For me: 1. Ghost Reveries 1. Blackwater Park 1. My Arms, Your Hearse 1. Deliverance 1. Still Life 1. Orchid 1. Watershed 1. Morningrise 1. Damnation 1. Sorceress 1. Heritage 1. Pale Communion
@@NumberSpace Heritage is fantastic but it's a completely different of style than Blackwater Park. It's like comparing apples to oranges even from the same band.
dude me too. here is my list. 1)blackwater 2)still life 3)morning rise 4)orchid 5)my arms 6)ghost rev 7) damnation 8)deliverance 9)the rest of their new shit.. sorceress, watershed, heritege
What if i love listening to opeth, but i only really like 20 songs or so. Considering they have like 120 songs, am i still a fan if i love only 1/6 of what they have released?
WHAT?? Pink Floyd, sure - especially since Watershed. But Chuck could write great, MEMORABLE riffs in his sleep, and compose solos. Åkerfeldt however... Which Opeth songs with great riffs, would you recommend for someone who has a hard time getting the hype from Opeth's fanbase? I like songs such as Ghost of Perdition, Demon's of the Fall, Drapery Falls, Wreath, Grand Conjuration and Bleak (until Steven Wilson starts singing). Yet, most of Opeth's songs seem so dragged out to me, and I really don't find many riffs to be memorable.. but I would love to be persuaded, so please send some recommendations my way!
MetalForTheMasses Try the baying of the hounds, Sorceress, The Wilde Flowers, Chrysalis, Eternal Rains Will Come, Moon Above Sun Below, Strange Brew and Heir Apparent. All good songs with some great riffs, particularly chrysalis and heir apparent. Keep in mind that most of Opeth's music is almost a waiting game, because there's a lot of musical context required to fully appreciate their music. Some people don't like the material on Sorceress (or anything post-watershed) but if you think about their most recent three albums in a jazzier context I think you'll enjoy it.
"Opeth's songs seem so dragged out to me, and I really don't find many riffs to be memorable" It seems to me that you have a short musical attention span.(no offence intended) Most of Opeth's song structures are not short riffs which is more radio friendly. Their latest works might be more to your liking than their earlier stuff.
I feel Heritage is criminally underrated. You have to listen to it from a less is more perspective. The sheer atmosphere provided from the silent parts really accentuates everything else. Solid riffs and singing and just all around amazing to listen to. This album is top three tier for me.
victor dragon I like it but it has been one of my least listened to and would rate it last to. Maybe I should give it more listens! The great thing about Opeth is that when people say their favourites, I hear different people say different albums My faves differ at any time between Damnation, Ghost Reveries and Morningrise
I've always listened to Opeth on a song by song basis and not particularly by 'album' Heritage IMHO is great but it is a style apart from their previous work. (I'm sure this comparison has been done to death) Metallica the Thrash Metal band i liked, Metallica the bubble-gum-pop-rock band i hated whilst Opeth the Prog Metal band i like and Opeth the Prog Acid Rock i also like. But then again, i also liked the non-growl/soft Opeth songs from earlier albums. But i will admit that the albums after Heritage are pretty much my least liked for me, but they do have a decent song or two on each, just they pale in comparison to the earlier Growling songs.
Morningrise is so underrated. Almost half of the album is acoustic, and it's immersed in a cold, melancholic mood throughout which is maybe why people can't fully appreciate it. P.S. It's 'Black Rose Immortal', not 'Eternal'.
Yes! I was 20 when "Morningrise" was released, so It was my favorite record by Opeth for a long time. I'm starting to realize how good "Still Life" is now though.
I absolutely adored Pale Communion when I listened to it and it grew on me every time I played it , i still don’t understand why people avoid it and rate it really low among opeth’s discography.
It’s because when you’ve listened to a lot, and I mean a LOT of both progressive music today and back then, it just sounds like a lot of different riffs from the past. Only what people don’t realize is it’s done so so well and fits with the overall sound. I greatly enjoy this album, prob the best album in their newer sound, but at first I didn’t like it because it sounded like a lot of the older prog rock that came before. But after a few listens it definitely grew on me.
@@davidmarsh9386 It's alright, everyone has different taste.. And with Opeth really, all their albums are great, I just think for me Morningrise and Ghost Reveries these would be my top 2, but really all their stuff is great.. (not a fan of sorceress though.)
I saw this video when it came out and thought "How can anyone, even if they are a prog fan put "Pale Communion" on top?" So, I come from a extreme metal background and Opeth is one of, if not my absolute favourite band. But, as many other fans I have not been the biggest fan of their more prog turn of direction. That is until "In Cauda Venenum " came out, an album which I love! I said to myself "You have to give Heritage, Pale Communion and Sorceress another go, you have to invest time!" So, out of my love for the band I really started listening to those albums and they finally clicked for me! I can finally say that Opeth have not made a single bad album.
"I love that BWAMRH!-do,do,do,do,deedle-dede,doo-do-do-BWAMRH!...BWAMRH!...MMMPH!" After this, Notes' quit TH-cam to kickstart his revolutionary death metal acapella career.
I love how everybody likes and aprecciates each album in a different way, some of us think of Blackwater Park as their best and other people have this album not even in top 5. Makes you realize how amazing this band is, even at it's lowest points.
My best to worst. 01. Deliverance 02. Damnation 03. Blackwater Park 04. Watershed 05. Ghost Reveries 06. My Arms, Your Hearse 07. Still Life 08. Pale Communion 09. Heritage 10. Sorceress 11. Morningrise 12. Orchid
#12 - Damnation (An acoustic masterpiece. I have to be in the right mood to get into it but when I am it really takes me places. I put it last just because all the songs kinda follow the same pattern and soundscape and also some album had to be last but I still adore all of their works!) #11 - Heritage (Just like Damnation, if I'm at the right mood for this Prog materpiece then I'll fully enjoy it. Most underrated album of theirs in my opinion!) #10 - Pale Communion (What they wanted to achieve with Heritage, they achieved it here! Just like you said, every song in here is a favourite!) #09 - Sorceress (For me, their best work of their Prog Rock trilogy. Taking elements both from Heritage and Pale Communion and it works perfectly. Will O The Wisp showing a more Elysian Woes kind of vibe while Strange Brew is dark brilliance, kind of a Famine vibe!) #08 - Deliverance (Their most brutal album yet so beautiful in places...Almost every riff on here is spot on awesome and the song Deliverance is just flawless!) #07 - Blackwater Park (Starting with the first riff of The Leper Affinity and grabbing me right by the balls and ending with the final acoustic melody of Blackwater Park just leaving me wondering of what a brilliant album I've just heard, this record is definately a journey!) #06 - My Arms, Your Hearse (For me, their first four albums had something that no other album after them was able to achieve and that is dark ambient forest atmosphere along with the lyrics of their first four records which are pure poetry and blended perfeclty with what the music wanted to say. This is just a flawless concept album from beginning to end!) #05 - Orchid (The most dark album, I've ever heard! Combined with the fact that I listened to these records in a village in the woods, these melodies will follow me until I die...I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael could write and record these beautifully dark and complex pieces! From the extremely haunting acoustic melody of Under The Weeping Moon to the glorious finishing solo of The Apostle In Triumph, this a jaw-dropping debut!) #04 - Watershed (If this is indeed their last album featuring Death Metal (which I hope not) then they certainly went out with a bang! From Coil to Burden to Hessian Peel, this album is just dark emotional and brutal brilliance!) #03 - Ghost Reveries (I don't have much to say about this one, you described it all yourself. From Ghost Of Perdition to Isolation Years, this album flows perfectly between beauty and brutallity!) #02 - Morningrise (For some people, Black Rose Immortal is an overrated song stating that people like it just because it's 20 minutes long. For some other people, Black Rose Immortal is Opeth's absolute masterpiece with flawless riffs and a perfect ballance between beauty and brutallity. I always go with the second side of opinions. This album is a just a beautiful journey from the beginning of Advent until the ending of To Bid You Farewell! Just like Orchid, I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael wrote this...) #01 - Still Life (My all time favourite Metal album! Combining the concept with Mikael's poetry and a foresty dark ambient atmosphere, this is the perfect balance between beauty and brutallity! From the haunting start of The Moor to the melancholic melody of Benighted to the atmospheric Moonlapse Vertigo to the jazzy sound of Face Of Melinda to the brutallity of Serenity Painted Death to the ending melody of White Cluster, this record is the peak of their discography for me and probably always be!)
