Porcelain Heart Sparks an Opeth Praise-a-thon | Opeth Audition for Anti-Valentine's Day Playlist

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

I thoroughly enjoyed making this video, even though I almost died. :)

[@sirarcherfluffybutt3868]

Gotta be careful with those M&Ms, buddy. ;)

[@markblaauw4961]

This is from their best album imo. Still waiting for The Lotuseater from the same album. Nice reaction. Although it didn't make your playlist I saw you enjoyed the hell out of it.

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

I'm going to have to find that comment I made a while ago where I listed the next 2-3 songs I was planning to do. But I'm thinking Lotus is next???

[@metalogeddon7601]

Agree with considering Watershed being the best record.

[@annipsy2185]

this was the first Opeth song i heard and i fell in love with them because of that "drum moment" , i was like whaaaaat issss thissss madnessssss?😍

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Exactly. :D

[@floridabelle]

Brilliant reaction. Anyone that skips your interludes or doesn't watch your outtakes are truly missing out. A+ reaction, yet again.

[@geetbehera3593]

They are hilarious

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Ha! Well thanks! :D

[@floridabelle]

@@MusicCatsandCoffee Ha! Well, you're welcome! 😉

[@e-karttolle786]

Opeth - Isolation years isn’t just sad, it’s gloomy and depressing. But lovely !!!

[@geetbehera3593]

+1

[@rafanj824]

I love this song. I always say that opening a song with a drum fill is the absolutely best way to do it. And THAT drum solo is Axenrot burning brightly!!! ANd of course, the sad, gloomy break, it's so beautiful and haunting.

[@falsemcnuggethope]

Mikael has said this was the most personal lyrics he has written, and he said it was too personal. The song starts to shine when you know the backstory. You can hear the feeling throughout the song, especially 2:47 is a powerful moment in its honesty. I don't usually connect or even listen to Opeth lyrics but this song is different to me. The music video emphasizes the story even though the song is shortened.

[@deminybs]

Jeeez about time!!! lol she does 10 slipknot reactions to every 1 opeth one 🥺

[@FugglesRift]

really enjoying your opeth reactions. seeing your genuine reactions help me and I'm sure others relive the musical discovery that is opeth. you can never go back to who you were before you heard those last few final piano notes on hessian peel building the tension before Mikael kick the door in with the "demon voice" but seeing someone else discover it for the first time is pretty close! Its tough just reacting to one song at a time! this song is preceded by burden and followed by hessian peel, so epic!. everyone has certain emotional attachments to music for their own reasons but this album in particular speaks to the pain still buried in my heart tied to a separation/divorce that coincidentally began in April (i lost all i had one april day). Keep at it, there is a mountain of amazing music to go through but its worth it, there are absolute gems on every album they have made. in no particular order amazing songs from albums other than blackwater/ghosts/watershed: deliverance, will o the wisp, chrysalis, spring MCMLXXIV, faith in others, All things will pass, in my time of need, next of kin, when, credence, i feel the dark, the lines in my hand, to bid you farewell. also i saw on a previous video mention of them as being underrated, i dunno. people who know, know opeth is an 11. there is all other music, then there is opeth. this type of music will never be popular so maybe under-discovered or under-appreciated is more appropriate. its not something you can have on in the background, it doesnt already sound familiar, it doesnt even sound the same one album to the next! you have to stop what your doing, take time out and just listen.

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Yes, yes, good point. Underrated was not the best word for that. Just speaking from my own experience, I couldn't believe I had never heard of them. That's what I was getting at. The Lotus Eater is the next one. Should be posted next week! :)

[@fancotasargentina8165]

Another great reaction, as usual. Lauren, your next Opeth song should be Coil & Heir Apparent. Both songs together (the first one is really short and has a BIG SURPRISE that is unique in all Opeth´s discograpy)

[@Henriktranoy]

If you are making an "anti-valentine" playlist, you should check out "Hope leaves". Not explicitly about love, but the lyrics fits and might very well be about "heartbreak". And a newer one, "Ingen sanning är allas" is explicitly about someone who can't accept that his love have left him, and he is drowning in despair, anger and delusion. English translation is "universal truth", but I'm not to familiar with how the message is conveyed there (as the music video makes what's going on clear, it will be along the same lines). That being said. I freaking Love Porcelain Heart! Such a good song. I love the mood.

[@deminybs]

If only going for the theme ,hell she could do anything BFMV and it would be fitting just because the band name 😂😂

[@The13thblade]

I watched again. And yup. Master class.

[@chriscoote2690]

You have to do Coil / Heir Apparent from the same album…everything that is awesome about Opeth is in these 2 songs…

[@PieterKleij]

There is another version of this song around called Mellotron Heart.

[@heavymetalmusicofdestructi3430]

love this song

[@bryanmack5410]

I'll actually recommend this as someone's first Opeth song. Kind of like a California roll for a first-time sushi eater.

[@jeremysieving7434]

If you want to hear more of his high rage you need to check out the song Isolation Years. Its a very sad song also.

