| 50 Cent The Massacre | 1.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 5.0 |
| Aiden Conviction | 1.0 |
| Aiden Rain in Hell | 1.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 4.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.5 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Silent Waters | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 4.5 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.5 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 4.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 4.0 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.5 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 3.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.5 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 4.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 3.5 |
| Black Tide Light From Above | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 2.0 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 1.5 |
| Buckethead Crime Slunk Scene | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Enter The Chicken (Reissue) | 3.0 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Monolith of Death Tour '96–'97 [DVD] | 2.0 |
| Catamenia Location:COLD | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 2.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.0 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 3.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 2.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 3.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.5 |
| Death Angel Killing Season | 3.0 |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deicide Till Death Do Us Part | 3.0 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 4.0 |
| Deicide Scars of the Crucifix | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 3.5 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 3.5 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 1.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 5.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.5 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Isa | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist | 3.0 |
| Fozzy Happenstance | 3.0 |
| Fozzy All That Remains | 3.5 |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Gorod Leading Vision | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 1.5 |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 1.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 1.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| HammerFall Crimson Thunder | 3.0 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 3.5 |
| HIM Dark Light | 2.0 |
| HIM Razorblade Romance | 1.0 |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Framing Armageddon | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth Horror Show | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider | 4.0 |
| Imperanon Stained | 3.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 3.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 3.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.0 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct | 4.0 |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Rock in Rio | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Island Orakel | 4.0 |
| Kalmah For the Revolution | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 4.0 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 4.5 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 4.0 |
| Kansas Leftoverture | 3.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.0 |
| Kittie Spit | 1.5 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.5 |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn | 1.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 1.5 |
| Korn Korn | 2.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 2.5 |
| Kreator Enemy of God | 3.5 |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.5 |
| Light This City Stormchaser | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Greatest Hitz | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 1.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 1.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 1.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 1.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 1.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 2.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 1.5 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 5.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 2.0 |
| Metallica The Unnamed Feeling | 1.0 |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni | 3.5 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Kiss of Death | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Inferno | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Hammered | 3.0 |
| Motorhead Bastards | 3.5 |
| Motorhead March Or Die | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Another Perfect Day | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Iron Fist | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades | 4.5 |
| Motorhead Bomber | 3.0 |
| Motorhead Overkill | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.5 |
| Mushroomhead XX | 1.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 1.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene | 1.0 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
| Nightwish Once | 4.0 |
| Nightwish End Of An Era | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 3.5 |
| Norther N | 3.5 |
| Norther Death Unlimited | 4.0 |
| Norther Mirror of Madness | 4.0 |
| Norther Till Death Unites Us | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 4.0 |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
I admit, when I first heard this band I was bored out of my mind, I really couldn't even begin to see how this was the highest rated metal album at the time it was. However, with each forced listen I discovered more and more parts of the album that really made it stand above anything else I've heard, soon the forced listens became casual listens then turned into daily listens. This album took a while to grow on me but after hearing it over and over, the haunting atmosphere, amazing musicianship and memorable riffs and solos made this album become my personal favorite out of everything I have heard, its awesome how Opeth can mix brutal moments and transition into soft ones so perfectly without it sounding forced or out of place (take the title track and The Drapery Falls for instance).
In short this is what I consider Opeth's magnum opus. The blending elements of death, progressive and folk metal work beautifully to make this a truly enjoyable album that can appeal to any metal head that isn't looking for the best album ever made, but one that is an essential showcase of musicianship and songwriting. |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 2.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 1.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 2.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 2.5 |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.0 |
| Raintime Flies and Lies | 4.0 |
| Raintime Tales from Sadness | 3.5 |
| Rancid Indestructible | 2.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 1.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 2.5 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 2.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 3.5 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Alpha | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Next | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Home | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Fallout From The War | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 3.5 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 4.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 3.5 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 2.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 4.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 3.0 |
| Slayer Divine Intervention | 3.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 3.5 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Soulfallen World Expiration | 4.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| Testament Practice What You Preach | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Vital Remains Dechristianize | 4.5 |
| Vital Remains Icons of Evil | 4.0 |
| Warmen Accept The Fact | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Wyrd The Ghost Album | 4.0 |
