Opeth - Heir Apparent (Audio)
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LYRICS
Long days, slow waste
Sew lies, sow hate
So many years to clean the slate
Endless despair within its wake
His touch soiling what used to be clean
His gaze burning on the edge of our dreams
No more
Long days, long days
And again he rides in
It's September and he covets the gullible
Skeletal wish hunter
A thousand lies, cast from the throne of secrecy
Hear him spewing forth a meaning to miserables lies
See the twisted hand of doubt seal the affair
The insect trust believer
Your body a vehicle to to house his disease
Pearls before swine, they are nothing but blind
Submit to nothing and swallow my spit of scorn
Invisible king, dying
Procession of woe, struck down by sorrow
A burden so great weighs heavy on old and withered beliefs
The swift solution crumbles
Beneath the mock notes of a masterpiece
Death in his eyes, waiting
Spiraling judgment, provoked in the rains
This futile test drowned in the levee of deception
This futile test drowned in the levee of deception
In the year of his sovereign
Rid us of your judgment
Heir apparent - Hudba
There comes a point in one’s life when Opeth becomes your favorite band and you never look back. What an absolute masterpiece
I remember when I first heard this incredible masterpiece that I kept stopping it and gasping in amazement. I'd heard all the classics by that time and I'd never thought they could outdo themselves like that. A truly peerless band.
This was the album that got me into Opeth, and it is still my favorite. It's a shame that they don't do the "death metal" vocals anymore. Mikael Åkerfeldt was the best at doing them I've ever heard. Watershed is the "transition" album between old Opeth and new Opeth, which is probably why I like it so much. I wish they would make another album like it.
if you are a musician, look into the music notes and see the amazing mastery of Opeth; they put notes that hate each other together and force them to make love.. i keep falling in love with opeth over and over
nice words past me
God, that's the most beautiful description of Opeth I read thus far.
What's great about Mikael's writing is that he always uses some "nicer" chords right after dissonant chords so it resolves nicely and you wait for the next attack of dissonance at the end of the musical phrase. This song goes crazier with the dissonance though.
Yeah, there's a transition in Baying of the Hounds that really comes to mind when you say that - with 2 guitars playing in unison, but a minor 2nd apart.
There’s no such thing as notes that hate each other, there are resonance and dissonance, Opeth knows how to use dissonance, that’s all there is to it.
6 string, standard tuning, and they churn out this... Mikael is the MacGyver of heavy riffs.
I love that its in standard. Fucken most of master of puppets is standard save thing
I had no idea that this song was in Standard tuning ! This band is short of being creative and in how they deliver riffs and melodies so eloquently.
where does that low note comes from, in the opening chord, then? Is that a growl?
@@Rodrigoooous The oppening Chord is 0-1-2-3 starting from the low E string. Try it if you want ! Sounds pretty evil :P
@@alexandremarchand8815 0-1-2-3, that sound like a diminished chord right?
Mikael Åkerfeldt mastered every genre he ever touched, death metal, prog metal, prog rock, folk, etc. He is the ONE
And now Eurovision pop
One of the goats
Now he just needs to rap over some trap beats
@@Luxalim terrible joke
@@Celestial_Being666now he needs to rap to a trap beat
I wrote my PhD thesis listening to this album over and over again.
**bangs head frantically along velocity formulas**
Ahahahaahaahahhaahhahaahaha
so are you the guy from the cover?
fuck yes
That's awesome. What was your thesis on?
This is a great alarm
You have 80 seconds to get up or there will be a hellhole in your room
Cabeza de Huevo 1:20 sorry, I had too
😂😂😂
Actually you have 0 seconds
doesn't it sound like shit on mobile tho? Ill try it in any case :D
I prefer Ghost of perdition -> 7 seconds lmao
I started learning this song, and my jaw dropped when I found out that it was recorded in standard E tuning. So heavy!!!
Danny bearblaster damn that’s impressive on their part
That's a good thing.
Standard is they reg tuning
Lol, I bet Mikael was sitting there for 3 hours trying to write some ridiculous riff, trying to find his inspiration for a song, then just gave up and played the opening chord.
MurphyMonster sounds like satan barfing into my speakers \m/
DISSONANCE!!!
Coil is essentially the intro to this song.
Jeeeeeesus WEPT
Hahaha, it takes years of playing to make a chord like that... before then, it sounds like shit.
The transition from Coil to Heir Apparent is nothing short of magical.
It's sound like a bomb fell it jumpscared me the first time I heard watershed
Akerfeldt somehow has managed to put these kinds of transitions into almost every album many times over. He is simply one of the best to ever do it.
