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

[@Nachtopus]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's a great album

[@silverphoenix_1756]

Same

[@ChrimsonKing]

And the production is fucking perfect !!

[@joex-mn4we]

Also Hessian Peel is just a masterpiece

[@JubaDeMetalAlumínio]

@@joex-mn4we Yeah! At least in the 1st listening, I liked it more than Heir Apparent. Hearing again, yes, Heir Apparent is FUCKING MONSTRUOUS.

[@anumili08]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Yeah it's a great opening

[@anumili08]

@@BecomeTheKnight Now that I think of it, Leper Affinity , The Moor, Ghost of Perdition ..none of them are really bad openings LMAO

[@nacho04511]

@@anumili08 April Ethereal as well. It's probably one of my top openers from Opeth

[@jamesking9807]

It's a one-two punch of haunting beauty followed by dragged through broken glass brutality. I love it.

[@julien2231]

Its not an opener its an opether... yeah, im leaving now. Bye

[@robertisagigachad666]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

And it's in E Standard

[@robertisagigachad666]

@@BecomeTheKnight I love Opeth. I swear I've never heard such heavy music in E-Standard.

[@Uzielsquibb]

@@robertisagigachad666 Sylosis makes some good E standard metal. And Psycroptic absolutely destroys in Drop D

[@Yenneffer]

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

[@tahamohammedi5898]

The only growler i truly enjoy

[@muenchhausenmusic]

Yeah, him and Christian Älvestam were the first growlers I ever enjoyed, and, similarly to The Mohammedi, the only ones I truly enjoy. Älvestam sounds like an angry God, and Åkerfeldt sounds like a wrathful forest God, like a force of nature

[@AlfW]

Watershed is peak-growl of Opeth

[@dneuens]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Yeah singing would have taken away from this

[@colonelcrab4772]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Must be in the air

[@flataffect]

@@BecomeTheKnight they are about to tour after all! Or just started last night rather

[@Mehrannn78]

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

[@okrelayer]

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!

[@rahbeat9785]

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

[@Toiletman24]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

🤘🤘

[@EzioMonty117]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Spanks

[@naveamitay]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It mega-thiccc

[@TheAskald]

The album just kinda dies after Burden. I still really like Hessian Peel, but compared to the previous Opeth albums, to me something is just missing in Heritage, like if a third of the record was lost and never glued back to the rest.

[@naveamitay]

@@TheAskald Hessian Peel remains my favorite song on the album. Sure, It's overblown. But every song has a couple moments in it, even the weaker ones. Just could've shortened them a bit. But even with all its weaknesses, the album stands strong and unique.

[@awsimlog]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's mean

[@matthewrose1203]

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 🤘

[@aaronjones4649]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Thanks man it was fun

[@philip863]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Yup....and no one watches what they begged for.....nice one KZbin

[@ericantonmarchi2176]

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.

[@The_Director_]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's mean

[@sauceduphands2239]

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

[@brooksboth6219]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

I think because this album kinda played out this sound of theirs. They reached the end of what they wanted to say and you can hear it

[@brauliodiaz3925]

@@BecomeTheKnight I wholeheartedly agree. I honestly think that the long endings and the way they ended some of the songs in this album (especially this one, Burden with the detuning guitars, and Lotus Eater with the weird funky part) kinda signals that they were over this particular sound. I still love this album to death though and I keep longing for a comeback of this sound even if it is their last hoorah with the death metal prog style.

[@Tdrummer888]

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

[@Joyverse]

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!

[@1GuyGaming]

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

[@Xygor]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's a phat one

[@Xygor]

@@BecomeTheKnight yep....this album was so freaking heavy

[@UndeadSasuke34]

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.

[@LagunaPadre361]

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

[@Immersed94]

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 ^^

[@dortmunddrums9876]

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

[@JAGValiant]

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.

[@AustinYCooper]

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.

[@bentarpey8666]

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.

[@williamreynolds3487]

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

[@henryhayes2060]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

That's my favorite era too

[@sx54]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

🤘🤘

[@SwedeMackster]

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

[@pw9729]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Great contrast

[@ButterMilkPancakes]

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.

[@krata420]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's insane

[@georgenovikov8186]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Probably not for a long time

[@georgenovikov8186]

@@BecomeTheKnight ok that's fine thanks for replying.

[@sabrinat6838]

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

[@sabrinat6838]

I'm glad they did mostly prog tracks wheil i was there they ended on a kinda eh song tho

[@heenymeety406]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Burden is great

[@thedisabledviking]

these videos are helping me getting into Opeth :D

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Noice 🤘

[@soakedbearrd]

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.

[@rahbeat9785]

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

[@cw0363]

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

[@bov3793]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Thanks man

[@yogiobscura]

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

[@td601]

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

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Great video as always.

