Originally Posted by saut

I don't know how Opeth got brought up in this thread, but if you weren't very impressed, I urge you to give them another chance. I got into Opeth through Tool (well, a Tool messageboard at least), and I was just about the biggest Tool fan in the world at the time, thinking that no one could possibly make better music. At first I was really put off by Opeth, the growled vocals especially... but after discovering their brilliant mellow side, everything just sort of clicked, and now I'm a gigantic, rabid Opeth fan. I went from listening to nothing but Tool all day, every day to listening to Opeth all day, every day in just a couple of weeks.

Both bands are great, though... they just have some magical x-factor in their music.