The ending of this song haunts me
Right?! Ugh.
the ten second ending or the whole outro?
@@GhANeC the part from 0:00 to 8:51 I’m sure he was referring to
The bass bruh the bass
This song is one of the metal's finest
i wish the cd started with this song
it does...
@@skepticmonkey6923 It starts with Coil, this is the second track
@@knightsolaire5348 bit late man, between your reply and my comment ive listened to the album at least 3 times.
@@knightsolaire5348 not sure if this is correct but i think coil is an intro to this song. Could be wrong tho
One of the most hard hitting tracks by opeth, perfect blend of bloodbath brutality and opeth ambience.
I totally love the part from 0:40. It creates this weird tension, anxiety. Where you know the heavy part is comming.
As if the intro isn't heavy AS FUCK lol
Actually the most haunting part of the song..
Jesus christ.... This track annihilated me.
@@tenebrisangelus2379 ok
5:37 "INVISIBLE CAT!"
DYINNG
And now you know why all of the dishes be flying out of your cupboards n shit. 😹👌
Rip invisible cat
Jebus!
You laugh now but you would be wise to heed Mikael's warning, the invisible cat was once one of the greatest threats to mankind
that outro... I've rarely heard music (metal, classical, rock, wtvr..) that depicted sadness so romantically with so much simplicity, that lead is nothing technically, yet *SOOO* effective. Superb tail-riff also, awesome buildup. Pure.
yoe91 Well-said. Akerfeldt has a special knack for doing outros.
+yoe91 This was the best explanation for the outro.:D
Funny, I don't get that sadness or romanticness vibe off of that outro at all.
Specially compared to such other songs like Isolation Years or Faith In Others.
I do find it very beautifully melodic, though. Awesome riff. Mikael has always been a master of those.
This one is great, but the outro of "Floods" by Pantera is my favourite! Dimebag's essence.R.i.p.
These guys are master composers. The Mozart and Beethoven’s of our time.
My favorite folk band of all time.
Opeth Is Death Metal! Swedish Death Metal from Orchid to Ghost Reveries which are the best albums
@@josuemoran16
Very much so,
Progressive death metal.
@@youreokayboah2128the fun thing with progressive is anything goes and reprisals.
isfolk!
Yeah Watershed is definitely my favourite hardstyle / trance album
This song is a masterclass in how to write a heavy song
2:30 One of the most devastatingly unholy riffs I ever did hear.
Was...until 5:29 came around.
@@samwisebagcheese7207 Alternate picking doesn't count IMO
Za3boor but isn’t tremolo just alternate picking really fast. 😂
@@samwisebagcheese7207 love that part but not even close man. That's just a bunch of chuggas
One of my favorite riffs of all times. Such a pleasure to hear and play.
This is produced by Steve Wilson . Huge tones on everything. Great Mix. the drums are massive . The best sounding tones on this album .
NICK MENZA Actually only Blackwater park, Damnation and Deliverance are produced by mister Wilson. Jens Bogren produced Watershed and Ghost Reveries.
Hey Menza, this is Paul from Ancient Ruins from the LA OC area. I would love to play some shows with you and get you in the studio. Looking for a permanent drummer. I'll send you over a track ( Evil will always pervail ) let me no if it's your style of music.. Its a comanation of Iced earth, Death and Iron Maiden. Definitely looking forward to hearing from you or just you thoughts...Thank You for your Time.
NICK MENZA Steven Wilson "just" mixed the album, not produced
+NICK MENZA Jens Bogren produced it.
+NICK MENZA
hey man . what do you mean "tones " ??
Started listening to Opeth way back in high school, around 2011~2012, for literally a decade. I started with their 'metal' era with, beginning with "Ghost Reveries", which made me go down a rabbit hole and listen to everything they'd released. In this decade of constantly following up with their sound, they were there during my ups and downs, helping in so many aspects of my life, metal-wise.
I had to deal with personal issues, I felt lonely a bunch of times in those years, and even struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts. Opeth's music to me was an escape from reality, I could always go back and find comfort, I felt connected with so many of Mikael's lyrics, it made me rethink my life decisions and start to improve.
Thankfully I've found a way to deal with my inner problems and traced a well tough path for my life. I managed to overcome my depression, which I never felt ever again so far, managed to get my bachelor's degree, and started to take care of my body by eating healthy, exercise and and stopping using drugs. And all and all never abandoned listening to their music. It helped me a lot. I mean it.
Got me an Opeth tattoo on my arm, I dunno, I am grateful for knowing this band, thankful for all the good times I had with them, and plus, ITS FUCKING AWESOME
In ten years, I have not been able to attend an Opeth concert, because they rarely played in my hometown, Sao Paulo, Brazil. And this was on my bucket list, for years I've been wanting to see them live for the first time.
