WHO REFERRED YOU TO OPETH

[Manbient]

actually i just realized i lied in this thread. It wasn't amazon.com, it was a Century Media compliation, Identity 5. Those compilations actually were one of the most important factors for my interest in extreme metal. I believe i found Katatonia, Opeth, Arch Enemy, Nevermore, The Gathering, Strapping Young Lad, Arcturus, Soilwork, and Cryptopsy from them.

 

[Demilich]

For me it was a web search for bands that sounded like Tool. This was back in 2000 or 2001, before I had any idea what extreme music or metal or any of this stuff was. I might have listened to som Sabbath and Metallica at the time, but that's it as far as heavy goes.

I didn't find bands that sounded like Tool, but I found some pretty good shit!

 

[wwallinga]

An ad in some metal magazine - can't remember which one - maybe Metal Maniacs. Talked about Opeth being the Heaviest Band Ever.

 

[Pethical]

a cd sampler given with metal hammer in 2001

 

[biggsy]

I heard the first (chilled out) half of The Drapery Falls on a free CD from Kerrang and brought the album on the strength of that. I was slightly unprepared for the start of The Leper Affinity!

I can imagine so

 

[Mateo]

An argentinian friend recommended them to me. I downloaded Circle of tirants and Harvest. Two days later i bought Blackwater Park.

¡Gracias Rorschach!

 

[Opeth Leaves]

My cousin sent me Blackwater Park (the song). I fecking hated it (because of the growls), then, about a week later or something he sent me Remember Tomorrow, Harvest and Leper Affinity. I gained some interest in them after I heard the clean vocals. Then after I while, I started liking them more and more.

 

[MixGrafix]

Sounds of the Underground in Detroit 2005. Rest is history

 

[the opeth affinity]

my girlfriend bought me metalhammer mag 3 or 4years ago and BWP was rated 8th (something like that) best metal album, cant remember who reviewed it but he ggave the opinion that i might like it, i downloaded it, loved it and then over a period of a few months bought all there albums.
ahh, to completly rediscover them again would be great

 

[nadavnaz]

A trip to germany with an orchestra. A friend with an ipod, me with nothing.
Though I've never liked metal up to that trip, he showed me opeth, and I kinda liked it. (not the growling at first)

Then when I got to israel I didn't hear of them for like half an year then I rembmered "those brutal doods", and I listened to some songs.

Only after a lot of listening I've trully learned to appreciate opeth not only as "cool metal doods" but as "great music doods!"

 

[nadavnaz]

Interesting, MA was the song that I first liked the death vocals on too. From there they were no problem.

That's weird..
When I started opeth, I was hooked mainly on Wreath, though it isn't one of the most musicly impressing songs to my opinion (still great)
MA seemed to evil to me... I don't know, the riff had somthing PURE EVIL VICOS CRAP in it... I mainly was hooked on wreath.
After about half a year, I listened to some other songs. I just serched opeth on one of those online music places. I heared weakness, and I was intruiged :O how can a band have such brutal vocals and such lovely yet sad melody and singing. After that I just started loving opeth totally. Now ofcourse I love MA. At that time it was to much for me P:

LOVE OPETH! THEY DESERVE IT

 

[Mr. Bland]

Adding to my first post:

I also heard MA and I loved it. It sounded to angry and mad, and I actually could understand (mostly) what Mike was growling, unlike a lot of other growling bands. It was my first heavy Opeth song, and I was hooked after that.

Thanks bro!

 

[biggsy]

...I didn't hear of them for like half an year then I rembmered "those brutal doods"...

"those brutal doods"

it took me a long time to get into wreath. it was probably the last song i liked. i thought wreath was more evil than ma, which is probably more just straight out death metal for the first four minutes or so.

 

[S<issors]

I actually found out about Opeth during an argument. My ex-girlfriend's boyfriend and I were debating death metal versus prog (I had sided with prog...) which lead to some music swapping. He ended up with some Dream Theater, I got some Behemoth, somehow the conversation turned to Mastodon (I liked them and he didn't) and from there to Opeth, who he insisted were great.

I finally ended up picking up Ghost Reveries after another guy told me a bunch of good stuff about the band. I remember disliking it at first- Ghost of Perdition was a harsh introduction to death vocals. But after a second listen I got hooked on Harlequin Forest, and from there I started to like The Grand Conjuration more and more... so, yeah, by the next morning, I owned all of Opeth's studio albums but Morningrise and Orchid, which I picked up about a week later.

It was all pretty weird, in an awesome way.

 

[biggsy]

...by the next morning, I owned all of Opeth's studio albums but Morningrise and Orchid...

thats keen. it probably took me a year to get them all. everytime i bought a new one id think nah i dont need any more music than this for at least another month.

 

[Towedwart]

i thought wreath was more evil than ma, which is probably more just straight out death metal for the first four minutes or so.

My dad heard those first four minutes of MA when he passed by my room once and stopped, came back and said "Woah... you listen to viking music!"

 

[progmetaldan]

My friend knew I loved Dream Theater, and lent me Damnation and Still Life and I was hooked!

 

[nadavnaz]

"those brutal doods"

it took me a long time to get into wreath. it was probably the last song i liked. i thought wreath was more evil than ma, which is probably more just straight out death metal for the first four minutes or so.

Yup like I said, wreath is a "simpler" song, more classicly death metal. I guess that's why at the time I liked it the most. I didn't see the AwEsOmNeSs of the other songs.MA seemed way more "devilish" to me

But when hearin weakness. Man, awesome! Then I started hearing them a lot

Awesome band, I don't know what my life be without them

 

[bleeding hero]

my cousin played Damnation and declared it was by a death metal band named Opeth. at the time i was categorically not a fan of death metal; small wonder why Damnation intrigued me so much. i thought to myself, "if Opeth can play this melodic acoustic stuff, then surely their heavy music must be something?" i ate up Damnation and after a week, my cousin gave me Still Life.

you know when you fall in love with a stunning babe, you lose your virginity to her one night and spend the next two weeks having sex every day coz you can't get enough? Still Life created a similar euphoria for me.

it was like being holed up in a dank cellar, replete with cobwebs, musty newspapers, with nothing to smell but wood and earth, and hidden among the piles of ancient newspapers and pieces of yesteryear you find a bottle of vintage wine, a clean glass, some fresh cheese, and a pack of cigarettes all for you.

music has never been so tasty.

 

[soundave]

I envy bleeding hero's virginity loss to a "stunning babe"...

Anyhow, I've mentioned it in another thread, but I was the humanities department chair at a small private high school, and a guy came in and interviewed for a teaching position. He met with my long time friend, who was the curriculum director, and she being a music nut asked him about what he liked. His answer was progressive metal. She pretty much stopped the interview to get me, so we could meet, since she knew I loved metal. The candidate asked me what I liked, and I said, "Iced Earth," and he kind of laughed. "Oh," I said. "What do you like?" He then told me about Opeth, and called them heavy but beautiful. Sort of a death metal Moody Blues. I checked them out and am glad I did. He didn't get the job, but I'll remember him forever.