OPETH — Blackwater Park (review)

OPETH — Blackwater Park album cover Album · 2001 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
bartosso
Fifty-fifty

After epic STILL LIFE Opeth began a long collaboration with Steven Wilson. His presence is quite perceptible on "Blackwater Park" since his style and influence are well-known to every neo-prog fan.

The album sounds softer than previous releases, every tone is clear: drums, guitars and vocals use whole wide spectrum of frequencies which results in nice and fruity sound. Mikael Akerfeldt' growls are powerful as always, but the mellow parts sound different than before. Honestly, I preferred his singing style from STILL LIFE as it was a bit more mellow and stylized in a kind of atmospheric way. Here Mikael decided to sing more naturally.

If it was ending on Drapery Falls it would be 5 stars EP. But there are another 4 songs which are, in my opinion, weaker than brilliant first half. After aforementioned track Mike just runs out of ideas, the songs become less interesting and not as well composed as their predecessors. Really, first four songs are incredible - original, emotion provoking, absolutely epic!

It's an excellent album by an excellent band, but I cannot rate it with 5 star rating since there are some tracks I found weaker than average Opeth' songs.
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