Album Rating: 4.5
blackwater park is a masterpiece and extremely engrossing, yeah
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
"opeth sure was a band i was obsessed with like 9 years ago"
I've got a tattoo of them, so I certainly hope I don't lose my obsession with them in the future
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Album Rating: 4.5
"I agree that Blackwater Park is better than this one, but I think this has a much more accessible sound to those unfamiliar with Opeth. I think Blackwater Park may be too much for beginners to digest. "
Never mind that it's most people's gateway album, primarily due to the Rolling Stone list, and people get into them regardless. Completely nullifying your point man. GR is no more accessible, other than the Grand Conjuration
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Album Rating: 4.5
The best gateway album is what people hear first
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah blackwater park is more accessible I think. It's significantly less experimental than this one
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Let's put it this way: if someone came up to me and asked, "What Opeth album should I listen to? I've never listened to them before." I would say "Check out a couple songs off Ghost Reveries, maybe Watershed. If you get what they are trying to do, then listen to Blackwater Park from front to back."
I wouldn't lead someone into Blackwater Park dry like that. You need to prep them a little bit. Blackwater Park is by no means more accessible. Maybe Bleak or Harvest, but the rest you really need to 'get' Opeth to truly understand.
But you know, that's just like uh, my opinion man.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Blackwater park is super polished and pretty comventional by opeth standards. I would agree if we were talking about orchid through still life. I honestly feel like blackwater park might be the perfect introduction to opeth
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Album Rating: 3.5
I imagine BWP is a fine gateway tbh, this probably is too
I started with Still Life (which also worked just fine)
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((((they are all the same))))
I started with BWP and have zero regrets, still my favourite (probably for nostalgia/first exposure reasons). been meaning to revisit Morningrise though - everything from Still Life onwards is p much interchangeable and a bit of a slog at this point
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Album Rating: 5.0
SL and BWP are pretty clearly their peak imo, with MAYH and this being next best. I could see recommending any of them as a good starting point tbh
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah opeth albums are all reasonably accessible outside of maybe the first two
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Album Rating: 4.5
bwp was also my first, leper affinity absolutely stopped me in my tracks when i first listened to it.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I actually don't remember what full album was my first. I know my first track was white cluster and I was floored because it was just so different from all the metal I had heard. Pretty sure still life was my first but don't remember really
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Album Rating: 4.5
mine was GR. I didn't know how to use the internet to hear music yet so I confused it with Deliverance as the "heavy record" because I wanted the most brutal-est one from a band I'd heard was allegedly the best ever. Thankfully so, since I still love it much more than Deliverance or Damnation.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I’m stuck in a seemingly eternal loop of only listening to early Opeth now, I barely revisit anything else…
I keep thinking there will be a ‘re-adjustment’ at some point, but it doesn’t look likely at the minute.
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Album Rating: 5.0
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
My first Opeth song was the single version of The Grand Conjuration, but the band's following album Watershed was what really initiated me into their work as a whole. I'll never forget the first time I listened to the serene acoustic guitar of Coil, only to be completely blindsided by the intensity of Heir Apparent. Great stuff, and an important stepping stone in regards to my personal music taste :]
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Album Rating: 5.0
BWP was my first one too. Used to be my fave for a while, till many others overtook it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
still life used to be my fav for a long time but watershed and blackwater park overtook it a while ago
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Album Rating: 5.0
Harlequin Forest was the track that dragged me in. This record was certainly my starting point even if ive grown off it in favor of My Arms your Hearse
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