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  • Mikael's voice has to be probably the most unique voice in the metal genre. He can display a vast array of emotions from death metal growls to stuff like this. Just wow.

  • mikael alemde tektir...

  • Well, for me theres no reason to compare the Original with this. I absolutely love both versions.

  • OMG i cant belive how fucking smart r opeth fans r JESUSSSS......

  • Pinche voz hermosa :´D

  • great great cover!!! long life to Opeth & Deep Purple

  • very good version.. I like that he sings in his own style.. its not easy to top the technical ability of the purple vocals

  • now im feeling im growing older and all that songs that I have sang echo in the distance...

  • Only Opeth song I like!

  • @MrNic1019 Come back when you've heard all their songs :) You'd like a lot more than just this one song.

  • I know this song thanks to opeth, but in my opinion the original by DP is quite a bit better. The Opeth version sounds a bit too... stylized or something, even a bit 'cheap' perhaps. For Opeth this is probably musically the worst song they have in their reportoire.

  • I thought it was gonna be a cover of Soldier of Fortune from Loudness xDD

  • I wish I'd die more than once, that everytime I'm getting buried this song can be played.. again and again, and again..

  • 2 min of silence :o

  • This is ONE of the FEW songs that I have to say...is better than the original. Don't get me wrong, Deep Purple's original is incredible, but Opeth's sound just fits this song so perfectly. Absolutely beautiful. Opeth never seems to disappoint me.

  • @SlapAPear Except a little bit from their new album.. =P

  • @arxidi666 Eh, I like their new album. It Definitely took time to warm up too though. It's very different, but I like it.

  • @SlapAPear Well, when i heard there new album would be full of jazz fusion and blues i expected something Burden and To bid you farewell-like but it was kinda shocking for me to listen to pure jazz

  • @arxidi666 Yeah, it was definitely a twist. When they dedicated and played Slither live, that was reeeeally cool.

  • this is a special day to listen to this song, 1 Israeli soldier = 1027 Palestinians.

  • @OpethOk I cant believe that...

  • @thecabe Read news

  • @OpethOk lives of Muslims are cheap these days , you see!!!!

  • after a million year the petroleum from earth will be a decomposed form of Muslim bodies and Blood!!! not planktons or dinosaurs like before!!!! :'(

  • Metallica , Breaking Benjamins, Opeth are the Grand Father of Linkin Park, P.O.D, Poets of Falls, Greenday, Skillet hahahahahahah right..?? like if you agree

  • Look at that first picture and remember it. That's Opeth. Just saying.

  • the song gets boring from 3:20 to 5:23

  • Ah Opeth, you never fail to please me.

  • Deep Purple , well when some band covers a song its a tribute to the original band . Sure they do an awesome cover but nothing gompares to the original .

  • although i love fredrick and axe i miss the peter and martin lopez days

  • Mikael can pull of anything.. What an exceptional musician! I'm a drummer but he's my hero<3

  • omfg, i was on a chat and i put this music on and nobody liked it.. O.o

    i was like.. "omg, how can people don't like this..." i was really sad at that moment..

  • dun like it prefer original song... more depresing feeling from the original, this sounds so romantic i wanna puke.

  • @topgeardo romantic? lol. just lol.

  • @topgeardo

    GOOD that you said that you PREFER the original one. :)

    I think this version is better. It isn't as melancholic or depressing as the other one, in my opinion, but I like this one better because it's tighter... and maybe because it's Åkerfeldt singing :)

  • excellent photos....

  • who dont like that perfect song is a fuckin asshole

  • great song

  • Great song! I can’t wait for the new CD.

  • wonderful song !

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  • soooo unusual for opeth

    but wonderful...

  • by far ,better than the original =)

  • When was this recorded? Does it appear on any album?

  • @benciske

    Bonus song on Ghost Reveries.

  • A Great cover, a great voice, but i think that Coverdale `s voice is better....

  • Coverdale's voice was better on this one.. but a great cover

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  • @mocool13 Yep, that's him. Before the beard!

  • Deep purple and Opeth are not even a little similar.

    Both bands are amazing,you don't have to compare them.I mean,

    Opeth fans will prefer this version,and DP fans will prefer original. :)

    so,where's the point of comparing?