I suggest you check out his 2017 census videos he released in January. You'll learn some stuff about him ;) And yes, as always, he does great videos. This is just another one :)
I've just started having a good listen to Ghost Reveries (my first proper encounter with Opeth) and that first track, Ghost Of Perdition, is really impressive and nothing like I would've expected. It's almost Wagnerian in those heavy growly parts and I kept imagining how they would sound with a bass opera singer. Thanks for the recommendation and also prefacing your piece on saying you came to Opeth from a 70s prog perspective as that makes sense to me as well. Ian
The idea of a "worst" Opeth album is a logical fallacy and therefore renders this video an abomination to the space time continuum. Such an insult to the physics of reality should not be allowed to exist.
1. Ghost Reveries 2. Blackwater Park 3. My Arms, Your Hearse 4. Deliverance 5. Still Life 6. Orchid 7. Watershed 8. Morningrise 9. Damnation 10. Sorceress 11. Heritage 12. Pale Communion Yes, Pale Communion is their weakest for me. I really like the first 3 songs though, especially Cusp of Eternity. There's good stuff on every album for sure.
1.Still Life 2. Blackwater Park 3. Ghost Reveries. 4. Watershed 5. Morningrise 6. Deliverance 7. My arms,your hearse haven't heard the rest of Opeths discography
1. Still Life 2. Morningrise 3. Damnation 4. Blackwater Park 5. Ghost Reveries 6. Orchid 7. My Arms, Your Hearse 8. Deliverance 9. Watershed 10. All the albums that came after Watershed.
The beauty about music is that it is subjective. We will all enjoy or dislike different albums depending on where we are emotionally at the time we hear them. Great vid.
Watershed is my favorite. I listened to them when Morningrise came out (awesome fretless bass!),but then lost interest until I watched the making of deliverance and damnation and got into them a lot after. Heir Apparent is (imo) their best song, and I believe only song to have just death growl vocals
i thought i was the only one who liked em way aat the beginning and then jumped off for a while and came back on. I got into them because of the Candlelight Records 1997 sampler compilation and went out and bought their first two albums (it was right after Morningrise as well).
When I was in my teens I bought the "My Arms, your Hearse" album. I haven't opened it yet and never listened to the songs (except for tDemon of the Fall) because I don't ever want to feel that there's not another album by them for me to discover, so I am keeping it for when I turn 100 years old. I am a professional classical musician, but Opeth is my favorite music of all time. Man I love them so much, up to Ghost Reveries I don't have any favorites, I loved them all the same. I saw them in Zurich a couple of days ago and it was great but I had that feeling you mention on your review of some of the albums, it was kind of disjointed, the growing energy of the crowd was constantly interrupted with changes of mood, great show nevertheless. Great video, thanks!
my personal top 5 would prob be 1. orchid 2. ghost rev 3. blackwater park 4. pale com 5. still life sucks to see so many people put orchid near the bottom, its a great album :)
Where is this guy from? He seems like a native English speaker, but having watched a few of his videos he mispronounces about half the titles he mentions.
jcrosato beaitiful list! I would have not include Watershed and would have put Damnation in a higher position, but at least your best albums are the older ones. The guy in the video started listening Opeth latest albums, ao he must be biased
I would’ve put Damnation in the top 4, IMO. Damnation is a such a beautiful album and it showcases more of Opeth’s creative songs and riffs. Windowpane is a great opening song and it just draws you in and you just get immersed into all of the album. But I might also be biased on this because I grew up listening to this album while falling asleep but I still appreciate it to this day.
I wouldn’t say so. A lot of people say it’s their greatest work and love this album. Even Mikael had said this during the Deliverance/Damnation documentary.
@@nicpayne8258 blackwater park is so much better than morning rise. I honestly can't stand the mix. To bid you farewell was the first song I heard but the songs sound like a collection of riffs just put together. Tbh I've never understood the obsession with black rose immortal. Id say it's better than orchid, sorceress, and heritage but compared to mayh the song structure and mix issues just bleed through so obviously. Blackwater park has an objectively better mix which just makes everything feel more brutal, and everything flows so much better within the songs and in the song order choice
Here's the right answer: 1. Blackwater Park 2. Still Life 3. Ghost Reveries 4. Watershed 5. Damnation 6. My Arms your hearse 7. Deliverance 8. Pale Communion 9. Orchid 10. Morningrise 11. Sorceress 12. Heritage
Ghost Reveries happens to be my favorite album by Opeth. Ghost of Perdition is such an incredible song. Somehow they can capture the feel of that rustic historic feel even just through the instrumental track. The best part is that the album tells a story, which in itself could probably be its own book. Fantastic!
YOURE ABSOLUTELY..... You’re absolutely right if that’s how you feel about it. I’m primarily a metal guy, that likes some prog Metal/rock and other things. And I’ve watched your vids on Rush, Genesis, etc. I was fairly shocked to see that you listened to death metal at all. And so naturally it makes sense to have a ranking different than the metal guys ranking. I think you did a damn good job on this list. And no, I don’t have mine sorted. I was a little late on the Opeth train. I love everything I’ve heard so far, but need more repeat listens to give a fair assessment
For me it would be: 13. Morningrise 12. Heritage 11. Sorceress 10. M.A.Y.H. 9. Orchid 8. In Cauda Venenum (next four could be at same level of greateness) 7. Deliverance 6. Pale Comunion 5. Blackwater Park 4. Watershed 3. Damnation (absolute beauty) 2. Still Life (brutally gorgeous) 1. Ghost Reveries (one of the best fucking albums I have heard, period.)
It changes all the time, but here's the current ranking: 13. Sorceress 12. Morningrise 11. My Arms, Your Hearse 10. Heritage 9. Orchid 8. Pale Communion 7. Watershed 6. In Cauda Venenum 5. Damnation 4. Deliverance 3. Still Life 2. Ghost Reveries 1. Blackwater Park
My man said "Hair Apparent"😂 I love the list for the most part, very well-thought out and defended. I'd put Heritage on the bottom, like you. I'd definitely put Ghost Reveries as number one, so we're close there as well. Also, Pale Communion is an underappreciated gem. Good video.
