Which year did you start listening to Peth?

[Morningriser]

Either 2001 or 2002. BWP - blew my fucking mind. They totally ruined my adolescent appreciation for Pantera and Slayer though. Probably a good thing.

I still miss Dime though.

 

[demonofthefall6469]

'01, Blackwater Park really got my attention, me being a freshmen in high school at the time, I was a little young to appreciate them sooner, plus that was their first album to get semi-decent US distribution.

 

[Korlich]

'03 BWP

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[Srontgorrth]

Listened for the first time in 2006, starting out with Orchid.

 

[ReverieUnfold]

It was the autumn of '02.
A friend uploaded "The Twilight is My Robe" and "To Bid You Farewell" for me.

@_@

 

[The Wooden Doors]

First heard da' Peth in '06. Friend gave me BWP, first Death Metal band I ever appreciated. As I type I'm enjoying Nattens Madrigal... come aloooong way from '06

 

[Blackwater Demon]

2004 and my first opeth album was MAYH

 

[squatch41]

2002. Been one of my fav bands since.

 

[Shredzilla]

Nobody can resist the pull of the crystal Peth.

I tell you, man!

 

[Carta's]

I started listening to them in 2006, Black Rose Immortal was the song that got me hooked.

 

[Obtuse]

Wow, if it was BRI that got you into Opeth, you win. Game over.

 

[Spydaman_69_2001]

I think it was 2003.

 

[NobodyImportant]

I just started listening to Opeth last autumn. I had heard some of their stuff before, but as one who was never too keen on growls, I couldn't get past the vocals. An internet friend had even made me a mix CD of a few Opeth songs a couple years ago, but I just couldn't quite get into them.

Now, which album did it for me? Surprisingly, it was Ayreon's "The Human Equation," which I bought late last summer. I liked Mikael's vocals on it, even the growl or two on it seemed to fit well, so I began to get a feel for some growling. Then I pulled out that Opeth mix CD again, and this time around it began to sink in for me. So, I ordered "Ghost Reveries" (special edition), "Deliverance" and "Damnation" from BMG Music Club, then I ordered "Blackwater Park" (special edition) from Amazon, and I was hooked. I later picked up used copies of "Still Life," "My Arms, Your Hearse" and "Orchid," and then a new but extremely dirt-cheap copy of "The Roundhouse Tapes" from an Amazon Marketplace vendor. Then I preordered both the "Still Life" reissue and "Watershed" (special edition) from Amazon when they were coming out.

I still need to get "Morningrise" and the DVD, but I plan to have those fairly soon.

At any rate, I now like most of their stuff, but I must say that this new "Watershed" is extremely tasty. As a whole, it's probably my favorite album of theirs. Very good stuff!

 

[gumtree]

Found them by chance late 03 when I heard The Drapery Falls on a compilation cd lent to me by a friend. Never looked back.

 

[Blue Moon]

1997 with "Nectar" being the last song on the legendary Firestarter compilation (Century Black). I was a big fan of progrock and really liked their take on music.

 

[L0bster]

Started to listen in 2002, to BWP and MAYH.
When deliverance hit the shelfs (not long therafter) I remember being prepared to get dissapointed, but the opposite happened, I was blown away. Since then I havent found any reason to doubt this band.

 

[Jackehh]

2003
I saw the video for Windowpane on Uranium.
I went out and bought the cd and was completely blown away, but I was expecting some metal on the disc also.
So then I bought Deliverance and was officially hooked.

hah, I remember some guy on youtube that had commented on the lamentations "In my time of need"

-I thought opeth was Metal?

EDIT (read: he edited his post): oh nvm, I just heard master's apprentices

Must have been quite a shock

Anyway 2002 for me, Heard deliverance song and right after that I got MAYH from my brother.

Funny though, I didn't listen very intensively to opeth back then, I was very young and mostly into melodic death like old in flames and children of badoom and shortly after; black metal.

I think it took me at least 2 years to fully realize what a brilliant band it was, when I actually bought the deliverance album.

 

[Hedon-]

it took me 2 minutes to realize how brilliant opeth is

 

[wwallinga]

it took me 2 minutes to realize how brilliant opeth is

This was definitely not the case for me. I found out about them in a magazine advertisement that referred to them as "the heaviest band ever" or something similarly hyperbolic. I thought I'd better check them out. So, I went down to the local cd shop and bought Blackwater Park. Upon putting it into my CD player, I was immediately turned off by the growling vocals. I tried listening to it a few times, but it eventually ended up on the shelf for a few weeks.

Eventually, I gave it a second chance. The mix of death metal with acoustic was too intriguing to ignore and I just kept listening. In August of 2003, I went on a 2 week camping trip with my wife and daughter, bringing with me a few CDs. I listened to Blackwater park for pretty much the entire vacation.
The rest is history.

 

[LeeFH]

2005. I just freshly registered to Last.fm, so i thought i'd check out it's radio feature. I put in the "death metal" tag, and after all those generic death metal song Godhead's Lament came. Was a bit weird at first with all those passages and aaaahs and acoustics. Then a few days later the melody of "Thought I could not leave this place on this imminent day..." just popped into my head. after a while i realised it was Opeth, got Still Life, and fell in love instantly with the band. it was 3 years ago but the feelings i get from that album are still unchanged.
thank you Opeth!!