Opeth live at Wacken 2015 - The Grand Conjuration HD

[@BTBAM819]

Mikael is one of the best musicians this planet has. I'm a drummer but he is without doubt my favorite guitar player ever. Guitar styles from death metal to folk to jazz. I love this guy and this band so much.

[@russianbear6384]

Well said

[@brennypoo]

Is it wrong to fantasize that he, the bassist from the locust, and guitar guru from Dillinger engulf my womanhood in dreams? Lmao...

[@Stev0BabaGhanoush]

MENDEZ! Tearing that shit up! Epic bass player.

[@soopahsoopah]

DeFarfalla was even better

[@guzziguy1000]

@@soopahsoopah , That's open for debate although you'd have to be awesome in the first place to work with Mikael !

[@eldertibbs]

Keyboard player wearing a Jethro Tull T-shirt. Epic!!

[@savedroknapp1926]

Wow that crowd... they really let themselves go did they...

[@conorwoodside3984]

+Savedro Knapp Wacken crowd is always dead. I don't know what's up with that fest. Really low energy.

[@soppene2003]

+Conor Woodside Not always, but in 2015 we had mud up to our ankles..

[@dawsonoo7]

+Soppene you don't headbang with your ankles man.... kinda sad to watch

[@MrMadnessreturn]

+Savedro Knapp Agreed... don't understand HOW can they be still with a song like The Grand Conjuration

[@heresjohnny999]

I've been to Wacken and it can be incredibly hot during the day...like 34C. It is a festival crowd where not everyone is a fan of the band but listening. Who the fuck moshes to Opeth anyway?

[@Daddy53751]

Ghost Reveries was an EPIC album! Opeth is without a doubt one of the most underrated bands in history! But I really miss Martin Lopez’ drumming.

[@mikelamoureux3493]

Agreed! Lopez was by far a superior drummer. Axe should stick to Bloodbath

[@seraphingagne-gagnon5887]

@@mikelamoureux3493 I saw Lopez with SOEN in last september! Wow!!!!

[@soopahsoopah]

Got to hear this song for the first time live when the played it on tour before the album dropped. Instantly blown away.

[@guzziguy1000]

Me too !

[@grabber_blu_angel]

DADFAE, Beautiful tuning.

[@el0j]

I don't know anything about music theory or any of that stuff, I just like the chord

[@_nurmi06]

@@el0j The chord is Dm(add9) if you've ever wondered. So a d minor triad with an E on top.

[@johnnysins1171]

​@Onni Nurmi it thought it was a fourth

[@hellvallah5962]

Oh.... Really?? Hmm... I didn't know that. Thanks. I mean - I'm pretty sure they use that tuning on at least one or two other songs on that album (Ghost of Perdition I think is one of them) but I thought that they, as I myself do, play 'The Grand Conjuration' in drop D tuning. ... But cool to know if they just stuck with that tuning for more - possibly all - of the album. 🤘

[@hellvallah5962]

​ Nice. Now I know the theory. Thanks! 🤘

[@jackcoleman1784]

I'm absolutely amazed that to this day noone seems to be enough of a fan to mix Opeth when they play live.

[@LudwigJager7]

for me, who dont headbang at this beginning dont have soul anymore

[@Manbear7678]

That repeating bum-bum-bum-bum-bum "punching" riff is exactly what being beaten to death with music sounds like.

[@guzziguy1000]

Having seen Opeth twice , once with Katatonia , was epic. Don't believe I'll ever see another live show like theirs ! 🤘🤘🤘

[@joesateriani4532]

That fire and smoke from the stage, Just conforting everyone

[@panosmalandris]

Oh Mikael u did it again

[@nicholasbonanato9317]

+Panos Malandris what

[@panosmalandris]

he made me laugh in the start thats what i mean

[@nicholasbonanato9317]

:D

[@el0j]

that crowd tho.. did they not know that was opeth?

[@Mokidekey]

Well, scorching heat 3 days non stop partying and 40-50% of the crowd dont know opeth. It happens. The festival performance life be like that

[@johnunderwood3132]

Fredrik is absolutely amazing.

