Opeth GAY????

Yes, its true they do cop a bit of shit every now and then.

Mainly, Opeth dont follow the standards of 'metal'. Steven Wilson calls it "that level of sophistication" but he's a dickhead so who cares. Quite frankly, the fact that they dont write agressive music, and include melodic and accoustic interludes. This, as any devoted death metaller or thrasher will tell you, is for pussies.

That is all.
 
Your the one that's gay. Stop turning this board into an embarassment for the band.
 
Didn't you see the video that was leaked of Peter and Mike?
That was my lame attempt at humour, bring on the flaming.

To answer the questions seriously, well, that's life. Some people don't like Opeth so they like to refer to them as a being with a sexual preference. Damn free speech :bah:
All that matters is whether you think they are good or not. Fuck everybody else.
 
I haven't heard them called that for a while. But I rarely visit outside of this forum anyhow. I think it's predominantly to do with the fact that they'd spontaneously break into acoustic ditties during heavy riffage on the early albums. That kind of dynamic of being extremely soft, as well as having their riffs not be quite as straight forward and in your face as other metal has earned them that kind of 'flower' metal reputation.
 
Q: Why are Opeth called gay?
A: Peter is Sigur Ros's Jonsi's secret lover. And the Martins go 2 on 1 with Mikael.
 
"sophistiwanktion"!!!
nuk3m... i love you for that.
btw, people who use "gay" as this sort of derisive slang i would like to say i believe are complete and utter "twats," but then that would also be too good for them since i have mainly good things to say about female genitalia too. :-)
who gives a flying fuck what anyone else thinks of us or of Opeth???