My favourite Opeth album is My Arms Your Hearse. Also my favourite album of all time really.
Watershed is an amazing album, tho I love their earlier works more, like Still Life, Blackwater Park or Deliverance.
Damnation stands above all of them tho, in my opinion. It's just so.. beautiful and atmospheric.
opeth is 1 of my fav bands one of the best prog metal groups
[QUOTE=ThunderGod;22486312]anyone else think blackwater park is a little over rated? It's great but they have much better albums[/QUOTE]
I have a hard time picking between it and Still Life as my favourite album.
Watershed is a great album. Not their best, but still really fucking great.
I am likely alone on this one, but I think I liked most of Ghost Reveries better than Watershed, though Watershed has its charms.
I liked Ghost Reveries more than Watershed too.
Ghost Reveries was better than Watershed I think also
I also agree that Ghost Reveries was better than Watershed.
Considering their rhythm of putting out albums the last decade, I am assuming that we will get a new album in the next year or so. It's been since 08 that we've had watershed, I bet it's time for a new album!
Baying of the Hounds or Beneath the Mire are the best songs off of Ghost Reveries for me.
Heir Apparent is probably my favourite watershed though.
[QUOTE=The mouse;22409631]Opeth barly classifies as metal, it's more progressive rock[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;22549712]Baying of the Hounds or Beneath the Mire are the best songs off of Ghost Reveries for me.
Heir Apparent is probably my favourite watershed though.[/QUOTE]
Both are amazing songs. I love the part near the end of Baying of the Hounds where is has the build up to the super awesome end. And Beneath the Mire is a great song as well.
I quite like Damnation, but not so much Watershed. It's okay I guess.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;22417450]I enjoy the acoustics and the soft singing, but not when the majority of the album is exactly that - You're "progressive [b]death metal[/b]," Opeth - play some fucking [i]death metal[/i] once in a while!
Just my personal opinion on it, though.[/QUOTE]
Part of what makes them [i]Progressive[/i] Death Metal is their hopping between 70's Prog and eclectic Death Metal, sometimes even in the same song. Their back catalog has plenty of good old fashioned guttural noises (which I have no problem with). I don't think that any band should stay confined to the genre they're tagged as.
By the way, Watershed was pretty alright. The drumming seemed a bit too much, and they seemed to have lost the balance of Tech Death and Progressive Rock for a minute, but I'm just nit-picking.
[QUOTE=Vlos;22727738]Part of what makes them [i]Progressive[/i] Death Metal is their hopping between 70's Prog and eclectic Death Metal, sometimes even in the same song. Their back catalog has plenty of good old fashioned guttural noises (which I have no problem with). I don't think that any band should stay confined to the genre they're tagged as.
By the way, Watershed was pretty alright. The drumming seemed a bit too much, and they seemed to have lost the balance of Tech Death and Progressive Rock for a minute, but I'm just nit-picking.[/QUOTE]
They're really nothing along the lines of Tech Death, you could MAYBE pass it off as avant garde for the jazz section in Lotus Eater etc, but they are most definitely not tech, most of their songs are relatively simple to play, particularly compared to Tech Death bands.
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