Pale Communion is an underrated album. My favorite song is probably the closing track of the album "Faith in Others", so beautiful. But yeah, my favorite Opeth album varies from time to time, but currently it's probably Watershed.
I think it's great that you like what you like regardless of what the most popular album is. It's cool that your giving those top two more attention. I'll listen to your favorite album later today. Haven't heard it, I'm stoked.
Yeah, that's the beauty about Opeth: Everyone finds something else in their music :) You, for example, value the prog-aspects very high, as do I. But I value the dark melancholy, which is much more present in their "Mid-range-albums" (Damnation/Deliverance/BWP/Still Life...) even more. But your list might be a good way to approach someone with Opeth who also doesn't care much about that raw melancholy. Thanks for an interesting watch!
Dude, listen to Serenity Painted Death and White Cluster a few more times each. Both took me a few listens and they some of my favorite songs by the band, especially SPD! Still Life is my favorite album by these guys
My list: 12: Heritage 11: Orchid 10: Sorceress 9: Morningrise 8: Pale Communion 7: Deliverance 6: My Arms, Your Hearse 5: Damnation 4: Watershed 3: Ghost Reveries 2: Blackwater Park 1: Still Life This list is so hard to make. Not the top 3, but Damnation, My Arms Your Hearse, Pale Communion and Deliverance could all have gotten the same place in my book. But Still Life is absolute masterpiece, especially because of the opening track, The Moor. The Moor is the perfect "Progressive Death Metal" in my book. The main riff leading up to "Outcast with dogmas forged below" in the middle of the song, and towards the end at "She is waterdrops over the pyre" is simply "perfectness" in my book.
1 Morningrise 2 Still Life 3 In Cauda Venenum 4 Orchid 5 Pale Communion 6 My Arms, Your Hearse 7 Blackwater Park 8 Watershed 9 Damnation 10 Deliverance 11 Ghost Reveries 12 Heritage 13 Sorceress
A bit late but i have to do it. It is ''Black Rose Immortal'' not ''Black Rose Eternal''. I think you are not too familiar with it, that's why is so low on your list, but it's your list... so i respect that anyways. Btw, i'm new to your channel and it's great!
nice video. I'm listening to some albums and I listened to two opeth songs which are harvest and then ghost of perdition (So fucking good btw), some albums I tried to listen recently were from death, ghost, stratovarius, judas priest, megadeth morbid angel and vader (I say "tried" because I'm not sure if I like them), but I think I'm not going to hear opeth now because it's prog metal and I'm not sure if I can understand it very well (even the instrumental, but that aplies to the lyrics as well), I have this problem that some times I can't tell what the meaning of the lyrics is, and opeth seem to have this poetic, meaningfull lyrics, so... I think I'm not hearing it now, and I'll eventually get back to it. Another thing is that I have to improve my english too, I think I have an at least medium english, but there's a lot of words, and idiomatic expressions that I don't get''n stuff.
I recently have been going through all of their albums in order for the first time in years and I have to say after listening to them all again, Watershed is definitely my favorite album from theirs! Why? Because in my opinion, it is the perfect mix between their heavy and light material! Hessian Peel might actually be my favorite track from them now, but then again, there are so many masterpieces from them that it's very tough to decide! Good list though! I think Pale Communion is probably their best in terms of their softer albums.
My rank: 13 Sorceress 12 Heritage 11 In cauda venum 10 My arms your hearse 09 Damnation 08 Watershed 07 Pale communion 06 Morningrise 05 Deliverance 04 Ghost riveries 03 Orchid 02 Still life 01 Blackwater park
In my opinion the best to worst list (regarding musical and lyrical content) is : Still Life - Blackwater Park - Ghost Reveries - My Arms Your Hearse - Watershed - Deliverance - Damnation - Morningrise - Orchid . From the era after the Watershed album It's : Pale Communion - Sorceress - Heritage. Cheers!
No matter which Opeth song / album is your fav, you'll be will be judged, thats how diverse their work is. I love the hauntingly beautiful elements of their songs.
My thoughts on this video: Ok first of all, and I'm really sorry if this comes off as offensive because I know you're dyslexic, but "Drier for November" made my day XD! Second of all, I really love how much passion you have when you describe how much you enjoy some of the albums listed on here. My favorite is Blackwater Park, and I'm personally not as crazy about your top 2, but I still felt your passion and your enjoyment for the pieces of music you mentioned on this list. I'm also really happy to find someone who loves Watershed as much as I do. To me, it really showcases a lot of their experimental side, and it results in some gorgeous tracks. It is also the first album since Blackwater Park that really takes me on a full musical journey from the first to very last song. Great job! Keep it up :) EDIT: Wow, thank you for pinning my comment! It is a real honor, and I mean that whole-heartedly :D
As far as personal enjoyment? My worst to best is: Deliverance Orchid Watershed Morningrise Ghost Reveries Sorceress Still Life My Arms, Your Hearse Pale Communion Blackwater Park Heritage Damnation THis is proabably wayyyy off from a lot of people, but pretty much everything from MAYH on is all equally amazing, to me.
cool channel, I subbed. I know this is YOUR favs, I somewhat disagree tho, Heritage is great! My fav is Ghost Reveries........respect your opinion tho.......carry on.
My favourite are: - Morningrise (1996) - My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) - Deliverance (2002) - Sorceress (2016) - In Cauda Venenum (2019) I have ALL Studioalbums
9. Orchid/Morningrise/My Arms, Your Hearse/Sorceress I haven't listened to these so im not going to rank them 8. Pale Communion Only liked Cusp of Eternity and River off this album every thing else was forgetable to me 7. Ghost reveries Its like Opeth took the Opeth stereotype and threw it into an album. The heavy tracks are just too all over the place for me. I only relisten to the softer more acoustic tracls 6. Still Life Has everything i like about opeth the brutality but also the gorgeousness of the calm parts but not better then the other album that are higher 5. Deliverence If this was better recorded and more polished this would be in my top 3 but its just too unrefined for me 4. Watershed This is Ghost reveries done right. It was even more abrasive but it managed to still have cohesiveness 3. Heritage I have no idea why this album gets hate. I love how atmospheric it is and experimental. But i feel as if some tracks don't work like silther, but tracks like Devil's orchid and famine really make the album for me (plus it has face in the snow as a bonus track) 2. Damnation 1. Blackwater Park I call this 2 the yin and yang of Opeth. Damnation is Opeth at its most atmospheric and beautiful while Blackwater Park is Opeth at its most brutal and crushing. Blackwater Park is the Album that made me a fan and Damnation made them my favorite band
Yes man!! I'm glad you put Pale Communion as your number 1! It's also my favourite of theirs. It's meatier than Heritage, but more structured than Sorceress. Like Still life but focused on prog rather than death metal. I love the direction Opeth has taken recently. They got all that growling out of the way, and what you get now is a more mature, refined Opeth that has aged well. Like a fine wine.