[@KenoxProductions]

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.

[@unleashthebloodthirst69420]

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!

[@sepehrabbasi2958]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

🤘🤘

[@IAmJustAPers0n11]

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

[@vince8081]

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.

[@laurinschmucker9174]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

For sure

[@animusora]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Great song

[@INTRQ]

that song is awesome

[@paivikosonen7559]

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

[@brians1793]

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.

[@tomnowak4165]

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.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

You're missing out

[@tommyravnaas1449]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

As you should be

[@madridvideos008]

Great song 🤟🏻🔥 my favorite Opeth riff

[@BecomeTheKnight]

🤘🤘

[@johnnylayton1672]

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.

[@Antellathletic1903]

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

[@alastairk0159]

Definitely one of my favorites

[@jamesdis]

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

[@collardgreens817]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Yeah i have

[@JoaoVictor-sj3zj]

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

[@wufflon2131]

My favourite song of theirs.

[@kowxley1793]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

They're infectious

[@brauliodiaz3925]

Wait till you check out Damnation :oooooooooooooo

[@kowxley1793]

@@brauliodiaz3925 I've listened to everything by now, except for Sorceress and In Cauda Venenum, those 3 are just my favorites, Damnation is definitely up there too

[@independentexile]

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 🤘

[@marksman1107]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's an amazing ending

[@frankunodostres473]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's a gorgeous ending

[@AwfulWeather5684]

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

[@lanelauhoff]

So hyped! LOL! This shit cracks me up.

[@BenIrvine11]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Hehe

[@lucapasini3812]

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

[@ZB3000]

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

[@SixStryng]

Probably my favorite Opeth song.

[@justsomedude5727]

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

[@bryandeschenes6153]

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

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Almost like I know the band or something 😝

[@bobsvagana9623]

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

[@bobsvagana9623]

also should i listen the albums chronologically or most listened to less listened

[@BecomeTheKnight]

🤘🤘

[@philip863]

You should start with blackwater or still life imo. Tho that’s just mine. Then either go into their more black metal esque era or classic_sounding prog. Whatever floats your boat.

[@bobsvagana9623]

@@philip863 means a lot thx

[@BP-or2iu]

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

[@darkdudironaji]

Quite possibly the heaviest riff ever written in standard tuning.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It's up there

[@ogulcanyolcu8714]

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

[@yogiobscura]

gojira be like what about my heaviest matter of the universe

[@Irohen]

Isn't Blackwater Park in Drop D?

[@harvesterofsorrow9098]

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!🤘🤘

[@muenchhausenmusic]

Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) and Christian Älvestam (first three Scar Symmetry albums) were the first instances when I enjoyed growling, and still the best ones to do it imo. Check out Holographic Universe by Scar Symmetry if you want, it is a masterpiece! Pretty different vibe from Opeth, more a futuristic atmosphere to it.

[@pranavdhokre8980]

This is one of my favourite Opeth songs! Later in 2021 I would listen to it all day!!!

[@RDog4484]

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

[@INTRQ]

also one of my faves

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Good

[@jhardyrules]

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

[@bdtyf]

Garfield shirt FTW. Also, this is epic!

[@jarltrippin]

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.

[@freelanceopportunist559]

When Spinal Tap does a gig at the airforce base and Nigel walks off stage, not before throwing his guitar face down on the stage... ....it's what I think of whenever I hear the opening note of Heir Apparent. Edit: if the Leper Affinity isn't in this top 5 I don't know how I'll cope

[@eliash8903]

Their best song from their best album.

[@danielricciardo7251]

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

[@DannyMiami09]

correction, there is no fade out

[@masterweapon334]

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

[@nolanbarth9211]

Won’t Be Saved is my favorite Opeth song😆

[@brooksboth6219]

Lmao

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Lmao.

[@cubertuner492]

One of my favorites song's 😈😈😈

[@christify3418]

Weird, notif bell ain’t given me notif🤨

[@hyalinamusic18]

This outro reminds me a little of Omega by Periphery (or Omega reminds me of Heir Apparent really) because of that kind of false ending before the real ending. While I do really like the outro of Heir Apparent, like you it does feel a little disconnected from the rest of the song to me. Omega, however, does this kind of perfectly in my opinion. It took me until I started to learn how to play the song on guitar that I realized the breakdown at the end is one of the riffs from the beginning of the song slowed down. By the time you get to that point, it has been almost 11 minutes of just chaotic prog metal (excellent chaos though) so you almost forget about that riff (and it wasn't even a super prominent riff in the beginning too) and they just bring it back in the most brutal way possible. While I still love Heir Apparent, that ending does feel a little tacked on.