Your first Opeth experience?

[GoufCustom]

What was your first Opeth experience?

When I first heard Opeth, I thought they were this alternative extreme grind-ish band. Albeit, at that time I didn't know what the hell was Death-Metal. Anyway, I got BWP and I've been hooked ever since...

 

[changso]

Blackwater Park got me into them...
I loved the mellow parts...I hated the heavy parts, pretty obvicious since I was alot into Rhapsody.

 

[DEEK]

i found Blackwater Park at a used store back in January. I heard they were good, so i thought i'd get the album. i didn't even hear a single second of their music before. basically, after The Leper Affinity finished, i was hooked! and i LOVED Bleak and The Drapery Falls (i still do)

 

[jester00]

i downloaded the twighlight is my robe simply because it sounded so weird

 

[elm lateral]

Did a random buying spree, and bought MAYH. Never looked back since.

 

[Katatonic]

heheh... i think that this subject has been discussed before, with the same name too..

i downloaded "to bid you farewell", and then went "FUCK"

 

[Alex78]

I bought Still Life in 1999 but didn't like it because of the growls. Then it collected a lot of dust until I gave it another try over one year later, and then another one and another one....and then bought the other 4!

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

Some guy on the Metallica Message Board recommended Opeth and said "they make Metallica look like poison".

I downloaded Under The Weeping Moon. I was blown away, since it had all I ever looked for in my music: Epic length, great atmosphere, acoustics and what not... I even liked the growls, which had never been the case before (okay; I had only heard that guy from At The Gates and some other screaming BS before).

I d/led some other songs and decided to get all Opeth albums.
First I only found Still Life and Blackwater Park, then I ordered the rest via Disczone (it took them six weeks to deliver!).

That's it.

 

[poldarn]

Heard 'The Drapery Falls' on some cd that was bundled with a metalmagazine. Bought BWP same month.

 

[Northern Lights]

BWP was the first album I got... I wasn't much into the growls at first, but it grew on me... now I just love it! Because the way the muisc and vocals fit together and just how... well done and fuckin brilliant it all is... it was just exactly what I had been looking for, I just didn't know it.

 

[Bleakest Harvest]

Originally posted by poldarn
Heard 'The Drapery Falls' on some cd that was bundled with a metalmagazine. Bought BWP same month.

Thats the exact same as how I found out about them, and the magazine was Kerrap!

 

[poptartofdeath]

I was joining up with a local band and after the audition and I was a full member we talked about covers and they wanted me to learn Face of Melinda. That was my first opeth experience and learning that whole song was a bitch. I never gave them thier still life cd back muhaha.

 

[Sóti]

i d/l "black rose immortal"

 

[GoufCustom]

Originally posted by Katatonic289
heheh... i think that this subject has been discussed before, with the same name too..

i downloaded "to bid you farewell", and then went "FUCK"

If this thread has already been discussed then I apologize. I am relatively new to this board.

 

[Board]

I also remember commenting this before. I bought a Swedish magazine called Close Up in the summer of 1996 because it had an interview with Type O Negative. It also had a cd and "Nectar" was on it. I liked it very much, but stopped listening to metal around a half year later, so I never got my hands on "Morningrise". I started listening to metal again a couple of years ago. When "Blackwater park" came out I bought the LP right away and have since then bought all the other vinyl versions (though I'm still waiting for "Still life". Don't know what the fuck is going on!).

 

[GoufCustom]

It seems that Still Life is the hardest Opeth Cd to find. Or at least to me...

 

[Nico16]

well, in 1999 I heard that My Dying Bride were huge Opeth fans and vice versa, so I bought Still Life when it came out in autumn of that year. I loved it...but it took me a year until I bought the other 4 albums - that was when the re-leases came out.

 

[Duvall]

I bought MAYH in a store in St. Louis, MO while on vacation with my family. I'd seen it on the Candlelight website, which bigged Opeth up quite a bit. Gave it a quick listen and liked it enough to take it home ($10.99 USD ). That night, I gave it a thorough listen and have never looked back.

Don't know if I'll ever stop liking Opeth.. (but I've said that before - though 'tis a shame.)

 

[IcemanJ256]

my very very first opeth 'experience' was when TheLedTool here told me to download "patterns in the ivy" about 11 months ago. He told me it was a death metal band, and I listened to it and thought it was nothing special at all. I listened to it a few times and thought it was pretty cool for a short little instrumental, so I tried to download 'to bid you farewell' - I can vaugely remember trying to look for it on the old version of winMX. It took me like 2 weeks to download it, like 10% of the song every few days. then i downloaded Harvest. (didnt like any metal at the time) and I read so many good reviews on amazon.com, I decided to get morningrise first, then bwp the next month. then blah blah blah.

 

[Staffan]

Originally posted by Fifth_Horseman
Epic length, great atmosphere, acoustics and what not... I even liked the growls, which had never been the case before

Exactly the same for me