how did you discover Opeth?

[BigDaddylicious]

Just curious how everyone here discovered Opeth?

I was in Tower Records in Carle Place, Long Island about 2 years ago, and they were playing Death Whispered a Lullaby. I went up to one of the guys working there, and he told me it was his favorite band, Opeth (and showed me his Opeth tattoo)...
I bought the album and really dug it. then, about a few months later I was in another record store and found deliverance and blackwater park and bought them, and i was hooked. Within two weeks i had every opeth cd and they have been my favorite band ever since.

 

[Fenlenus]

Friend of mine had Morningrise, heard Black Rose Immortal and thought it was pretty sweet, then To Bid You Farewell started playing and I fell in love.

 

[SeanNZ]

I first found Opeth by stumbling across a Guitar Pro tab for Black Rose Immortal... i'd never heard anything like it - the twin guitars, the acoustic passages, melodic bass playing. I'd actually never listened to metal before from there it didnt take long for me to go out and buy Orchid

 

[daz436]

a friend of mine a few years back played The Moor for me, got right into SL,BWP & Morningrise within the next few month

 

[Dee Snarl]

The Firestarter comp from Century Black c. 98...

 

[Alexis]

I don't remember, and it was nearly three years ago. *wracks brain*

 

[Spydaman_69_2001]

I saw them in a mag and decided to check em out but thought they were ok. Then a friend sent me The Moor and I thought it was ok. Then I heard the outro of Deliverance on a fansite and thought that was awesome so I dled a few songs I was hooked.

 

[SPLASTiK]

Shortly before Still Life came out I heard "To Bid You Farewell".
Not their heaviest number but I was already into death metal and a little into black metal so Opeth felt like home.

 

[Nobiss]

I had always heard of this band named Opeth but I had always overlooked them and never really gave them a listen. A few years ago I decided to check them out and I haven't been able to stop listening to them since. I listen to them religiously hours a day now. I believe To Bid You Farewell was also the bait that got me.

 

[Disgustipated]

I don't remember - try searching for the other thread already made on this exact same subject.

 

[Fredy_Brown]

They are well known...someone told me about very good and progressive band, so I downloaded and voilá, I am here

 

[Kenneth R.]

i found them under a rock

 

[Illnath]

I heard some really good music at a music store.. I didn't know who it was, I thought it might be that band Opeth. I've always seen their cds in music stores. I decided to check'em out. So I downloaded some songs with them. The first Opeth song I heard was "In The Mist She Was Standing" And I was hooked, I was completely unaware that it was from their first album

I own all their releases and a little bit of merchandise. I think I became a fan of the band late 2001 or early 2002..I can't remember

 

[årt]

A buddy of mine made me a disc with various prog and metal mp3s. The Drapery Falls was on there as was Harvest. He gave me another 2 discs with his choice of "greatest hits" after sitting down to digest that disc I went out and bought Deliverance, BWP, MAYH, and Lamentations. I have mp3s off the rest and plan on picking up the other discs as I find them.

I'd heard of them a while back, but never got around to checking them out. Took me a good month to actually START to listen to 'em cuz I was enjoying Pain of Salvation too much. Another quality find by my bud.

I'd also heard Mikael's work on Ayreon's Human Equasion disc

 

[MetalManCPA]

2001, listening to the digital metal station on cable television, I caught the tail end of Bleak.

 

[Manbient]

The Firestarter comp from Century Black c. 98...

Mine was also a Century Media compilation. It was Identity 5 in 1999.

 

[Black Paragon]

My brother played me Closure and that was that.

 

[Powers]

I'd heard of Opeth way back in 2001-2, but never bothered to take inerest. A friend said i should download some Otep (this would have been 2003). Having these two very similar names in my head i got them mixed up and low and behold, i downloaded "The Funeral Portrait", and was blown away. Everything has stemmed from listening to that song and My Arms Your Hearse, which I thought that song was on.

 

[Jude]

I post a lot on Musicianforums and people on there are obsessed with Opeth, so I heard enough about them that their acoustic side intrigued me. I downloaded some songs (I think TDF, BWP, Demon of the Fall, BRI, maybe one or two others) and while I did like the acoustic stuff I couldn't get over the growling. I didn't listen to them at all for a while but I had my interest re-sparked because of Steven Wilson's involvement with them, and I started liking some of the soft stuff. I bought Damnation. Then not long after that someone leaked GR and I downloaded that and after that I was hooked. I think my order of albums after that went Still Life - BWP - Orchid - I forget how the rest went...

 

[Sean Casey]

at first all the stuff I heard was off of Damnation and I thought "How are these guys considered death metal?" well a whiles later, my friend really got into them and I checked out some of the heavier stuff. I wasn't that into them but after I saw them in concert i've been listening to them much more often

lo and behold, another Opeth fan.