Opeth
Blackwater Park 2LP vinyl

In many ways, Opeth’s Blackwater Park can be considered as their answer to The Beatles’ Revolver, both uncompromising and experimental, but equally commercially viable and unfuckwithable masterpieces. Twenty years on, Blackwater Park remains a breath-taking piece of work, dense with extraordinary melodic moments, spine-tingling atmospherics and agile but crushing heaviness. It is also arguably still the most cherished album in the Swedish metallers illustrious catalogue as a rising progressive influence kicked open prog’s ornate doors, fed death metal through the cosmic kaleidoscope and introduced a generation of music nerds to a world of limitless musical possibilities. After four albums of imaginative and immersive heavy music, the band were primed and ready to make a career-defining statement. At the time, the metal world was flailing in a state of post-grunge confusion, meanwhile, Opeth were forging an entirely unique and fearlessly creative path.

NEW / Released in 2001 / Reissue 2010

Tracklist:

A1 The Leper Affinity

A2 Bleak

B1 Harvest

B2 The Drapery Falls

C1 Dirge For November

C2 The Funeral Portrait

C3 Patterns In The Ivy

D1 Blackwater Park

D2 The Leper Affinity (Live)