opeth

[kahljorn]

How can a band be over-rated if they are good? You mean they are over-listened to or something?

I always liked their acoustic stuff, although some of their heavy stuff is alright.

[Dixie]

Being good and overrated is very common. Opeth are good but there are other bands way more deserving of the praise Opeth gets. It's kind of like how I feel about old Metallica now, I still like old Metallica but they're talked about so much that I don't even want to hear them anymore. Overhyped to me.

[Ninjavenom]

Opeth are the epitome of overrated. They're very low on the totem pole of metal, so when someone new to metal hears them, they completely shit their pants and go nuts praising them when, in fact, there are tons more bands out there doing something similar and/or better. Woods of Ypres, for example, have been doing what Opeth have for almost as long, and they've been doing it better by radically altering their song structure and sound on every new album, whereas Opeth have pretty much kept to the same formula their entire career.