Dumbest Opeth Question Yet..

[deliverance]

whatever, some people say "vanilla" some people say "vanella", it doesn't matter. opeth or opith, who the fuck cares.

btw, people who say "vanella" are retarded.

haha i pronounce it vanelle, however i am not retarded.

also i pronounced the band "opith" (and not stressing the O at all really) until i heard mike himself say "O-peth" (stressing the O as well).

 

[Dreadful]

turd

 

[ViCyniC]

Sometimes it sounds like Mike says it like "Oohh-Peth", not "O-Peth".

 

[gatedropper]

It is Oohh- Peth(as in 'pet' like a dog or cat).
Unless you are from New Yawk. then it is Poooh Bah.

 

[Demoke]

/'oupeth/ I'm sorry, guys, I can't paste the real phonetic symbols... that's about as close as I can get... "We're Opeth from Stockholm, Sweden..."

 

[The Dude]

Indian people say Wanilla.

 

[ChrisEmerson]

Oh-P(eh)th

its an 'eh' sound i think. Thats how i always say it. Im sure this has been asked before, ages ago...

 

[Demoke]

No way in hell. The "e" in "Opeth" has the same pronunciation as the one in "hell," which is not open, and it's not long, either. "O" sounds /'ou/, stressed diphthong. The "th" like the ending consonant in "bath" /th/. I'll tell you about the "p" later.

 

[Lord_AgathoN]

man you are all fucked up .........opeth like "oh pet" (not with a long oooooooooh) but with the th from bath. thats it

 

[ChrisEmerson]

No way in hell. The "e" in "Opeth" has the same pronunciation as the one in "hell," which is not open, and it's not long, either. "O" sounds /'ou/, stressed diphthong. The "th" like the ending consonant in "bath" /th/. I'll tell you about the "p" later.

uuh.. thats what i said. the 'e' in 'hell' has the same 'eh' sound

 

[Demoke]

Fuck! The dumbest question ever made me think and now I can say that the "e" in Opeth is not the same as in "hell" for one reason: "hell" is a stressed syllable, while "peth" is not. That's why this "e" is not "strongly" pronounced as /e/ but as "schwa" whose phonetical symbol is a kind of "e" upside down, or rather a "9" upside down. In that case, the two vowels of "Opeth" are pronounced the same way as the two vowels in the word "omen." I may be wrong but that's what I think.

 

[Demoke]

man you are all fucked up .........opeth like "oh pet" (not with a long oooooooooh) but with the th from bath. thats it

It's a diphthong: "schwa" + u in British English; and "o + u" in American English. At least that's the way Steven Wilson pronounces that in the documentary.

 

[Lord_AgathoN]

You said it.......SW is british so dont take him as an example

 

[Demoke]

^ha ha!!

 

[Feicht]

pronounce it however you want. i've heard the guys in the band say it a couple different ways, so i don't think it really matters all that much

 

[Demoke]

I would pronounce it a number of different ways myself, as I'm Spanish and we only have five vowels: a, e, i, o, u. As soon as it gets long, short, open, closed, schwa and the like, I'm lost. So, it's not a big deal, anyway. PEAC EOUT

 

[cthulufhtagn]

actually "opeth" is pronounced "god what a fucking stupid thread, all of you need to get out more"

 

[Kloris]

You're all wrong, you fucking morons... It's pronounced Ooh-p (like soup) ea (like in eat) and ch, like in chow.

Oopeach.

 

[Kenneth R.]

i was gonna do that....

Oh-pet-'me?

 

[KeithPars]

Suck-my-ballbag

(im high) btw I was trying to post my pic as an avatar but it says I dont get access. jesus I a fucking member!