Originally Posted by Seltzer

Well the number of people crying can be attributed to a high number of fans - it's not that they're particularly bad, but just that there are more of them to defend the band I guess. I can imagine the same reaction for many bands.

Having said that, it's not just Opeth fans who would defend them - it's the fans of all prog bands. I can understand why fans of prog bands might feel incensed when people deride them. Prog isn't particularly mainstream, therefore when a prog band does become mainstream, many people who hate prog are going to hear it and be incapable of being listening to it fairly and understanding it due to lack of prog understanding. This is the case with Opeth. Their popularity ensures that most metalheads are going to hear them, regardless of whether they like prog or not. Many will find them boring simply because it's prog, then there will some elitists who hate them for their record label or popularity, and then there will be some who genuinely just don't like them.

I would say that the lack of talk isn't that fans have forgotten about them because they haven't, but more the fact that it's a while since Ghost Reveries was released as well as the Grand Conjuration single.

So while fans are still there, there are fewer elitist haters bitching about them and starting up antagonising threads because they've forgotten about them.