I love Opeth and all, but the "Metal for the intellectual" tag just reeks of pretentious, pseudo intellectual wankery. Especially since Opeth only scratches the surface of 'intellectual' metal bands.
long songs with zero structure and massive overload of repetition = intellectual as fuck
if anything Ulver and Agalloch are the opposite of intellectual, they are more motivated music and lyrics wise to feelings/emotional side
"I'm going to pretend my sig was meant to invoke something even though it just displays me as a pseudo intellectual wanker."
Perhaps you missed what I said as a whole. Or perhaps you're just looking for an argument.