1. Blackwater park 2. Ghost reveries 3. Still life 4. Watershed 5. Deliverance 6. My arms your hearse 7. Pale communion 8. Damnation 9. In cauda venenum 10. Orchid 11. Morningrise 12. Sorceress 13. Heritage
Morningrise second worst ? Opeth first three albums are the best records I've ever heard over thousands , When u talk about art it would be so formalistic to talk about complexity , technicality etc... It's about FEELING !
my list: 1.morningrise 2.still life 3.damnation 4.ghost reveries 5.blackwater park 6.my arms your hearse 7.deliverance 8.orchid 9.sorceress 10.pale communion 11.watershed 12.heritage the top 7 are all pretty much equal imo
Can you do one on Porcupine Tree please, another band with some amazing albums. Love your choices i like most of the bands you have featured so far. Cheers
I slept on post-heritage Opeth for long, and finally picked up Pale Communion a month ago... It has been on repeat ever since. Every track is pure fire, but River is my all time favourite.
So I'm not the only person who thinks Pale Communion is amazing. Man, we have a pretty solid link up in lists, other than I would rank Watershed down a bit more. Deliverance was my first Opeth album, but Ghost Reveries tour was the first time I saw them. So good.
It was intriguing to see how much I disagreed with what you said. Then I checked you shelves, and I understood why....we're leaving in a different univers and Opeth is the only common thing connecting us.
My list: 1) Ghost Reveries 2) Blackwater Park 3) Still Life 4) Damnation 5) My Arms, Your Hearse 6) Pale Communion 7) Deliverance 8) Morningrise 9) Sorceress 10) Watershed 11) Heritage 12) Orchid
_I mostly disagree with this ranking, but I agree with "Heritage" as "worst" ranked, not because its quality (it's definitely NOT a bad album), but for the crime of having been released as an Opeth's album._
My list is as follows worst - best 12 - Orchid 11 - Heritage 10 - Sorceress 09 - Damnation 08 - Deliverance 07 - Still Life 06 - My Arms Your Hearse 05 - Pale Communion 04 - Morningrise 03 - Blackwater Park 02 - Ghost Reveries 01 - Watershed
For me, this is the list (just my preferences): 1. Pale Communion 2. Deliverance 3. Ghost Reveries 4. Blackwater Park 5. Morningrise 6. My Arms, Your Hearse 7. Sorceress 8. Watershed 9. Still Life 10. Orchid 11. Heritage 12. Damnation
My Arms your Hearse is a concept album, it's basically about someone who dies and dealing with being trapped in spirit form and the reaction of seeing his loved ones, both anger and sadness, throughout the seasons, hence songs like April Ethereal and Demon of the fall.... It has abit more to it than that but that's the basics of it and actually once you listen to it as a whole it hits different, if you read the lyrics it's all basically one long story, every song being a different chapter.
For me:
1. Ghost Reveries
1. Blackwater Park
1. My Arms, Your Hearse
1. Deliverance
1. Still Life
1. Orchid
1. Watershed
1. Morningrise
1. Damnation
1. Sorceress
1. Heritage
1. Pale Communion
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You're absolutely out of your gourd if you think Heritage is on par with Blackwater Park.
Oh boy, the fanboyism...
@@NumberSpace Heritage is fantastic but it's a completely different of style than Blackwater Park. It's like comparing apples to oranges even from the same band.
How the fuck Pale Communion it's the worst, go listen some Soon above sun Below,
I came here to undoubtedly be triggered.
TheApostleofRock I wonder how would be your list…
dude me too.
here is my list.
1)blackwater
2)still life
3)morning rise
4)orchid
5)my arms
6)ghost rev
7) damnation
8)deliverance
9)the rest of their new shit.. sorceress, watershed, heritege
@@blacknovella Read this comment again and think about the meaning of your existance
Usman Sheikh man, Watershed is really good. I say you listen to it again.
There seems to be a divide between fans of the early death metal and the later prog rock style. I like both. Orchid and sorceress very underated
"If you enjoy listening to Opeth then you are an Opeth fan"
Very, very true!
kalkwiese this is something most people should recognize with any band.
Disagreed.
I must concur
Deep
What if i love listening to opeth, but i only really like 20 songs or so. Considering they have like 120 songs, am i still a fan if i love only 1/6 of what they have released?
Opeth is one of the greatest modern bands if Pink Floyd and Death had a baby Opeth would be the child.
WHAT??
Pink Floyd, sure - especially since Watershed.
But Chuck could write great, MEMORABLE riffs in his sleep, and compose solos. Åkerfeldt however...
Which Opeth songs with great riffs, would you recommend for someone who has a hard time getting the hype from Opeth's fanbase?
I like songs such as Ghost of Perdition, Demon's of the Fall, Drapery Falls, Wreath, Grand Conjuration and Bleak (until Steven Wilson starts singing). Yet, most of Opeth's songs seem so dragged out to me, and I really don't find many riffs to be memorable.. but I would love to be persuaded, so please send some recommendations my way!
MetalForTheMasses if you are a riff guy id listen to Sorceress and Heritage they are both great albums
MetalForTheMasses Try the baying of the hounds, Sorceress, The Wilde Flowers, Chrysalis, Eternal Rains Will Come, Moon Above Sun Below, Strange Brew and Heir Apparent. All good songs with some great riffs, particularly chrysalis and heir apparent. Keep in mind that most of Opeth's music is almost a waiting game, because there's a lot of musical context required to fully appreciate their music. Some people don't like the material on Sorceress (or anything post-watershed) but if you think about their most recent three albums in a jazzier context I think you'll enjoy it.
try Forest of October. i think its prolly their catchies song after DotF
"Opeth's songs seem so dragged out to me, and I really don't find many riffs to be memorable"
It seems to me that you have a short musical attention span.(no offence intended) Most of Opeth's song structures are not short riffs which is more radio friendly. Their latest works might be more to your liking than their earlier stuff.
I feel Heritage is criminally underrated. You have to listen to it from a less is more perspective. The sheer atmosphere provided from the silent parts really accentuates everything else. Solid riffs and singing and just all around amazing to listen to. This album is top three tier for me.
victor dragon I like it but it has been one of my least listened to and would rate it last to. Maybe I should give it more listens!
The great thing about Opeth is that when people say their favourites, I hear different people say different albums
My faves differ at any time between Damnation, Ghost Reveries and Morningrise
victor dragon i can feel you dude. Heritage is equally deep and dark for me as bwp
heritage is fucking garbage kid
I tried to like Heritage. I really did. But I just can't get into it.
I've always listened to Opeth on a song by song basis and not particularly by 'album'
Heritage IMHO is great but it is a style apart from their previous work.
(I'm sure this comparison has been done to death)
Metallica the Thrash Metal band i liked, Metallica the bubble-gum-pop-rock band i hated whilst Opeth the Prog Metal band i like and Opeth the Prog Acid Rock i also like. But then again, i also liked the non-growl/soft Opeth songs from earlier albums. But i will admit that the albums after Heritage are pretty much my least liked for me, but they do have a decent song or two on each, just they pale in comparison to the earlier Growling songs.
Watershed let's go!!
most underrated Opeth album =]
Watershed is in the top 20 of best music in human history.
Watershed 5/5.
When music and production meet. Perfection.
For me it's pale communion
That was the last album Mikeal screamed heavy on too.
Who tf underrates Watershed??
Morningrise is so underrated. Almost half of the album is acoustic, and it's immersed in a cold, melancholic mood throughout which is maybe why people can't fully appreciate it.
P.S. It's 'Black Rose Immortal', not 'Eternal'.
