Post Reply - Going through the Opeth catalogue again

 adg211288 wrote:

I think if anything Watershed is one of the ones that has raised in my estimations over time even though it was never an album that disappointed me. In hindsight it sounds like a transitional album for Opeth: only three out of seven tracks have Mikael's growl which of course were dropped completely on Heritage, but at the same time I feel like Heir Apparent was one of the most overtly death metal tracks they ever made. 

I'd put Watershed in my top 3 Opeth albums which few probably would. I agree it was a transitional album that wasn't really apparent at the time of release due it also containing some of the bands heaviest moments. Even the tracks that only contained clean vocals were still generally pretty heavy apart from Coil and Burden.

Apart from that one Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park are my favourites. In Cauda Venenum is my favourite since they ditched the death metal growls but now they seem to be back, though used sparingly if the first review I read in Classic Rock is anything to go by.

Already ordered the special edition box set of The Last Will and Testament as I did last time. Not many bands I'd splash out on expensive box sets but Opeth are one of them.

Edited by Nightfly - 14 Sep 2024 at 8:48am