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It was a firm belief of mine that Led Zeppelin would probably be my favorite band until hair grew abundantly from my ears. I did not stop to ponder what a momentous day it was when my best friend sent me “In My Time of Need” By Opeth, from their Damnation album. I was surprised to find that the song sounded heavily influenced by pink floyd, and maybe even cut from the 70’s itself. My friend told me they played music mixed from 70’s style rock and current death metal.
After listening to only In My Time of Need during the fall months of highschool. I began to transition into some of their other music. It was then I discovered just how diverse Opeth was, after listening to the soft, melodic Harvest, the heavy, fast paced In Mist She was standing and a mixture of the two in A Fair Judgement, Even my parents became fans. (Though they didn’t care for their heavy stuff so much)
It was then my dad found the song Burden. Wow, this song moved my soul, Akerfeldts voice really reached a new level with this song. A song which is in my opinion, stairway to heaven worthy (Stairway has been one of my favorite songs for ages) The power, and emotion in Akerfeldts voice just blew me away.
Finally, Opeth is so much to who I am. Opeth truly moves my soul, their writing paints a captivating image within my mind and encompasses my soul in a celestial garden. They place my mind into a world where I can see everything so clearly and unblemished. It is a dream environment for me to write within. (Ever since I got serious into Opeth, My novel progressed from page 64 to 405 in only a year.)
After staying with their clean songs for about a year, I finally began to branch off into their heavier music. I downloaded their ghost reveries album on my seventeenth birthday, and "Ghost of Perdition" quickly became one of my favorite songs. I do not believe I have ever heard a song so brutally vigorous yet astonishingly beautiful at the same time. ( I then heard "Bleak" for the first time about a month later, and found that it too achieved this phenomenal feat.)
3,500 last.fm scrobbles later, Opeth is still by far my favorite band, I'm now refocusing on the heavier portions of their watershed album while revisiting Damnation. I do not know if I shall ever know another band so diverse, so daring, so wicked yet beautiful, and completely remarkable at all that they attempt.
I highly recommend this band for anyone who has any kind of a taste in music.
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