Sikthness
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Voted for Damnation. I know its prob not a popular choice, but its a damn masterpiece. So much emotion. Ill admit a big part of that is sentimental value. Blackwater Park is #2 very close behind.
Favorite Opeth Album?
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SenorDingDong
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Damnation
This.
scherzo1928
has wood for you
first, note that I voted for still life.
Having said that, give heir apparent another listen.
IMO, that song has some of the best music Opeth ever made.
Tang
Master of Chihuahuas
I'm going to have to go with Still Life. There's just an indescribable something that pushes SL over the top. It was also my first Opeth / death metal album, so that might have something to do with it. I actually hated it the first 10 or so listens, but for some reason I kept trying to get into it.
Paid off.
Paid off.
Joelan
Ukulele Shredder
Still Life, with Blackwater Park a very close second.
SL was also my first Opeth album, and my first death metal album, but I still think it's just the incredible dynamics in that album that push it above the rest for me. Benighted is probably my favourite track.
SL was also my first Opeth album, and my first death metal album, but I still think it's just the incredible dynamics in that album that push it above the rest for me. Benighted is probably my favourite track.
TheSilentWater
is a nerd.
Dammit, I clicked Ghost Reveries, scrolled down, came back up and clicked vote and it came out with MAYH!
Ghost Reveries is so gloomy. And the mix is so squishy and organic, not to mention the (un)godly songwriting.
Ghost Reveries is so gloomy. And the mix is so squishy and organic, not to mention the (un)godly songwriting.
Kalan
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Personally nothing will ever come close to Still life! Cant wait to hear Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt's collaboration
Ooh... that's a tough one. BWP popped my Opeth cherry, as I'm sure it did for many others. However, compared to some of their previous albums, it's far from the best. The latter half of the album drags on for far too long (I'm looking at you, second half of Dirge for November and title track), and honestly a lot of parts feel like Mike went "shit, the song's not long enough... better repeat that part again." MAYH and SL are both fucking impeccable, and pretty much every second of those two albums is jizz-worthy. Choosing between the two is fucking impossible... so I went with Orchid. Orchid is probably the most underrated album from any band of Opeth's caliber. Songs like Under the Weeping Moon and Forest of October easily earn a spot in my (hypothetical) top 5 Opeth songs list. (Actually writing such a list would be an exercise in futility.) I love the raw, yet sophisticated production of the album, and DAT CHORUSED ACOUSTIC is pretty much the dankest thing ever. Keep in mind that when this was being recorded in 1994, nothing even remotely similar to what they were doing was going on. This album blew everyone's fucking mind when it came out, as it blew my mind when I first heard it.
Oh, and I hadn't heard about the Akerfeldt/Wilson collab till now, that'd be beyond amazing!
Oh, and I hadn't heard about the Akerfeldt/Wilson collab till now, that'd be beyond amazing!
Unknown Doodl3.2
look at each other..
The title track is what makes blackwater park one of their best moments in their entire discography if you ask me.
That said, I voted Still Life.
That said, I voted Still Life.
beneharris
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i'm one of two votes for orchid 
watershed is one of my favorites by them, but that doesn't seem to be very high up on anybodies list.
watershed is one of my favorites by them, but that doesn't seem to be very high up on anybodies list.
trianglebutt
trianglebutt
Funnily enough, the title track on BWP is my least favorite track on the album. I find it boring compared to The Leper Affinity, Bleak, The Funeral Portrait and The Drapery Falls.
Also I don't get the hate for Watershed, I thought it had some great songs. The Lotus Eater and Heir Apparent are awesome Opeth tracks...
Also I don't get the hate for Watershed, I thought it had some great songs. The Lotus Eater and Heir Apparent are awesome Opeth tracks...
Cnev
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Watershed had some great moments, but it was honestly the first time I found myself fast-forwarwarding through an Opeth album to get to them.
