Album Rating: 4.0

damnation is amazing

Album Rating: 4.5

Damnation rules yeah.

5th sounds about right for Damnation

this is best tho obv

I forgot about damnation...

Yeah that's my number 1, then watershed

Album Rating: 4.0

wow drifter comin through with some good ratings for once :3

Album Rating: 4.0

Something like this...



Still Life > MAYH > Morningrise > Ghost > Blackwater > Orchid > Watershed > Deliverance > Hertiage > Damnation > PC



Not heard Sorceress. Guessing everyone will disagree with Damnation, haha.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah PC is not their worst by any stretch

Album Rating: 4.0

Watershed at 1 is interesting - I would be curious to hear what it is about it that you feel elevates it above the rest of the discography. To me it always struck me as the clear point where their consistency and quality started to decline, though I still enjoyed it.

Album Rating: 4.0

'yeah PC is not their worst by any stretch'

It's derivative & lacks any sort of creativity or unique personality that makes this band so great. Uninspired & irredeemably dull.

What Demon said.

PC is ew. If I want 70s prog rock I'll listen to 70s Prog Rock.

Album Rating: 4.0

pc has very strong individual tracks i highly enjoy. i can see people not liking it because they may have heard it before a thousand times in 70s prog rock but i enjoy it for what it is.



for watershed being my fav now: first of all the production is probably the best they ever had for their heavy albums, the songwriting is varied and meaningful, mikaels harsh vocals are the most savage on there of any opeth album. i love the creepy atmosphere their perfectly nailed on watershed too, they always had that, but watershed fully embraced it. also every song on watershed is pretty unique and burden is the best soft song mikael has ever written.

"wow drifter comin through with some good ratings for once :3"
Wtf someone complimenting me

Also yeah flugmorph nailed why watershed is amazing. It also has lotus eater so it instantly gets to elite status in music history

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, Lotus Eater almost makes the keyboard ok.

The Lotus Eater transcends the feeling of an orgasm

Album Rating: 4.0

I view Watershed a lot more favorably than most people I know - I think I probably have it as a 3.5 or 4 on here. Individually it has some strong tracks - Heir Apparent is a wrecking ball, Lotus Eater the obvious highlight, and even though its a Scorpions clone I do love Burden. Mike's clean vocals are probably strongest on GR and Watershed. I thought it was a nice move towards exploring their prog rock roots more before they went full Heritage.



I think when you're referring to the creepy atmosphere, you're expressing a liking for their move towards major/minor substitutions. You hear it on Heir Apparent, Hessian Peel, Lotus Eater, Hex Omega that they're choosing to rely on different keys than their past albums but still getting close to their traditional sound.



My problems with Watershed are flow - it feels much more like an assortment of unrelated songs than their Morningrise - MAYH - Still Life - BWP - Damnation era did. GR suffered from this a little bit but had more high points spread across the album and also felt more coherent overall with some exceptions (e.g. Isolation Years). My other problem is the transitions. To me, the brilliance of the peak Opeth years came in the seamlessness of the transitions and the effortlessness of the harmonies. On Watershed, the transitions start to feel forced for the first time IMO. There's also a lot more cheese, which became a problem as they continued to embrace their prog influences going forward.



Still a great album, but I could never put it ahead, or even on the same level of some of their other works.

Yeah I have it at a 3.5/4

And for me a 4 for an extreme metal album is like other peoples 6/5s

Album Rating: 5.0

Well said, Itwas. Watershed has awesome songs and they're obviously all better musicians. Just the drums on Lotus Eater makes me erect.



But this one... it's a mystical experience, man.

Watershed definitely has a special/unique atmosphere and it's not just down to the major/minor thing. That album had the potential to be one of my favourite Opeth albums but half of it is kinda weak (Burden, Porcelain Heart, Hex Omega). The stronger half (the rest of the album) is some of my favourite Opeth material ever.

"burden is the best soft song mikael has ever written"

While I agree with you on the whole atmosphere thing, Flug, I've never disagreed with something as much as I disagree with this statement.

Album Rating: 5.0

I would probably say Windowpane is the best soft song Akerfeldt has written.

Album Rating: 4.5

would face of melinda qualify as a soft song? if it would, then that's the best one. otherwise... idk, hard to pick one. I think opeth's best soft sections are in their longer metal epics anyway.