The "Opeth" Experience

For something that started off really easy and calm, with the album Damnation, I was completely not aware of the 'real' Opeth sound at first.

Damnation was part of a 2 album release in 2003 of which the other, Deliverance, I have yet to check out. Damnation is a really calm, non-grunts album which spews tranquility and easy-listening mellow darkness around, but without the sound in it that would shake me at a later stage.

Damnation has grown on me as it's such an easy listening CD, that you can almost have it playing the entire day without it getting boring or annoying.
So at one point my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to take a leap into the undiscovered metal kind of Opeth, which later turned out I liked even better...

Watershed brought along some of my favorite songs, like Heir Apparent, Lotus Eater, Porcelain Heart, Burden, Hessian Peel... Hell this entire album is a favorite of mine... And with a new album that is in the making I am really curious about what the new release will bring. According to sources Opeth front man Åkerfeldt is writing new stuff...

To be continued...

In the beginning....

In the begin stages of my metalheadness it started off with the older metal courtesy of my sweet boyfriend, to ease into it if you will. Basic influences were Metallica and Iron Maiden. With each passing year I sunk deeper and deeper into the metal pool and became more and more a metal head at heart. At some point with Within Temptation I got into buying myself a Goth metal compilation CD which led me to Nightwish.

The portal Nightwish and goth metal then led me to look into Lacuna Coil amongst other things, Epica, and then on into the more tough stuff later on, a place I lingered at for quite some time before being exposed to tougher stuff less than a year ago.

One of my brushes with tougher stuff was when I came across Slipknot and a personal all time favorite, Opeth. And from there darker and tougher it went... ^^

Here in the continuation of this little blog you will find posts about bands / CD's / concerts that I liked and that I want to share. Beware that the contents will constantly vary between the 'easy listening' stuff and the hard-to-reach depths of darkness within black metal.