleak is a masterpiece

@@shadowboy813 bro!!! Same here

Just here for some bleak appreciation, love that song!

Bleak is beyond epic.

Now he's an Opeth minded 🙂

'The drapery falls', as well as 'Harvest' are just absolutely incredible pieces. Two of my favorite songs, not just by them, but in musical history. They make such warm and full bodied music.

And one of the nastiest riffs of all time.

Really? 🤔

@@HammerHed13 Agreed

It would be really great if you can tell him that he managed to influence people who tried to end their lives(probably heard that alot but still)... Not just him but everyone from opeth... Including lopez and axe both of them are my fav drummers. Everyone... I even saw them live... Best day of my life... ❤️

watching Martin Lopez drum was amazing on the Damnation tour!

He and Opeth changed my life

Lopez doin alright?

Storm Corrosion is an amazing album.

Steven also made a big contribution to the Blackwater Park album. Bleak or Drapery Falls would be a nice follow up to this reaction.

@@jimmux_v0 "Bleak or Drapery Falls" second this!!!

Wow, thank you!

It’s not amazing... it’s fucking epic🤘🏼

he did that already

@@AlexisPunch this comment was before that

@@Sagnak91 oh it's true lol, my bad

Great song also! You know, Steven Wilson produced "Blackwater Park". My favorite album! (I like how you all guys in the comments have all different favorite Opeth albums. It is sign that most albums are masterpieces :) ..)

That tattoo !!!

Fucking epic🤘🏼

cierre el orto poser

Yes... That was legit a critique review after they released orchid... They earned that title

Hi I'm also a drummer since the 80s. Martin Lopez is the drummer. Those fills are almost hertas and listen to Window Pane by Opeth of off Damnation . It really showcases these almost throwback fills to the way Chuck Panozza played in More Than a Feeling by Boston. Check out Soen the bandMartin Lopez played w after Opeth.

me too, knowing the lyrics while listening to it somehow ruins the experience. but seeing the lyrics a secind or third time i listen to it, if the lyrics are good, is an added bonus :D

me too! I know very few lyrics, the voice/words are an instrument to me :)

I’ve done that all my life. Only after I like a song and listen to it again, I listen to the words. Unless it’s simple pop of course. Maybe cause i grew up listening to English music, not knowing the language.

Perfectly put. Right on.

Note that those chords are more within reach because the entire album was composed with guitars tuned to open D minor.

They didn't have a keyboard player (yet). I think Michael added some keyboard, though.

@@pvdaele I think they had a keyboard player since the album Ghost Reveries.. I know there was a Piano in one song on Blackwater Park - but that was either Mikael, or Steven Wilson (I think Steven played the outro piano of The Leper Affinity) actually also in Patterns in the Ivy, but again, that was probably just Mikael, or a guest musician.

@@pvdaele in Still Life there was no keyboard or piano.. The parts when they sound like a keyboard, is actually guitar, where they do the long notes, I don't know how they do it, but it's pretty cool like in Serenity Painted Death, sounds like keyboard but I think it's just a guitar.

@@lopolik some of the long notes, they do with an e-bow on guitar. But there are synths in there as well

@@lopolik There were a bunch a synths on Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation. Most of them I think are Steven Wilson's doing. But not all. Michael uses a keyboard when writing and arranging the songs, so I assume that some of the synths were his. But they have used additional synths in the production since before Still Life. The prelude in My Arms, Your Hearse, eg

I'd agree post-Morningrise. Eternal Soul Torture is pretty bad

Heritage. 🤢

between morning rise and heritage, they were basically untouchable

Don't downgrade Orchid please. Orchid to Watershed were masterpiece. Heritage was garbage, Pale Communion was ok to me, Sorceress meh, and Cauda blah blah I don't care about it.

Still Life was perfection as well.

Watershed

Still Life is their magnum opus, but this is a close second.

@@Celatra We've all got different fave albums, the most common ones being Still Life, Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries. I don't really have a fave album but if I had a gun to my head I'd go with Blackwater Park. It cemented and perfected their middle era sound that Still Life started. (first era = Orchid - Morningrise - My Arms Your Hearse, second era = Still Life to Watershed, third era = Heritage to In Cauda Venenum atm., waiting for news that a new album is coming since Mikael have probably written a ton of songs during the pandemic).

@@scyphe thing is, i feel like blackwater is a step down from still life. first of, all but 3 songs are in the key of E minor. secondly, honestly, the songs lack individuality like they do on still life. it took me a while to be able to tell when exactly Leper Affinity ends and when we're over on Bleak. the vocals are also more monotone . the album opener is good but nowhere near as haunting as The Moor, and I LOVE the leper affinity. Harvest is a good ballad, but it just doesn't set the mood in the same way as Benighted. The Drapery Falls is excellent as is Dirge for november, but The Funeral Portrait is just so weak. the main riff just doesn't hir you at all and it doesn't get expanded upon. the song also has way too little clean vocals for what it is- a leading song to Patterns in the ivy and to the heaviest song on the album. where as in Still life, Moonlapse Vertigo, face of melinda, serenity painted death and white cluster all FEEL like they belong together and they don't feel out of place or like road blocks. where as in, the funeral portrait just kind of bumps on you after dirge for november. and not in a pleasant way. in a kind of sore way. Bleak is the only 2nd song i'd put a bit over Godhead's Lament, although Godhead's lament is darker in tone.

Hate to be that guy, but I love that album for its lack of growling...

The sun sets forever over blackwater park...that shit gets me every time

Compared to most bands in the prog genre, i think he is pretty average. But he is still a great singer and what is more important: he has a very different voice compared to almost everyone else in that genre.

Also, Tatiana from Jinjer has named Mikael as one fo her key influences.

@@ShiZostu i don't know of anyone that is as distinct as mikael.

@@ShiZostu Average implies there are about an equal number of vocalists who are better than him than are worse than him, so I don't agree at all. He's definitely in the top 10%, and if you limit it to the prog metal genre he's gotta be top 5%. I can't think of very many people that sound as brutal and articulate when they scream, as pretty when they sing, and can have so many dynamics while singing in the correct range for their voice.

@@lazerhawks you misunderstood something there, i said that he is average *for the prog genre* which is just dripping with insanely good vocalists

My 2 favorites as well

Their best album imo

Can you respond to this please?

Very good selection. On banger with insane riffs I would probably go with "Demon of the Fall". On greatest song... just the whole "Still life" album. :)

Moonlapse Vertigo doesn't get as much love as it deserves

Lotus Eater = A masterpiece of mathematical and poly-rhythms while spanning many styles of music from Metal to Funk to Jazz and back. IMO it is a perfect display of the diversity, knowledge of musical theory, the skill to blend multiple genres, and the pure genius and talent that Opeth so beautifully respresents.

Me too lol 😂

One of the greatest metal albums of all time yet arguably not even their best album

@@kodakblack6643 haha Good point. I know there are many people who favor BWP

I love opeth and blackwater park, but I feel like it'd be a stretch to call it their best, considering the quality of their discography.

@@Damuworld still life is the greatest album of all time.

@@DamuworldI don't think it's really possible to say which is their best song because of the sheer volume of content and the consistency of it.

Has he done it yet? Don’t see it.

@@Zseventyone I don't believe so

For me blackwater Park it's opeth's Best album. But i think they have very cool songs from this new albums. Not 100% but for me they are trying to do some cool mix with 70 prog vibes and today music. I Guess

Why Gojira?

Eternal Rains Will Come is their best song.

@DecrepitOrigin888 Pale Communion

@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 Gojira is God's gift to post 2010 metal. They are fucking phenomenal