what does your girlfriend/wife think of you listening to opeth

[--clare--]

hahah fair enough!

 

[Eternalnow]

She hates it. She hates the growling and the whole metal/prog-ness of it. She hates it all. She's into club rap

 

[Risquit]

I've been playing her "Coil" and she seems to be o.k. with that. Now I just need to move her into something just a bit heavier.

 

[Blackwater Demon]

my wife likes Opeth but she is a bit iffy about seeing them live. Her favorite band she has seen live is SOAD so I think she is in for a treat, but then again I took her to see Tool and she still liked SOAD more.

 

[MixGrafix]

My fiance loves Opeth, and has seen them 5 times with me, and is going to see them three times more net month.

 

[MadMeg]

I am the wife! Actually I got my husband into Opeth. He had an irrational prejudice against Swedish bands (he's Swedish), so he'd never listened to them until I kinda forced the issue.

 

[gumtree]

She hates it. She hates the growling and the whole metal/prog-ness of it. She hates it all. She's into club rap

How can you stand that? It'd drive me absolutely mental. Good taste in music, for me, is essential to have a good relationship. Without that there is nothing.

 

[CadenZ]

I don't know who's the bigger fan, me or my fiancée. Any which way, it doesn't matter who puts on an Opeth record, the other one's always pleasantly surprised.

 

[Mantraschism]

She called 'In Mist She Was Standing' romantic once; she likes Opeth, and metal in general. /win

 

[DarkGift]

I knew someone would say that... it's not because you don't that everyone doesn't , just kidin' don't tell me you do have one please.

I do have one.


not

wait, that must mean I am a pure opethfan! winnar!

 

[el_serpiente]

My wife likes Opeth and joins me at concerts. One of her all time favorite albums is Brave Murder day with Katatonia. It is nice to come home and open the door and if she is home hear some one growling on the stereo.

But she doesn't really like Emperor, Darkthrone and Mayhem and the like, so I try not to listen to it that much when she is home.

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

Mine likes the mellow stuff, but thinks the death vox are "ludicrous"
although i love death vox and understand the use of them (IMO they represent; anger, terror, despair and frustration) and they suit the music, i can at the same time understand why someone would thin that they sound ridiculous.
I think it's very difficult (though not impossible, of course) for someone to understand death vox unless they have been introduced to metal gradually over years. It was fine for me, as i was listening to bands like slayer and celtic frost before the likes of morbid angel, carcass, nocturnus, entombed and death came around.
My argument when we discuss it, is based around the fact that you can't make music that brutal and still have clean melodic vocals in them....she disagrees, but then she knows nothing about the intricacies of making music!!!

 

[Crepuscularia]

My wife likes some of the mellowpeth stuff, but also can't stand the death vox.

Amusing related story: we were on a road trip, I was driving, and I put in Agalloch's The Mantle. As "in the shadow of our pale companion" came on, after about a minute she reached over and held my hand. Then the blak metal screaming started, and she took her hand away and started frowning at me. I said "What's wrong?" And she said "AAAARRRGH!!! SATAN!!!! DEATH!!!! And to think you had me holding your hand!!!"

 

[NobodyImportant]

My wife doesn't mind the mellow stuff, but the heavy stuff gets frowns from her. She doesn't care for most of what I listen to these days, but I do most of my music listening at work anyway, and there's still a fair amount of music that we both like, so it's not a big deal.

I don't know who's the bigger fan, me or my fiancée. Any which way, it doesn't matter who puts on an Opeth record, the other one's always pleasantly surprised.

[scratches head]
Hmmm.... If you're both big Opeth fans, how are either of you "surprised" when the other puts on Opeth?

(...just nitpicking!)

 

[CadenZ]

[scratches head]
Hmmm.... If you're both big Opeth fans, how are either of you "surprised" when the other puts on Opeth?

(...just nitpicking!)

Hehe well, believe it or not; but since there are so many other bands we love besides Opeth, we're mostly listening to the other (lesser) ones. And, to be honest, for the majority of the time we're actually not listening to any music at all. So when the silence/TV noise/violin concerto is replaced by the first chords of Ghost of Perdition or the eerie Prologue on MAYH, now that's a pleasant surprise

 

[Strange Brew]

My wife listens to the mellower stuff like To Rid The Disease, Weakness, Porcelain Heart, Coil, Burden etc but just doesnt like the growling vocals. Some of the heavier stuff if fine as long as the cookie monster vocals arent in it (like Hex Omega). But I think she is a bit sick of me playing them all the time.

 

[baarg]

I'm a wife and I adore Opeth and so does my husband!

 

[griev0r]

I don't give a shit what she thinks, she's a woman so her opinion doesn't matter. ;D

 

[baarg]

How can you stand that? It'd drive me absolutely mental. Good taste in music, for me, is essential to have a good relationship. Without that there is nothing.

Amen!

 

[Vacant_Planets]

My girl is the big Opeth fan, I took her to see them earlier this year.