Opeth - Blackwater Park
| Release date: | 12 March 2001 |
| Style: | Extreme progressive metal |
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01. The Leper Affinity
02. Bleak [feat. Steven Wilson]
03. Harvest
04. The Drapery Falls
05. Dirge For November
06. The Funeral Portrait
07. Patterns In The Ivy
08. Blackwater Park
09. The Leper Affinity [live] [Legacy edition bonus]
[Limited edition bonus CD]
01. Still Day Beneath The Sun
02. Patterns In The Ivy II
[Legacy Edition bonus DVD]
+ 5.0 Audio Mix Of The Original Album
+ The Making Of Blackwater Park
Top 20 albums of 2001: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 5
Featured in "Getting Into: Opeth"
02. Bleak [feat. Steven Wilson]
03. Harvest
04. The Drapery Falls
05. Dirge For November
06. The Funeral Portrait
07. Patterns In The Ivy
08. Blackwater Park
09. The Leper Affinity [live] [Legacy edition bonus]
[Limited edition bonus CD]
01. Still Day Beneath The Sun
02. Patterns In The Ivy II
[Legacy Edition bonus DVD]
+ 5.0 Audio Mix Of The Original Album
+ The Making Of Blackwater Park
Top 20 albums of 2001: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 5
Featured in "Getting Into: Opeth"
Reviews 
Lyrics Recorded at Fredman Studios from August to October 2000.
Produced by Mikael Åkerfeldt
Co-produced by Steven Wilson
Engineered by Fredrik Nordström & Steven Wilson.
Mixed by Steven Wilson and Fredrik Norström while overlooked by Opeth.
Mastered by Göran Finnberg at the Mastering Room.
Photos by Harry Välimäki.
Cover and booklet designed by Travis Smith and Opeth.
"The Leper Affinity [live]" recorded by Brent Carpenter & Pontus Norgren and mixed by Pontus Norgren.
The 5.0 mix on the DVD was done by Jens Borgen for Northern Music Company.
The documentary "The Making Of Blackwater Park" was recorded, directed and edited by Fredrik Odefjard.
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Rating: 10 |
Passion. That's what Blackwater Park is all about. Pure, unadulterated passion. Forget that Opeth display musical ability and know-how that is rivaled by few. Forget that the ending to The Leper Affinity goes from what can only be described as one of the greatest jam sessions ever, to a beautiful, yet melancholic pianistic epilogue. Forget that Harvest is one of the greatest acoustic songs ever written. Forget that Blackwater Park contains the perfect metal riff. Forget that Mikael Akerfeld quite possibly has the best voice in all of music. Forget that every moment of this album will make you stand in awe of what you're hearing. Why should you forget all that? Because none of it matters. Read more ›› |
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Rating: 9.9 |
There are few bands that dare to continuously expand their musical sphere with each release, expecting their fans to accept the changes - even fewer succeed. Mikael Åkerfeldt, song writer and front man of Opeth, has pushed Opeth to do so since the band's inception and perhaps it's this constant change, not giving the audience a chance to adjust to one particular niche, which keeps them from ending up like so many metal bands before them: repetitive and uninspired. 2001 was the year Opeth opened the floodgates of creativity and released what many believe to be their magnum opus, an album so hyped you might doubt its brilliance. I'm here to tell you not to doubt. This is Blackwater Park. Read more ›› |
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Rating: 2.0 |
This charade has gone on long enough. It's time someone gave this crappy album an honest assessment. Read more ›› |
12.03.2021
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It's hard to believe that human civilization peaked on March 12, 2001, but we of Metal Storm are well aware of the fact that Opeth's Blackwater Park is the single most important and amazing work of art ever to grace our unworthy human senses - and today this pillar of sonic achievement turns 20 years old. Now, iconic reviews aside, I don't actually believe that Blackwater Park is the greatest album ever released - in fact, it's not even my favorite Opeth album - but there's no denying that it is a milestone in its genre, easily one of the definitive recordings of progressive metal. It ranks among the most significant and influential works in its sphere, standing tall even within Opeth's discography; with a career practically founded on the production of successive magna opera, Opeth will likely never have a single, incontrovertible outlier to be crowned their best, but Blackwater Park does have something like a mythology surrounding it. Maybe you don't have to treat it like the apex of heavy metal, but it's still a damn good progressive death metal record that we can all enjoy, and what more reason do you need to give it a spin? ScreamingSteelUS's picks | More picks ›› |
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---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands  |
Trojan Horse is an actual computer virus 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Okay and now let's get back on topic
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Posts: 18274 From: Sweden |
Written by Guest on 22.05.2012 at 22:29 It was a pun on both the historical and computing meaning of it 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Account deleted Written by X-Ray Rod on 22.05.2012 at 22:32 Yes I went total mindblank it seems and forgot that a Trojan is a kind of virus 
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| Grody2themax Posts: 240 From: USA  |
A truly unique album. The first time I heard I was blown away by the amount of cold, dark atmosphere. I think I like this album more than MAYH or Still Life maybe. Still I think those albums might be better from a purely musical standpoint. But, this album has amazing production to add to it.
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| infernaldeath87 Posts: 171 From: USA  |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.12.2011 at 01:25 Deliverance is a beast of an album!
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| Moonchild88 Posts: 1 From: UK  |
Sick liasons, raise this monumental mark The sun sets forever, over Blackwater Park...
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| Angry Chair Posts: 153 From: UK  |
One of the best albums I have ever heard, Its incredible. you all must bow down to this masterpice 
---- "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8662 From: Czech Republic  |
Morningrise is better
---- My rest seems now calm and deep Finally I got my dead man sleep 
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| Angry Chair Posts: 153 From: UK |
Written by Guest on 06.09.2012 at 23:45 For a while it sat pretty at the top Now Megadeth is on top. As for the album: Best metal album I have ever heard. I would have said best album ever but I love Nirvana's Nevermind (Its a personal thing) The title track is the best for me. 
---- "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
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| Alex F Slick Dick Rick Posts: 3502 From: USA  |
Bores me to tears, Morningrise is infinitely better
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1364 From: USA  |
Written by Angry Chair on 09.09.2012 at 02:47 Now it's back on top again. This album, Rust In Peace, Master of Puppets (it was number one for a little bit) are really duking it out for the top spot. 
---- Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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| Angry Chair Posts: 153 From: UK |
Written by CobiWan1993 on 23.10.2012 at 22:07 Yeah its a real fight they keep swapping back and forth for top spot.
---- "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1364 From: USA |
A strong album, though I do feel it's a bit overrated. I personally prefer Still Life, Watershed, and Ghost Reveries to this. The Drapery Falls is one of my favorites on here. 
---- Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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| Erik M. Posts: 3104 From: The Netherlands  |
Written by Ellrohir on 06.09.2012 at 23:34 I'd say Morningrise is #2 when it comes to greatest Opeth records: 5 tracks of utter brilliance. Blackwater Park is #1 for me, though I guess I like them pretty much equally. Check it out: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=2599
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| Jaeryd Nihil's Maw Posts: 1062 From: USA  |
Written by Guest on 20.08.2012 at 03:25 Why is that?
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Posts: 18274 From: Sweden |
Written by Guest on 01.01.2013 at 00:03 To me it's the opposite. I loved this album but with time I started seeing other albums as the better ones... Specially Still Life.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Funeral portrait sucks, maybe the worst opeth song, i prefer more still life
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