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Opeth: The Last WILL and TESTAMENT | Extended Play Lounge (Ep. 81) (Patreon)

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2024-12-11 03:44:09
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As we close out a great year of Extended Play Lounge episodes, I think this album has a bit of music for everyone. The story and concept are quite engaging, taking us through the reading of a patriarch's last will and testament in front of family who get news they weren't expecting. It's an engrossing psychological ride, and the music ranges to meet the story's needs as only Opeth can. I hope you enjoy!

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Opeth: The Last WILL and TESTAMENT | Extended Play Lounge (Ep. 81)

Comments

Norrin Radd

Thank you for doing this, Doug. It's such a unique and incredible album. I can't stop listening to it, and I haven't been this fascinated by new music in a long time!

Arrow2theACL

I needed the interview with Mikael to follow along with the story, but then took what I know now that the lyrics made more sense. I view it as the Patriarch being told the girl was his as a way to hold his head high as his heritage will continue. HE put it all on his blood only to never know he as duped and betrayed by the maid. Someone thought lower status then himself. He really was fertile. Paragraph 4 is my favorite and Mikael said in an interview he had to find a harp player in the newspaper to play a real harp during the song. The flute transition the the heavier guitar riff is probably my favorite part in the album. I also feel like Paragraph 6 could almost be a Dream Theater song. Especially with those solos. Loved the playfulness of that track. Opeth is known for having that syth melodic line play over the harder edge stuff. We usually get extended parts where we are lulled by the beauty of the organ, fender rhodes or meltron before getting these extended progressive riffs. I adore this album, but it seems they are always moving onto the next idea before I am lulled or ready to move on, so I agree with the assessment that the music could have been extended a bit. However, I bet it was done so the flow of the story did not feel like it broke up.

Berniyh

Thanks for the great EPL Doug, especially so short after release!

Frank Bernard

That is a harp in paragraph 4 not an ancient guitar.

Jean-Michel LaFontaine

I just can't stop listening to this album. Opeth was already one of my favorite bands. Well, I think they just outdid themselves with this one. It has everything I love about rock/prog/metal music. The crunchy metal riffs, the prog epicness, some jazzy moments, this is so right up my wheelhouse. There is also a very cinematic feel to the whole thing, so you can really get into the storytelling. I mean, the outro of paragraph 7, I have to listen to this walking in the woods on a moonless night, it's so creepy sounding.. The intro to paragraph 6 with the sweeping organ is certainly one of the highest point for me. Just an amazing 50+ minutes of music. Thanks for doing this! And Happy Hollidays to you and Megan! Peace.

Bill Coonley

I'm still not a fan of that growly voice, but musically, these guys know their stuff!

Allen

Hopefully Episode #100 will be epic (maybe a time to introduce the Beatles with "Sgt. Pepper"?). Just like "Dark Side," I think it's an album that inevitably has to be addressed. . .

Oliver Prins

This is a great album and an episode from you Doug! I love Opeth and I love how you pull the songs apart and help me understand and appreciate music more. You put words to some of the reasons why I love Opeth but can’t describe. Opeth sets the standard for metal and progressive metal/ rock in my opinion.

Adie

I didn't expect to like this, and I enjoyed it and was very impressed. It's the first time I've heard metal go to prog rather than end in a cul-de-sac, and it's great to hear the range in this album. It's a little bit gothic for me, but I would certainly listen to another album by this very capable and imaginative band. It's one of the joys of following Doug that I would never have bothered listening to this band if I had not been in the community, but, once again, my ears are opened to new music that communicates to me. It changes my supposition that the best has passed - perhaps the best is yet to come!

Luke Swift

this album needs a grammy! Just a side note, the way i interpreted the heirloom distrubution, was he didnt really care what happened to them, because although he said 'of immense personal value to me..' the way it was narrated when he said ' pass them on for generations to come..' it just sounded like he didnt give a crap haha With the story never told, i think the patriach is sterile, the maid is the mum and the withered heart in heavan is the real father of the girl. So basically her real dad died. i could be wrong

Glam AI

I listen to it constantly and each time something new is revealed. The musical composition is so complex.

Frank H

Very entertaining, very insightful EPL. Thanks for taking the thread of the story. I'm too lazy to go through lyrics (unless it is great lyricists like Peter Hammill, Peter Gabriel, or Tatiana Shmayluk) as it is the music being my excitement. About the growls: I like them as any vocalist's contribution, as a means of delivery. Jon Andersonish singing fits more to fairy tales, while death metal and black metal topics are more authentic with growls, shrieks, whatever.

Ruth James

Not heard anything from this band before. It might not be a favourite of mine but it is interesting. This is one of the things I love about this Patreon is becoming familiar and liking "new" music to me which in my 60's I didn't expect, to be honest.

Jean-Michel LaFontaine

Mikael is a genious. His bandmates are outstanding musicians. The more I listen to this album, the more I get it and the more it becomes a part of me.