Best Opeth songs to convert someone over..??

[The Kinslayer]

Drapery got me.

 

[in_absentia]

Me too

 

[Frosties]

Don't even try. Let that person listen to whatever he wants.

I hate the whole "convert" thing... for fucks sake, let people listen to their own music.

 

[Treitan]

Closure or Patterns in the Ivy 2
Both wicked songs!

 

[still day]

Closure or Patterns in the Ivy 2
Both wicked songs!

good choices!!!!

 

[Braighs]

Don't even try. Let that person listen to whatever he wants.

I hate the whole "convert" thing... for fucks sake, let people listen to their own music.

"It's for your own good, son."
but seriously, give them BWP, tell them to skip the first track or two, then leave them alone.

 

[profskett]

I would have said 'When' or 'Ghost of Perdition' myself. Or possibly 'Deliverance'. Those are all really good.

 

[Godhead59]

Either Drapery Falls or Moonlapse Vertigo.
I was converted by Master's Apprentices, though.

 

[Adramelech2012]

Either Drapery Falls or Moonlapse Vertigo.
I was converted by Master's Apprentices, though.

I was converted by Demon of th Fall.

 

[nadavnaz]

Don't even try. Let that person listen to whatever he wants.

I hate the whole "convert" thing... for fucks sake, let people listen to their own music.

I don't think the same. Hell, I like it when my friends listen to the same stuff, it's another thing to talk about

 

[Frosties]

Whats to talk about if everyone listens to the same stuff?

 

[NubianGoddess]

strangely enough the people I've managed to convert really liked.... Blackwater Park! I then made them listen to Drapery Falls, Isolation Years, Atonement and the Funeral Portrait and they loved it!
main comment? "I didn't know that this was Death Metal!"
my standard answer: "No, this is OPETH..."

 

[wandering_taco]

Nobody said anything about A Fair Judgement. That one might be good since its all soft vocals, but it still has that sweet heavy feel to it.

 

[intimidatingcrustaceans]

the "what would they care" section in godhead's lament sold me...i didn't know a "death metal" band could be so melodic

 

[Nehal]

i think pattern in the ivy II,Harvest,Still Day Beneath The Sun and Death Whispered A Lullaby

 

[Savern]

Give them Still Life, come back an hour later and hand them their Opeth T-shirt...

 

[Kristopher]

Hope Leaves,A Fair Judgement and The Drapery Falls are excellent starting points imo.In that order as well,get's them in steadily.

 

[griev0r]

The Drapery does not fail. It converts just about everytime.

 

[isolation_years]

anything off damnation i guess would be pretty great
harvest, depends on if they already like metal i guess
at the 5 minute mark of the drapery falls, my mom goes, ugh put it back on that first song, it was way better
my first two lines synced up perfectly, thats awesome

 

[The Antihero]

the "what would they care" section in godhead's lament sold me...i didn't know a "death metal" band could be so melodic

Same for me.

I think that one, Bleak, and Baying of the Hounds are the 3 songs any prospective fan should hear first.