what is the first opeth song you heard?

[Damnation03]

Deliverance was the first Opeth song i heard and it made me a fan .

 

[Kate Bush Rules!]

Bleak.

I listened to it for 2 months before i liked it enough too buy Blackwater Park. I liked that album for about 3 months before falling in love with it.

 

[L0bster]

Blackwater Park. And the same day: The moor, Funeral Portrait, Drapery Falls and Requim

 

[emp]

Bought Opeth - Deliverance cos i was bored... and cos it was a good digipack

Didnt like Wreath... Press Track >>
Deliverance.......... i was blown away...
Listened to the cd rest of the week...

Bought Damnation,BWP,Still Life since then

Morningrise/MAYH/Orchid left

Now Opeth is like top3 favourite bands (together with meshuggah, the haunted)

 

[illbeleavinnow]

Morningrise, MAYH, and Orchid are far better than Deliverance, better than BWP, and slightly better than Still Life.

EDIT: And you shoudl stop using so many smileys. Lol.

 

[mackhomie]

benighted hehe, then I learned it

 

[Grey-Skies]

I wasn't a fan of "Death Metal" at all. I heard 'Harvest' and loved that, then I moved onto 'The Drapery Falls', then 'Bleak', then I was a fan of all of "Blackwater Park". I've got "Damnation", "Deliverence", "Blackwater Park", and "Still Life". I need to get "My Ams...". I Love it all. Harvest opened the doors to Opeth, and Death Metal. Now I can put away those Yanni CDs.

 

[MightyDrynwhyl]

dirge for november was my first

 

[Opet]

First song was April Ethereal.
I was very impressed.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Moonlapse Vertigo... right when Mike screams after the first melodic verse..... wow that did it for me....

 

[AmirH]

Moonlapse Vertigo... right when Mike screams after the first melodic verse..... wow that did it for me....

My first song was bleak. I stumbled upon it while downloading music in a p2p fileshare program. I actually downloaded it on accident and was going to delete it but decided to give it a listen just to see what the heck it was. At first I didn't think it was anything really special...until the clean vocals came in. The sheer fact that anyone could have such a good voice and such a deep growl was like a new revelation. I went out and bought bwp the following day, which almost made me shit my pants the first listen. It literally made almost my entire metal collection look like complete shit. I thought "what the fuck? how is it even possible that I didn't know about this band?" I haven't stopped listening since.

 

[Mayberry's Finest]

After being told to download some Opeth on a message board I went out and got a 3 min clip from The Apostle in Triumph. I believe it was the part around the 8 min mark where Mike starts the clean clean vocal spot. I really liked what I heard so I went and got the Celtic Frost cover and didn't like it at all. I hated the death vocals. The piano kept my interest and the musicianship was enough to retain my interest. A little while later BWP was released and since I was hearing great things about it I decided that I would one day get it. Months later I finally broke down and bought it. The atonal intro and piano outro of The Leper Affinity and Harvest really grabbed my attention. It took me a few weeks to adjust to the growling vocals but now I'm at the point where I look forward to hearing a well defined growl. I burned my friends copies oF BWP and eventually they got hooked as well. As for the time I first started listening to Opeth I'd have to say...late 2000.