Album Rating: 4.5

The opening trilogy on this album is insanely good. Atonement is great too, of course, but those opening three are somethin else.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, feel the same. Those first three are all peak Opeth I'd say. Top 20 or so? All of them.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'd agree with that yeah (disclaimer: I've done absolutely no calculations to verify such a bold claim).

Album Rating: 5.0

Me neither. I'll think about my top 20 though, sounds like a fun excercise. Also sounds like it'll be 100 tracks all fighting over which one is best, and all making a compelling case...

Album Rating: 5.0

Harlequin Forest is easily on the level of the first two.

Album Rating: 3.5

Bottom 2 track here (of course, that doesn't make it bad by any means).

Album Rating: 5.0

Harlequin Forest is among my top 10 Opeth tracks for sure. Flawless track, almost flawless record.

Album Rating: 5.0

Harlequin Forest

Ghost of Perdition

Baying of the Hounds

Beneath the Mire

Hours of Wealth

The Grand Conjuration

Isolation Years

Atonement



My ranking m/

Album Rating: 3.5

Slot Harlequin Forest in after TGC and then move that one above Hours of Wealth. That looks about right to me.

Album Rating: 5.0

Grand Conjuration doesn't have those dynamicssssss, still a powerhouse of a song but Harlequin Forest does so much in its runtime.



Every song rules though so it's irrelevant haha.

GHOST OF

MOTHER

LINGERING DEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAATTTTHHH!!!!!

Album Rating: 5.0

Jac knows how good the screams used to be :[

Album Rating: 4.5

the peak of mike's vocal performance, rip

Album Rating: 5.0

Yea, Mike is at the top of his game here, and this also features Lopez' best performance by far.

Album Rating: 4.5

lopez on harlequin forest jheeze

Album Rating: 5.0

@Key Remember when I did a vocal cover of GoP on that bumblebee voice recording site? The good ol days hahah, sounded like it was recorded with a toaster.

Album Rating: 4.5

haha yeah, good times

Album Rating: 5.0

This has some of my favorite drumming ever. It always serves the flow, and while being pretty busy, everything's on its place.



The instrumentation on this in general is complete brilliance. Insanely well organized. The inclusion of the keys was also done incredibly well. This is one of the few cases of a band taking their sound a huge step forward after over half a dozen of albums.

Album Rating: 5.0

Lopez's drumming during the melodic break in Baying is the most fun thing to play ever.

Album Rating: 4.5

lost loveeee

of the heaaaaaart

in a holocaaaust

scene memoryyyyyy