[@cjmars822]

"Welcome back to all the skippers" ........ ........ immediate sub

[@heavymetalmusicofdestructi3430]

massive opeth fan

[@geetbehera3593]

Lovelorn Crime is a great one for this theme as well

[@anumili08]

I think you will love "Isolation Years" and "In My Time of Need" from them. Not exactly anti love songs but mostly about lost love and despair and both have only clean vocals. Mikael's vocals are gorgeous (duh!!) and compositionally they are two of the more straightforward songs. Also, I wonder why you don't react to Dream Theatre. Especially since you love keyboard guy and they have one of best (and one of the best guitarist, drummer and bassist too). Their vocals while fully clean, doesn't always do it for me but still enjoys many of their songs because of the great song writing and technical wizardry

[@geetbehera3593]

Yes isolation years is that playlist song

[@16dbuse]

Thank you for mentioning the drummer, dude is somewhere else lol

[@samuel_pribus]

Yes you right he left the band :(

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

I kid you not, this comment and response were the highlight of my week. Samuel, I don't know if you meant to be funny here but omg that's hilarious to me! :D

[@JereTheJuggler]

Just found your channel today and binged my way through most of the Opeth videos! If you like keyboard and drums then you should really consider checking out Dream Theater. I'd recommend Panic Attack or Constant Motion for an introduction, then maybe move on to one of their epics like Octavarium or Count of Tuscany to see what kind of a journey they can really take you on. They even have an insane 42 minute long track called 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence that might just be the single most amazing song I've ever heard.

[@insaneasock3156]

Do Universal Truth? The video is bat $#!+ bonkers and the song is sooo go and Mikael his high notes in the one too

[@thomasschuler5005]

Black nail polish :) 👌🙏🏻🙃

[@DeJayHank]

This song is one of the very few they've actually made a music video for with themselves in. It's a shorter version of this song so it's not the one you'd want to react to, but might be interesting to check it out. It's not the greatest - and Mikael has said that it was a mainly thing their publisher told them to do - but still interesting.

[@PsychosociaLTx]

I'm thinking to myself if you've done their blackwater park track 🤔 not a part of this playlist but monster Opeth song..for me.

[@geetbehera3593]

She has done but she didn’t upload that due to some issues

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Geet is correct. I did a "no pause" experiment with this song and the result was too pointless to post. So I deleted it.

[@recurrencetheorem4264]

HESSIAN PEEL for a great mix of clean and demon vocals. Amazing song!

[@fancotasargentina8165]

She already do that one, and is one of her favourites

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

THE favorite, actually. :)

[@fancotasargentina8165]

@@MusicCatsandCoffee We will see what you think after you do Coil/Heir Apparent, because i think that it will fight for number 1

[@zulfahmi9651]

Please react Opeth - The Leper Affinity live lamentations 2003

[@elihuarevalo6167]

Another great Opeth song you might react to is Voice of treason. 😉

[@GetzGoth]

Automatic like for this chick's videos. She's the Goat of reactors. Even back 100k years ago when Borg the Neanderthal was playing his flute and all the other little primates were reacting to Borg, this chick is even better than that! It just doesn't get any better than this!

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Might want to dial it back some. People will think I paid you to say this. :D But thanks all the same.

[@GetzGoth]

@@MusicCatsandCoffee Sorry, I may have gotten a little carried away there. I'm bad for that.

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Hey now. Never apologize for a compliment. That's very nice of you to say. :)

[@Croneth]

Still annoyed that some people chose this as the "Anti-Valentines" track, there are so many good tracks by them that actually fit this bill. Chrysalis is less depressive and more of a rebellious/angry track with the lyrics assumed to be directed to his ex-wife. Ending with this vulnerable and reassuring verse directed more to himself. Then there is the Damnation album that has a myriad of very depressing yet beautiful songs, Hope Leaves, In My Time of Need etc. Porcelain Heart is a good song but just an awful pick for this theme.

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

I think of all the songs I heard this month, this one is #2 right after Anesthesia. It felt odd leaving such a great song off the playlist but it didn't seem to fit.

[@theCrownofSympathy]

"You can rock out on a keyboard." Just out of curiosity, are you familiar with the band Rammstein. That band has a keyboard player that knows how to steal the show, and that's saying a lot because those guys put on a hell of show with so much craziness going on.

[@MusicCatsandCoffee]

Only Du Hast.

[@theCrownofSympathy]

@@MusicCatsandCoffee Since you already know that song it would be interesting to see you react to a live performance of it at some point.

skillshare... HAHAHAHAHAH!

[@dianajemison105]

Don't you hate murderous candy? Delicious, but it may kill you. 😈 I liked this one. I think the only other Opeth I've heard was here, but I like this one better. You should check out Josh Silver's (Type O Negative) keyboard skills and hair throwing. 😅

[@notchjohnson2540]

"The other bands are like Skillshare" xD Btw. someone really needs to gif you an Opeth t-shirt, signed Joakim "Keyboard Guy" Svalberg, at some point...

[@babberification]

I’m drunk.

[@Hammarby1000]

Are you based in NY? Strange question I know, but you seem so NY-ish

[@onurmansiz6843]

Laura your reactions are unique and you seem to like it a lot. but please try not to pause the songs that often, it ruins the continuity and bothers the viewers a bit, I guess. At least for me it does. Other than that, thanks for all the reactions you've made so far. Cheers

[@circulation69]

It's not your guy on keyboards it's the previous keyboardist Per Wiberg, who was only with them for this "Watershed" album. Your guy Joachim Svalberg joined on the following album "Heritage". Also on drums on this album is Martin Axenrot, and this was his first album drumming with Opeth. The previous drummer was Martin Lopez. This song is a true story of how Mickael left his girlfriend and she subsequently committed suicide. Very deep and sad song lyrically.

[@geetbehera3593]

And yes this drummer is the same guy from red rocks, who has left the band just few months ago @ Lauren

[@fancotasargentina8165]

I think Per Wiberg kicks Joachim Svalberg ass playing live. If she likes Joachim, she should check a live song by Opeth with Per

[@AdrianCardona01051011]

I'll ask for A Fair Judgement until I go deaf 😂 great reaction kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmjNY6uMnN6kr8U