How did you get into Opeth?

[Brutalizer]

Like with Katatonia, my friend introduced me to Opeth and i am thankful today still!

 

[Jayde]

At a Korn message board. Three or so of the people were very metal-inclined. And they talked about bands like Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, and My Dying Bride. I just had a gut feeling that I would like Opeth, so I went and got the only album available in this backwater town, BWP. I'll get the rest as it becomes possible.

"Maybe it sounds a little bit weird, but I get into Opeth because of the bandname!"

That's how I got into some bands. I liked Biohazard's logo and I saw Anathema in the list of bands in the back of BWP's booklet, I knew that the word anathema meant something blasphemous and heretical, and I though "cool."


the list in the BWP booklet also interested me in Katatonia, Dark Tranquility, and In Flames.

 

[Demonspell]

Originally I hesitated getting into Opeth because I had an version to anything that featured both clean and growling vocals...in other words, I was one of those lameasses who thought if a guy had a great singing voice, why waste it on a growl? Then a friend sent me Godhead's Lament and I downloaded Nectar and I never looked back, after the adjustment period that lasted about a month, although certain aspects of Opeth blew me away from the start.

 

[DrX]

I heard the funeral portrait on the Comcast music choice channel on cable. I loved the guitars - like TOOL, but much more melodic, symphonic even. The growling not so much, but I listened to samples on the internet and really got into it. Bought Blackwater at best buy and you know the rest....

 

[MetalManCPA]

I heard Bleak on the metal digital radio station that comes with my cable.

And the rest is history!!!!

 

[Hail Eris!]

Well, My friend ordered Morningrise after finding out about Opeth on the net. I ingested some magical mushrooms and entered the world of Morningrise. Floating around in the music. Well that really made it sink in. Prior to that I coundn't stand death metal vocals. The clean vocals were so awesome though I couldn't not listen to Opeth. Now, I love the growls as much as if not more then the clean vocals....well maybe not more.

 

[transfixed]

a few years ago, i saw orchid on an ftp site...
so i downloaded it, and was amazed.

 

[BillowOfZeal]

I was already into metal, especially Black Metal at the time and i heard Nectar on the Blackened ll compilation.....they immediately became one of my favorite bands after only one song

 

[Surge]

One of my friends used to throw it on in his car almost constantly for a period of time. It was one of those things I didn't pay direct attention to at first, but I began to notice all the diversity and variety in any one particular song. He made me a copy of morningrise which still happens to be my favorite album. I became so into them that I flew to europe to see that show in liepzig, germany. That was when there seemed to be no prospect of seeing them tour this country. But, ironically, I arrived one hour too late to that show and missed them entirely.

 

[aegis]

i discovered Opeth o, 1999 with Moonlapse Vertigo who was on the sampler of the french magasine Hard N Heavy
yes, it exactly the same answer i made for Katatonia, but for Opeth, it was one month later

 

[Hondo]

The subject makes me have to ask, are there any good net radio stations around for metal? Like ones run by people who have actual musical taste and a huge catalogue. Guess I could browse the shoutcast stations a bit. I'm always looking for the next good band to get into, that's all, and hearing a lot of random songs while you're not really paying attention is a good way.

-Hondo

 

[Rusty]

My brother lent me Morningrise. That was only about July 2001.

 

[Lina]

Originally posted by Surge
I became so into them that I flew to europe to see that show in liepzig, germany. That was when there seemed to be no prospect of seeing them tour this country. But, ironically, I arrived one hour too late to that show and missed them entirely.

THAT SUCKS! Man, that is disappointing! But much respect for actually flying over there. I thought I was a big fan to fly to Milwaukee.

 

[mindflesh]

Well, I read a review of BWP in a death/black metal magazine... The first songs I downloaded were Bleak and Harvest which now happen to be my favourite ones on BWP

 

[terrymx]

i beat up some guy and took his morningrise cd and found out it was the greatest album ever made.

 

[Ordeith]

I first found out about Opeth at Satan Stole My Teddybear (www.chedsey.com.) I was browsing around for some new CD's to buy, being a recent metal convert and all, and found the reviews for Opeth. I've never been one to resist a great review, especially when the music is described as epic and beautiful.

 

[eddieslittlegirl]

someone recently suggested them to me.

 

[YaYo]

i was quietly sitting down having nap one day when a great light came down from the heavens and i was whisked away to another dimension and ....... ummmmmmmm........ ok ok, i just heard them on the radio and thought they sounded like the type of band i'd always been looking for. I was right.

 

[JesusChristPose]

I was fed up with commercialized music and was searching Amazon.com for bands like Dream Theater, etc...somehow I was linked to Opeth...I think it was the devil that did it.

 

[Till Fjalls]

Back in the day, we had just recently gotten the internet in rural Newfoundland where i lived. I found out about mp3's (which by the way were encoded very crappily back then!!!) I never knew any extreme metal back then, only death I guess. I found this online article about a band named Opeth. It was very unprofessionally written, and almst sounded like it was a friend of the band who had written it. I can remember something about them being on a patio, giong through a glass door or something (weird I know, I can only recall parts of it, like a dream...).

So anyway, I decided to search the net (no napster or anything those days, just browsing through thousand's of pages of yahoo links...), and I managed to come across two very short samples from their new album: I got The intro to To Bid you farewell and The Night and The Silent Water (up until after the first clean singing section).

I immediately ordered it online and was mesmerized by its' uniqueness when it finally arrived.