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Opeth's Blackwater Park CD is a great purchase for people who like melodic death metal with grawling vocals and great singing. This is my first Opeth CD I bought, since I have got two more. I really like the band and the vocals. The music gets me pumped up with the heavy instrumentals and the phenomonal vocals. I would recommend this for the METAL lover out there. Some downsides that my turn people away are the grawling vocals and the length of the songs. The typical Opeth songs lasts 7 to 10 minutes, but like other bands who have long songs I don't get bored with Opeth. After a little bit you get use to the vocals and start to enjoy them. I often find myself walking around singing in a death metal voice. Great Band! Great Buy! Get it NOW!
To simply call Opeth "death metal" is lazy and does them no justice. Vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt can unleash a growl so utterly demonic it sounds inhuman, but I think beyond that Opeth's parallels to death metal are scarce. Opeth is better described as the bizarre marriage of metal brutality and pastoral elegy. Without a doubt, Blackwater Park is full of crashing guitars and brutal growls, yet Opeth balances with melodic acoustic passages and vocal deliveries with icy beauty. Often, these elements are encompassed entirely by one song. The 10-minute opener, "The Leper Affinity," begins with flaming guitar riffs and bestial vocals, but as you approach the 5-minute mark, the heaviness falls away to be replaced by delicate clean singing and a dreamy acoustic section. Even at its heaviest, Blackwater Park remains surprisingly melodic, with fluid guitar lines and ear-catching riffs. Opeth is clearly more about dynamics of light & shade than the conventional sonic mire of other similar bands. (Although, truth be told, there aren't really other bands like Opeth.) Producer Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree, No-Man) doesn't seem like the right guy for the job...at least on paper. But Wilson's background makes him the perfect choice. His ear for sonic clarity and arrangement are surpassed by few, and he is a wonderful complement to the band's ambition.Read full review
10 years ago they make this beloved and great album that people of metal won't forget and this is where that opeth got their attention all over the world! This album is one of the kind, Blackwater Park is one true masterpiece and it include 8 great songs that we embrace! Well techinally i would say Blackwater Park is more consider and well known album all other albums but unfortanely watershed beat blackwater park but overall blackwater park is still the greatest and i'm gonna say this once and i'm gonna say this again 'i'm proud to be blackwater park owner'. METAL lives on, period
Love...........my son was beyond excited :) Opeth is he and his wife's fav...............very happy indeed
This is an album you have to own. This is Opeth in all thier glory. Every song serves a purpose and moves the album forward to it's climatic end.
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