Have you LOVED Opeth for more than two years?
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I've been a fan since a friend of mine introduced me to Blackwater Park in 2001. It forever changed the way I looked at music.
I first heard them in 2002, and couldn't stand the harsh vocals, but still enjoyed the music and the clean vocals. Sometime in early 03 I for some reason started to really dig the harsh vocals and became a huge fan. I've loved them ever since.
gabaghoul
Anus, Slayer of the Gods
been my favorite band since first hearing them in late 1997. saw a copy of Morningrise at Rasputin's in Berkeley w/ a note taped to it reading "Best Band in the Universe." took a chance, the clerk was dead-on, I went back for Orchid soon after, eagerly awaited the release of My Arms Your Hearse a few months later, and the rest is history.
Slynt
Lord and Liar
ZeDzEdZeD
dispassion player
8,5 years
it all started with Orchid... then a year or so later Morningrise and MAYH and all others...
it all started with Orchid... then a year or so later Morningrise and MAYH and all others...
opeth is one of those bands that many people overlisten to, absolutely worship them until the point that there's nothing more left to discover and they know every part in and out... then it's old and they feel they can say anything they want about it since they've personally squeezed it dry.
Korlich
So Judah fucked it up
Flal
Flal
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I bought Blackwater Park when I was thirteen and it scared the shit out of me, and I loved it. After a few spins they became my favourite band and I went out a bought their whole discography (which at the time here cost $30 or more, + tax), and it changed my perspective on music and influence the way I perform it.
I learned about Opeth as soon as Ghost Reveries came out.
Loved everything and every single song Opeth has done since then.
Technically, Opeth is my 2nd favorite band next to Dark Tranquillity, but i guess the two are equal since they are two completely different bands.
I hold emmense emotion toward my favorite bands, and looks up them them, and spend all day listening to them.
But for me, I'm a musician and i want to be a singer when I get older.
So pretty much ive never been a fanboy for anyband, as i see music as equal to me. Like if i met Mikeal Akerfeldt, ide probably talk to him about how he writes music and how to growl and what bands he likes. I wouldn't go "omg your so amazing look at the tatoo i got!" I'm not like that to any band.
I think the fans that get obbsessed and then arent interested anymore are in lust. Its like a hot girlfreind you think you like for a couple years untill you finally realize you dont like her perosnality.
But personally, i love Opeth's music, and nobody or no fads or influences change that. I have 3 favorite bands. One's Jade Valerie of Sweetbox (a pop singer) , one's Dark Tranquillity, and one's Opeth.
I simply love the music i love, and have loved all these 3 bands since my first listen, which happend to all three of them about 3 years ago.
There has only been ONE band i got into and obsessed over and then it died, and that was the band Dope, which was the first band i ever liked. The fanboy feeling for music died real quick, and then i found myself liking music on more of a professional level, and not a fanboy i want to get up and mosh and get a tatoo level.
And about squeezing everything outta Opeth? lol for me it's impossible. I've been listening to every albulm cept Orchid for 3 years now, and though ill take monthly breaks when other bands seem intresting, ill repeatedly get into Opeth, and there is so much to Opeth that no matter how many times i hear a song, there's always something new, because Opeth are a band that make such great music, and make it so well, that as life goes on, everything you go through can make a passage or lyric seem new or like a new feeling you have, because it seems like the whole world is in Opeth's music, every feeling you could possibly imagine. Opeth is like listening to the world for me.
I personally think its cuz Opeth are about the most opposite form of metal there is. Metal is usually all about a feeling of upbeatness, moshing, and feeling hardcore and all that crap. Opeth is ona the only bands ive seen that make their music refelct the lyrics, and mood, and pay so much attention to sounds, tuning, and solos, and beauty, poetry, and all that stuff. Opeth are true musical poets, not a metal band.
I personally think they've invented something new, along with the band Novembre. Musical Poetry. Opeth make music that sounds like a poem. Opeth arent anything near what popular music is. The closest thing Opeth relates to is Classical music. I even honestly think 100 years from now, people will pair Mikeal akerfeltd with peope like Bach and Mozart and mess, it just takes Opeth getting more wellknown to more people.
Loved everything and every single song Opeth has done since then.
Technically, Opeth is my 2nd favorite band next to Dark Tranquillity, but i guess the two are equal since they are two completely different bands.
I hold emmense emotion toward my favorite bands, and looks up them them, and spend all day listening to them.
But for me, I'm a musician and i want to be a singer when I get older.