Yes! I was 20 when "Morningrise" was released, so It was my favorite record by Opeth for a long time. I'm starting to realize how good "Still Life" is now though.
My Top 5
1. Ghost Reveries - a pure masterpiece in my opinion
2. Pale Communion
3. Damnation
4. Still Life
5. Blackwater Park
I absolutely adored Pale Communion when I listened to it and it grew on me every time I played it , i still don’t understand why people avoid it and rate it really low among opeth’s discography.
Absolutely agree with you!
It’s because when you’ve listened to a lot, and I mean a LOT of both progressive music today and back then, it just sounds like a lot of different riffs from the past. Only what people don’t realize is it’s done so so well and fits with the overall sound. I greatly enjoy this album, prob the best album in their newer sound, but at first I didn’t like it because it sounded like a lot of the older prog rock that came before. But after a few listens it definitely grew on me.
This is same for me but with heritage
Morningrise second worst ? It is actually my most favorite Opeth album..
Damn bro…😢
@@davidmarsh9386 It's alright, everyone has different taste.. And with Opeth really, all their albums are great, I just think for me Morningrise and Ghost Reveries these would be my top 2, but really all their stuff is great.. (not a fan of sorceress though.)
I saw this video when it came out and thought "How can anyone, even if they are a prog fan put "Pale Communion" on top?"
So, I come from a extreme metal background and Opeth is one of, if not my absolute favourite band. But, as many other fans I have not been the biggest fan of their more prog turn of direction. That is until "In Cauda Venenum
" came out, an album which I love! I said to myself "You have to give Heritage, Pale Communion and Sorceress another go, you have to invest time!" So, out of my love for the band I really started listening to those albums and they finally clicked for me! I can finally say that Opeth have not made a single bad album.
"I love that BWAMRH!-do,do,do,do,deedle-dede,doo-do-do-BWAMRH!...BWAMRH!...MMMPH!" After this, Notes' quit TH-cam to kickstart his revolutionary death metal acapella career.
Jordan McFilmMyself clearly I've missed my true calling ;)
Dryer for November? LOL?!
Erythryal, dude
And "Hair" Apparent... O.o
Boys, let’s not forget Godheed’s Lament
right...someone please introduce this guy to the inside of a book
Hair Drier for November is my favorite
mines Hair Apparatus
April Ethrethreal and madrequeal for me
God heeds lament!
Love your channel, you're a really articulate and engaging reviewer of music, which is rare on TH-cam.
REALLY? Articulate haha...his only adjectives for the music are "MEATY" lol.
Adjectives are overrated. You don't need adjectives in order to be articulate. I agree with @davehall5857 on this one!
Morningrise, still life , black water park my favorites
I love how everybody likes and aprecciates each album in a different way, some of us think of Blackwater Park as their best and other people have this album not even in top 5. Makes you realize how amazing this band is, even at it's lowest points.
My best to worst.
01. Deliverance
02. Damnation
03. Blackwater Park
04. Watershed
05. Ghost Reveries
06. My Arms, Your Hearse
07. Still Life
08. Pale Communion
09. Heritage
10. Sorceress
11. Morningrise
12. Orchid
@vineeth sagar I hear ya man, lol. It's a tough list to make 'cause I like 'em all. I'm curious to see your best to worst.
Finally someone who truly appreciated deliverance
#12 - Damnation (An acoustic masterpiece. I have to be in the right mood to get into it but when I am it really takes me places. I put it last just because all the songs kinda follow the same pattern and soundscape and also some album had to be last but I still adore all of their works!)
#11 - Heritage (Just like Damnation, if I'm at the right mood for this Prog materpiece then I'll fully enjoy it. Most underrated album of theirs in my opinion!)
#10 - Pale Communion (What they wanted to achieve with Heritage, they achieved it here! Just like you said, every song in here is a favourite!)
#09 - Sorceress (For me, their best work of their Prog Rock trilogy. Taking elements both from Heritage and Pale Communion and it works perfectly. Will O The Wisp showing a more Elysian Woes kind of vibe while Strange Brew is dark brilliance, kind of a Famine vibe!)
#08 - Deliverance (Their most brutal album yet so beautiful in places...Almost every riff on here is spot on awesome and the song Deliverance is just flawless!)
#07 - Blackwater Park (Starting with the first riff of The Leper Affinity and grabbing me right by the balls and ending with the final acoustic melody of Blackwater Park just leaving me wondering of what a brilliant album I've just heard, this record is definately a journey!)
#06 - My Arms, Your Hearse (For me, their first four albums had something that no other album after them was able to achieve and that is dark ambient forest atmosphere along with the lyrics of their first four records which are pure poetry and blended perfeclty with what the music wanted to say. This is just a flawless concept album from beginning to end!)
#05 - Orchid (The most dark album, I've ever heard! Combined with the fact that I listened to these records in a village in the woods, these melodies will follow me until I die...I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael could write and record these beautifully dark and complex pieces! From the extremely haunting acoustic melody of Under The Weeping Moon to the glorious finishing solo of The Apostle In Triumph, this a jaw-dropping debut!)
#04 - Watershed (If this is indeed their last album featuring Death Metal (which I hope not) then they certainly went out with a bang! From Coil to Burden to Hessian Peel, this album is just dark emotional and brutal brilliance!)
#03 - Ghost Reveries (I don't have much to say about this one, you described it all yourself. From Ghost Of Perdition to Isolation Years, this album flows perfectly between beauty and brutallity!)
#02 - Morningrise (For some people, Black Rose Immortal is an overrated song stating that people like it just because it's 20 minutes long. For some other people, Black Rose Immortal is Opeth's absolute masterpiece with flawless riffs and a perfect ballance between beauty and brutallity. I always go with the second side of opinions. This album is a just a beautiful journey from the beginning of Advent until the ending of To Bid You Farewell! Just like Orchid, I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael wrote this...)
#01 - Still Life (My all time favourite Metal album! Combining the concept with Mikael's poetry and a foresty dark ambient atmosphere, this is the perfect balance between beauty and brutallity! From the haunting start of The Moor to the melancholic melody of Benighted to the atmospheric Moonlapse Vertigo to the jazzy sound of Face Of Melinda to the brutallity of Serenity Painted Death to the ending melody of White Cluster, this record is the peak of their discography for me and probably always be!)
I love your passion
WwwwwwwwhAAAAAAT?! DELIVERANCE 8TH?!
@@jaimuzyka3177 its not one of their best
@@imabigpotato3249 DUH IT IS
@@jaimuzyka3177 um.... no
You got the names Of half the songs wrong lol
I can see you're probably new here XD
therainman indeed haha :)
Well, better get used to it if you're going to stay :P
Haha i guess so. The video itself was great so its all good :)
I suggest you check out his 2017 census videos he released in January. You'll learn some stuff about him ;)
And yes, as always, he does great videos. This is just another one :)
Your enthusiasm is totally infectious.
