Your Favorite Opeth Album?
Original post
Posted by Dane Train, 20.06.2007 - 23:51
I'll go first. Blackwater Park is my pick. Is it their best work? Not sure, but it is the one I fell in love with first. A seamless blending of Swedish Death Metal and 70's Progressive Rock helped to create some very memorable Progressive Metal songs. I also think this is the first album where Mikael Åkerfeldt really began to shine as a vocalist and took the band in a new direction. This album also contains my favorite Opeth song, "The Drapery Falls" as well as other top songs like "Bleak" and "Harvest". Every song is well crafted and can stand on its own.
Poll
Your favorite from Sweden's prime Progressive Death Metal band.
Blackwater Park
144
Still Life
72
Ghost Reveries
58
Morningrise
48
Damnation
34
My Arms, Your Hearse
32
Deliverance
26
Orchid
19
Total votes: 433
| Daniel Posts: 166  |
Written by Wintermute on 23.03.2008 at 13:13 Yeah... You would. NOOB! ILY RILEY
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| Ka Tet Posts: 37  |
Blackwater Park was my first Opeth album & while I liked it a lot it wasn't until I heard the song Deliverance that I started to go buy up everything I could. Something about that song really got me. The middle part with the steady drums and the almost haunting vocals that breaks into the subtle acoustic chorus. Every time I heard it, it stayed with me all day. Then I bought Damnation and my choice was made for me. That album is on my top 10 of all time and even though it lacks the heaviness of any other Opeth album it will always be my favorite. The amazing ear catching riff in Closure caused me to immediately pick up my guitar and wheedle my way through it. I love the halting lyrics in In My Time Of Need. I think I like every Opeth song I've heard (which is rare for me as bands usually have a few songs I don't really like, even my favorites). I can listen to them all day long, but if I had to pick only one that would be Damnation.
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| Metal_Militia Posts: 330  |
//Still Life is my favorite Opeth album. I love every song, and i can just put it in my cd player and listen to it straight through in one sitting. Great album top to bottom. There is a great mix between vocal ranges in that album. Face Of melinda comes on and the intro is so soft and melodic with come great clean vocals. Then the next song is Serenity Painted Death , which is a kick ass dark melodic tune with lots of agression. Not to mention other sweet tunes like the moor, benighted, and godheads lament! I know i asked this question on another topic but no one responded...Are there any clean vocals on the album Orchid besides the very end of under the weeping moon? I own the album and have given it a couple listens, but the thoughts escaped me  //
---- "When night falls she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness. A chill rises from the soil and contaminates the air suddenly... life has new meaning" 
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| TheBigRossowski Posts: 1357  |
I started with My Arms, Your Hearse and that has always been the most influential one for me! Every track except for "Credence", that has to be the worst soft song they've written. Beyond that I could not say a favorite song besides the classic "Demon of the Fall". Even their "Circle of Tyrants" cover from Celtic Frost was badass! After that, I'd make my order like this: Blackwater Park Still Life Orchid Deliverance Morningrise Ghost Reveries ..and its unfair to add Damnation to the mix, so I won't, but that's an enjoyable album!
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| Freezer Posts: 203  |
I voted for Blackwater Park, a bit after come Still Life and Morningrise
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| TheBigRossowski Posts: 1357 |
Someone had a question about any clear vocals in Orchid in the other Opeth thread and once I replied about "Under a Weeping Moon" I had to listen to Orchid. What a great album! I think Opeth is pulling in a lot of fans these days, but none of them care at all about the old shit. That or they easily dismiss it. I met a girl once who said she liked Opeth, but only "that one soft album". Better than nothing I guess. I also had to edit my statement because I wrote KARMA is one of their worst soft songs, but I meant Credence. Karma is a great song!
---- That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
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| Ka Tet Posts: 37 |
Written by TheBigRossowski on 25.05.2008 at 22:17 I've turned a lot of people on to Opeth by getting them to listen to Damnation. These are people who are turned off by death metal vocals, but then I get them to listen to more Opeth and they start to appreciate them more. Opeth is like the gateway drug to death metal.
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| HugeTheConqeror Posts: 148  |
Ghost Reveries is by far my favorite. So many outside influences are apparent listening to this album, from Jazz, to Pink Floyd-style prog. What really stands out to me on this one though is the heavy influence that Deep Purple has had on the songwriting. The organ at the beginning of "The Baying of the Hounds" is pure John Lords.