But the universe granted me my wish, next year, on February 8th, 2023, Opeth will play a gig in Sao Paulo and guess what, I got the tickets!!!! I am so happy that I will watch my favorite band for the very first time!!!! I feel so good
Thank you, Opeth
You are in for a real treat. They are amazing live. I also have the O tattoo.
Po mano, que foda! É incrível o poder da música na vida de uma pessoa. Felizmente ou infelizmente, conheci Opeth há poucos meses (queria ter conhecido eles antes) e todo dia fico impressionado com o som dos caras. Os caras são mestres demais. Espero que o show tenha sido top.
The Opeth logo must be a killer tat.
Opeth's most brutal song.
+racewiththefalcons1 And most awesome !
Also their only song to feature no clean vocals of any kind.
+tymongoji I never thought about that before...it really is there only song to feature nothing but growling.
+Christopher Brickwedde That's not true, there are a few Opeth songs without cleans. Blackwater Park is the biggest example.
+racewiththefalcons1 Serenity Painted Death imo.
Gotta love the tritone
one of the most beautiful things in music
I love how it's just three notes but you can make an infinite amount of memorable riffs with it.
+TheAskald A tritone is two notes, it's the name of an interval.
Barri cade I was talking about the tritone interval actually, it's true that it's just an interval between 2 notes, but it's often used twice at the same time (0-1-2 on E A D string or 7-8-9). It never gets old.
That would also be two notes as adding another tritone would make you end up on the octave.
I love this song for a lot of reasons -- but I also see it as Mikael's last hurrah when it comes to death metal. I know there were other heavy songs on the album, but because this was their last death metal album, and this was not only the heaviest song on it, but one of the only songs ever of theirs to feature no cleans, I have to imagine he was like "Okay, I'm going to write my last death metal song ever, and this is going to be one of my best". That's what I tell myself.
Considering they were planning to write another prog death album after this, but scrapped it halfway through the process, this is most likely not what happened. But it certainly feels that way.
Mikael is a god. These tempo changes and riffs are simply way ahead of us and far away from where anyone else is today.
Scriptorification those are both fantastic suggestions, I’m gonna throw animals as leaders in there as well. Btbam is such a good fucking band.
@Klangedin Morgan Honestly it's good new music but it just doesn't scratch the itch, never had goosebumps
Great call with BtBaM; Parallax II and Automata are easily on the level of Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries.
@@marcusking8507 not even close
Mikael is a fantastic musician… but FAR from a God.
There is only one God. Nobody could ever compare to the infinite one.
I misread that as Hair Appointment
You think that dude's wavy locks happen on accident?
Ryan Kurt Bass hahahahahahahaha
lmao, you guys win the internet!
You would need a hair appoinment after headbanging to this.
got no hair
Even this song isn't downtuned.
Opeth is obviously doing witchcraft.
Nerenthil I can believe it.
standard E
It's because they actually use a bass guitar.
This song is so heavy, it does not compare to the feeling of being hit by a ton of bricks nor is it similar to the pain of being hit by a tank, the only thing that is equivalent to the heaviness of this song is the one of the most powerful forces in this world and that is adulthood... And everybody knows that once you get hit by adulthood, you are never the same again.
BrokensCam so it's about as metal as adulthood is what you're saying?
Hello, my friend, thank you so much, for responding to my previous statement; when I made this comment, I was trying to compose a metaphor, on the impact that this song has on me as a member of the audience, because I think in my opinion that this has not only change my view on music of genre but on music in general, which is a change that is forever unchangeable, like the progression of adulthood.
BrokensCam ha, what a pleasant and eloquent comment. Cheers!
Thank you so much, it has been an honour and a privilege speaking to you, thank you.
BrokensCam Yes, exactly BrokensCam! Once you see the beauty in heavy music, you can never un-see it.
7:21 Opeth melody ® max quality
Reminds me of past albums.classic sound.
Don't get me wrong, but after all the brutality going on in this track, the ending is like a well-deserved clearance that gives you goosebumps from outer space... nails me every single time!!!
It's like a well deserved bonus stage for listening to such a mester piece
Watershed will always remain one of my favorite albums. This album has some of the best memories attached to it.
I remember seeing them at the glass house at a sold out show right after this album came out 👌
Going on cycle rides in the countryside very stoned with this in my ears. Magic
SO MANY YEARS TO CLEAN THE PLATES
Adrian Storeide 🤣
"What happened to a life-guard" - Deliverance. ;)
"I will outrun this guy" April Ethereal
"There is a penis I am certain" - Master's Apprentices
So many years to pray to Satan.