  • @MasterMidori here's a problem: i'm a fan of Opeth AND Deep Purple :) I think this is not "better",it's different and it has something special that i cannot explain. So i prefer this one.

  • @MasterMidori when I heard this song first time, I love it (DP orginal) and when I heard this song again (Opeth cover) , I love again. regards

  • @MasterMidori I agree, but for the record, I am a DP fan and this cover is much better...IMHO.

  • @MasterMidori You really don't know too much about both bands if you say "not even a little smiliar"... seriously, Deep Purple have a lot of progressive tendencies in their sound, and Opeth, well, they wouldn't have made this cover if it didn't share similar themes/scopes in either lyrics or sound with their normal music. Speaking of which, I'm guessing you never listened to Opeth's Damnation, right?

  • @NeoXF No. They are not even a similar.

    In my ears they don't sound similar. And that's how i hear it, it's my opinion.

    For example, placebo covered kate bush's running up that hill, disturbed covered tears for fears' shout, children of bodom (i don't like them, by the way) covered britney spears' i think i did it again. Are these artists similar? Huh, well, i don't think so.

  • @MasterMidori Opeth have a lot of influences from Deep Purple, so " not even a little similar" is pretty stupid to be said... you probably don´t know very well Opeth...listen to Damnation or even the song Burden and The Lotus Eater(both from Watershed wich was dedicated by Opeth to Deep Purple)

  • @RampageWave Oh dear. I don't care. That's my opinion and i didn't

    ask for your opinion. In my ears these artists sounds different.

    A lot different. There's no point arguing with me. Peace.

  • Goddamn hippies !

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  • @c0rr1x  hippies fuck your god

  • holy crap, is that Mikael on the left in 3:04?

  • It's a tribute to one of the best bands ever. DP fans should be happy that it's Opeth who did the tribute. I could not think of any band that could honor DP more than Opeth did with this cover.

    All credits to both bands, I would say.

  • Fuck integrist people, this IS way better than DP's one ...

  • Whoever says whatever, Deep Purple is Deep Purple.

  • @mango119 cant agree more brother

  • This cover and original are fantastic, the little bit diference is hammon sound in opeth's cover that makes better in my opinion \m/

  • I've read so many comments saying, that this cover is absolutely amazing, so I thought, I would check it out, and yes, it is a good cover, but I don't think it's even close to the original. For me no one touches DP. Yet I think it's great, that Opeth wants to cover them. :)

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  • EARGASM

  • "Now I feel I'm growing older.. and only songs that I have sung, echo in the distance. Like the sound, of a windmill goin' 'round. I guess I'll always be... A soldier of fortune"

    This band is fucking amazing, I don't care what anybody else has to say about that unless it's that they agree.

  • @xXxDjShamblesxXx Uh... got news for you pal, they didn't write that... although they still are an amazing band.

  • @KarimBoctorAwad Its not news if I already knew it.. I'm aware that Deep Purple plays the original version of the song. Never the less, I love how Opeth covered it. Any other band would probably put the song to shame.

  • @xXxDjShamblesxXx Sorry, I was just making sure. Opeth did make a great job covering it and you are right: Any other band would put this song to shame, hehe.

  • @KarimBoctorAwad Its okay. Its important to know the origins of music these days.. it all goes back to the blues. The blues gave us rock and the rock gave us metal. Music progressed so beautifully until it all came crashing down.

  • it's soo awesome mikael is incredible!

  • I love DP, but dammitt man...this is awesome!

  • Well, I think that's fuckin good cover!

  • this is my favorite cover

    youtube.com/watch?v=gpnYdXV4ux­s

  • @Beeda2004 hahaha :D

  • Damn Swedes and your awesome long hair.

  • ok people relax the original has the great david coverdale singing

    one of the greatest blues rock vocalists

    plus this version is like exactly the same arrangement

    but still not hating respect to both bands

  • @TheMistercrowley Well, actually there is a difference between both bands' arrangements.

  • @Freitzenburger the production feels slightly different but the opening guitar licks and the guitar solo and everything is basically the same, its not like beatles vs joe cocker "with a little help from my friends"

  • who gives a shit just listen to it and enjoy or hate it stop bitchin

  • better than deep purple

  • chora ai! melodia da merda!