[@diegoluciano9222]

Lenine quebrando tudo no Wacken

[@Unknownuser...135]

Miserávi, o foda é que parece muito.

[@canalmaidebao-5197]

pqp kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@Jotto999]

Mikael is too fucking cool.

[@Karthadasht]

that song is amazing but damn the sound is bad

[@nicholasfox8044]

Still a masterpiece. Shoutout to Charlie Day on bass.

[@hellvallah5962]

I absolutely LOVE this band! I can't deny it though and won't lie so must admit that I feel as though the growls were considerably 'lackluster', perhaps, for lack of a better word maybe... I do a very similar style of (heavy) vocals to Mikaël - REALLY WISH I could sing even a mere, vague fraction as well as he can, though - and I know I RIP that shit UP when I play this and other Opeth songs but it really sounds and feels as though he's really struggling/straining to keep up with it and the tonality, delivery and raw power are simply absent from this performance. But I'm any case I am pretty sure that anyway it was around this time that Opeth actually began to simply stop making use of growls in newer releases altogether and guess it would stand to reason then that it was thusly attributed - perhaps at least even only partly and maybe also partly simply due to musical evolution - to this decline in growling potential that they began to evolve their writing and material accordingly. ... And let me be absolutely clear when I say that THEY REMAINED JUST AS F$#*ING AMAZING AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!!! 🖤🤘

[@andreylucass]

*L U C I F E R*

[@mylifeisfunny8911]

i love this music

[@lflores]

The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire!

[@austinwinkler2472]

I feel bad listening that speil of his at the beginning. I’m an American and LOVE Opeth, and Prog-rock in general.

[@canalmaidebao-5197]

just ignore that bullshit he says at beginning

[@maxallen8039]

​@@canalmaidebao-5197 lol why are you maga chuds so sensitive?

[@maxallen8039]

"I feel bad listening that speil of his at the beginning. I'm an American and LOVE Opeth, and Prog-rock in general." Pull yourself up by your bootstraps? Grow a pair? I don't know, you're a right winger right?

[@NicolettenNnicotine]

I LOVE you Mikeal!

[@NicolettenNnicotine]

BEAUTIFUL

[@SiGhast]

I thought that was Travis from Cattle Decapitation in the thumbnail.

[@Luis-dr3ul]

La mejor rola de Opeth 🤟🏻

[@shivang15]

What are you talking about ! This song rocks

[@Adastra14]

holy shit :D

[@adityastrcoep]

Ghost Reveries is a legendary album! Not a single weak song on it!

[@jehki-sammeli]

The crowd waited for Linkin Park or?

[@yozenbhandari4600]

That air pollution though....waken that's sad to see

[@aronomaoileoin9603]

When I found out Gene Hoglan played on this I was like fuck? Do I need anymore proof he's the best metal drummer of all time?

[@rameshramchandani7247]

It's Martin Lopez on the record. But Gene was in just the music video (which sucks). Dio's is cringy but enjoyable. This song mv is painfully funny because it is such a brutal song.

[@blppt]

As Ramesh pointed out, Gene filled in for Lopez in a few shows after Martin left due to health concerns. He also showed up in the video, but unless somebody has bootlegs of those few Gene Hoglan shows, the only Opeth drummers to play this song live are Lopez and Axenrot, and only Lopez on the albums.

[@kylesmith261]

Why was Mikael wearing my great aunts cardigan

[@fcamiola]

lol 😆

[@43captrexkramer]

As soon as I saw him wearing it I immediately thought of Dumb and Dumber, I've seen them twice just shocking how good they are live particularly.

[@cupcake2293]

такой он забавный со своими усами, кудряшками и кардиганом, когда начинает гроулить :3

[@DerHerrMitR]

Helge Schneider ist der Chef von Opeth?! :D

[@andrewreed7475]

Some Americans love this shit.🤘

[@benjaminfox6206]

opeth, tool, kingcrow and black peaks need to do a tour together

[@abnercastro8840]

I play deathu meru

[@abscessedcadaver8221]

7 Americans got offended.

[@TheXsnakei]

Im offended… i fkn love Opeth ❤

[@JesterRace139]

Opeth rollin coal

[@miclam]

What s the matter with that crowd

[@ramanasubramanyam1110]

Is Nyyov the Swedish way of saying Now? Just asking....