:D
I've just started having a good listen to Ghost Reveries (my first proper encounter with Opeth) and that first track, Ghost Of Perdition, is really impressive and nothing like I would've expected. It's almost Wagnerian in those heavy growly parts and I kept imagining how they would sound with a bass opera singer. Thanks for the recommendation and also prefacing your piece on saying you came to Opeth from a 70s prog perspective as that makes sense to me as well. Ian
The idea of a "worst" Opeth album is a logical fallacy and therefore renders this video an abomination to the space time continuum. Such an insult to the physics of reality should not be allowed to exist.
agreed
ok
1. Ghost Reveries
2. Blackwater Park
3. My Arms, Your Hearse
4. Deliverance
5. Still Life
6. Orchid
7. Watershed
8. Morningrise
9. Damnation
10. Sorceress
11. Heritage
12. Pale Communion
Yes, Pale Communion is their weakest for me. I really like the first 3 songs though, especially Cusp of Eternity.
There's good stuff on every album for sure.
Listen to Voice of Treason flowing right into Faith In Others. That's gold right there.
@@BlitherVids 9
Pale is my 3rd favorite
1.Still Life 2. Blackwater Park 3. Ghost Reveries. 4. Watershed 5. Morningrise 6. Deliverance 7. My arms,your hearse haven't heard the rest of Opeths discography
1st damnation
2nd three way tie with blackwater park, ghost reveries and watershed
and then the rest.
ill give them like 9.5/10
3 way tie between morning rise damnations and blackwater Park. Then the rest.
Morningrise is their masterpiece.
Love damnation so muuuch!❤️
1. Still Life
2. Morningrise
3. Damnation
4. Blackwater Park
5. Ghost Reveries
6. Orchid
7. My Arms, Your Hearse
8. Deliverance
9. Watershed
10. All the albums that came after Watershed.
I also love Ghost Reveries, each instrument is totally clear, great grooves, oscillating between heavy and softer.
I would love to see you do a BtBaM worst to best!
TundraL5Z hot take, they've only got one good record
@@MylesMarrero 0.0
That would be a bad to worst list.. 😅
@@MylesMarrero more like only one bad record (the anatomy of...)
awful covers lol
The beauty about music is that it is subjective. We will all enjoy or dislike different albums depending on where we are emotionally at the time we hear them. Great vid.
Watershed is my favorite. I listened to them when Morningrise came out (awesome fretless bass!),but then lost interest until I watched the making of deliverance and damnation and got into them a lot after.
Heir Apparent is (imo) their best song, and I believe only song to have just death growl vocals
Fairly Secret Music blackwater park also has only growls
i thought i was the only one who liked em way aat the beginning and then jumped off for a while and came back on. I got into them because of the Candlelight Records 1997 sampler compilation and went out and bought their first two albums (it was right after Morningrise as well).
worst: sorceress
best: deliverance/ still life
I started to feel the trigger but I actually agree with your list! Very nice review man, your enthusiasm is contagious!
When I was in my teens I bought the "My Arms, your Hearse" album. I haven't opened it yet and never listened to the songs (except for tDemon of the Fall) because I don't ever want to feel that there's not another album by them for me to discover, so I am keeping it for when I turn 100 years old. I am a professional classical musician, but Opeth is my favorite music of all time. Man I love them so much, up to Ghost Reveries I don't have any favorites, I loved them all the same.
I saw them in Zurich a couple of days ago and it was great but I had that feeling you mention on your review of some of the albums, it was kind of disjointed, the growing energy of the crowd was constantly interrupted with changes of mood, great show nevertheless.
Great video, thanks!
my personal top 5 would prob be
1. orchid
2. ghost rev
3. blackwater park
4. pale com
5. still life
sucks to see so many people put orchid near the bottom, its a great album :)
My man :D
Where is this guy from? He seems like a native English speaker, but having watched a few of his videos he mispronounces about half the titles he mentions.
NimlotSRV he is dyslexic, so he reads some words incorrectly
The riff from face of Melinda you played is my absolute favorite of all time... And blackwater Park is #1 lol.
1. Still Life
2. Morningrise
3. Orchid
4. My Arms, Your Hearse
5. Blackwater Park
6. Ghost Reveries
7. Deliverance
8. Watershed
9. Damnation
10. Pale Communion
11. Sorceress
12. Heritage
jcrosato beaitiful list! I would have not include Watershed and would have put Damnation in a higher position, but at least your best albums are the older ones. The guy in the video started listening Opeth latest albums, ao he must be biased
So happy to see many people list Still Life as number one.
Very close to my list, though morning rise is my top #1
Can you make king crimson: worst to best?
This!
My List:
1. Ghost Reveries - 10
2. In Cauda Venenum - 10
3. Blackwater Park - 10
4. Pale Communion - 9,5
5. Damnation - 9,5
6. Still Life - 9
7. Sorceress - 8,5
8. Deliverance - 8,5
9. Watershed - 8
10. My Arms Your Hearse - 8
11. Morningrise - 7,5
12. Heritage - 7
13. Orchid - 7,
I really like every Opeth´s albums. Greetings from canary islands.
I otherwise agree but id give blackwater 8.5 and damnation a 10. And Orchid a 5.5
13:55 Serenity Painted Death is such an underated song in my opinion
Nice list and great channel. Keep on recording! Now I'm waiting for "Camel: Worst to Best" ;D
I would’ve put Damnation in the top 4, IMO. Damnation is a such a beautiful album and it showcases more of Opeth’s creative songs and riffs. Windowpane is a great opening song and it just draws you in and you just get immersed into all of the album. But I might also be biased on this because I grew up listening to this album while falling asleep but I still appreciate it to this day.
1. Damnation
2. Ghost Reveries
Very similar to Jack Rock Musician, Giacomo James ranking , and I agree with you in a lot of songs you mentioned
Thank you girl for the shout out !.. 😃👍🏼 however this is also one of the best ranking ever
Stopped the video when Morningrise was mentioned early on - A brilliant, underrated prog/doom album.
morningrise is criminally underrated....
I agree
To Bid You Farewell was the first Opeth song I heard, and Morningrise still remains one of my top 3 Opeth albums to date.
I wouldn’t say so. A lot of people say it’s their greatest work and love this album. Even Mikael had said this during the Deliverance/Damnation documentary.
@@williamreynolds3487 it's criminally underrated because of how many blackwater park bandwagoners say it's their worst album.
@@nicpayne8258 blackwater park is so much better than morning rise. I honestly can't stand the mix. To bid you farewell was the first song I heard but the songs sound like a collection of riffs just put together. Tbh I've never understood the obsession with black rose immortal. Id say it's better than orchid, sorceress, and heritage but compared to mayh the song structure and mix issues just bleed through so obviously. Blackwater park has an objectively better mix which just makes everything feel more brutal, and everything flows so much better within the songs and in the song order choice
1 BP
2 Deliverance
3 Watershed
4 ICV
5 SL
6 GR
7 Damnation
8 Morningrise
9 Orchid
10 Heritage
11 PC
12 Sorceress
13 MAYH
Opeth has never made a bad album. All of their albums are amazing.
Casey Mather Sorry, Heritage is a deception
Sorry, Sorceress is a deception.
Here's the right answer:
1. Blackwater Park
2. Still Life
3. Ghost Reveries
4. Watershed
5. Damnation
6. My Arms your hearse
7. Deliverance
8. Pale Communion
9. Orchid
10. Morningrise
11. Sorceress
12. Heritage
My current top 3 are
1. Damnation
2. BWP
3. Morningrise
There is no right answer
Ghost Reveries happens to be my favorite album by Opeth. Ghost of Perdition is such an incredible song. Somehow they can capture the feel of that rustic historic feel even just through the instrumental track. The best part is that the album tells a story, which in itself could probably be its own book. Fantastic!
