The Swedish Gods of Metal: Opeth

Opeth is the only progmetal band that I like. Saw them once live, it was great gig! I am glad they don´t do growl vocals anymore. Their latest album has grown with more listening, my favourite still is Damnation, Sorceress come also close.

The Swedish metal gods are Entombed

Anyways...love me some Orchid. Funny how that goes. Most on here jumped on the bandwagon, when Opeth started to incorporate prog into the mix...even more so when they ditched the growls, yet that was the point I lost interest in the band.
But yeah that debut of theirs is just brilliant. I still spin it from time to time to clear out the old sinuses

I love Opeth. Saw them live when they came down here. I was heartbroken they didn't play Blackwater Park.

Becoming one of my favorite bands...


Guess who is buying a ticket to see them live tomorrow :)

Love al eras of Opeth, ICV is one of their best albums

My copy of Still Life on vinyl came yesterday and it sounds incredible, ghost reveries should be here tomorrow!

Opeth have always been strange experience to me, love Orchid there is something very fresh about that album and I re-listen from time to time, but never got too much into the next 7 albums, ok’ish for a heavy playlist but did not really get me boiling as albums.

Then came Watershed and I was hooked again for a while, but was very indifferent towards Heritage and Pale Communion , albums I found to be for the most part uninteresting (just as Wilson solo albums often was to me) to the point where I never bothered with Sorceress and to this day haven’t heard. Then did check out In Cauda Venenum and liked it, in my opinion some of the worst prog cliché is now gone and we are getting what to me is a better more clean rock output with its own unique thing – yet far from the Metal animal Opeth once was.   

Ghost Reveries came in the mail and I gotta say, its one of my favorite albums ever made, leaving a review sunday :D

The Swedish gods of metal are obviously Meshuggah.  However, Opeth takes a close 2nd.  :)

It will surprise you to know that in Sweden Opeth aren't even close to being considered the Swedish Gods of Metal. Swedish metalheads gave up on them many years ago. Unlike most countries Sweden has dozens of great metal bands of all genres in the first division, there isn't one metal band that Swedes consider to be above all others. The old school Holy Trinity here is still considered to be Candlemass, Bathory and Entombed. But nowadays, the top five would be Mesuggah, At the Gates, In Flames, Amon Amarth and Sabaton. Not to mention all the great new retro, doom, fuzz,drone,stoner bands that are now rising quickly in these post-Hipster years.