Opeth - Burden (Watershed)

[Choremonsisimo]

Blackwater Park damn!

[keithsheldon24]

Nevermind. Fuck Nickelback. Faggots.

[Carinata64]

amazing people DON't like the ending, as for the genre dispute, get over it, labels are for school departments, pop stars and politicians - there are only two genres of music - Good & Bad - and this is very goooood !!!

[Marbleizer]

how do they do that at the ending?

[MorbidGuardian]

one guy plays and another un-tunes the guitar

[IloveAlexisBledel689]

Love this band! The endind is amazing!

[modzee]

ppl who likes death metal only ,may fav older opeth albums , but he who understands music ,wud jus fall in love with this album .

i mean its so fucking good , its like having sex and eatin and drinkin ur fav stuff , all the basic needs getting in thro your ears, it will SATISFY you

[genowyn]

Blackwater Park is better.

:D

[WallyBeego]

fuck yea

[KilledbiDeath]

What a Pink Floyd rip-off. This album is a clear step down from Ghost Reveries. Sounds more like popmusic, this could be expected from Gary Moore, not from a band that previously made an album that cracked my speakers.

[keithsheldon24]

I respectfully disagree. This sounds nothing like anything the floyd ever did. Name one song similar to anything on this album and I will gladly agree with you.

[crossbones911]

great song...

[Udders666]

I hate the slow pitch bending at the end it ruins it =[

[Eamonn500]

what is the definition of death metal?

[vampiromaniac]

best fucking music genre of all times

[theneck2007]

and what would that genre is that

[Marbleizer]

Its called Progressive death metal

[deathunlimited2111]

progressive death metal,progressive melodic death metal,death metal....NO...it's OPETH!

[ozzi94]

This (amazing) song reminds me of Pink Floyd music, sounds like something off "Dark Side Of the Moon" thats a great album that has influenced many bands and musicians.

All Hail Opeth! ;D

[Metalmatz97]

opeth the gods of deth metal

[PresidentBagel]

This isn't really death* metal. More like progressive melodic death metal.

[ChunkyPirate]

It is progressive death metal...

[jonbonboom]

this song is a work of art.theres not many bands out there that could write music like this.i love their diversity.they can do no wrong

[Realist0123]

Oh, and the keyboard solo is amazing! Everything Opeth touches turns to gold. <3

[Realist0123]

If you like this song and Opeth in general, I recommend giving Porcupine Tree a try. I definitely prefer Opeth, and personally think they are beter, but Porcupine Tree is also a very good progressive band. You shouldn't be disappointed. (Note, they are softer than most Opeth)

[xbloodisforeverx]

i agree this song is good but its kinda boring

they could have mixed it up a little

[sLim88CPC]

Enlight me dude, how something can be good and boring at the same time? "Boring" used to describing that song is truly blasphemy.

[xbloodisforeverx]

it's just a matter of opinion, knock on me all you want. they are clearly some of the best musicians and song writers in todays music scene, but this song just doesn't do anything for me just because you can play a guitar really well doesn't make everything you touch gold.

[sLim88CPC]

But Opeth isn't only about, like you said "playing guitar (or every other instrument) really well" it's about totality of their music, which is undeniably an art. On todays scene there are many groups, which have something interesting to offer, but Opeth is imho one of the most creative and universal. Of course, like you also said, it's a matter of opinion of single person if he likes it or not. Peace.

[ChunkyPirate]

Honestly? You can't mix up Opeth more...

[gilpc1986]

Opeth r fuckin' GODS !!!

[NigAlb]

In my opinion Opeth is really far from ordinary music. They're geniuses, holy shit. Everyone of their song is a piece of art, a singed and sounded poetry.

[dimebg213]

How the fuck did we even get on a Cock Rock vs. Real Music/Talent/Band conversation. Music is subjective but some facts are easy to see. Nickleback maybe a hard working band, but are no where close to the level of band like Opeth. Not to say NB isn't talented, though I use that term loosely. But they aren't near as diverse, nor do they share the same song progression/composition as Opeth.

[TheLivingDead111]

Fuck all of you close-minded little shits. Wah Wah... He's not doing death vocals... Wah, it's too soft. Please stfu and clean the shit out of your ears. This song/album/band rocks.

[wpg333]

Mika rocks too

[KingBigBang]

yeah :P

[dimmubutcher]

mika is just a fucking gay

[WarGazm123]

personally i think still life devours everything opeth has ever done,although opeth dont have a single song i dont like,

[Kofeiiniturpa]

Great song. From every point of view (at least when dealing with Opeth and their diversity). But I have to wonder what happened after the Deliveration/Damnation-era. Ghost reveries and Watershed are brilliant albums and I can't say anything bad about them, but... The replayvalue is missing.... for example I have listened Still life and Blackwater park nearly daily from the release, but the these recent ones sort of lack the fascination and astonishment of the previous works. Dunno what causes it

[jongpilyun]

Meh. I barely ever listen to Still Life, but BWP, Deliverance, and Watershed, all the time.

