Can we please kick this lord of the rings poser and get lopez back. This guy has no soul. Meshugah's drum machine in Catch 33 had more emotion. I don't know why Michael thinks so highly of him. He's probably one of the worst drummers in prog.
Fucking hell that is one ignorant comment. Have you even listened to Heritage & Pale Communion? His drumming is one of the highlights of modern Opeth. He brings the groove hard & has really memorable fills. Listen to the drumming on Nepenthe and tell me he sounds like a drum machine. He's improved A LOT from Watershed
Compare his drumming to the quieter parts of Deliverance or Ghost Reveries., hell, even Damnation. He still hits the drums too hard and lacks real finesse. He's very tight, but that's it.
The vocals are mediocre, the drumming was off, the ending solo was tame and the mixing was poor. Bleak is easily my favorite song, facing competition only from Harvest and Godhead's Lament. It could've been so much, but it was so little.
Where were the vocals mediocre, and in what way? Where were the drums off, and in what way? In what way was the ending solo tame? As far as the mixing goes you cannot get good sound quality on RU-vid, so you ought to use the DVD or CD instead.
jaketaz Compare the vocals to The Leper Afinity on Lamentations. That's what good live vox should sound like. This just sounds like someone jamming a pool noodle into a garbage disposal. The drumming was off tempo and incorrect- if you can't hear it you have no musical ear and I won't take the time to give the exact time stamp, and the ending solo was just the skeleton of the actual solo. Recording quality has nothing to do with it; I own this recording on MP4 anyway. Don't bother me with more stupid questions because I'm right and you're wrong.
UsernameUser If you had any brains you would understand that the "solo" is multiple lines played by multiple guitars on the original, with more than one rhythm guitar behind it. There's 2 guitarists in the live band, do the math. The vocals aren't mediocre, that means average, they are better than average. You didn't provide a time stamp about the drums being off because it doesn't happen. If you own this on MP4 you know damn well the recording quality is fine, but MP4 only goes up to kbps which is a garbage resolution for babies anyway. You are a whiny cunt. I will never see your reply because I am muting this now. Luv u
The vocals are mediocre? Are you kidding me? The sound is better than lamentations, i have the lamentations concert too..tienes un severo problema de oído mi amigo! La voz natural está impecable, la gutural eso si está más consistente.. Pero este concierto es absolutamente el mejor que han dado, instrumentalmente incomparable con los anteriores
Ale Cavanagh This concert is by far the _worst_. The vocals aren't flawless, and the instrumentation is just plain lame. They couldn't even play the ending solo so they just played a few notes from it and gave up. I'd complain about the horrible vocals, but they are the least of the problems on this track. And since you bring up Lamentations, _The Leper Afinity Live on Lamentations_ was a million times better than this garbage. I don't have a problem with hate, I just hate being disappointed by bad music.
To me, the most impressive thing about this version of the song is Mike using his SE guitar, makes you think that you don't need thousands of dollars to have a great sound out of an instrument, just be skilled at playing it
@@ogulcanyolcu8714 Not true at all. I've seen live performers get fantastic sound with gear that cost less than £1,000. Of course you can also be dependent on the venue's PA system (if it has one) and the sound engineer doing a good job. But it is perfectly possible to get good sound without spending huge amounts of money.
Opeth's lyrical themes are kind of unique in metal. Metal is usually about socio-political ills. This is more about some Victorian guy in a forest brooding about his unrequited love.
I’ve only been lucky enough to see Opeth once (Hunter/Heritage w/ Mastodon) and I can admit I was almost insulted they didn’t play “Bleak” that night. It speaks to the power of this song.
Not that much. He still plays the heavy songs slow as hell and he still lacks subtlety on the less intense moments. He has NEVER really nailed Deliverance, for instance.
@@ItsNotaTuhmah He plays it just as the studio version is and doesn't ruin it like Lopez did in Lamentations with Deliverance and the second half of The Drapery Falls.
One of my favourite tracks ever, but if you compare the growls here to the version on the roundhouse tapes, there's no comparison, hes either deteriorated or is doing it differently, to me anyway.
Wilson is a great song writer ..but....Mike's clean vocals in this are far stronger, powerful than Wilson's in BWP's rendition. This song, a few by BOC, DT and PT really stands out...so powerful, dark but in a illuminated way, stark, in your face like Digital Bath by death tones...love it
Not a fan of Axe's drumkit sound. Sounds kinda muffled in every single live show.. He also lacks some subtlety on the quieter moments, he plays too hard and even kinda slow.
I agree opeth lyrics deal with lost lovers dwelling in forest spectral lovers severed from each other forever to wander the sickening realm of Blackwater park 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Прекрасное исполнение. Исполнение двух музыкантов, в сопровождении ударника. К сожалению в этом произведении не нашлось место партии клавишника, именно этим отличались классические группы, такие как Deep Purple, или Uriah Heep и им подобные...
I find flagging at concerts generally inappropriate. Being Norwegian, I find flagging norwegian at a concert in Britain with a Swedish band to be quite frankly embarassing. It's like some nationalist selfie. Awesome show though.
Take it as they're just Norwegian fans who came all the way from Norway to attend this glorified Opeth' concert letting the members know how much they love their music 😂
Well it's an Opeth concert, what do you expect? The fans are just completely amazed by this perfect performance. Listening and headbanging without having time to think about moshing or whatever, i've seen em four times and i've seen a moshpit there like once or twice. Although i do my fair share of thrashing in the pit, i've never missed one at an Opeth show. Not the moshpit type of music
Funny, I find it quite opposite. The first 3 minutes include awesome verses and one of Opeth's best riffs (the main riffs before the verses). The final 6 minutes has the most boring chorus with a completely redundant guitar solo and some generic chord-progression bridges in between. It sounds MUCH better with Åkerfeldt on vox instead of Wilson though, this version is vocally much better than the studio version!