The title track was covered by Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth and featured on their special edition issue of Watershed in 2008.
Opeth wrote and recorded the new track, "The Throat of Winter", which appeared on the digital EP soundtrack of the video game, God of War III.
A picture of the Palladian bridge located in the Prior Park Landscape Garden is used as the cover art for the progressive death metal band Opeth's second album Morningrise.
The group supported the release by touring with groups such as Throwdown, Zao, As I Lay Dying, Lamb of God, Clutch, Opeth, Strapping Young Lad, and took Part in the Ozzfest 2006.
The band have so-far released 2 full length albums and 3 E.P's, and have supported well known international acts such as Mayhem, Arcturus, Suffocation, Nile, Deeds of Flesh, Opeth and Pungent Stench.
Blackstar has several artists using their products, including Opeth, Razorlight, The Donots, Rose Tattoo, Pat Travers and Silenoz of Dimmu Borgir, as well as recently including Gus G of Firewind and Ozzy to their lineup .
They have gained notoriety for their large Facebook campaigns, as well as their irreverent attitude and self-deprecating humour, as evidenced by the group and its fans getting artists from various major groups, including Andrew W.K., DragonForce, Jason Aalon Butler of letlive. and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth (who the band are heavily influenced by) to tell them, in jest, to "fuck off".
This radical departure in style is similar to what Opeth and Steven Wilson did in Heritage and Grace For Drowning respectively, both of which were released in the same year as Orange.
Hadi joined several local bands in Kuwait, discovering bands such as Dream Theater, Symphony X, Meshuggah, & Opeth who have been cited by Hadi as his main influences as a guitar player and songwriter in several interviews.
He started playing drums around 1987 and influences include Scarve, Opeth, Soilwork, Ensiferum, Disarmonia Mundi, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Annihilator, Deathchain, Hate Eternal, Rotten Sound, Rytmihäiriö, Sevendust, and Wintersun.
On May 28, 2010 it was announced that Joel Ekelöf, Martin Lopez (Opeth, Amon Amarth), Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Testament, Sadus) and Kim Platbarzdis had initiated a project called Soen.
In multiple interviews the band has referenced Tool, Isis, Fiona Apple, At the Drive-In, Opeth, Björk, Deftones, DJ Shadow, Nirvana, Meshuggah, Rage Against the Machine, various Trip hop Artists and the film Beyond the Black Rainbow as influences that have had a heavy impact on their sound.
The band themselves have mentioned artists such as Karnivool, Sikth, Opeth, Bjork, Jaga Jazzist, Kaki King and Between the Buried and Me as influencing their sound.