Opeth on the radio?

[Cama_Zotz]

Opeth is played a lot on www.theiceberg.com in the 'Black Death' channel....but it's an online radio...so it's different.....

 

[osse87]

Theres this radio station that plays hiphop/soft rock, and they played in my time of need and called opeth an "emerging soft rock band"

On a poster outside a record shop they had Damnation for sale, "Indierock" they called it.

 

[Maybe]

Opeth's songs aren't made for mainstream radio! :Smug:

Sure they are. Damnation in particular. I could easily see that on FM radio here in the States. It's just a matter of their label being able to get them into the right places: i.e., money.

 

[Spod2508]

I used to dj on a priate metal station in cork called freak fm and i used to pay it all the time. could only get it in cork tho.

That sounds cool. If I moved to Cork, any chance ye could resurrect the station

 

[estimate]

They are played quite often on a program here in norway.

 

[Lugie]

Every radio station around me has commercials every 4 minutes or so - meaning 98% of opeth cannot be played around here due to length. Oh well, radio sucks anyway!

 

[DE]

Do they not even get played in Sweden? I thought lots of Swedes were into metal

 

[Vampira]

That sounds cool. If I moved to Cork, any chance ye could resurrect the station

its still running up in mallow, it should br moving back to the city in autumn. hopefully my job should be still safe!

 

[illbeleavinnow]

The mere fact that any of you listen to the radio is awful. EVERYTHING about it is commercialized, even the so-called "quality" programs that feature talk-shows and discussions. All of it is just some guy or girl who's at the extreme of what they stand for and they bitch about what's wrong with the world. It makes me sick. Not even our classic rock stations are good, they play only the most popular of the popular. I've never heard them play Atomic Rooster or The Band or even ELP! Radio = teh wankery.

 

[LuminousAether]

There's a sort of radio / music channel on digital cable here which plays music songs while the album cover is on screen and some facts show up. They have played Opeth many times on the metal channel, especially songs from Deliverance.

 

[Opet]

Last Friday I was at a pub wracking up billiards and the sweetest jukebox in the world died. So, the bar turned on the radio. Fine whatever. It was late and the Metal Zone (now called the Gonzo Hour) was about to start on 94.1 WHJY out of Providence, RI.

I heard "When you hear Opeth..." and everything else went blah blah blah. Did they just say they were going to play Opeth on 94.1????? Talk about shocked. I never heard it coming out of the radio before. No difference, I know. But still.

40 minutes later, they turn the radio off to try and get people out so they could close. A metal friend got the girl to turn it back on AND GUESS WHO WAS PLAYING. Goosebump city. It played for approximately 20 seconds and the manager turned off the radio for good. It was closing time.

BASTARDS! I figured out it was Wreath later.

 

[GoufCustom]

Opeth has played a couple times on WJSE's 102.7, here, in South Jersey.

 

[Smitty]

Material from the Deliverance album is played regularly on a commercial radio station here in Casper, Wyoming. They are NOT an underground band, by any means. This station also plays Nsync.