Stoner Sioux said:
Too many good guitar parts, too long of songs. Not that I'm complaining. Sometimes I'll be listening to a metal channel on the net or on satellite and an Opeth song will be on and it takes me a few minutes to figure out which one it is, cuz they kinda sound alike.
When I was new to Opeth, and heard my brother listening to them quite often (and playing along with his bass), I honestly thought all the songs sounded the same, since he only had BWP and Deliverance at the time. I also couldn't stand the harsh vocals.
My brother then downloaded "The Moor", and told me to listen to it more than once, to let it sink in. It became my favorite song and I was compelled to buy Still Life, which was one of the greatest music purchases I've ever made, I'd say.
By the way, I had also realized after that the songs only "sounded the same" to me because, well, they were the same few songs over and over again. At the time I didn't know their songs were so long and diverse, so I would think different parts of the same song were 2 different, yet similar sounding songs. Boy was I wrong. I also got used to the harsh vocals quite quickly, and I loved how they interplayed with the clean vocals throughout the songs.
Long story short, my brother and I have the whole Opeth catalogue now, and like I said, I don't think I've ever been happier with a band. Hell, I'm even trying to get my parents to like them. Both really like Damnation, but my dad's trying to deal with the death vocals on most of the albums, which he's not used to. I have hope though, He's an original sabbath, zeppelin, king crimson, and pink floyd fan, and he does like Opeth's music alot, just has trouble with the vocals. Oh well, he'll learn someday.
Sorry for being so boring, just felt like telling everyone that haha.