(June 1, 2013 at 6:46 pm)Zarith Wrote: Welcome. Watershed is good, but nothing can top Blackwater Park for me, especially Bleak/Harvest/Drapery Falls. Still Life probably #2, can't pass up Godhead's Lament, The Moor, and Benighted (the song that first inspired me to pick up a guitar and start learning to play it).
Heritage I couldn't listen to more than once unfortunately.
Again, welcome.
Ghost Reveries > BWP for me. I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't hold BWP in QUITE the extreme esteem that everyone else seems to It's close second though, not like I hate it. I didn't particularly enjoy Heritage either. I'm hoping they choose to go the Katatonia route if Mikael is tired of doing harsh vocals.
Also the only reason I used this username is that Heir Apparent was the first Opeth song I'd ever heard, so I consider it my initiation
Brian37 - Sound advice sir. My name is also Brian, so I know you can be trusted.
pop - That is my plan. I've read "The Book" on Greys, that is to say Cynthia Branigan's "Adopting The Racing Greyhound" and I've done a ton of other research so that I'm not unprepared when the time comes.
Thanks to everyone else for the welcomes