I came here to undoubtedly be triggered.

"If you enjoy listening to Opeth then you are an Opeth fan" Very, very true!

For me: 1. Ghost Reveries 1. Blackwater Park 1. My Arms, Your Hearse 1. Deliverance 1. Still Life 1. Orchid 1. Watershed 1. Morningrise 1. Damnation 1. Sorceress 1. Heritage 1. Pale Communion

Opeth is one of the greatest modern bands if Pink Floyd and Death had a baby Opeth would be the child.

Morningrise is so underrated. Almost half of the album is acoustic, and it's immersed in a cold, melancholic mood throughout which is maybe why people can't fully appreciate it. P.S. It's 'Black Rose Immortal', not 'Eternal'.

"I love that BWAMRH!-do,do,do,do,deedle-dede,doo-do-do-BWAMRH!...BWAMRH!...MMMPH!" After this, Notes' quit KZfaq to kickstart his revolutionary death metal acapella career.

Watershed let's go!! most underrated Opeth album =]

Dryer for November? LOL?!

I absolutely adored Pale Communion when I listened to it and it grew on me every time I played it , i still don’t understand why people avoid it and rate it really low among opeth’s discography.

My Top 5 1. Ghost Reveries - a pure masterpiece in my opinion 2. Pale Communion 3. Damnation 4. Still Life 5. Blackwater Park

Hair Drier for November is my favorite

I saw this video when it came out and thought "How can anyone, even if they are a prog fan put "Pale Communion" on top?" So, I come from a extreme metal background and Opeth is one of, if not my absolute favourite band. But, as many other fans I have not been the biggest fan of their more prog turn of direction. That is until "In Cauda Venenum " came out, an album which I love! I said to myself "You have to give Heritage, Pale Communion and Sorceress another go, you have to invest time!" So, out of my love for the band I really started listening to those albums and they finally clicked for me! I can finally say that Opeth have not made a single bad album.

Love your channel, you're a really articulate and engaging reviewer of music, which is rare on KZfaq.

Morningrise, still life , black water park my favorites

I feel Heritage is criminally underrated. You have to listen to it from a less is more perspective. The sheer atmosphere provided from the silent parts really accentuates everything else. Solid riffs and singing and just all around amazing to listen to. This album is top three tier for me.

love this series! keep it up man

Nice list and great channel. Keep on recording! Now I'm waiting for "Camel: Worst to Best" ;D

You got the names Of half the songs wrong lol

I started to feel the trigger but I actually agree with your list! Very nice review man, your enthusiasm is contagious!

Great video, good descriptions! Thanks

The idea of a "worst" Opeth album is a logical fallacy and therefore renders this video an abomination to the space time continuum. Such an insult to the physics of reality should not be allowed to exist.

Morningrise second worst ? It is actually my most favorite Opeth album..

I love how everybody likes and aprecciates each album in a different way, some of us think of Blackwater Park as their best and other people have this album not even in top 5. Makes you realize how amazing this band is, even at it's lowest points.

I also love Ghost Reveries, each instrument is totally clear, great grooves, oscillating between heavy and softer.

Can you make king crimson: worst to best?

When I was in my teens I bought the "My Arms, your Hearse" album. I haven't opened it yet and never listened to the songs (except for tDemon of the Fall) because I don't ever want to feel that there's not another album by them for me to discover, so I am keeping it for when I turn 100 years old. I am a professional classical musician, but Opeth is my favorite music of all time. Man I love them so much, up to Ghost Reveries I don't have any favorites, I loved them all the same. I saw them in Zurich a couple of days ago and it was great but I had that feeling you mention on your review of some of the albums, it was kind of disjointed, the growing energy of the crowd was constantly interrupted with changes of mood, great show nevertheless. Great video, thanks!

Which riff from Camel did Mikael rip off for Ending Credits ? I have been looking for it forever.

I think it's great that you like what you like regardless of what the most popular album is. It's cool that your giving those top two more attention. I'll listen to your favorite album later today. Haven't heard it, I'm stoked.

Watershed is my favorite. I listened to them when Morningrise came out (awesome fretless bass!),but then lost interest until I watched the making of deliverance and damnation and got into them a lot after. Heir Apparent is (imo) their best song, and I believe only song to have just death growl vocals

Your enthusiasm is totally infectious.

Do you just decide a random album to have in that space to your right? Or do you ever think about it and come up with some reason? Or both depending on the video?

