how did you discover Opeth?

[ramses]

Back in 97', I got ahold of a Century Media Records mail order catalogue, each album having a brief description. Ordered 2 Gathering albums...(Nighttime Birds,Mandylion) Next paycheck, I liked what I read about Orchid, and Morningrise; Being reviewed as sounding like Morbid Angel, and Iron Maiden, with epic 10+ minute tracks. The first few listens, I thought...wow, sounds a little more 70's prog than I thought....eh...pretty good. A week later, I kept humming these melodies at work, at first not remembering where I heard them. Been hooked ever since!!

 

[NovemberMourning]

nice! another old skooler!!!

i first heard about opeth in a chat room on AOL (unholy metal haha) back in early 97... i had a friend that worked at century media and i called her up and said make it happen. 2 weeks later (had to be ordered from CM germany) i had orchid. couldnt stop listening to it, and thats it. orchid is still my favorite album. once i heard opeth was headlining the 2000 milwaukee metalfest, i booked my flight.

the best part of that metalfest other than opeth, was watching 2000+ people leave in the middle of Mayhems set to go watch opeth hahahaha. I'm not sure if its cause it was my first time seeing opeth or if it was cause it was their first time in the states, but the set was fuckin amazing! such energy, ive never experienced at any other opeth show. I remember the shocked look on mikael's face when they walked out and the entire crowd was chanting Opeth. I dont really think they realized how big they were over here.

After the set I had Mike sign all my opeth cds as well as brave murder day, and edge of sanity's crimson (mike laughed when he signed that cd and said "you actually like this one?"). haha good times!

 

[N-MAYH]

i found them under a rock

haha nice... well played kenneth...
i found out about Opeth from my first gf in like...2001-2002.. she was really into metal and such and she sent me demon of the fall.. i was hooked on the softer parts, then the heavier ones with growling really grew on me...

 

[Stilgar]

In 1995, with Orchid. I've already posted the story here once before:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4074790&postcount=110

 

[Absent_Friend]

I got "dragged" to their concert in April '04 and have been listening ever since

 

[rrjii2000]

It was the right before christmas 2001. I was looking for some music to be misriable too, after a tramatic seperation from my whore of an ex-wife . I was browsing the Metal section and ran across Opeth. I ended up buying Still Life. I guess on pure visual appeal. Started listing...I didn't get it, but it was pretty cool. The tunes were so long and the sound made me a bit sleppy, so for a while it was a great bedtime music. After a week or so, I just woke up one morning, and was like this shit is fucking ausome.

I recently went back to rediscover Still Life, it held many bad memories, because of the bullshit I was going thru then. Now I can say it's one of my Favorites.

Rob

 

[Rick from Oddyssey]

I bought a french metal magazine (Hard/N/Heavy) back in 1999 and there was an intriguing son called 'Moonlapse Vertigo' by an obscure band called Opeth... I was immediately hooked, so I went to buy Still Life... And after my first listen I knew that they were going to be among my favorite bands, a fact confirmed when I bought the previous albums (Blackwater Park had not yet been released, but when it did come out, I was flabbergasted to say the least!).

Cheers !

 

[FUBAR]

Kerrang then found BWP cheap...

 

[Larsson]

From a Slipknot board! Somebody started a thread there about Opeth, I downloaded Orchid and got hooked! It was so much better then Slipknot that I couldnt stand that shit afterwards. I find it kinda ironic that a thread on a Slipknot board made me stop listening to Slipknot.

 

[MrJack]

my dad and sister liked them, and I had to do a project in 6th grade english that connected this stupid book to a song we knew.
Demon of the Fall fit perfectly, and I was hooked.

 

[Powers]

Heard of them way back but didn't listen. Friend told me to download Otep, i got the names mixed up. Downloaded "The Funeral Portrait" blew me away. Now own every album and Lamentations, and I'm currently tracking down side projects and previous bands of the current and past members.

 

[Braighs]

no fucking clue...

Honestly, how the hell DID these guys get into my mp3 player

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[Punctured]

I heard In my Time of Need at some website... went out, bought Damnation, not knowing that they were a metal band.

