Ninfix evolved to --> Opeth listener lvl 5! I considder lvl 5 the highest level of a listener you can get.
Haha, no seriously, read this and help me in maing sense.
When I started off as an Opeth-fan, I first heard The Grand Conjuration, then I bought Ghost Reveries. I listened to the album, and enjoyed it, to a certain point. It was new, weird and yet very interesting. *Ninfix became Opeth listener lvl 1!*
Then I youtubed and googled the band to check out videos, biography, facts, dicography and so on, and started talking to other Opeth-fans discussing the band. Being a newbie, I always said "The Grand Conjuration is their best song" and shit like that, and was replied to with shit like "No, wtf, it's Blackwater Park!". I was like wtf but what the hell. Then I got to hear Blackwater Park, and other songs, and realized why they had said this about the song. Bought the album right away. This was new and amazing music! *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 2!*
Because of my new aspect of the band, I listened to Arjen Lucassen recommending the Damnation album on the making-of documentary for The Human Equation, where he said that it was a mellow album. I bought it, gave it a try and slept through the night with Windpowpane and such floating through the room for months. After a while, I bought Deliverance, Still Life and along came Watershed. The new drummer and the fact that I got to see the band live made me a much bigger fan of the band than before. Still Life crushed everything I had ever heard in my life, and that's when *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 3!*
Opeth was now my number 1 favorite band in the world, but I felt there was something missing, still. I knew I hadn't heard the three first albums yet, and I got My Arms, Your Hearse for christmas 08. This was another revelation for me. The sound and heavyness of this album was overwhelming, and I thought I couldn't appreciate their music more than I had done then. *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 4*
I hope you guys see where I'm going with this. I've listened to them when in every emotional state imaginable (except perhaps suicidal). Once when I was at home, I actually started weeping when my friend called me from and Opeth-concert when they played Godhead's Lament, and when my girlfriend asked me what was wrong, I just sobbed childishly and said "They played my favorite song!"("De spælte yndlingssangen min!"). Haha, this proved my love to Opeth in a twisted, non-metal way
I've listened to only Orchid and Morningrise for a while now. And today I started listening to my favorites again, and I must say; they've got some sort of new energy added to them! Some parts that are heavy, but not skull-crunshing heavy, that I've not really taken that good a notice to before(sorry for that poorly phrased sentence) are now absolutely amazing, thanks to In The Mist She Was Standing and Black Rose Immortal. Two very good examples are 5:52 on Godhead's Lament and 7:37 on Ghost of Perdition. It's simply outstanding!
And thanks to me realizing this earlier today, *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 5!*
AND, I would like to say now that I apoligize if all you want to do is burn me for writing this endless post of nonsense, but I got the energy of writing this as an appreciation towards Opeth when I leveled up.
Anyway, that's all I had to say. Let me know if you feel something simillar or if I just messed up this forum just a little more
Haha, no seriously, read this and help me in maing sense.
When I started off as an Opeth-fan, I first heard The Grand Conjuration, then I bought Ghost Reveries. I listened to the album, and enjoyed it, to a certain point. It was new, weird and yet very interesting. *Ninfix became Opeth listener lvl 1!*
Then I youtubed and googled the band to check out videos, biography, facts, dicography and so on, and started talking to other Opeth-fans discussing the band. Being a newbie, I always said "The Grand Conjuration is their best song" and shit like that, and was replied to with shit like "No, wtf, it's Blackwater Park!". I was like wtf but what the hell. Then I got to hear Blackwater Park, and other songs, and realized why they had said this about the song. Bought the album right away. This was new and amazing music! *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 2!*
Because of my new aspect of the band, I listened to Arjen Lucassen recommending the Damnation album on the making-of documentary for The Human Equation, where he said that it was a mellow album. I bought it, gave it a try and slept through the night with Windpowpane and such floating through the room for months. After a while, I bought Deliverance, Still Life and along came Watershed. The new drummer and the fact that I got to see the band live made me a much bigger fan of the band than before. Still Life crushed everything I had ever heard in my life, and that's when *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 3!*
Opeth was now my number 1 favorite band in the world, but I felt there was something missing, still. I knew I hadn't heard the three first albums yet, and I got My Arms, Your Hearse for christmas 08. This was another revelation for me. The sound and heavyness of this album was overwhelming, and I thought I couldn't appreciate their music more than I had done then. *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 4*
I hope you guys see where I'm going with this. I've listened to them when in every emotional state imaginable (except perhaps suicidal). Once when I was at home, I actually started weeping when my friend called me from and Opeth-concert when they played Godhead's Lament, and when my girlfriend asked me what was wrong, I just sobbed childishly and said "They played my favorite song!"("De spælte yndlingssangen min!"). Haha, this proved my love to Opeth in a twisted, non-metal way
I've listened to only Orchid and Morningrise for a while now. And today I started listening to my favorites again, and I must say; they've got some sort of new energy added to them! Some parts that are heavy, but not skull-crunshing heavy, that I've not really taken that good a notice to before(sorry for that poorly phrased sentence) are now absolutely amazing, thanks to In The Mist She Was Standing and Black Rose Immortal. Two very good examples are 5:52 on Godhead's Lament and 7:37 on Ghost of Perdition. It's simply outstanding!
And thanks to me realizing this earlier today, *Ninfix evolved to Opeth listener lvl 5!*
AND, I would like to say now that I apoligize if all you want to do is burn me for writing this endless post of nonsense, but I got the energy of writing this as an appreciation towards Opeth when I leveled up.
Anyway, that's all I had to say. Let me know if you feel something simillar or if I just messed up this forum just a little more
I started listening to Forest Of October (coz my friends were rehearsing it next door), then bought a whole compilation of Opeth albums, an MP3, apart from deliverance and Ghost Reveries (coz this one wasn't out yet). as I always do, i listen to the albums chronologically, i noticed the evolution of Opeth over years by each line up, maybe that's why now i believe that they are stronger, even tho i've never seen them live (yet). And yeah i think it's kinda childish to weep (under the weeping moon) coz they were playing Godhead's lament 
), they have everything, and the lyrics fit. Epic albums. 
I think not
