Blackwater Park (20th Anniversary Edition)
A much-deserved and open armed 20th anniversary celebration of Opeth’s magnum opus.
Two decades in and still a breath-taking piece of work, dense with extraordinary melodic moments, spine-tingling atmospherics and agile but crushing heaviness, and one that saw the Swedish Metallers kick 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.
Regarded as one of the greatest metal albums of all time since its release in 2001, ‘Blackwater Park’
With several tracks pushing or exceeding the ten-minute mark, the album helped to rehabilitate progressive rock influences within the genre, as well as incorporating influences of psychedelia in its monstrous passages of melody.
