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Originally Posted by Jadedfox
I'd dive right into Still Life then. Damnation is very very good, but to get a real feel for the band, I'd choose something else. I hate it when people hear Damnation first and then expect Opeth to sound just like that on other albums. Then they check out Still Life or My Arms, Your Hearse and go what the hell is this?
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Yeah, I think that Still Life is an excellent repesentation of the Opeth sound as a whole -- lots of heaviness, lots of acoustic and or melodic bits, lots of growling, lots of great clean singing, and lots of kickass guitar action all over the place. Plus, you can't go wrong with the folk section in Godhead's Lament or the intro to Moonlapse Vertigo. Yeah, go for Still Life along with Damntion (which you should enjoy being a prog fan -- that's how I got into Opeth).