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
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| BehzadSh Posts: 94  |
Written by vangosh on 01.01.2011 at 01:13 exactly! All of their albums are great, each album have its mood, and it's so difficult to choose the best. I rate them this way:
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| Maim Posts: 196  |
Opeth's best material was from their first 4 albums in my opinion (Orchid, Morningrise, My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life) - I still really enjoy their material after those albums as well, but the first 4 always seemed to hold my interest more. For me, it's neck & neck with Morningrise and My Arms Your Hearse. I love the song structures on Morningrise, and I loved how they utilized the fretless bass on that album. However, I think My Arms Your Hearse was the album where Mikael really started to shine with his vocals. It's a tough call, but I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Morningrise.
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| Night Sight Posts: 260  |
Softer stuffs by opeth stands out musch better i think damnation is the best
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| Kevorkian Posts: 76  |
Blackwater Park because of Blackwater Park. That song is a behemoth. If only they would play it live . . .
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| Gurth Bennas Posts: 297  |
I like blackwater park extremely high, but I voted for orchid it's more interesting for me. 
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| Thunderhead Posts: 79  |
I got stuck in Blackwater Park, Damnation and Ghost Reveries. Can't say at all!
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| VloRD Posts: 113  |
Well, Orchid interested me the most, but Blackwater park is what got me into Opeth, so i voted for that
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| blacktooth85 Posts: 171  |
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| Razorback Posts: 220  |
Deliverance Blackwater Park
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| BlackenedMyths Posts: 22  |
I like their older stuff the most for some reason, but Still Life is my favorite by them. Morningrise is my second favorite.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by Metal_4Ever on 28.06.2011 at 18:45 Probably in the process of being recorded. Check the year this thread was created.
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| Metal_4Ever Posts: 877 |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.06.2011 at 19:03 Oh.. sorry I didn't see the time, thanks Troy for your scrupulousness..
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
Written by Metal_4Ever on 28.06.2011 at 19:21 No worries guy, of course you can just choose "other" and post Watershed as your favorite and give your reason(s) why.
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| Metal_4Ever Posts: 877 |
Well, I choose Watershed because it's more quite and ballad and it has my favorite song for "Opeth" (Burden "best solo ever")
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| king_matt Posts: 449  |
Written by BlackenedMyths on 21.05.2011 at 04:28 This.
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| ice Posts: 6  |
I think morningrise album is the best ever
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| Dàibh Posts: 51  |
Each Opeth album means something a little different to me...in that...I can remember hearing each of them on or near their release date (save for Orchid). I get such vivid impressions of where my life was at during those times; those times marked by the release of some of my favorite music. As voting goes, though, I have to choose Blackwater Park, as the level of craftsmanship in the songs marked a unique point in the band's development for me.
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| Dàibh Posts: 51 |
Written by ice on 16.05.2012 at 08:16 Though in saying that -voting for Blackwater Park- Morningrise does contain what is perhaps my favorite Opeth track... Such a tough poll. 
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1365  |
I think the duo of Deliverance and Damnation is absolutely brilliant. I would give them both a 9 and 10 rating respectively, however I probably would have voted for Watershed, if this poll included it. EDIT: I should have voted for Ghost Reveries in this poll, that album is brilliant.
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| Infernal Eternal Posts: 647  |
Probably Blackwater Park. My second favorite is Still Life.
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| winds of mayhem Posts: 22  |
I did not think black water park would rate that high i thought albums like damnation still life were better albums.
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| Angry Chair Posts: 153  |
1. Blackwater park 2. Still life 3. Ghost reveries Then all the rest in no order.
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