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| Opeth Ranked
For whatever reason I felt like revisiting one of the bands that got me into metal recently. Even when realizing the folly when it meant revisiting the prog rock era of the band I don't particularly like, I pressed onward because I hate myself. There have been thousands of these lists before, and there are thousands more to come, so I'll keep my rants brief (edit: maybe I didn't, oh well). Also seriously this site is cursed; my computer locks up in the middle of making this list? Well I'm going to EXPOSE the truth and you can't stop me! | | 13 |  | Opeth
Sorceress
The mix on this album is absolutely horrendous, which is what's turning me off besides the whole album being boring in general. Even if I can detect some riffs here, the drums sound like ass and I don't like the keyboard tone. Everything's already conspiring to get me to stop listening, and you've just accelerated that process. | | 12 |  | Opeth
Heritage
I didn't really like this album even back when it came out, where I was a wee lad holding onto Opeth hype. It's just not that interesting, and I don't like the guitar tone. They're still holding on to their traditional loud-soft-loud dynamic here, which simply doesn't work with the way the band sounds now. | | 11 |  | Opeth
In Cauda Venenum
The only album I hadn't rated compared to my old, outdated, deleted Opeth list, because it didn't exist yet. So this album isn't that bad, but it's also not very interesting for the whole length, either. It sounds fairly similar to Pale Communion, but with a better keyboard tone! But Pale Communion is shorter, so I'll give that one the edge because you don't have to listen to it as long and it doesn't have weird spoken word parts. Like okay this isn't as bad as I'm making it sound but it's also definitely not that exciting. | | 10 |  | Opeth
Pale Communion
I thought this one could have been actually good when it started, iffy keyboard tone aside. But then the album kept going and getting less interesting; they put their strongest foot forward but didn't know how to walk. Sometimes Akerfeldt's vocals sounded pretty strained in parts of the songs I listened to in full, too. Eventually I got too bored to not skip around until the end. | | 9 |  | Opeth
Watershed
The boring threshold is reached near the end of this album: the songs aren't interesting enough to keep me listening. Even when I was a wee lad that didn't know much about metal (or music), Hessian Peel and Hex Omega were still weak points. Burden and Porcelain Heart are fine but go on too long, and The Lotus Eater has some really wacky transitions (not in a good way). So fairly disjointed. The only saving grace of this album is Heir Apparent, which feels like their last hurrah and is better than the next entry on this list entirely; but alas, one song cannot carry an entire album. | | 8 |  | Opeth
Deliverance
This is one of the Opeth albums of all time. Feels like a collection of B-Sides. Everything just kind of exists. I don't know why so many people call this their heaviest album when it's pretty standard dynamically but lacks some really crunchy riffs their three golden age albums had. The songwriting really falls off here as some things drag for far too long. Does the outro to the title track really need to be actually three minutes of the same fucking riff? | | 7 |  | Opeth
Damnation
Pretty chill album. Not really dynamic, not really exciting, but too mellow to really irritate. Maybe it being their shortest album helps out with that. They really should have took notes from this album for their prog rock phase. | | 6 |  | Opeth
Ghost Reveries
When this album started, I actually got excited. Was this going to actually be better than my initial rating? And then it kept going, and the songs gradually became more and more dull. Rats. Grand Conjuration is like peak Opeth clunky songwriting. We've reached a climax in the song and have a logical ending point! Let's now repeat the verse and chorus again! | | 5 |  | Opeth
Still Life
I don't know what it is about this album that doesn't grip me as much as their two other golden age albums. There are definitely some memorable riffs, but they're few and far between. This album feels like it drags at times and definitely could have benefited from some cuts, but it isn't that bad. I just feel like something's missing, or I'm missing something. | | 4 |  | Opeth
Orchid
Ah, young Opeth. I actually forgot the reasons I put this here once the list was constructed because all of the other Opeth pushed the first effort out of my head. I think there are a little clunky transitions here and some overly long parts, but it's nice with very melodic riffs. Definitely some melodeath influence there. | | 3 |  | Opeth
Morningrise
Where Orchid was some melodeath influence, I feel this one has more of a meloblack feel instead. There's a lot of cool riffs on this album and I dig it. There's only one weird feeling this album has, and it's that it just feels like a collection of riffs. I don't feel like I'm listening to songs, and that's a little weird. | | 2 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
Yep, album still holds up. I love the melancholic, gloomy atmosphere this album has. Even if some parts of it could have been cut, something about the tone of the instruments gives it a pass. Even that unnecessarily long interlude in the title track at least adds some layers with keyboards to keep it a little interesting. But it's good. | | 1 |  | Opeth
My Arms, Your Hearse
This was my favorite from Opeth back then, and that still holds true now. But now I can explain why a bit more! Opeth's usual pitfalls with songwriting aren't really in this album. Every segment feels like it goes on for the right amount of time. There are great riffs, still memorable even without nostalgia guiding my memory. Their loud/soft dynamic hits the best on this album, and Akerfeldt's growls sound the best here. Like the only weird thing is every metal song having random little acoustic licks here and there. | |
Assemblage
12.22.22 | Your Top 6 is not only top 6 but also preeeetty freakin perfect. I do have an affinity to Deliverance though, and I never really listened to anything passed 10 more than twice. | Sinternet
12.22.22 | swap blackwater park and still life and bump ghost reveries up a couple and its pretty much dead on | SomeCallMeTim
12.22.22 | the mix on all post-watershed albums is awful. I don't care if Michael doesn't woof, just stop trying to make it sound like its something from the 70s you just dusted off
6 too low =[ | egads
12.22.22 | how is damnation worse than 6 opeth albums huhh | SomeCallMeTim
12.22.22 | yeah damnation is too sexy to be that low | DungeonBoy
12.22.22 | "Like the only weird thing is every metal song having random little acoustic licks here and there."
oh you mean like every Opeth album? ;) | DungeonBoy
12.22.22 | but this is probably one of the most accurate rankings I've seen. I'd put Morningrise 1st or 2nd, but purely out of a very biased love for it | Zac124
12.22.22 | I actually really enjoy 11 and it is definitely the best of their prog rock era but yeah, their run from 1995-2008 cannot be beat. | Boognish79
02.14.23 | I love all Opeth albums except 10,11,13. Their progression to acoustic prog with clean vocals doesn’t bother me in the slightest. It’s them. It’s pure. You don’t have to like it, but you can’t call it insincere. | Pheromone
02.14.23 | copycat | Egarran
02.14.23 | Good list (tho nothing tops phero's ofc). Pretty much agree.
>seriously this site is cursed
OR has it achieved consciousness? Think about it. | Tundra
02.14.23 | I will except Sorceress as the weakest but it's still a 3.5 at the very least | HooperD87
02.14.23 | 1 is 1 | Egarran
02.14.23 | >Does the outro to the title track really need to be actually three minutes of the same fucking riff?
Yes. Very much so. | Tundra
02.14.23 | Watershed drags soo much in the second half of the album | CPtMorgan
02.14.23 | 5 is 1 and Heritage should be higher | TalonsOfFire
02.14.23 | The clean guitar tone on MAYH is perfection. I really like Orchid and Morningrise but they're too disjointed and stoppy starty to be masterpieces like the following 3 and GR imo. I would also have Heritage and Damnation a couple spaces higher and Deliverance a bit lower. |
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