1st damnation 2nd three way tie with blackwater park, ghost reveries and watershed and then the rest. ill give them like 9.5/10

Where is this guy from? He seems like a native English speaker, but having watched a few of his videos he mispronounces about half the titles he mentions.

1. Ghost Reveries 2. Blackwater Park 3. My Arms, Your Hearse 4. Deliverance 5. Still Life 6. Orchid 7. Watershed 8. Morningrise 9. Damnation 10. Sorceress 11. Heritage 12. Pale Communion Yes, Pale Communion is their weakest for me. I really like the first 3 songs though, especially Cusp of Eternity. There's good stuff on every album for sure.

1. Still Life 2. Morningrise 3. Damnation 4. Blackwater Park 5. Ghost Reveries 6. Orchid 7. My Arms, Your Hearse 8. Deliverance 9. Watershed 10. All the albums that came after Watershed.

Thanks to your review, I have just discovered Pale Communion. What a fabulous album!

Where would you put In Cauda Venenum in this list?

My man said "Hair Apparent"😂 I love the list for the most part, very well-thought out and defended. I'd put Heritage on the bottom, like you. I'd definitely put Ghost Reveries as number one, so we're close there as well. Also, Pale Communion is an underappreciated gem. Good video.

You said Dirge For November very wrong ^^, was waiting for you do see this one, fantastic video! :)

Almost 3 years late with this comment (when I started watching I did not realise that on monday the video is 3 years old). Only thing I really wanted to say is that In Cauda Venenum would be among my top 3 Opeth albums. Notes, if you see this where would you place that album?

Which Camel song is ending credits ripped of?

Great video! I’m really curious where you’d put In Cauda Venenum in this list?

YOURE ABSOLUTELY..... You’re absolutely right if that’s how you feel about it. I’m primarily a metal guy, that likes some prog Metal/rock and other things. And I’ve watched your vids on Rush, Genesis, etc. I was fairly shocked to see that you listened to death metal at all. And so naturally it makes sense to have a ranking different than the metal guys ranking. I think you did a damn good job on this list. And no, I don’t have mine sorted. I was a little late on the Opeth train. I love everything I’ve heard so far, but need more repeat listens to give a fair assessment

I would love to see you do a BtBaM worst to best!

For the most part I agree with your opinions. I think Ghost Reveries is number 1 but that's MY opinion. Love the video!!

Where does one start if they want to get into Opeth? I've listened to a few individual tracks in the past, but just coundn't get into them. I'm generally not a huge fan of growling vocals, but I can definitley look past them if the music is engaging enough.

Great channel!! You resparked my interest in Dream Theater. Any plans in reviewing the new Kino album Radio Voltaire?

The riff from face of Melinda you played is my absolute favorite of all time... And blackwater Park is #1 lol.

I recently have been going through all of their albums in order for the first time in years and I have to say after listening to them all again, Watershed is definitely my favorite album from theirs! Why? Because in my opinion, it is the perfect mix between their heavy and light material! Hessian Peel might actually be my favorite track from them now, but then again, there are so many masterpieces from them that it's very tough to decide! Good list though! I think Pale Communion is probably their best in terms of their softer albums.

What have you written?

The beauty about music is that it is subjective. We will all enjoy or dislike different albums depending on where we are emotionally at the time we hear them. Great vid.

My best to worst. 01. Deliverance 02. Damnation 03. Blackwater Park 04. Watershed 05. Ghost Reveries 06. My Arms, Your Hearse 07. Still Life 08. Pale Communion 09. Heritage 10. Sorceress 11. Morningrise 12. Orchid

cool channel, I subbed. I know this is YOUR favs, I somewhat disagree tho, Heritage is great! My fav is Ghost Reveries........respect your opinion tho.......carry on.

Yes man!! I'm glad you put Pale Communion as your number 1! It's also my favourite of theirs. It's meatier than Heritage, but more structured than Sorceress. Like Still life but focused on prog rather than death metal. I love the direction Opeth has taken recently. They got all that growling out of the way, and what you get now is a more mature, refined Opeth that has aged well. Like a fine wine.

I would’ve put Damnation in the top 4, IMO. Damnation is a such a beautiful album and it showcases more of Opeth’s creative songs and riffs. Windowpane is a great opening song and it just draws you in and you just get immersed into all of the album. But I might also be biased on this because I grew up listening to this album while falling asleep but I still appreciate it to this day.