Does it occur to people that Mikael is a Swedish Metal God
He is dude! He is!!!!!
The Swedish “Rob Halford”
I love how he looks like the chillest guy ever, that funny skinny friend everybody has. But when he growls holy shit...
He legit is
yes he was
This has to be the best death metal song ever.
Ezequiel Santos Symbolic
My picks gotta be left hand path by entombed
not really death metal. I can't classify opeth, so I just call it metal.
@@dominicross96 they've been classified as progressive death metal.
Your so wrong...opeth has other songs aswell😉
6:41 is one of the greatest things I've ever heard
The intro riff is so evil may face gets stuck in a huge psycho smile.
Accurate profile picture haha
Have you listened to Flesh & Metal from the new DOOM game? And the Cyberdemon one, or Rip & Tear. Check them out
samsies...
The production on this album is just amazing.
Jens Bogren is the man!
this is one of the heaviest songs ever made
The intro's gotta be among the top 5 heaviest standard tuning riffs
Can't forget Deliverance
@@toprak3479
Even in standard tuning, it blows most black metal out the water that’s for sure.
@@youreokayboah2128 Black Metal ain't not heavy be, but at most strangely groovy. Death Metal doth the heaviness hath.
meshugga strenght can dual with it, but yeah!uright
YES! They played this song last week here! And to top it off, their closing song was Deliverance. I felt like I was on music heaven.
Thank you Opeth.
Reading this during pandemic... I hope we go back to these days.
God that outro is really something from another dimension. Every single member of the band, from Axe to Mendez, is so prominent during that section, playing their parts with such excellence. Absolutely, hauntingly magnificent piece.
Hair Appointment is probably my favourite song by Opeth. It doesn't have any weak points or gets bogged down in repetition.
Darkness is so comfortable and this song is a perfect companion at 3 am while writing with a single candle lit and tripping hard on lsd. Great artists.
Can relate!
Best song on Watershed.
hessian peel
i cant decide which song is best, because every song on this album is so awesome
I find The Lotus Eater to be one of Opeth's best and most accomplished songs ever.
you are all wrong - the best one is still Black Rose Immortal xDD
When everyone names different songs, you realize that it's a great album.
cool detail: he says "heir ap" on the left and then "parent" on the right at 5:28
Listening in 2022, 8 years later and this album hasn't aged a minute.
Opeth is proof that if you down tune your guitar, you're not heavy enough.
This song is in standard tuning and one of the heaviest songs ever
When i first discovered this song my neck was sore for a week
My favourite Opeth song. It's a tough call, but I always come back to this one. Brutal as fuck.
These folks are the reason I started loving metal. Getting to see them live in Chicago 10 years ago was an experience I'll never forget.
That changing on end of the song, incredible..
This album is very underrated it's one of their best ones imo
2:30 - 3:30 , Brilliant portion in the song... What a groove, and then again what a solo following it!
couldn't agree more
It's one of the best metal riffs ever written, if not the best.
It's already 10 years that I'm listening to this. Never got tired of this song, of this album or even of everything ever done by Opeth.
I just love how they hit you with this beast right after Coil.
7:20 I want this to be played at my funeral.
Opeth's best album, contrary to popular opinion.
Ironically your opinion is still an opinion
This one and ghost reveries for me.
this song is awesome while lifting.. also recommend oldschool gojira
'L Enfant Sauvage' and 'The Heaviest Matter of the Universe' will make you lift twice as heavy at least.
If it's old gojira we're talking about, I'd recommend Clone/Lizard Skin/Fire is Everything as well
@@francismcalister7811 and Space Time
New gojira is good as well though but yeah the vocals were a bit more brutal in their early days.
@@francismcalister7811 If you want older stuff, listen to Possessed or Victim, they were Godzilla at the time. Even heavier.
All I can say is that this song is heavy as balls and has some of the best growling I've heard in a long time, it's definitely a 9/10 for me and is one of my favorite Opeth songs besides maybe bleak or isolation years.
Ive listened to all extreme metal genres but never heard such monsterous,savage, animalistic riff. And its in standard tuning.
The whole song is one big metal masterpiece. Opeth is speccial
4:08 beautiful, just beautiful
This song belongs in top 5 of their career , every single riff is outstanding , no fillers and this song goes so hard and that haunting piano melody is just icing on the cake!!
Heir Apparent, Blackwater Park and The Grand Cojuration must be my three favorite metal songs ever. And all three from the same band. Way to go Opeth!
Opeth use the most elegant and beautiful chords and weave such tragic yet lovely melodies. The outro is a wonderful example. These guys are the real deal. I’m incredibly inspired by their music
crushing all !
