Album Rating: 5.0

Never played 1, but I had a blast with Rome and Medieval 2 Total War for a while.

Album Rating: 4.0

this starts off fantastically

Album Rating: 4.0

holy shit The Grand Conjuration is sick

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah bro, good stuff indeed m/

Album Rating: 4.5

Watershed was too proggy, but it had some jams. After that tho agreed.

Album Rating: 3.5

"no issues with the candlelight set imo"

Thanks for the input.

Album Rating: 3.5

How would you rank the first 8 Opeth records then Aiwaz? Same question to anyone who knows them all I guess. BigPleb? He will definitely have an opinion... just curious as I'm getting into them.

Album Rating: 3.5

I was expecting the last two to say 4, then you threw a curveball with a 5+++

In your honour I'll order 'The Candlelight Years' today then, as it has ALL their best stuff according to you... excited!



So far I've only heard this, Still Life & Damnation. 'Still Life' is super-jaw-dropping-amazing & made me want to explore their whole discography (at least up to this one, for the time being).

Album Rating: 4.5

Personally I'd rank their first 8 like this:

Still Life (5/5) > Blackwater Park (4.8/5) > My Arms Your Hearse (4.5/5) > Ghost Reveries (4.3/5) > Morningrise (4.1/5) > Watershed (4/5) > Deliverance (3.8/5) > Damnation (3.8/5 can easily be much higher for most people tho) > Orchid (3.7/5)

Album Rating: 3.5

Your ranking (Piglet), seems close to the consensus, although like you say Damnation is a little low.



P.S. I've already ordered Blackwater Park, cheap on Amazon for a new copy at the minute.

Album Rating: 4.5

Damnation is actually really fuckin good and I used to love it, but now for whatever reason it sends me to sleep and I've grown less and less fond of Akerfeldt's cleans over the years (thats not to say they are bad)

Album Rating: 4.5

Honestly that would have been really cool

Album Rating: 3.5

On 'Still Life' & this one I love the contrast between the harsh & clean vocals (which are both fantastic by the way), on Damnation obviously there's no contrast as it's all clean. The way these guys change the tone/atmosphere of a record, or even a single track/passage has really impressed me so far. None of it sounds forced & it all works which is some achievement given the almost constant stylistic changes.



However, I did enjoy Damanation (although only heard that one a couple of times).

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah it starts to sound really forced after Heritage ahaha

Album Rating: 4.5

Don't worry man, i get ya. Morningrise, My Arms Your Hearse and Orchid all have a special place in my heart not just for their budding songwriting, but their atmosphere and production. They speak on a different level than their more polished counterparts i.e. Ghost Reveries, Watershed, Blackwater Park.

The rawness is simultaneously energizing and as I now realize, nostalgic in some way...

Orchid-gatefold

Album Rating: 4.5

I actually remember it very vividly ahah. My brother (user taylormemer) used to play Blackwater Park and Damnation around me a lot as a 11 year old or thereabouts so I eventually went on my own quest of discovery with the band starting from Orchid.

I then listened to Morningrise some rainy, cold ass winter day after school and Black Rose Immortal started playing just as I could see lightning flash outside my bedroom window and yeah my mum hated it, thought I was becoming a satanist. Some days after I listened to My Arms, Your Hearse and that hit even harder

Nopeth

Album Rating: 4.5

oh yeah man and being the young unexperienced lil piglet i was just added to it, those albums were like drugs growing up.

Album Rating: 3.5

Piglet, you were exposed to Opeth at 11? Lucky guy. I really had to dig deep on my musical journey & consult the internet which explains why I'm getting into them at 30, haha. Although it's weird actually because my mum was my main influence for initially 'liking music' & these days she digs some Opeth, which had absolutely nothing to do with me.