it's not how long you have been into that matter, but how much you devote to the music and how it help you. umm....... september 2000 actually.
martin brandstrom is online again, seem to be busy though.
Let me just add, I love Orchid! I am listening to that album so much now, it's just grabbed me, it literally jumped off my shelf and into my CD player (not really, but it might as well!)
I got into Opeth last December after purchasing Orchid. I had read so much about them on the Net and in various magazines, that I just had to see what all the fuss was about. Like many fans do, I ended up purchasing their entire catalogue that same week, and have been entranced ever since.
Welcome Klschmann, enjoy your stay, we have kind of exhausted all the Opeth related threads, but with new members joining they get repeated a lot with new people replying. I have come to enjoy the pointless topics more than anything though
My long and rather intimate relationship with Satan has resulted in a couple of strange mental gifts, one of them being an ability to FEEL when Black Heart is doing something interesting. So in October 2000, I sensed that BH was listening to Opeth and I just HAD to download a few MP3s to see if I liked the music...and that's how it started!
(...well, to be honest, it MIGHT have been a coincidence too...)
Actually I take that back! I forgot that I heard Opeth
for the first time when "Still Life" was released,
but I didn't get into Opeth until a while later....
In april/may 2000 maybe? Can't really remember! >P