And... I can actually read it

i think the same

it perfectly reflects all the beauty of their accoustic side with the ornamental 'O' and the dark and heavy side withthe gothic font

+smail djouhri true

A wallpaper of just the "O" has been the lock screen on my smartphone for *years*. It IS beautiful.

+greatpower30 Great Power? Your handle should be Great Ignorance, you dumb fuck. It's called music, it's a form of art, and I can already sense that you don't have the (I'll use small words here 4U) brain power to understand it. Death Metal is ONE aspect of a world so multi-faceted that.. Nevermind, I don't like you. Good day, douchè~

+greatpower30 What does that even mean..? Are you fantasizing again? Remember: It's okay to be gay! lol Denial will only hurt you.

+Tom McSorley Jr..

Brady Thomas lol hi

Are you kidding me? I am gay, you moron! You're the one using words like "faggot" and "faggy" do describe things that have NOTHING to do with sexuality! What I meant was, you should come out of the closet instead of using gay slurs to make yourself feel better. In fact, if you REALLY want to feel better about your sexuality, let me go down on you ;]

'She turns around to stare at a scene from a memory' DT reference?

@@joeyhardin5903 Probably

@@joeyhardin5903 I was just thinking the same thing, also cusp of eternity seemed like a DT reference alongside what you mentioned

@Chris Pesceyep it's dream theater

@Chris Pesce DREAMMMMM THHEEEAAAATTTTTEEEEEERRRRRRR‼️‼️‼️

+Chris John I think he is making the distinction between being a fan of music as an art, and genre as a subdivision of a particular form of music. It's like being an ass man. Some guys need a whole package to appreciate a mate, others just see a nice ass. That is how I see the difference. Opeth is the whole package.

+Chris John not that I'm saying I don't appreciate a nice ass. ..

+James Ray (“BassBastard”) m8 this is the best comment I have ever read on youtube, you're matking life beautiful

billshatcat True, but we know what he means.

+Sci-Fi Savage i dont think he meant it that way. i think he meant a fan of music in general

I can get behind this opinion.

I love this album

it's my favorite from Opeth

it is also my favorite album by the band

It's my favorite of the modern era Opeth. Better than Orchid in my opinion. Orchid still has some amazing guitar harmonies. I like every Opeth album

Orchid has some awesome experimental/fusion stuff buried in the middle (of some of the best metal ever made). In particular note are the acoustic sections of The Apostle in Triumph. Really great classical/medieval/folk leanings. I hated their modern prog/psychadelic stuff... until I got older and started to really appreciate it. I can listen to their hard stuff now and again still. I can listen to this any time. @@WFly101

Come off that

*****

That is the problem you all couldn't last a damn fortnight.

Sri Lankan

EpsilonX you hit the nail on the head my friend .good music needs no genre.

Thats a bit subjective. but i feel ya.

EpsilonX español

I Like "new" Opeth too, but Still Life, Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Watershed are my top albums.

@@wesleyhudnall3353 Yeah, it's subjective...but what I mean is that it seems like people would prefer okay heavy music to brilliant soft music...i'll take any level of heaviness, as long as they do it well.

"Hey everyone look at me i think i'm intelligent for "accepting" all art that i experience because i have an extensive mind and therefore everyone is less than me" is what i heard from you.

a masterpiece

@@DropdaLTDtoB gottem

@@DropdaLTDtoB "metal elitists can't accept that metal is not the only genre in the world" is what i heard.

This song is tittin that’s for sure

Tobias Boston gojira and opeth are going on tour next year:)

I've seen Opeth and Katatonia in a single show. It was def a big deal. I've also seen Wilson which is a big deal being that I'm an American and he doesn't come here often.

PT with Opeth in 2006(? was in US tour

my dream dream is for JESus to come to my House with a Pizza and a 12 pACK OF hiENLIKIN AND TWO XTRA large blunts ...thats one OF MY 666 DREAMS...

With the mancrush Mikael and Steven have for each other, all they have to do is get Katatonia and Gojira on board and it'll happen

It's like, something a bit of 1800 sorcery vibe prog

racewiththefalcons1 It's just too bad there isn't an archive of albums with Opeth playing death metal. Oh, wait...

+racewiththefalcons1 But you have to listen to this first before you can know if you like it or not.

@@Requnium, yes, my comment is about what comes _after_ the listening. I figured that much was evident.

you know there is preference and you don't have to like what is out regardless of genre or time.

Very true. Loved the last 3 Opeth albums.

stuck in the past my puckered brown butthole man lol..all opeths releases up until heritage were different but GOOD..see thats the difference between that pile of shit heritage and this one.the downward slope continues after all this waiting..what a disappointment

***** Lol dude bands evolve and thats just the way it is. From the Beatles to Zeppelin to Opeth. You want more Death Metal growls there are plenty of other bands still plying that old trade...

plying the old trade of death metal growls?..lol..well that "old trade" was not too long ago on watershed(opeths last great album btw) so its really not that worn out an approach to music/vocals..and incidentally i've been into opeth for their more stylistic and varied musical flavor but THIS and heritage are just plain fucking boring!!

Man I hope you’ve checked out more of their music. The instruments are always off the chain

lol yup. Steven is amazing. He also mixed BWP, Damnation, and Deliverance I believe.

I guess Uli Roth's influence, which Marty Friedman also has

You must of experience prog for the first time. Welcome to the party

Make sure to check out more of their records, new and old. It's all excellent IMO. Other bands worth looking into are Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Katatonia and Riverside.

Opeth IS Prog.

