This song is incredible. It is single-handedly responsible for me finally "getting" Death Metal vocals. I used to stop the song around the five minute mark because I thought they ruined the song, but now I think they're my favourite part. Those power chords and the blood-curdling scream after the first "heavy" verse is just so far beyond epic, it could approach Shakespeare.
I forget where I first heard the name Opeth, but at the time I was trying to force myself to open-up to new music, despite reallllllly disliking death vocals. I looked "Opeth" up on Limewire and this is the first song I downloaded. The raw emotion, frustration, intensity of it all make just "get" the vocals, too. This is metal done right. This is death vocals with a purpose and meaning.
I forget where I first heard the name Opeth, but at the time I was trying to force myself to open-up to new music, despite reallllllly disliking death vocals. I looked "Opeth" up on Limewire and this is the first song I downloaded. The raw emotion, frustration, intensity of it all make just "get" the vocals, too. This is metal done right. This is death vocals with a purpose and meaning.
@AngryCitizen
Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into...
@AngryCitizen
Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into the death vocals at this point.
Anyway, The Drapery Falls was my favorite song on this album for quite a while. I think it suggests many different emotions, with the distant vocals at the beginning (I don't know exactly what that's called, but I call it "radio singing", when the voices sound like they're coming through some sort of radio or microphone) and the harmonies at the end and the raging death vocals in the middle.
I've actually gotten more into this stuff since then, currently my favorite Opeth song to listen to is "April Ethereal", which is almost entirely death vocals but they are done well, they're expressing very deep anger. Also the guitar is amazing. But it is definitely musical art and requires a great amount of musical skill. I won't say that they're aren't death metal bands that just senselessly beat things and scream profanity, but people who do that give amazing artists like this a bad name.
@AngryCitizen
Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into...
@AngryCitizen
Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into the death vocals at this point.
Anyway, The Drapery Falls was my favorite song on this album for quite a while. I think it suggests many different emotions, with the distant vocals at the beginning (I don't know exactly what that's called, but I call it "radio singing", when the voices sound like they're coming through some sort of radio or microphone) and the harmonies at the end and the raging death vocals in the middle.
I've actually gotten more into this stuff since then, currently my favorite Opeth song to listen to is "April Ethereal", which is almost entirely death vocals but they are done well, they're expressing very deep anger. Also the guitar is amazing. But it is definitely musical art and requires a great amount of musical skill. I won't say that they're aren't death metal bands that just senselessly beat things and scream profanity, but people who do that give amazing artists like this a bad name.
This song is incredible. It is single-handedly responsible for me finally "getting" Death Metal vocals. I used to stop the song around the five minute mark because I thought they ruined the song, but now I think they're my favourite part. Those power chords and the blood-curdling scream after the first "heavy" verse is just so far beyond epic, it could approach Shakespeare.
I forget where I first heard the name Opeth, but at the time I was trying to force myself to open-up to new music, despite reallllllly disliking death vocals. I looked "Opeth" up on Limewire and this is the first song I downloaded. The raw emotion, frustration, intensity of it all make just "get" the vocals, too. This is metal done right. This is death vocals with a purpose and meaning.
I forget where I first heard the name Opeth, but at the time I was trying to force myself to open-up to new music, despite reallllllly disliking death vocals. I looked "Opeth" up on Limewire and this is the first song I downloaded. The raw emotion, frustration, intensity of it all make just "get" the vocals, too. This is metal done right. This is death vocals with a purpose and meaning.
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into...
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into the death vocals at this point.
Anyway, The Drapery Falls was my favorite song on this album for quite a while. I think it suggests many different emotions, with the distant vocals at the beginning (I don't know exactly what that's called, but I call it "radio singing", when the voices sound like they're coming through some sort of radio or microphone) and the harmonies at the end and the raging death vocals in the middle.
I've actually gotten more into this stuff since then, currently my favorite Opeth song to listen to is "April Ethereal", which is almost entirely death vocals but they are done well, they're expressing very deep anger. Also the guitar is amazing. But it is definitely musical art and requires a great amount of musical skill. I won't say that they're aren't death metal bands that just senselessly beat things and scream profanity, but people who do that give amazing artists like this a bad name.
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into...
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into the death vocals at this point.
Anyway, The Drapery Falls was my favorite song on this album for quite a while. I think it suggests many different emotions, with the distant vocals at the beginning (I don't know exactly what that's called, but I call it "radio singing", when the voices sound like they're coming through some sort of radio or microphone) and the harmonies at the end and the raging death vocals in the middle.
I've actually gotten more into this stuff since then, currently my favorite Opeth song to listen to is "April Ethereal", which is almost entirely death vocals but they are done well, they're expressing very deep anger. Also the guitar is amazing. But it is definitely musical art and requires a great amount of musical skill. I won't say that they're aren't death metal bands that just senselessly beat things and scream profanity, but people who do that give amazing artists like this a bad name.