  • chora ai!

  • This is completely awesome. One of the songs that changed my life

  • It is actually super , but nothing is better than original.

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  • I love the guitar sound and Mikael has an amazing voice

  • amazing

  • Blackmore and Coverdale rules!!!!

  • Micheal's voice is........you know what?.....i can't say nothin about it....i'm speechless.

  • fucking loving it!!!!! YEAH! ~_~\m/

  • the original is original. as it's said: Unique and for ever. But must admit, this cover is nice. Serious vocal.

  • God I love Opeth! They performed this one when I saw them for the Damnation tour! Go see them live!

  • 4 people missed the like button.

  • Opeth are phenomenal at covers. Their covers of Circle of the Tyrants by Celtic Frost and Would? by Alice in Chains are also amazing.

  • love that pic at 4:51

  • Its actually better than the original

  • @doraemonbambi exactly

  • @doraemonbambi better my ass.

  • @DeathMetal8989 How is it not? The vocals sound flawless as opposed to the original.

  • @doraemonbambi

    true

  • @doraemonbambi Though a Deep Purple fan myself.... I must agree. Mikael's voice is absolutely perfect for this song.

  • @doraemonbambi

    That's because Opeth's a better band! As hard as it is to say.

  • @doraemonbambi I'm a big Opeth fan and I don't think this is way better than the original, especially Akerfeldt voice.

  • omg he totally raped that solo.. learn to do a bend or dont play the solo..

  • @BenjaminMJ Michael akerfeldt is actually AMAZING with bends. he just changed it. i agree he shouldnt have.

  • easily one of the most gifted bands, creativly, instrumentally, and vocally

    

  • Not best cover. Best version

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  • This song fits perfectly with Mikael's voice.

  • this is a great cover, but there is just something i find so utterly depressing about the original...

    it's like its being sung by a man on his death bed... it sends a chill down my spine when i listen to the original...

    but seriously, this is a god damn masterpiece as well :)

  • 4 viewers should go eat their daily bag of dicks.

  • FUCK! I'M HAVING AN EARGASM!!

  • If it was possible I was rape mikael's voice..

  • Hey I actually liked this lol I'm surprised it was good. Scratch that, great! This is a fantastic cover of the original.

  • i do prefer this to the original, but opeth didn't really do much to make it their own. it's mostly cause i fucking love opeth and it's recorded with modern equipment.

  • way to be boys!! no equal

  • one of the best.....

  • Great Band

  • Although I'm a huge DP fan, this cover totally kicks my ass...

  • damn i really love these guys

  • i love DP but let's face it..this is way better

    but common...this is opeth

    opeth can take a mozart song and make it better

  • @rockkid187 Your a clown. DP wrote this beautiful tune. Although i agree that this version is better in sound production and i like Akerfeldt's voice more, all the credit needs to go to the original, for it would not be here without Deep Purple. And Opeth is not that good to take a Mozart piece and make it better, lets not exaggerate there.

  • @omusialo well this is my opinion..and this is yours and i respect it..

  • @omusialo woah... buzzkill :P

    nah ur probly right

  • So great ! This voice, this music.

    I didin't know Opeth before and now I love this band !

    Awesome.....

  • And then there was silence... :D

  • @DaggonX haha

    

  • best band we have today...

  • orginal as usual is better:P

  • I got this album double cd with a dvd for $20, FLAT! No TAX. Just down the street was an audio store, I went into the place wanting to buy something so I tested the equipment out by putting this song on and people started coming into the store then when it was over Opeth came out blasting Ghost Reveries album and everyone got blasted out of the store! Little bitches!! The lady started scream'n at me Turn That SHIT DOWN, AAHHH!! ROTFLMAO :P

  • At first I thought "Opeth??? WTF is this going to be another Classic Rock Tune ruined by screams and distortions?" And when I heard this I quickly changed my mind. These lads have done a splendid cover.

  • @boschrzr Most covers I've heard by them, especially the live ones have all been amazing. I don't think they've ever ruined a song for me EVER! Nor have any of their albums ever been a disappointment nor waste of money! And hell yes, I buy them!

