Wysefool said:

Thanks Harbinger, 5 shrooms to you.

I probably just have to get used to the singer. It seems to me like with growly vocals you have to get used to the individual singer before you can understand the lyrics properly. It's like you need a cookie monster -> english translator.

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That's what I did. I only liked their mellow stuff at first, I just didn't care for the vocals at all. I'm not really even sure how it happened, but I just got used to them, and in Opeth's case, really enjoyed them. After that, I started listening to metal.

It just seems to me that in alot of people's case the reason they don't like metal is the vocals. This is understandable of course, but once you get past them, you discover what you've been missing.

The thing that's great about Opeth is that Mike Akerfeldt (the singer) has a death metal voice, but is still (for the most part) understandable. Alot of metal bands have vocalist that are very hard to understand and in some cases fucking impossible. This doesn't bother me though as vocals are usually the last part of a song I pay attention to (definitely not ignored though)  but I just think Akerfeldt has one of the best death metal voices in the genre and not to mention a great clean voice.



Thanks for the shrooms BTW