The stage and exist by a7x are preety heavy prog

@@noboru5138 since when does avenged sevenfold make prog rock? I thought they were just straight generic metal.

@@danjackson1016 The stage album was preety prog

@@noboru5138 Damn. I'll have to give it a go. cheers mate.

BAH if any other band released this crap you wouldnt even be into it.."masterpiece "my puckered butthole you blatant fanboy lol.

***** do you want a candy my boy?

Have you heard the new single?? :D

@@Meister_Dwight Yeah I did, I was surprised to hear the growl back!

I didn't say it was all bland. Haxprocess is the best song on that album, IMO. But there were way more moments on that record that were dull than most of Opeth's work. Wouldn't say they blow this out of the water.

Nailed it with this comment, pineapplepeanuts =]

Well I sure as hell was MOVED by the "The Lotus Eater"-"Burden"-"Porcelain Heart" movement on Watershed. But I do agree on everything else regarding this latest album.

Biophonism And for people like you, bragging about your supposed artistic understanding is just a kind of masturbation for the ego. Art is subjective - one person's masterpiece is another's snorefest. If you think Heritage is amazing, more power to you. Bad way to voice your opinion though.

Just wanna amend this inane comment I made years ago lol. I might of been drunk when I posted that. Don't drink and surf, kids. Its true those songs I listed are amazing. But yeah, every album that Opeth has released has amazing moments. Can't imagine how difficult it is to deliver time and time again like this band does. Put it this way - Opeth is one of the very, very few bands at this point that I still pay attention to when it comes to new releases. My appreciation for them continues to grow over time.

+Itai Arad no shit sherlock

I don't like it

+Bob Jones this song is bad

+Alice In Hell no it isnt

i know

***** You shouldn't predict or expect anything man. Nobody could predict Heritage, it just came out and blew everybody out, that's how things roll. The only thing that I know for a fact is that all predictions, for this new album and the future of the band, will always be inaccurate.

Now that it's out... legit album all around. I feel it's missing epic segments like Folklore's ending on Heritage but as an overall album I enjoyed this a lot better. "Faith in Others" is possibly the best track imo.

Alex Cambron I strongly agree with you. After one focused listening only (and a few others while working) I consider the strongest pieces to be Eternal Rains will come and Faith in others. I found most of the pieces very reminiscent of Hex Omega, in the sense that they seem to be build around creating a strange/ominous atmosphere more than being lyrical like I always considered "old opeth" to have been (from morningrise to Watershed included). Faith's has it all right with it's emphasis on touching melody, focus on Mikael's voice and the synth, and the really parsimonious use of the guitars. I hope they try more of this for the albums to come. Also agree with you that this album is way better than heritage, that was nice but had "transition album" written all over it, with its many lenghts. Still, gotta admit, as much as I define myself as someone who's favorite music is progressive rock from the seventies, I feel sad that so many groups have abandonned their metal vibe for an all-out "return" to the seventies prog rock : Opeth first and foremost, but also Dark Suns, Cynic (well, not so much a return to the seventies, but their last album is about as close to metal as Pale Comunion), etc. Still, all great bands, and eager to hear what they'll come up with next !

"Anything Opeth does is the shit" Absolute nonsense. So, what? If the next Opeth album consists entirely of Mikael sneezing into a microphone while reggae plays quietly in the background it'll be just as good as Still Life and Ghost Reveries simply because it's Opeth?

nevmin Against a wall, presumably.

You must be another new fan of the band, talking like they know their shit. 1994-2012 was nothing short of incredible, with SEVERAL successful changes in sound. Heritage was the first album I didnt enjoy from them, which sucks, because they were my favorite band for over a dozen years.

Mikeoneus I agree, blind fanboyism is fucking lame. I spend my money and my time on these guys, and I most definitely can form an opinions...and it's that Steve Wilson needs to get out of Mikael's head. Mike lost his balls over the last few years. Shame.

CannibalCorpse909 More so "Low-IQ, Metal elitists", just saying. I've been listening to Opeth a very long time, along with Steve Wilson's work, what is there not to like? I'm sure there will be a song in this album with growls. Not like you understand the lyrics, anyway. You just want to hear growls. Pretty sad, imo. Go listen to Storm Corrosion, try to tell everyone that Steve Wilson is a bad influence, you would not be able to.

That's actually an interesting argument

That's actually the most stupid shit i have ever read. The point of selling out is making music that has nothing to do with your previous works in order to get a bigger market and public so you can achieve more popularity. You can like their new music, i like it personally, but that doesn't change the fact that they started to play this music to get a bigger audience

@@martinolopezcastro9739 An artist creates music for himself, in first instance. If you wrote music, you would understand this simple notion. A band that begin to compose "catchy" music to sell more after 25 years of flawless career is a very strange idea. Cheers from Italy.

@@campoacceso6892 So you asume that there is no musician that writes music to earn money and you also asume that someone who has been earning money making music doesn't want to earn even more money? Interesting

@@martinolopezcastro9739 Earning money is a mere consequence of creating and making music. I assure you that if you try to make music just to earn money it will not take you too far. I hope my english is understandable.

+Le tanact he's in a trance

look up Dave Lombardo

+Arham Imran wooooow

This song is simple.

Magic

I noticed the singing sounds a lot like that style as well.

Erkan Erdem same, and it was great

Erkan Erdem I remember Ghost Reveries had a couple of tracks with an eastern feel.

Erkan Erdem dat uli J Roth sound right there

+Erkan Erdem Nope...definitely got that vibe

Hi mat(i)e, enjoyed reading this, rock on ! +1

Drumming is of the charts!!👍👏🏻🧠👆🏻😎