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Originally Posted by Doomcifer
lots of Opeth songs are actually names of 70's prog/rock bands.
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Yep! Makes me smile when I first started to listening to them back in 96', and in their interviews, Mikael mentioned a few obscure bands that I, at the time,thought nobody listened to them but me. My band at the time when I joined...our common ground-band wise, was the foundation bands. You know, early Metallica, Maiden, Priest, etc...It took more than a year..then one day, they stopped in mid huff on the bong, and went...whoa! Who's that!? I'd roll my eyes, and say "I've been fucking playing this stuff for quite awhile now, geez!! Half of the band wouldn't bother listening to Opeth, Agalloch, etc. because of the vocals, or listen to Camel, early Genesis, because of the sup-par production, and they assumed that 70's prog (in their stoned, closed minded-ness) was just talking about flowers, and lovers by the lake. "That's folk, you fuck!!"
Our guitarist didn't even know that Rick Wakeman played on a Sabbath record...his favorite band, no less!!