  • can sombody tell me an early opeth song?

  • @HEADBANGERBEAST09

    Under The Weeping Moon, Forest Of October, The Night And The Silent Water, Black Rose Immortal.

  • sick song!!!!

  • If you like Opeth, you may like a band called Draconian. They are a highly underated band. Check them out :) Great song by the way, I'm a big fan of the original and this one.

  • this is such an amazing cover

  • I like their live version way better than the studio version for some reason

  • BEAUTIFUL

    I FUCKING LOVE DP, but opeth made a great cover!

  • @leopunkmetal DP ? double penetration or what

  • @Liuskan ¬¬ deep purle you dumbfuck

  • Don't understand how someone can't like this, fucking weird.

  • cover means to spoil something PERFECT...they did their best

  • @oleg4560 this is at least 100 X 10^20 better than deep purples version

  • Great choice of a song for them to cover they were meant to do this!

  • i guess ppl who cover want to tribute song they like ... b.t.w i will never know this song if opeth dosen't create this cover !! :P

  • opeth in my bood!!

  • @ska7390 HAHAHA bood

    Bahdo

    BOoOOdo

    Bahdo

    Scrlahdo

  • The original is way better, because Coverdale totally nailed the vocals. He was just perfect. Really, there's no point of covering songs like SoF unless you heavily change the arrangement, i.e. Ensiferum's cover of Lady in Black.

  • I'm trying to compare every aspect of there music to eternal tears of sorrow's music, but none of Opeths intro's or solos are worthy of competing against eternal tears of sorrow

  • @melodeath95

    Eternal Tears of Sorrow is awesome, I love them, but you can't compare them to Opeth. They're 2 different bands. They're both awesome in their own style of playing.

  • This version is way better!

  • i like this version better because it flows smoother throughout the song.

  • yeah, agreed.

  • Opeth Is The Best Band...All song Of Opeth Is Better

  • Mikael's voice is not perfect indeed, but he's still a very good singer. His voice is definitely not plain, let alone emotionless... Many people like Mikael's voice because of the emotion he puts into any song he sings. And he definitely doesn't sound like a novice. He's done better than this, true, but it's not bad, and definitely not novice.

    As for the guitars, I can't say they're that bad... I like listening to them.

    I don't know which version I like best. I really like both of them.

  • lmao, your a fucking douche

  • this is MUCH BETTER the DEEP PURPPEL'S ONEֱֱֱֱֱֱMUCH BETTERֱ!11!1

  • Its a cover from DEEP Purple

    Opeth is far way better but credits to deep purple all the same.

  • I've heard Mikael cite Blackmore as his biggest influence and I can hear why. Love this cover. My two fav guitarists.

  • great version!!

    the song itself is beautiful and with the voice of mikael its just awsome

  • Its great to see a Progressive Metal band covers a Deep Purple song,Opeth and Deep Purple,both are awesome,but I like Deep Purple a little bit more...

  • I Iove Opeth, i think this version is better because they have the tools to do it, but remenber that DP had the inspiration

  • I agree. 100% true. Bow to DP. But I must say Opeth version is better :) Ok, i'll say it in another way. I prefer Opeth version ;-)

  • I like the Black Majesty version :3

  • @tehpwningdude I'm not a fan of Black Majesty, but yes, at least they did something different with their cover, and it's very good. While I like Opeth, this is just a pale carbon copy lacking the passion of Blackmore and Coverdale's original. It's an ok cover sure, but these Opeth fanbois that say how much better it is than the original are funny. Blind stupidity at it's finest. Anyway, cool that Opeth are fans, they're a good band doing strong original material.

  • @IommiAus minus the ' in the last its, stupid me indeed :P

  • I like both this version and the original, i,m a great DP fan, but Opeth is also in my top 10 ;) .

    But do remember if DP never came with this song, Opeth never came up with this great cover.

    Rock on people, keep it fair ;) \m/

  • @kissarmy305 i think that this Opeth version of this song is better than Deep Purple.Mikael have strong ,beautiful voice and he know how exploit it !!!

  • As much as I love Opeth, there's no way this is better than the original!