YOURE ABSOLUTELY.....
You’re absolutely right if that’s how you feel about it. I’m primarily a metal guy, that likes some prog Metal/rock and other things. And I’ve watched your vids on Rush, Genesis, etc.
I was fairly shocked to see that you listened to death metal at all. And so naturally it makes sense to have a ranking different than the metal guys ranking.
I think you did a damn good job on this list. And no, I don’t have mine sorted. I was a little late on the Opeth train. I love everything I’ve heard so far, but need more repeat listens to give a fair assessment
For the most part I agree with your opinions. I think Ghost Reveries is number 1 but that's MY opinion. Love the video!!
1000% Ghost Reveries.
love this series! keep it up man
For me it would be:
13. Morningrise
12. Heritage
11. Sorceress
10. M.A.Y.H.
9. Orchid
8. In Cauda Venenum
(next four could be at same level of greateness)
7. Deliverance
6. Pale Comunion
5. Blackwater Park
4. Watershed
3. Damnation (absolute beauty)
2. Still Life (brutally gorgeous)
1. Ghost Reveries (one of the best fucking albums I have heard, period.)
It changes all the time, but here's the current ranking:
13. Sorceress
12. Morningrise
11. My Arms, Your Hearse
10. Heritage
9. Orchid
8. Pale Communion
7. Watershed
6. In Cauda Venenum
5. Damnation
4. Deliverance
3. Still Life
2. Ghost Reveries
1. Blackwater Park
My man said "Hair Apparent"😂
I love the list for the most part, very well-thought out and defended. I'd put Heritage on the bottom, like you. I'd definitely put Ghost Reveries as number one, so we're close there as well.
Also, Pale Communion is an underappreciated gem.
Good video.
I died at “Dryer for November”
Pale Communion is an underrated album. My favorite song is probably the closing track of the album "Faith in Others", so beautiful. But yeah, my favorite Opeth album varies from time to time, but currently it's probably Watershed.
Still Life
My Arms Your Hearse
Morningrise
Deliverance
Blackwater park
My top 5!!!
I think it's great that you like what you like regardless of what the most popular album is. It's cool that your giving those top two more attention. I'll listen to your favorite album later today. Haven't heard it, I'm stoked.
Yeah, that's the beauty about Opeth: Everyone finds something else in their music :)
You, for example, value the prog-aspects very high, as do I. But I value the dark melancholy, which is much more present in their "Mid-range-albums" (Damnation/Deliverance/BWP/Still Life...) even more. But your list might be a good way to approach someone with Opeth who also doesn't care much about that raw melancholy. Thanks for an interesting watch!
1. Still Life
2. Ghost Reveries
3. Blackwater Park / Deliverance
4. My Arms, Your Hearse
5. The rest
Dude, listen to Serenity Painted Death and White Cluster a few more times each. Both took me a few listens and they some of my favorite songs by the band, especially SPD! Still Life is my favorite album by these guys
My list:
12: Heritage
11: Orchid
10: Sorceress
9: Morningrise
8: Pale Communion
7: Deliverance
6: My Arms, Your Hearse
5: Damnation
4: Watershed
3: Ghost Reveries
2: Blackwater Park
1: Still Life
This list is so hard to make. Not the top 3, but Damnation, My Arms Your Hearse, Pale Communion and Deliverance could all have gotten the same place in my book.
But Still Life is absolute masterpiece, especially because of the opening track, The Moor. The Moor is the perfect "Progressive Death Metal" in my book. The main riff leading up to "Outcast with dogmas forged below" in the middle of the song, and towards the end at "She is waterdrops over the pyre" is simply "perfectness" in my book.
1 Morningrise
2 Still Life
3 In Cauda Venenum
4 Orchid
5 Pale Communion
6 My Arms, Your Hearse
7 Blackwater Park
8 Watershed
9 Damnation
10 Deliverance
11 Ghost Reveries
12 Heritage
13 Sorceress
Thanks to your review, I have just discovered Pale Communion. What a fabulous album!
Great video, good descriptions! Thanks
A bit late but i have to do it. It is ''Black Rose Immortal'' not ''Black Rose Eternal''. I think you are not too familiar with it, that's why is so low on your list, but it's your list... so i respect that anyways. Btw, i'm new to your channel and it's great!
nice video. I'm listening to some albums and I listened to two opeth songs which are harvest and then ghost of perdition (So fucking good btw), some albums I tried to listen recently were from death, ghost, stratovarius, judas priest, megadeth morbid angel and vader (I say "tried" because I'm not sure if I like them), but I think I'm not going to hear opeth now because it's prog metal and I'm not sure if I can understand it very well (even the instrumental, but that aplies to the lyrics as well), I have this problem that some times I can't tell what the meaning of the lyrics is, and opeth seem to have this poetic, meaningfull lyrics, so... I think I'm not hearing it now, and I'll eventually get back to it. Another thing is that I have to improve my english too, I think I have an at least medium english, but there's a lot of words, and idiomatic expressions that I don't get''n stuff.
This is an impossible task I admire you for tackling it!
I recently have been going through all of their albums in order for the first time in years and I have to say after listening to them all again, Watershed is definitely my favorite album from theirs!
Why? Because in my opinion, it is the perfect mix between their heavy and light material!
Hessian Peel might actually be my favorite track from them now, but then again, there are so many masterpieces from them that it's very tough to decide!
Good list though! I think Pale Communion is probably their best in terms of their softer albums.
My rank:
13 Sorceress
12 Heritage
11 In cauda venum
10 My arms your hearse
09 Damnation
08 Watershed
07 Pale communion
06 Morningrise
05 Deliverance
04 Ghost riveries
03 Orchid
02 Still life
01 Blackwater park
MAYH that low? I respect your opinion but may I ask what you don’t like about it?
In my opinion the best to worst list (regarding musical and lyrical content) is : Still Life - Blackwater Park - Ghost Reveries - My Arms Your Hearse - Watershed - Deliverance - Damnation - Morningrise - Orchid . From the era after the Watershed album It's : Pale Communion - Sorceress - Heritage. Cheers!
No matter which Opeth song / album is your fav, you'll be will be judged, thats how diverse their work is. I love the hauntingly beautiful elements of their songs.
My thoughts on this video: Ok first of all, and I'm really sorry if this comes off as offensive because I know you're dyslexic, but "Drier for November" made my day XD!
Second of all, I really love how much passion you have when you describe how much you enjoy some of the albums listed on here. My favorite is Blackwater Park, and I'm personally not as crazy about your top 2, but I still felt your passion and your enjoyment for the pieces of music you mentioned on this list. I'm also really happy to find someone who loves Watershed as much as I do. To me, it really showcases a lot of their experimental side, and it results in some gorgeous tracks. It is also the first album since Blackwater Park that really takes me on a full musical journey from the first to very last song. Great job! Keep it up :)
EDIT: Wow, thank you for pinning my comment! It is a real honor, and I mean that whole-heartedly :D
your comment spoke to me :)
Notes Reviews I'm glad it did! Again, I really appreciate it :)
You lost me at “April Air-rear-three-all.” MAYH is their best album IMO, and if it’s not, then definitely top 3 with BP and SL.