[fuel126]

my favorite song off the new album

[crist2bal]

opeth e slo maxiimo !!!

[Wrenchmen5]

this fucking sucks. this sounds nothing like opeth. WTF happened to them? Aren't they a death metal band? fucking sellouts.

[thissignupisannoying]

: /

Opeth is a progressive metal band. Some could classify some of their music as death metal, but, hardly. This is simply them and their diversity, and thats what makes this album one of their best yet. I love all of their albums, but this one is much different, and unique from almost anything else. If they started sounding like Nickelback or something close that'd be selling out. This is just displaying what they can do. Although I do understand closed-mindedness to music, so, I'll stop.

[Wrenchmen5]

lol, i actually called this selling out because it sounds like nickleback...

[thissignupisannoying]

as Nickelback is repetetive rock with simple lyrics and only a few chords per song, this is quite a few steps up.

It may appeal to more people, but the heart of it is still Opeth,

[911violentagro]

if you think it sounds like nickelback, then you have no taste in music. this is the real mellow shit right here.

[keithsheldon24]

Definately sounds like Nickleback. That's why I LOVE IT!!!

[Marcooo0007]

Seriously, that's an insult...

[gdcompany]

"Definately sounds like Nickleback. That's why I LOVE IT!"...NO OFENSE BUT I REALLY THINK U NEED A NEW PAIR OF EARS. If u pay attention enough to this band in particular u´ll know that Opeth has a UNIQUE sound, there's no other that sound like them, copies there's a few but these people really make magic with their instruments, others just make music, that's the little detail that make's the difference.

[jongmagee]

Wrenchmen5,

dude opeth is a pretty diverse band

they have songs that are softer than this

on their previous albums

[TuonelanJoutsen616]

This song is fucking wonderful. There are no other words to comment it.

[Inflame6]

love this song! so beautiful

[ReclaimTheGlory]

Awesome song, but what is up with the ending?

[127ei]

cool isn't it.. they are tuning down the guitars while playing.. thats just skill

[lanyna00]

opeth rules¡¡

[persiangirlfromdubai]

my fav.song.. wud drop hiphop rnb anytym for opeth

[LordOfThePracticePad]

If you listen to this when you're sad or lonely, it will immediatly give you a good reason to pick yourself back up.

Opeth forever, bro

[srryforowningu]

i just don't like the distorted guitars at the end it just sounds weird but i love the rest of the song

[127ei]

thats by far the best part.. from 5:12 - 6:20 ...

[JaredPPP]

I beg to disagree the best part is from 0:01 to 7:42

[quadrupleplay]

So one second is bad? :)

[127ei]

I dig what you are trying to say but with all due resepct its stupied. Best doesent mean good, and good doesent mean best. The best part of a song can not be the whole song, unless it is equall at all places, which would make Opeth a bad wongwriting band, which they aren't, since a good song MUST have alternation..

Opeth is a great example itself.

A heavy passage sounds hevier if it follows a mollow one. So you could say, that the mellow one is important too, but it is not heavy itself.

[morthyr]

I totally agree with you. But I think the guy was being sarcastic

[127ei]

yeah, propably ;)

[warhammerftw1]

Omg best band in the world, listen to that voice at the start. GODLIKE. Love you guys! \m/

[josh1982004]

This album is awesome for sitting outside on a cold,cloudy day and drinking a beer while listening to it...

[InimicaI]

You sir...No!

[JaredPPP]

I totally agree... chilling with yourself relaxing with a cold brew and some opeth... good fuckin day to me...

[xcryin911]

That detuning pf the nylon string and the creepy laugh is so epic. gotta love opeth!

[joelrulesall]

i dunno how people put this band into a genre...opeth is GENRE

[myownprison1910]

This is the perfect song.

[Cairodusk]

Killer band, great album. I'm an old school Opethian. My fav. album is MAYH

[mrbogs11]

OPETH WATERSHED amazing album, nobody puts out

this kind of music any more

[metalOchokla]

That's because there's nobody like them! they are unbeliveble uniqe!\m/,! swedish metal!!!;D

[nirrei]

Opeth forever!

[Jackthestripper]

nobody ever put out this kind of music before opeth lol.

[Thrashacre]

the acoustic guitar at the end sounds untuned. Probably on purpose. Nice effect

[dbguitar429]

They keep downtuning the strings one by one. It's a two-person job, but it makes for a funny/interesting studio story.

