Hard times...

[Nuk3m]

I think its be safe to generalise that everyone on this forum has had hard times, my point is that how many of you have had an Opeth track in the back to help you...

Exactly a year ago i got backstabbed by almost everyone who was dear to me and I copped a beating to top it off rendering my shoulder to shit, but one thing i was happy for at the time was that i have Black Rose Imortal and the Lepper Affinity and ten mins ago BRI just finished and it really took me back to around then which i dont really see as a bad thing because i just compare to then and i see myself as a better person for it, a stronger person.
So i thank the guys for their music as ive done in the past and ask if anyone wants to share?

 

[Ermz]

I don't really associate Opeth with my hard times, which I feel is good. Normally a band that keeps me emotionally balanced can get expleted and I get bored of them as soon as I'm out of my depression or whatever. With Opeth, I can just click in with the music regardless of how I feel.

 

[Cutter]

Whatever gets you through lifes tough moments dude. Lately, I've been listening to Dave Caswells Disposable when I feel like shit, but its cool you can empathise with Opeth when your down.

 

[jaykeegan]

Sometimes when i feel depressed i listen to either Orchid or Morning Rise, that seems to always make me feel a bit better.

 

[mot-]

"Deliverance" (song, not album) saved me!

 

[Demoke]

I don't relate Opeth albums or songs as a rule to hard times I had, but to things I did when I was hooked on them. I'm not listening to Opeth albums the whole day, sometimes they can be on the shelves for weeks literally, but there's always a time when I get hooked on them so hard I just had to push play all over again. When now I listen to them, those memories come back too.

For instance, Morningrise, this album I got in spring (late april). whenever I listen to it (say summer) I start thinking of spring and the coming of summer like mad, when I was just listening to it all day long to learn the songs. When I listen to Sill Life, I think of my time in the UK (3 years ago), when I listen to blackwater Park, I can vividly feel the Belgian landscape (that CD was on my player on a coach trip I did to Brugges and Cologne (Germany)... and most of those memories are actually really happy and cheerful...

However, when my father died at the end of 2003, I went to listen to The Night and the Silent Water, Hope Leaves... Buff, those tracks make me really sad! :,-(

 

[Evil Ernie]

When I get very mad I listen to Damnation... Cools me down.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Yeah, it's got me through a lot of shit, man.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Yea I had a whole lotta shit goin on this past January, Opeth definitly helped me through that.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

i can relate to the still life album

you see this one time, i was kicked out of my town, and i had to leave this chick named melinda who i really liked. But i came back 15 years later, and guess what? the bitch was hitched.... oh well, we got together anyways, and to make a long story short, she died.