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Opeth's fifth studio album is the band's first step towards North American success. Produced by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and mixed/engineered by Fredrik Nordström (Dream Evil), BLACKWATER PARK is a landmark achievement for the band, with its silken progressive rock ambience counterbalancing the band's trademark blistering death metal brutality. Over the course of eight tracks, Opeth displays mammoth amounts of musical prowess, from the 10-minute opener, "The Leper Affinity," on through the emotive title track that closes the set.
Recorded between August and October 2000.
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Engineers include: Opeth, Steven Wilson, Fredrik Nordstrom.
Opeth: Mikael Akerfeldt (vocals, guitar); Peter Lindgren (guitar); Martin Mendez (bass); Martin Lopez (drums).
Additional personnel: Steven Wilson (vocals, guitar, piano); Markus Lindberg (percussion).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.CMJ (2/12/01, p.29) - "...Godlike....A metal fusion of Pink Floyd and the Beatles, Opeth uses dynamics and atmosphere in ways many other bands can't..."
Village Voice (5/22/01, p.79) - "Avoiding the cornier trappings of goth metal and the Satanic hordes, Opeth paint on an epic canvas, sounding at times like... metal's answer to '70s King Crimson. Restless with moods and melodic lines, their impressively long songs flow and unfold over shifting blocks of rhythmic ice." Opeth Blackwater Park Songs Blackwater Park Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Perfection?
Opeth, it seems, are a difficult band to pin down. Everywhere I turn, I am faced with a completely different description of their music. So far, the best I can come up with is 'dark progressive metal with death metal vocals' but to be honest that doesn't even begin to cover it. If you hate most death vocals or can't fathom prog metal, you may still find you can quite easily enjoy an Opeth album.
So, the 'Blackwater Park' album. For many fans - and, indeed, for many of those who don't adore the band but who do appreciate their music on occasion - this is seen as Opeth's best album and its easy to see why. There are the catchy, head-bangable opening riffs to 'The Funeral Portrait', the slow, atmospheric acoustic guitars of 'Harvest' and of course Mikael Akerfeldt's divine vocals. Its widely recognised by many fans of the genre that Akerfeldt has one of the best voices in the industry and he sounds fantastic on this album.
Of course, writing this, I'm probably preaching to the converted. Chances are, if you're reading this you're already a fan of the band and really just want to know about the bonus tracks. So, here goes. Both are relatively slow acoustic tracks and both are (in this humble reviewers opinion) incredibly beautiful. If you already like Opeth's other acoustic tracks, you'll love these, especially the wonderful 'Still Day Beneath The Sun' where once again Akerfeldt's voice shines. It's quite simply stunning.
So, should you buy this album? Well, if you've never heard Opeth before, you might be better off buying the original version of Blackwater Park, without the bonus tracks, simply because its cheaper. If you're a dedicted fan of the band, you need this album (but you already knew that). And if you're somewhere in between? Well if you don't already have a copy of Blackwater Park, I would highly recommend buying this one, but if you do, its probably not worth it for the two extra tracks. Beautiful though they are, they are admittedly not worth the extra money if you already have the album in its other form and don't adore the band.
Overall though, this has got to be as close to perfection as a modern day metal album comes. Pure genius.
Submitted by blue_istari (North Yorkshire, UK) 
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 terrible vocals
granted i am not a big heavy metal fan , but these type of vocals are why .i bought a opeth cd and there is only one song on the cd worth lisening to the song is harvest from the blackwater park cd .if their vocals were more like that they would be more successful.
Submitted by thedetroitkid (anaheim hills ca usa)
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Truly inspiring metal
In this day and age of cut & paste metal it really is difficult to come up with music that sounds fresh & original. Opeth manages to delve into the past and sprinkle some black metal herbs over this very heavy stew. You will not be dissapointed by Opeth - Blackwater Park is one of their bench mark releases - excellent band, excellent album. Buy it - you will not waste your hard earned dollars.
Submitted by africapeace (Kimberley, South Africa)
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What can i say?
This is Swedens best Rockband overall.
Opeths music has something that everyone who likes rock can love and take to their heart.
Surprisingly,Opeth has a much larger public abroad then here in Sweden, but why bother about that? World, Enjoy this marvellous band and keep rocking!
Submitted by poppe (Sundsvall, Sweden)
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a great great alubm. has all the ingrediants for a good album...such good record don't come along too often
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