[SlashRose]

I think overall, this is their best album to date. This is a masterful album with amazing songwriting with less repetition, but more importantly, I feel Watershed is their most emotional and sincere album. Their old doom/death emphasis was very atmospheric, but I think Watershed really captures this in a more relatable and less fabricated way just for the sake of being heavy. I'd definitely say the first 5 tracks are among my fave songs now, along with Bleak, Ending Creds, Ghost of Perdition etc

[ProfPudding]

Well song writing is like playing the guitar, the more you play it the better feel of the next sound. or in song writing message. It's a whole another level. So if you like this you'll love their next album.

I like this version much better than the new video.

[SlashRose]

I agree. The song as a whole is amazing, I don't see why bands decide to cut down so much just for videos. Look at Tool, they pull off epic long videos without compromising the music. I really wish Opeth, Porcupine Tree, and Agalloch would follow suit!

[patatahooligan]

I don't think the bands want to cut down their songs for the video. The channels and their producers, along with the record company actually make the decision.

[philbertfwog]

BWP is by far their best album. They're all different but BWP is the heaviest thing they've ever done along with Deliverance i think.

[hansimetal]

Opeth is the best. Just listen to this perfect song:)

[Ozzy8741]

opeth got nominated fir the swedish grammys .. sho love and vote 4 them..

[TheBLACKpapuan]

ahmen brother!!!

OPETH RULE!!!!

[boondockfiction]

This song is one of the many reasons why Opeth sits head and shoulders above 99% of the other metal bands out there.

[darkestknightboo]

I wonder what would the music industry be without Opeth.....so much diversity in one band totally blows your mind

[JanDeluxe78]

This is really progressive: don't limit yourself. And they didn't. The organ solo here alone is enough to give this album a special place in my heart Per Wiberg is officially amazing!

I discovered Opeth with Watershed (and funny enough, though I hear a lot of prog, I didn't heard of Opeth before), and all I can say: this the best musical discovery I had in ten years. Watershed is near perfect for me. So much diversity it almost blew my mind.

[vigcs]

Give Blackwater Park a listen. It's, in my opinion, their best. Watershed a close second.

[JanDeluxe78]

Yeah, I already did but Watershed still rules IMO. It has the most highlights for me. As I said: It's almost the perfect album for me. It's been a very long time since I got so excited about a band (very close to my Dire Straits enthusiasm when my father bought »Alchemy«) and I am planning to get all of their albums. I have ordered »Lamentations« and «The Roundhouse Tapes« as DVDs, because I am always curious how a band can perform live.

[toohuman00]

Watershed is a great album. And the keyboard is a great add on the songs. Some people complain about that, but I think that is a new way to them make innovating songs.

[patatahooligan]

Normally I hate keyboards because they make the music a little "fake" and electronic instead of the original sounds of the guitar/bass/drums but Opeth know how to use them correctly and it just makes their music even better.

[edwardthegreat101]

great song...

[demolitionhammer23]

I'm a guy and dont cry much but i can honestly say this brough a tear to me.. from a past i once had..

[sweepstrat]

You're not alone

[uberkikibear]

Totally kick ass organ solo!!!

[surgeyX]

The outro guitar solos have a killer tone to them..Like from 4:10 on..Wish I could make my setup sound like that.

[StrangeOne1987]

I wish that too, but that tone is pretty dependent on the PRS guitars that they use.... and those are expensive.

[caritosm]

awesome, i love this song!!

[Zullia]

Not including this song in their setlists for the promotional tour is pure blasphemy.

I´d kill to hear it live

[Tormentor]

I think you might be terribly disappointed if they did. I saw them life this year at W:O:A and since they have more lines to play than they have members some elements miss if they play life. Imo this band is rather a band living through their albums than through their shows, even though those are great as well.

[ouzo6000]

the vocals remind me of John Wetton in his old King Crimson days.

[albatrosfly]

W O W !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kondorcome]

yeah i also love the world of warcraft xD !

(sorry for this bad joke)

[Mellmoe]

haha omgsh. =]

[radioman76]

Absolutely awesome! These guys know how to structure a song. Love Mikaels voice, he can sure mix it up, awesome feel.

[sweepstrat]

This band s simply the best. They all have talent, and they can write some serious music together. There is nothing better than that.

[simondv66]

they were better with martin lopez on drums though. well the drum parts were better anyway

[2Pac515]

6:25 - 6:41 one of the best parts on the album

[warhammerftw1]

O M F G this song is....godlike...best band EVER

[CesarBadilla666]

Best 2008 song.

[demolitionhammer23]

blackwater park is my fav opeth album, and this one is right under it..

[ProfPudding]

for anyone who smoked weed, Opeth is the best stuff to listen to baked. Even their heavier stuff is good too. Especially Demon of the Fall

I listened to that right before i was going to bed and i swear to god, i was talking to my consience.

[jessethegimp101]

BWHAHAHAHAH funny you say that. once the only things i ever did was smoke pot and listen to that song on the mountain by my place

[sneakyfred]

Pretty much my idea of a nice night in. :P

[Keyboardzrock]

The arrangement makes it feel as though the room is crashing down around me, with such a sorrowful edge. Few can capture the power and vision like Opeth do. Mindblowing.

