"So much" like what? Tell all of us poor misguided souls who obviously have missed how amazingly influential and outstandingly different Opeth are to a billion other metal bands out there.
And like I said, my taste is rock and metal, so I don't have an overly extensive interest in strictly metal bands, but I like enough who I feel are a hell of a lot better than Opeth. It's not so much metalcore as the classic heavy metal bands (Black Sabbath), alt metal, nu metal, etc, so bands such as: SOAD, Lostprophets (not so much their later stuff, but their very first album was a lot heavier), Flyleaf, Motorhead, Enslaved, Black Dahlia Murders, Machine Head, Children of Bodem, NIN, Venom, Dream Theater... I do really like Trivium now, although I never used to, but they're an example of a band (like I previously mentioned) who have a lead singer who has a lot of charisma, knows how to work a crowd and keep a show interesting, even to somebody who had never cared for their music beforehand, so I was impressed with them for that reason, and hats off to them.
Plus a whole load of hard rock bands which I really don't class as heavy enough to be metal, although others disagree: bands like Papa Roach, Seether and Linkin Park. Motley Crue and Alice Cooper I love.
I basically like anything from a band that has or does something different, makes me feel emotion - any emotion - with each song, or sounds distinctive to all the other hundreds and thousands of bands out there, and say what you want but Opeth just doesn't excite me. At all. I feel no connection to the lyrics of their songs, the guys voice grates me and the instruments just grind on. I feel nothing when listening to their music, and that's not what music is about for me, and believe me I have tried to listen to them. I wouldn't feel right to argue my case unless I'd actually made a point of listening to them at some time. They just plain and simply bore me. If you can sit and listen to music with very little originality, then good for you, but I can go and find dozens of local unsigned bands that sound just the same, they do not stand out as a band that are special or who will be remembered twenty or thirty years from now.
Oh, and on a separate point, just because somebody doesn't agree with you doesn't make them wrong, or doesn't mean they don't "understand" what they are talking about and you are an incredibly small minded, patronising creature who thinks his OPINION is fact, judging by the way you have spoke not only on this thread but on various others to people who dare disagree with the all-knowing, all-powerful forkboy. Also, the fact that you obviously draw conclusions on little or no evidence just makes you look pompous and quite stupid, if I'm honest, and there is no logical talking to, or reasoning with, people like you because you are simply ignorant. Perhaps it's time to grow up, realise that your opinion is just that - an opinion - and is no different or more valid than anybody elses. And while you're doing that, please take care to take your head out of your ass, if it'll fit back out.
Thank you.
Oh, and PS. if you have anything to say which may change my mind and retract any of the above, then I will, but I don't think you will succeed.
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