The rip-offs

[Tapestry]

I don't know if this has been posted before (I hope not) but I've noticed many rip-offs through my listening of Opeth and I thought that we could try to gather as many as possible...

This is what I've found:
Harlequin Forest (vocals) from Anne-Lie Rydé - Regntunga skyar
My Arms, Your Hearse (the name) from Comus - Drip, drip
The Baying of the Hounds (not sure, but maybe the name) from Comus - Diana
Blackwater Park (the name) from Blackwater Park
Ending Credits (the song, I think) from Camel - ?

 

[Autumnal]

The first few minutes of Master's Apprentices from tons of Morbid Angel...

 

[April Etheral]

i'm pretty sure this has been done before but who cares

lol i was gonna say Master's Apprentice too!
A lot of post-BWP stuff is quite like Porcupine Tree stuff, the ending of Bleak is so Wilson-esq

 

[porcupine_wolfff]

Amen Corner, Still Life, Cluster, Master's Apprentices, For Absent Friends were prog bands in the early 70s.

 

[JoeVice]

some of martin's drumming reminds me of morbid angel...mainly his triumphant crash/snare fills...like he uses in the beginning of april ethereal.

 

[Benighted Joe]

I never want to say it's rip-offs, because Opeth always add a personal
touch and they often do it better than the original. Here's some things
I found when I was listening to Led Zeppelin's album "Physical Graffiti".
Damn good album btw.

"In my time of need" (Title) from "In my time of dying"
"Beneath the mire" (Intro drum) from "The rover" (The idea merely)

 

[Hypnos]

Ending Credits sounds a lot like Santana to me...

 

[MetalManCPA]

Opeth's name came from adding an "h" and flipping a few letters from the band Otep

 

[porcupine_wolfff]

That wasn't a band. Actually, it was a city or village (called Opet) in a book where everyone, who came into it comitted suicide.

 

[Tapestry]

I never want to say it's rip-offs, because Opeth always add a personal
touch and they often do it better than the original. Here's some things
I found when I was listening to Led Zeppelin's album "Physical Graffiti".
Damn good album btw.

"In my time of need" (Title) from "In my time of dying"
"Beneath the mire" (Intro drum) from "The rover" (The idea merely)

Maybe it's a harsh word, but My Arms, Your Hearse, Harlequin Forest (intro vocals), Blackwater Park are rip-offs. Listen to Anne-Lie Rydé - Regntunga skyar

 

[Soupman]

#2 If it sounds like tons of Morbid Angel, ain't it being inspired instead of ripping off;p

 

[all_sins_undone]

Opeth's name came from adding an "h" and flipping a few letters from the band Otep

LOL

 

[BastardSonOfGod]

The name Opeth was taken of a Wilbur Smith's book, in that book appears a city on the moon called Spell Opet, the band just cut the word "Spell" and put an H at the end of Opet...

 

[R0l0]

Akerfeldt ripped his surname from his father.

 

[Riryoku]

Opeth's name came from adding an "h" and flipping a few letters from the band Otep

Shu' up, kthx.

 

[Godhead's Lament]

That wasn't a band. Actually, it was a city or village (called Opet) in a book where everyone, who came into it comitted suicide.

Did you read the book?

 

[porcupine_wolfff]

Did you read the book?

No.

 

[Fenlenus]

Mike has said himself that he takes a lot of things from other bands, etc.

Benighted is a lot like Camel's Never Let Go as well, haven't seen that one brought up yet.

 

[Powers]

The name Opeth was taken of a Wilbur Smith's book, in that book appears a city on the moon called Spell Opet, the band just cut the word "Spell" and put an H at the end of Opet...

Taken from the book, "The Sunbird" by Wilbur Smith, I tried to find it in Smiths in Newcastle station so i could be a proper Opeth nerd and read it on the way to the Leeds gig.

I couldn't find it though so I grabbed Warlock instead, which apparently it is the sequel to.

So far as i know the person who actaully came up with the name is no longer in Opeth. Mikeal, am i correct?

 

[mig]

During their gig in Stuttgart (Dec 05) Mike told the audience that the beginning of one of their new songs is ripped off from a famous ABBA-song.
But unfortunately I neither remember the ABBA-song, nor the name of the Opeth-song
He even played these parts so that we could hear the similarities.... damn but I can't remember