[Killensuen]

!!!cant wait clip!!!

[phantom102]

the acoustic at the end sounds so demented,yet so cool

great song as always from opeth

[insanebiochemist]

Gonna see them live the on November 30th!!!!! I´ve just bought the ticket! I´ve waiting this for 4 long years!!!

[typeinbolivianbug]

incredible...

[Tormentor]

This song is so ultimately beautyful...

Honestly I fell as if I'm melting away listing to this. This is even better than "Hours of Wealth" or "Isolation Years"....

Thanks for the upload, gonna purchase that album soon.

[SpinningDisck]

definately should, it's a great album all around.

[derArier]

...better then isolation years? ... next thing you'll say, its better then credance.

[MaidenPriest420]

yngwie - one of my biggest influenes

leave him be, he influenced most metal bands, including opeth akerfeldt said it him self

[chipsbobbl]

even from shit, flowers can grow

[MaidenPriest420]

explains you and your future children

[coldbloodedkill3r]

LOL

[pakalaka]

yngwie = cheese

[ForsakenFoolWTF]

The solos in this song remind me a lot of Supertramp actually, I don't know them much though. Never thought I would hear something similar in metal!

Excellent song by the way.

[skratte]

Correct the following lines:

I sung a last goodbye

A broken rhyme I'd underlined

A passive mind submit to fear

And the wait for redemption at hand

Waiting to fail

Failing again

You've taken more than we've received

[sentenced1008]

fuckin awesome

[carlosfortin]

exelente

[Keyboardzrock]

Remarkable.

[malign2369]

don't get me wrong opeth is amazing but the solo to me sounds a lot like

Yngwie Malmsteen-Black Star anyone else agree?

[LightOfTruth777]

OF course. Yngwie is actually the daddy of metal. Let's face it, without Yngwie, metal would not be the way it is! Melodeath, metalcore, deathcore, it's all influenced by Yngwie.. to everybody: Don't be a joke and just face it.

[chipsbobbl]

yip all the bands with strange hair, ugly faces are influenced by yngwie, especially the ones that play x-treme fast guitars without any soul

[LightOfTruth777]

Wrong. Yngwie = Soul

[urchinus]

i don't mean to sound like a 50 year old rocker, but ... black sabbath surely? i dunno ... i'm not that big on metal ... :/

[thebitcher01]

the guitar solo is just beyond this world

[metallic1slim]

why there are not enough live vids of opeth!!

it's so sad!! i love seeing them performing live

[JokerHimself]

You should buy the live-dvd, its awesome.

[skcusebutu]

speachless.. the talent is this group is just unreal ...any1 who thinks diff has no ear for music...

[xxLateralus420xx]

Mikael is a Genius..PERIOD.

[himtonny]

the guitar solo is so awesome

[SS454Toker]

favorite song on watershed. daam hard fuckin choice!

[qosay88]

you've gotta love those guys... songs like this and "Isolation Years".. damn !! i love em !!

[fredszzz]

last 3 minutes - ear orgasm

[myfriendsrspecial]

that is one of the best keyboard solos i've ever heard :)

[Kyoceragirl89]

that makes the song so fucking awesome Kneescrape911

!

[Kneescrape911]

The detuning part is kind of stupid.

[SS454Toker]

ur average kid. detuning while playing is pro

[fredszzz]

what a tune..

[jamesmassung]

Fucking amazing!

[Windermarin]

Opeth Defies description... amazing.

[Fr3k3]

lol true that

no amount of words can describe how amazing opeth is \m/

[colrockandroll]

pienso que es la mejor cancion que he escuchado de opeth

[ChanceCooper125]

Oh my god... This song is so.. AMAZING.

Favorited for sure.

[darkpassion21]

my fave song from opeth!!!just beautyful voice...great album!

[charlesazn29]

i just love his voice

[beandips]

Most beautiful song to come out in along time.

[HilarioTL]

Oh, Zeus! The organ solo is soooo orgasmic!

[IntoTheEternity]

Brings shivers

[SalandFindles]

lol "Oh, Zeus" That entertained me.

[wibblegorm]

Damn, that acoustic outro is really dissonant. Are they using semitone harmonies?!? =O

[scorpiondeux]

they are detuning the guitar whilst playing the same passage repeatedly. it's awesome :)

[JoSuemarinecap300f0]

Mikael Akerfeldt is the shit, this song fucking tugs at my heartstrings

Tool is just as good, it's a tie between them, I can't decide who is better

The Tool song Reflection does what this song does to me

I love Progressive

[IWillSexU]

bands like katatonia .. tool .. pain of salvation ..porcupine tree.. are as good as opeth imo x)