Singing along with Opeth

[General Zod]

As I drove to work today, listening to "Still Life", I found myself doing my best Death growl. However, after about a minute or so, the feeling of my vocal chords beginning to tear apart led me back to simply listening. Which got me wondering, what do other folks do while listening to Opeth.

GZ

 

[Jo]

It does not feel as good to sing clean when Mikael is not, so I go for it! (just listening is better) haha

 

[Mayh]

Well I was driving the other day and growling my best with My arms your hearse. I also sing along the clean singing. If I set the voulume loud enough it´s like I sing like Mikael Åkerfeldt which is very very great, but when I can hear my own voice it just sucks.
I rearly sing with Opeth but sometimes I feel somekind of urge to scream my head off. I would have marked with all if the options if it was possible.

 

[BillowOfZeal]

I voted for clean but actually do both when i am in the mood.

 

[YaYo]

well my death metal vocals are more of a really vicious whispering sound but i still do them all the same... usually theres just one or two bits that just HAVE to be sung (eg "take me away..." ) where ill stop everything and sing that one line with all my heart and then resume my previous task

but generally i leave it to the man himself because i do not do it justice at all!

 

[MetalManCPA]

I just listen

 

[Mark]

I sing when I know the words, but usually I'm too intent on listening to the music great weaving waves of melody Opeth rock!

 

[Misanthrope]

Hard one cause i follow with both growls and clean

 

[zwienie]

ahwell... you should've inserted the option 'all of the above', coz I'm a girleee, so the grunts are almost (I said ALMOST) impossible for me..
but I try..

 

[General Zod]

Sorry zweinie,

That didn't even occur to me. My bad.

GZ

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

I'd like to hear your grows Zwienie

 

[Frodnat]

This poll is incomplete. I sing along with my best Death growl and my cleanest voice !!!

 

[Belial]

I sometimes sing in my best death growl. I don't do it often though.

 

[Rusty]

I sing the clean bits (badly) and the growls. But I only do the growls for about 4 lines at a time before I have to take a break and a Strepsil.

 

[Opth_001]

Yeah if you would have put on all of the above I would have picked that cause sometimes you have to sing along no matter how hard I try I always find myself either growling or trying to sing my heart out. But I usually use head phones so I never hear myself sing but I hope no one walk in on me while I'm singing cause they might think there's a wonded dog in the room. Well I've said my 2 cent hope you enjoyed it if not who cares

 

[Belial]

I was just singing along to Opeth (the voices thread got me in the mood to growl) and all the sudden my mother shouted from upstairs for me to shut up. Her yell was so savage and brutal it scared the shit out of me. I think she should be singing in a death metal band.

 

[Klaha]

I sing clean, cos my growl is more like Shagrath's than Mikael's. Plus my clena voice is better anyway.

 

[Demonspell]

Clean definitely, my growl sounds like a strangled horse. My favorite parts to sing are To Bid You Farewell, When, Godhead's Lament, Face Of Melinda (electric part), Bleak (Steven Wilson), Harvest, and The Drapery Falls.

 

[Jayde]

I can actually match the clean vocals quite well. I have a low voice for a female. I have to sing along to Harvest and The Drapery Falls, it can't be helped. Those are my favorite songs in the whole world.

My favorite line to sing:

"spiralling to the ground below like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away waking up to your sound again and lapse into the ways of misery "

I italicize those parts because I am in love with how he sings those words.

 

[transfixed]

i love trying to sing along to in mist, when, and to bid you farewell
but i fail miserably