Oh, happy to here Nick, i dont know, you are listen Opeth really?
7:20 Best thing you can get after an outro like that!
Heavy, melodic, soulful riffs.
By far my favorite Opeth album. Such an excellent release. that fucking production too
Isis are also an amazing band! Panopticon and Wavering Radiant are two of my favourite albums of all time.
My favorite Opeth album is STILL LIFE.
Cole Jordan
WR is deep. Took like 5 listens before I "got it"
Deliverance
Endless Static I agree, Watershed is my favourite too. Everything in this album is in balance, both the death metal and the prog rock elements
This is easily one of the coolest opening riffs of all time.
So epic, best song on the record.
4:39 holy shit
Stragos how can anyone put such a fine melody of different tones together in a so perfect way is beyond me... That 4:39 part is definitely my fav.
I love how heavy this song is. This song features some of Mikael's best growling for sure.
Compared to like Blackwater Park? No way
@@Celestial_Being666 No need to compare them. This song is heavy on its own beautiful way. But of course, nothing beats Blackwater
I don't really think I've heard a band better at producing an atmosphere in music, they really get across the mood of the song so perfectly.
Tool IMO is better at atmosphere. OPETH atmosphere is always dark forest serial killer vibes lol
@@NooDLES411911 Hasty generalisation
@@NooDLES411911love tool but Opeth is lightyears ahead
My husband has been instructed that, if I am on my deathbed and unable to communicate, he is to play a predetermined soundtrack that includes this song. I want to hear this during my final moments of life so that my soul finds its escape through divine resonance. The dissonance is energetically identical to my brainwaves.
wow that is both beautiful and dark
also do you have voice of the soul by death on that playlist? it would make a great fit
You are a wonderful woman
I so love the deconstruction at 7:03 and then back to such a beautiful strong melody...just really great writing and great musicianship....
5:58 and the outro are some of the best guitar playing on this album. Classic beautiful Opeth
I agree if not just some of the best music they have written
Yep. Morningrise aside, I think Ghost Reveries and Pale Communion are their best albums, despite being completely different. They have matured so much.
It is an ultimate masterpiece. Can't deny it.
SO CLOSE TO 1 MILLION
a masterpiece of modern metalry
Mezmerizing song from start to finish. Sickest intro, and the most breathtaking outro.
Remember that moment when you were listening to this for the first time and you thought the song was over at 7:16
Then it hit you like life? Yep me too
I like the ending but it doesn't fit the song.
I swear, the man growls in infrasound. Makes me uneasy. I love it.
Possibly the heaviest band I've heard in standard tuning. The drumming on this track(like so many others) is fucking immense !
Everybody's talking about the vocals and guitars, but holy fucking fuckballs, Axenrot totally assassinated this track!
Heir Apparent is a masterpiece nothing comes close to Watershed
Blackwater Park
Still Life
This is for me the best outro in any Opeth song. Even better than Deliverance, Reverie/Harlequin Forest, The Drapery Falls or Demon Of the Fall.
Same feelings man. Goosebumps material
This, Burden and Leper Affinity.
All Opeth album covers... it looks like the photos are taken in Silent hill.
Just another perfect song.... wow
Fantastic album. One of the best songs ever.
Can't believe I'm only listening to that now. Truly inspiring songwriting and storytelling!
Amazing.
I've never really thought about this before, but that moment from 7:03 up to when it kicks in at 7:21 is like the Opeth version of the end of A Day in the Life (The Beatles). Utter chaos rising into musical beauty.
This song takes me on a strange journey...love this stuff
Man that outro is the best outro ever!! I find it perfect and beautiful the whole structures of this song is perfect all sets different moods and personality
4:39 kinda reminds me of King Crimson. Also best part of the song hands down
Nossa minha música preferida ouço para dormir...♥
You guys are fantastic!
That ending is just so beautiful!!!
Drums at 4:10 are insane
Not really, it's just fast double bass.
he is not wrong though
Eduardo Melo It also is fast in the hands and played clearly and flawlessly, so it isn't _just_ fast double bass.
If you like that drumming listen to the deliverance album haha it's fucking brilliant.
I'll say it now...
For as much of a dark and ghostly atmosphere Opeth shot for with "Ghost Reveries", this honestly feels much darker and creepier. Like a subtle bout of mental horror that sneaks under your skin (I refer you to when things really open up after the acoustic interlude; absolutely frightening.)
Watershed is miles ahead of GR.
The first two and a half minutes of this song are absolutely maddening
The entire song is great, that outro tho, that one is a masterpiece