how did you get to know opeth?

[terrymx]

my friend send me face of menlinda, the first listen i like it alot. i check out their songs, it's teh first time i listen to growling vocals, it bother me alittle, but i didn't feel it satanic or wierd or anything. so basicly i keep listening to them ocassionaly unitl 3 month later i got use to it and start getting into european stuff. ok so that was kinda boring, but i remember how fun it was listening to opeth everyday all time. i don't think i can sit down and listen to a 14minutes song anymore. too lazy

 

[Jayde]

Strangely, I owe it all to Pieguy and those guys. they talked about them, so I went and bought the only one I could find in town, BlackWater Park.

 

[MetalManCPA]

Heard Bleak on AT&T Digital Cable's metal station

 

[blakmetalemp]

About two years ago my friend let me listen to Still Life, I didnt get into them at first but a couple months went by and I was hooked.

 

[Gandalf]

it all started with a zip drive that i gave to my friend so that he could give me some MP3 files. Out of the whole bunch, there were 2 of them that just read "December Flower" and "Behind Space 99". I give them a play, and I love them. I noticed that on the ID3 tag the band name read "In Flames". So I checked em out on napster, and thanks to them, i got into death metal. Now the nice thing about Death Metal is that if you discover one band, its a domino effect, and then you start hearing other band names like Children of Bodom, Dark Tranquility, and hence, Opeth. Decided to download a couple of their songs, and there is how i discovered Opeth. God bless In Flames, and the Zip Drive.

 

[Brutalizer]

My friend introduced them to me!
And i am fucking glad for that!

 

[Slayed Necros]

I had read alot of good things about them on Amazon.com...Then one brilliant day I saw Blackwater Park in the store and brought it immediately,without even listening to it first...I had heard Demon of the Fall a few months beforehand...But it was extremely bad quality..

 

[~Zeanra~]

One of my friends non-stop babbled about them, I had enough of it and went to buy Morningrise from the local record store And I am forever thankful to him
I too first didn't like what I heard, 'cause it was so new to me, I had never heard anything like that, but when I listened Morningrise over and over again, I fell in love with it

 

[DracWell]

hm. the night 'tween 2000-01-01 - 2000-01-02 still life was spinning on repeat on a stereo in a room where I lied and cuddled with a girl =) Her fault! It actually has a sentimental vallue to since she's one of three ppl I've been in love with.

 

[loudsilence]

Well I have kind of an interesting story of how I first got into Opeth. Basically I was in a music store and was looking around and I see this CD that looks gloomy and dark. It's the Morningrise CD by Opeth. I say to myself...the cover looks really cool and I decided to buy it. The rest is history. So I guess I got into Opeth because I liked the cover of the CD so much.

 

[bleedingskeptic]

my friend got me into opeth, he burned me blackwater park. i didn't listen to a lot of music with growls before that, but now i've grown to like growls, thanks to opeth.

 

[Spotted Owl]

i accidently downloaded When and Demon of the fall mp3s...i don;'t remember how i got them, but i loved it so much i decided to listen to their CD in the cd store and bought it (BWP that is, it was the only one they had) then one by one i bought the others too, i had to search a bit in online shops, couldnt find them in local shops...ending with Morningrise

Originally posted by bleedingskeptic
but now i've grown to like growls, thanks to opeth.

yea me too, before, i used to think that "it takes no skill", as opposed to normal singing......i still think it takes less skill, but i can appreciate it now, when done right (Mikael for example...and i like Ihsahn from emperor's growl-ish voice on prometheus)

(tho i wish that singer from inflames would stfu more often - worst growl i heard so far)

 

[Scytheman]

Heard a song (Forest of October) on a magazine sampler back in the summer of 95 and I was hooked...been madly in love with their music ever since...

 

[_Transparent_]

Jebus guided me and made me listen to Opeth. thank Jebus, thankyou lord.

 

[Blue Moon]

Greetings.

I discovered Opeth through the song "Nectar", wich appeared on a Century Media compilation Cd called Firestarter. It was one very good cd, with Arcturus, Borknagar, Tiamat, Ulver, Einhejer, and lots more. (18 songs)

 

[Duvall]

Although we've all said these innumerable times before.. I feel drawn.

I read about Opeth on the Candlelight records website (I was trying in vain to get someone to convert the Peccatum .aiff files into a PC format at the time..) The description was all but raving about them.. so when I saw MAYH in a St. Louis record store, I gave it a cursory listen. I purchased it and never looked back.

Prior to that, I'd fallen away from most non-metal music, and I'm glad that Opeth sort-of rebroadened my horizons.

Thank you, Opeth!

(and Jebus)

 

[Cutter]

hmm...old thread but here go's.

A friend played Orchid to me a long time ago...Under the Weeping Moon in fact. Was hooked. It was definately the best music, let alone metal I'd ever heard.

 

[Fjelltussa]

Quite accidentally, actually! One of the best accidents that ever happened to me...

 

[ledmag]

After a few recomendations, I got their cd's.

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

I guess it's the same for alot of people. Reccomendations and then accidents.