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.

Label
Music For Nations
Genre
Metal LP - SIDE A
The Leper Affinity
Bleak
LP - SIDE B
Harvest
The Drapery Falls
LP - SIDE C
Dirge For November
The Funeral Portrait
Patterns In The Ivy
LP - SIDE D
Blackwater Park
The Leper Affinity (Live)

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