I went and bought Still Life a week later, couldn't believe they were the same band. I heard The Moor for the first time and that is one of my favorite songs ever now.

 

[melancio]

I heard of this very talented band named "Opeth" at John Petrucci's (Dream Theater guitarist) forum... It was one of the favorite bands of roughly 75% of everyone who posted there... But I never cared to check them out, until one beautiful day, when I was stumbling around guitar.com and I happened to watch their video showing how to play "The Drapery Falls" on guitar.

I was totally blown away by the instrumentals (in the video they play a bit of Credence and the entire The Drapery Falls, only with strings, no distortion). When I downloaded the song off Kazaa and listened to Mike's vocals, my first reaction was getting Blackwater Park as soon as possible... Too bad I didn't enjoy the death metal vocals in the beggining... I got used to putting Harvest to play in my stereo and going to sleep (as many might have noticed, Opeth is very nice music to hear before and during sleep, sweet dreams ^^). I think I did this everyday for more than two weeks... And after that I was ready for more =)

One of the things I enjoy the most about Opeth nowadays are the screaming vocals... And to think that in the beginning, I always skipped "The Leper Affinity" =P

 

[Sean Casey]

my dad and sister liked them, and I had to do a project in 6th grade english that connected this stupid book to a song we knew.
Demon of the Fall fit perfectly, and I was hooked.

your family frickin rules!

 

[EVH316]

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

Yeah was that the one with 'When' on it? That's how I first heard them.

 

[intimidatingcrustaceans]

Friend of mine loaned me Still Life in 2004. I thought it was rubbish at first but gave it another try and loved it.

 

[lunabella]

Years ago (about 5 years ago)I worked in a music store and all the young Goths used to come in wearing Opeth T-shirts and i instantly fell in love the logo. But I first heard them on an Aussie radio Metal segement called "3 Hours of Power" which has since be named "Full Metal Racket" I heard The Moor. So now, not only did i love their designer clothing but all my dreams had come true when i heard the music, it was off the radar. So i bought 3 copies of Still Life just cos they had them at a good price and then Blackwaterpark and the rest is history. Basically i am so moved by their muisc that everything pales in comparison. Opeth have ruined every other music experience for me. Yes i am an Opethaholic! Opeth move even the hardest of music (snobs/anti metal) critics. I have played Opeth to these people and they now have tickets to Opeth's shows... they are just magical.

Check out the metal segment on Tuesday nights, and drop Andrew Haug (DJ) a line. He's our Nations Metal Guru and works damn hard to keep metal on the map in Aus. BTW. He's also a fellow Opethian..huge huge fan. He'd love to hear from you.

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/racket/default.htm

 

[Rawr]

My ex-girlfriend was a huge fan and she played Orchid, MAYH and Morningrise almost daily.. (Too much info really, but having sex with Opeth-cd's playing on the background kinda rules )

I got into them too, went along to a gig and i've been hooked ever since...

I gave some cd's to my brother, who discovered Opeth through me.. I got him tickets to a gig for his birthday and he stated (after the show): "This was the best goddamn present i ever had!!" (In dutch ofcourse )

 

[KjeXXXer]

We've got this program in Norway called Svisj (music videos and chat). the program has a few subprograms, like Dance Svisj, Country Svisj, etc.

I was watching Metal Svisj one springday of 2004, and the vid for Windowpane was played. I thought it was Good+. So one day I was at my cousin to DL some random songs I'd heard (I was honouring my New Years resolution to Discove music besides Metallica and SOAD.) I picked up, or downloaded rather, Windowpane and Harvest (for some strange reason, Harvest was called Blackwater Park and was from the album Harvest. Happens all the time. Why? Dunno).

So I listened to these tracks for four months. Then I picked up a Metal compilation that featured a rather exellent edited version of Deliverance. I went "OMG OMG OMG" and I asked a guy from the states I know to send me another heavy Opeth track. He sent The Leper Affinty. Again, I went "OMG OMG OMG."

Two weeks later I bought Ghost Reveries, and for this christmas I got BWP and SL. Bought Orchid and Damnation a few weeks later.