Willem Wallinga Those are my top three! Respect.
As far as personal enjoyment? My worst to best is:
Deliverance
Orchid
Watershed
Morningrise
Ghost Reveries
Sorceress
Still Life
My Arms, Your Hearse
Pale Communion
Blackwater Park
Heritage
Damnation
THis is proabably wayyyy off from a lot of people, but pretty much everything from MAYH on is all equally amazing, to me.
I can tell you lean more to their softer, proggier stuff, I prefer the opposite, but I do love some hard hitting stuff. Interesting perspective.
MAYH is my favorite.
cool channel, I subbed. I know this is YOUR favs, I somewhat disagree tho, Heritage is great! My fav is Ghost Reveries........respect your opinion tho.......carry on.
My favourite are:
- Morningrise (1996)
- My Arms, Your Hearse (1998)
- Deliverance (2002)
- Sorceress (2016)
- In Cauda Venenum (2019)
I have ALL Studioalbums
9. Orchid/Morningrise/My Arms, Your Hearse/Sorceress
I haven't listened to these so im not going to rank them
8. Pale Communion
Only liked Cusp of Eternity and River off this album every thing else was forgetable to me
7. Ghost reveries
Its like Opeth took the Opeth stereotype and threw it into an album. The heavy tracks are just too all over the place for me. I only relisten to the softer more acoustic tracls
6. Still Life
Has everything i like about opeth the brutality but also the gorgeousness of the calm parts but not better then the other album that are higher
5. Deliverence
If this was better recorded and more polished this would be in my top 3 but its just too unrefined for me
4. Watershed
This is Ghost reveries done right. It was even more abrasive but it managed to still have cohesiveness
3. Heritage
I have no idea why this album gets hate. I love how atmospheric it is and experimental. But i feel as if some tracks don't work like silther, but tracks like Devil's orchid and famine really make the album for me (plus it has face in the snow as a bonus track)
2. Damnation
1. Blackwater Park
I call this 2 the yin and yang of Opeth. Damnation is Opeth at its most atmospheric and beautiful while Blackwater Park is Opeth at its most brutal and crushing. Blackwater Park is the Album that made me a fan and Damnation made them my favorite band
Yes man!! I'm glad you put Pale Communion as your number 1! It's also my favourite of theirs. It's meatier than Heritage, but more structured than Sorceress. Like Still life but focused on prog rather than death metal.
I love the direction Opeth has taken recently. They got all that growling out of the way, and what you get now is a more mature, refined Opeth that has aged well. Like a fine wine.
"My arms your hearse" had a concept too.
1. Blackwater park
2. Ghost reveries
3. Still life
4. Watershed
5. Deliverance
6. My arms your hearse
7. Pale communion
8. Damnation
9. In cauda venenum
10. Orchid
11. Morningrise
12. Sorceress
13. Heritage
Morningrise second worst ? Opeth first three albums are the best records I've ever heard over thousands , When u talk about art it would be so formalistic to talk about complexity , technicality etc... It's about FEELING !
13. Sorceress 4/10
12. Heritage 5/10
11. Morningrise 7.6/10
10. Pale Communion 8.5/10
9. Watershed 8.8/10
8. Orchid 9.3/10
7. ICV 9.5/10
6. Deliverance 9.8/10
5. Ghost Reveries 10/10
4. My Arms your Hearse 10/10
3. Still Life 10/10
2. Damnation 100/10
1. Blackwater Park 1,000,000,000/10
1) still life
2) blackwater park
3) morning rise
4) orchid
5) my arms your hearse
6) deliverence
7) watershed
8) damnation
9) ghost reverie's
10) pale communion
11) sorceress
12) heritage
13) in cauda venenum
my list:
1.morningrise
2.still life
3.damnation
4.ghost reveries
5.blackwater park
6.my arms your hearse
7.deliverance
8.orchid
9.sorceress
10.pale communion
11.watershed
12.heritage
the top 7 are all pretty much equal imo
Can you do one on Porcupine Tree please, another band with some amazing albums. Love your choices i like most of the bands you have featured so far. Cheers
Blackwater Park
Ghost Reveries
Damnation
Watershed
Pale Communion
Still Life
My Arms Your Hearse
Morningrise
Deliverence
Sorceress
Orchid
Heritage
I slept on post-heritage Opeth for long, and finally picked up Pale Communion a month ago... It has been on repeat ever since. Every track is pure fire, but River is my all time favourite.
So I'm not the only person who thinks Pale Communion is amazing. Man, we have a pretty solid link up in lists, other than I would rank Watershed down a bit more. Deliverance was my first Opeth album, but Ghost Reveries tour was the first time I saw them. So good.
My favorites: Blackwater Park and Damnation. And I'm still waiting for Damnation 2.0
You said Dirge For November very wrong ^^, was waiting for you do see this one, fantastic video! :)
"Hair Apparent"? 😂
He has dyslexia I think
@@wiggy009 dysspeechia*
1 - Ghost Reveries
2 - Deliverance
3 - Blackwater Park
4 - Morningrise
5 - Watershed
6 - Damnation
7 - Pale Communion
8 - Still Life
9 - My Arms, Your Hearse
10 - Sorceres
11 - Heritage
It was intriguing to see how much I disagreed with what you said.
Then I checked you shelves, and I understood why....we're leaving in a different univers and Opeth is the only common thing connecting us.
My list:
1) Ghost Reveries
2) Blackwater Park
3) Still Life
4) Damnation
5) My Arms, Your Hearse
6) Pale Communion
7) Deliverance
8) Morningrise
9) Sorceress
10) Watershed
11) Heritage
12) Orchid
_I mostly disagree with this ranking, but I agree with "Heritage" as "worst" ranked, not because its quality (it's definitely NOT a bad album), but for the crime of having been released as an Opeth's album._
you'r a true Opeth fan
Ghost Reveries! One if the best executed albums ever!... Unless you're talking BTBAM "Colors" !
My list is as follows worst - best
12 - Orchid
11 - Heritage
10 - Sorceress
09 - Damnation
08 - Deliverance
07 - Still Life
06 - My Arms Your Hearse
05 - Pale Communion
04 - Morningrise
03 - Blackwater Park
02 - Ghost Reveries
01 - Watershed
For me, this is the list (just my preferences):
1. Pale Communion
2. Deliverance
3. Ghost Reveries
4. Blackwater Park
5. Morningrise
6. My Arms, Your Hearse
7. Sorceress
8. Watershed
9. Still Life
10. Orchid
11. Heritage
12. Damnation
My Arms your Hearse is a concept album, it's basically about someone who dies and dealing with being trapped in spirit form and the reaction of seeing his loved ones, both anger and sadness, throughout the seasons, hence songs like April Ethereal and Demon of the fall.... It has abit more to it than that but that's the basics of it and actually once you listen to it as a whole it hits different, if you read the lyrics it's all basically one long story, every song being a different chapter.
Heritage is a personal favourite of mine actually haha
I feel the dark is one of their best songs
Another guy who loves I Feel The Dark! That song is criminally underrated.
@@BlitherVids I like the entire Heritage album. I know a lot of people are down on it but it's really easy to play the whole thing on repeat.
Agreed....I feel the dark is a masterpiece