[@trichila6397]

No, it is "Nu" Jag kommer hem nu för jag är trött, for example

[@alexhooi7970]

0 dislikes!

[@afonso_santos]

likes it is ..fucking metal shit

[@gbajien]

What happened to the crowd???? LOL it’s like they’re in a boring seminar or something.. 😅😅😅😅😅

[@russianbear6384]

Think they're edited out

[@bmac4]

Boy why are the bongos mixed better than the keyboards lmao

[@tonymartinez8327]

undeserving crowd!

[@patepulkkinenvtec2403]

Why the verses are so slow? I think it kills the flow of the song.

[@mantlemoky5744]

“Shitty song” this is like my second favorite on the album :(

[@HardKore5250]

Fire?

[@ScorpKH]

Bad mic and voice not clear

[@browiththecoolslidyface9709]

pop&jazz version of themselves

[@yvancluet8146]

it's strange, i saw them at a festival about the same moment at wacken 2015 and his growling was way better than this weak vocals

[@Luigi14506]

Yvan Cluet The growl can actually change from one day to another and more if your vocal chords are already injure like Mikaels, this was a bad day for him... i saw them like 2 weeks before in Costa Rica and he growled pretty good actually

[@hellvallah5962]

Yeah I figured this was most likely the case... I've personally experienced this myself from one day to the next and I don't play or tour even a meager fraction of what shows they do.

[@anttisilvast5613]

Best song of them. Dont really work that well live? Look at the crowd.. Unless they are so amazed and stoned?

[@ottertotter]

Eh its definately up there but imo Serenity Painted Death or the Drapery Falls is more worthy of that title

[@geronimosantacruz4110]

That mix sucks

[@hellvallah5962]

Bare in mind also that what you're hearing is most likely not what is coming out of the system that is being blasted at the festival itself, but rather a sterile sounding version of the individual channels being routed out to a mobile, external, multi-track recording system in which an 'acceptable' representation of what the show must've been like can be mixed to convey the general idea of what was being played over the massive Wacken line array sounds system at the time.

[@bsallre]

I saw the music video on MTV back in the day, and while they weren’t as garbage as they are now they still sucked (MTV I mean) so it got more US attention than he is giving credit

[@trichila6397]

Brandon Allred I went through a roller-coaster of emotions

[@poodle3507]

Brandon Allred he's just goofing around

[@janko1052]

crowd came to this festival,for some headbanging ,not for some nerd metal, don't judge them ;)

[@Mark-ix4zt]

Is the singer Mr Beast? He looks like Mr Beast😂

[@AnthonySmith-sc4zs]

He’s the original Mr Beast

[@SiGhast]

Close. That's sexy beast Bubba Smith.

[@tomvalentino8802]

I heard this is 05 and had to buy the album. I'll be skipping the new prog crap they are putting out.

[@colinplays5492]

Belated reaction, this is a prog song

[@Dhunt118]

​@@colinplays5492Ikr 😂😂

[@shannongraham650]

This is probably my favourite opeth song but his vocals are awful and he just sounds like he's doing a loud burp when he's doing the heavy vocals haha

[@relentless.7638]

What an insult to those of us that if listened to them for nearly 2 decades to call songs that they wrote garbage and basically mock certain people for not enjoying it. it's a shame when artists have that much talent but that much of an attitude. When you make music in a genre like a progressive death metal and then years later you speak out against the metal community in general like Opeth and mastodon have, how loyal of a fan base do you expect to have? You write countless albums with some of the dest low growls of any band and then you basically call people who enjoy that music stupid.

[@AnthonySmith-sc4zs]

I think he was speaking more about how this song failed on the charts more than anything. No doubt they’ve got a new style now and I wish they’d go back to their old ways but at least they left us one heck of a discography to listen to.

[@fcamiola]

What are you talking about? Stop making shit up. Mikael wasn't mocking anybody for liking metal - he was talking about TGC failing as a single. It's really not that hard to figure out. Jeez Louise.....

[@CitizenDaveUK]

Outstanding AF