So pretty much ive never been a fanboy for anyband, as i see music as equal to me. Like if i met Mikeal Akerfeldt, ide probably talk to him about how he writes music and how to growl and what bands he likes. I wouldn't go "omg your so amazing look at the tatoo i got!" I'm not like that to any band.
I think the fans that get obbsessed and then arent interested anymore are in lust. Its like a hot girlfreind you think you like for a couple years untill you finally realize you dont like her perosnality.
But personally, i love Opeth's music, and nobody or no fads or influences change that. I have 3 favorite bands. One's Jade Valerie of Sweetbox (a pop singer) , one's Dark Tranquillity, and one's Opeth.
I simply love the music i love, and have loved all these 3 bands since my first listen, which happend to all three of them about 3 years ago.
There has only been ONE band i got into and obsessed over and then it died, and that was the band Dope, which was the first band i ever liked. The fanboy feeling for music died real quick, and then i found myself liking music on more of a professional level, and not a fanboy i want to get up and mosh and get a tatoo level.
And about squeezing everything outta Opeth? lol for me it's impossible. I've been listening to every albulm cept Orchid for 3 years now, and though ill take monthly breaks when other bands seem intresting, ill repeatedly get into Opeth, and there is so much to Opeth that no matter how many times i hear a song, there's always something new, because Opeth are a band that make such great music, and make it so well, that as life goes on, everything you go through can make a passage or lyric seem new or like a new feeling you have, because it seems like the whole world is in Opeth's music, every feeling you could possibly imagine. Opeth is like listening to the world for me.
I personally think its cuz Opeth are about the most opposite form of metal there is. Metal is usually all about a feeling of upbeatness, moshing, and feeling hardcore and all that crap. Opeth is ona the only bands ive seen that make their music refelct the lyrics, and mood, and pay so much attention to sounds, tuning, and solos, and beauty, poetry, and all that stuff. Opeth are true musical poets, not a metal band.
I personally think they've invented something new, along with the band Novembre. Musical Poetry. Opeth make music that sounds like a poem. Opeth arent anything near what popular music is. The closest thing Opeth relates to is Classical music. I even honestly think 100 years from now, people will pair Mikeal akerfeltd with peope like Bach and Mozart and mess, it just takes Opeth getting more wellknown to more people.
Started with BWP in mid-2002, hooked on 'Bleak', and then 'Demon of the Fall' off MAYH. Still Life became my favorite album, followed by GR. I met Miekel briefly during the 2003 Damnation tour (he sat next to me at the Toronto show!) - they were my favorite band then, still are my favorite band now, 5 years later.
In context, other bands that I like a lot (some were former favs): Emperor, Ihsahn's solo stuff, NIN, Skinny Puppy, Sabbath & Priest, Metallica, FNM and most of Mike Patton's bands, Tool, SOAD, Napalm Death, Dimmu, Rush, Slayer, Arcade Fire, Mastodon, At the Drive-In, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and a mix of stuff that no one here will like, such as Kanye West, Underworld, VNV nation, Zero 7, Massive Attack, Amy Winehouse, and Tori Amos...
In context, other bands that I like a lot (some were former favs): Emperor, Ihsahn's solo stuff, NIN, Skinny Puppy, Sabbath & Priest, Metallica, FNM and most of Mike Patton's bands, Tool, SOAD, Napalm Death, Dimmu, Rush, Slayer, Arcade Fire, Mastodon, At the Drive-In, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and a mix of stuff that no one here will like, such as Kanye West, Underworld, VNV nation, Zero 7, Massive Attack, Amy Winehouse, and Tori Amos...
in_my_time_of_disease
Whipping Post
^You'd be surprised, a lot of the users on here aren't typical metull. I love Massive attack and Tori Amos. As for Kanye, yeah you're right about him though, don't imagine there is much respect round here for him.
FullMetalCornflake
blasphemously delicious
I love Massive Attack and Tori Amos
Throw in some Sara Bareilles and Morcheeba...
<--teaBeen listening since 2005, a month or two under 3 years i daresay. Been my favorite band since then.
I discovered them last year, and they're now one my favorite band and Akerfeldt is my Music God.
been a fan for roughly 5 years. i agree with the rollercoaster deal. except i never really get to the point where i cant stand to listen to them, just that id rather listen to something else. but i guess everyone is like that, sometimes youre just in the mood for something else, you cant get by on just one artist alone, haha.
right now though, im listening to them a whole helluva lot
right now though, im listening to them a whole helluva lot
Still Life 1891
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Been a massive fan ever since I first heard "Patterns In The Ivy II", back in 2001. I agree with Exocaster, Opeth are one of the very few bands i can spin every day for years and not get tired of.
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