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| Metal_Militia Posts: 330 |
Written by TheBigRossowski on 25.05.2008 at 22:17 //Just to clarify something, im a big opeth fan! I own all their albums and have given them all listens, Just not Orchid in a while so that prompted the question. I started listening to them about 3 years ago and love their old stuff too//
---- "When night falls she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness. A chill rises from the soil and contaminates the air suddenly... life has new meaning"
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| TheBigRossowski Posts: 1357 |
Written by Metal_Militia on 26.05.2008 at 06:01 NO! I wasn't talking about you. Not saying anything about that, I just meant it was a good post that got me to listen to a classic album again! Well, the last time I listened to Orchid wasn't THAT long ago (late April I think), but I needed another listen. I was referring to people back home. When I was in High School Damnation had just come out. It was a small school (75 people in my grade) and most of them were "country" people. No one liked Opeth when I tried to talk about it. I was ONE of the first metalheads there which is weird, but it was a new High School. Anyways, years later when I went to Texas to visit, I saw this old friend and she asked me if I had listened to "Ghost Reveries". It was cool, but at the same time, I thought "just what the fuck were you thinking about 2 years ago!"
---- That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
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| Metal_Militia Posts: 330 |
Written by TheBigRossowski on 26.05.2008 at 11:39 //Oh ok man man lol. My bad. Well yeah that situation kinda sucks, I hate that when you are the first to really grab a hold of something and are there when it begins, then next thing you know, other people are listening to the same things thinking it cool. Then you think to yourself, yeah, well i was telling everyone about this 2 or 3 years ago, what the hell? Same problems...pathetic  //
---- "When night falls she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness. A chill rises from the soil and contaminates the air suddenly... life has new meaning"
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| Varegan Hamranakara Posts: 912  |
I vote for Blackwater Park, but currently Im listening to watershed
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| Visioneerie Urban Monster Posts: 810  |
This is certainly a decision that takes some thinking, Opeth being a band that could keep on releasing consistent and fresh albums. I would have to go with My Arms, Your Hearse though, i think the songs on that album are Opeth's highest point, memorable acoustic passages, good heavy chord progressions, just the overall feel of the record.
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| Passenger Lost To Apathy Posts: 1464  |
This may sound premature yet, but I've been following Opeth since Blackwater Park, and I really think they've topped themselves with Watershed, and have just released their best album. Watershed is just unbelievable.
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| Elio Red Nightmare Posts: 4920  |
orchid...the most impressive debut album ever (considering the debut albums that i know  ) love all the songs from it especially the twilight is my robe...the other two on the podium are still life and blackwater park...
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| Memento Mori Mr. Nobody Posts: 56  |
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435  |
Written by [user id=29237] on 25.06.2008 at 00:32 Agree 100%. To be honest I don't think Blackwater will even be beaten.. at least not in a near future.
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
My Arms, Your Hearse. Blackwater Park will have to work more to beat that Blackwater Park was never my favourite, but I guess it is generally their favourite album. I still think Orchid and Still Life are better than Blackwater, needless to say MAYH is as well.
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| Candlemass Defaeco Posts: 828  |
My Arms, Your Hearse By far.
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| -Soulreaper- Posts: 435  |
Had to go with Blackwater Park because it was the first Opeth album I listened to and it just blew me away. Although, there isnt one of there albums that I dont like. Each is wonderfully ingenious in its own way.
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| Oskmrgo83 Oskmrgo83 Posts: 226  |
I voted for "Ghost Reveries". I think it's a gerat, strange, complete album for metal legacy.
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| sq_xeper Posts: 212  |
My arms your hearse, although the first 5 records are flawless but that one its perfect
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| BlackWaterLily Posts: 4  |
I voted for Blackwater Park. One of my fav albums ever, it's absolutely brilliant. After that I'd probably pick Still Life, Morningrise, and My Arms. I also like the new album Watershed
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| Bard_skald Posts: 2 |
Too difficult to choose one, but I consider Still Life the best Opeth's album so far followed by Blackwater Park and Morningrise...the order can change though. For instance, now i'm enjoying Watershed very much 
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