Album Rating: 5.0

Opeth will never make the same record twice, hence why every record of theirs is work checking for one reason or another.

Album Rating: 3.5

Perhaps not, but the overall sound is pretty much the same for most of their albums

Album Rating: 5.0

Depends what you mean by 'sound'.

Album Rating: 3.5

Timbre

Agreed with Choccy. Before Heritage there wasn't an awful lot of variation in their discography which is one of their flaws.

Album Rating: 5.0

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Album Rating: 4.5

not really

Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed hard with Climothy, sorry Choccy.

Album Rating: 3.5

Well, you're entitled to your own opinion. I really don't think that the instruments sound particularly different from album to album, bar Damnation and the classical guitar on Orchid. It's just the songs are so good that it doesn't matter

Album Rating: 4.5

orchid and MR are v similar (everyone knows that), mayh/SL/BWP are /fairly/ similar in style also but all approach the

sound in different ways. deliverance has a lot in common with those albums as well but for the most part, every album

post-BWP has been really different from the last, dont know how you can argue otherwise

Album Rating: 5.0

You've been called out Choccy.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, but the contrast between those you mentions above and Heritage and say, GR is much greater. You might think that those albums vary a lot, but I disagree when we've heard this and PC

Album Rating: 3.5

The one different thing that has a huge affect on timbre is the production quality, which certainly varies between every album

Album Rating: 4.5

my point is, saying something like: "Before Heritage there wasn't an awful lot of variation in their discography" is pretty ridiculous. sure mayh and still life may not be super different, for example, but the sound of those records *is* vastly different from the couple of albums before them and the ones that would come after. the band's discog when looked at as a whole is v diverse, with orchid, BWP, damnation, and heritage being the best examples of this

Album Rating: 4.5

weird, those 2 albums are v different in many ways. orchid and morningrise are the 2 that are most similar by a mile. mayh and SL also have a lot in common. the 2 newest ones as well, although not as much as those.

Album Rating: 2.5

Pale Communion is literally this without the death metal. Total snoozefest. Also that new singing style Mikael is doing is very cringe-worthy.



- gs3k

Album Rating: 3.5

Watershd and GR are hugely different. GR is their most polished album and Watershed was the muddiest since MAYH. The style is hugely different too, like compare The Lotus Eater, which is all over the place, to Grand Conjuration.

Album Rating: 4.0

"ghost reveries pt. 2 wouldve been lame"





well obviously. but with heritage and the new record, they've ditched what always made their music interesting to me. (although i did enjoy damnation).

my point is, saying something like: "Before Heritage there wasn't an awful lot of variation in their discography" is pretty ridiculous. sure mayh and still life may not be super different, for example, but the sound of those records *is* vastly different from the couple of albums before them and the ones that would come after. the band's discog when looked at as a whole is v diverse, with orchid, BWP, damnation, and heritage being the best examples of this

Album Rating: 4.5

i'm guessing by "same basis" you mean their reliance on song structures like this:



heavy intro, main riff > clean part > heavy riffs > clean part > melodic part > more heavy riffs > big melodic outro



cause yeah, i guess i'd have to agree. theyve basically been writing like that since the beginning, bar damnation and the newest 2. but simply put, thats a big part of what makes them opeth imo, so i dont see it as a negative the way you do.