Ghost Reveries happens to be my favorite album by Opeth. Ghost of Perdition is such an incredible song. Somehow they can capture the feel of that rustic historic feel even just through the instrumental track. The best part is that the album tells a story, which in itself could probably be its own book. Fantastic!

nice video. I'm listening to some albums and I listened to two opeth songs which are harvest and then ghost of perdition (So fucking good btw), some albums I tried to listen recently were from death, ghost, stratovarius, judas priest, megadeth morbid angel and vader (I say "tried" because I'm not sure if I like them), but I think I'm not going to hear opeth now because it's prog metal and I'm not sure if I can understand it very well (even the instrumental, but that aplies to the lyrics as well), I have this problem that some times I can't tell what the meaning of the lyrics is, and opeth seem to have this poetic, meaningfull lyrics, so... I think I'm not hearing it now, and I'll eventually get back to it. Another thing is that I have to improve my english too, I think I have an at least medium english, but there's a lot of words, and idiomatic expressions that I don't get''n stuff.

This is an impossible task I admire you for tackling it!

A bit late but i have to do it. It is ''Black Rose Immortal'' not ''Black Rose Eternal''. I think you are not too familiar with it, that's why is so low on your list, but it's your list... so i respect that anyways. Btw, i'm new to your channel and it's great!

whats the album on your left?

Introduced the mellotron on Ghost Reveries? Have you even listene to Damnation? That album is nothing but mellotron. It's even used on some tracks from Blackwater Park.

Yeah, that's the beauty about Opeth: Everyone finds something else in their music :) You, for example, value the prog-aspects very high, as do I. But I value the dark melancholy, which is much more present in their "Mid-range-albums" (Damnation/Deliverance/BWP/Still Life...) even more. But your list might be a good way to approach someone with Opeth who also doesn't care much about that raw melancholy. Thanks for an interesting watch!

Dude, listen to Serenity Painted Death and White Cluster a few more times each. Both took me a few listens and they some of my favorite songs by the band, especially SPD! Still Life is my favorite album by these guys

Pale Communion is an underrated album. My favorite song is probably the closing track of the album "Faith in Others", so beautiful. But yeah, my favorite Opeth album varies from time to time, but currently it's probably Watershed.

This video puts me in a tough position. Because I can't say you're wrong because it's just a matter of opinion. You make some very good points and some very "what the fuck?" points. Haha. By the way, this is what I plan on doing sooner or later. Making my own KZfaq channel and recording commentary videos such as yours, discussing and reviewing movies and music. Keep up the good work! :)

Stopped the video when Morningrise was mentioned early on - A brilliant, underrated prog/doom album.

Noooooooo midway through your video I was really convinced you would place Watershed first xD it's my favourite precisely because it sounds like Opeth as an ever changing band; it encompasses the brutal and the mellow, the prog and the comfortable, the experimental and the familiar. The only thing that is missing from that album is the more groovy side they expressed so well in Sorceress (yup, I like that album, sorry not sorry). Still, I love Watershed so fucking much. But I understand your thing with Ghost Reveries, it's also in my top (Ghost of Perdition is my mobile phone ringtone for a reason lol). Great video, came here after watching the Dream Theater one :)

Interesting opinions. I've never seen anyone say Pale Communion at number 1. You should do a worst to best for Riverside.

#12 - Damnation (An acoustic masterpiece. I have to be in the right mood to get into it but when I am it really takes me places. I put it last just because all the songs kinda follow the same pattern and soundscape and also some album had to be last but I still adore all of their works!) #11 - Heritage (Just like Damnation, if I'm at the right mood for this Prog materpiece then I'll fully enjoy it. Most underrated album of theirs in my opinion!) #10 - Pale Communion (What they wanted to achieve with Heritage, they achieved it here! Just like you said, every song in here is a favourite!) #09 - Sorceress (For me, their best work of their Prog Rock trilogy. Taking elements both from Heritage and Pale Communion and it works perfectly. Will O The Wisp showing a more Elysian Woes kind of vibe while Strange Brew is dark brilliance, kind of a Famine vibe!) #08 - Deliverance (Their most brutal album yet so beautiful in places...Almost every riff on here is spot on awesome and the song Deliverance is just flawless!) #07 - Blackwater Park (Starting with the first riff of The Leper Affinity and grabbing me right by the balls and ending with the final acoustic melody of Blackwater Park just leaving me wondering of what a brilliant album I've just heard, this record is definately a journey!) #06 - My Arms, Your Hearse (For me, their first four albums had something that no other album after them was able to achieve and that is dark ambient forest atmosphere along with the lyrics of their first four records which are pure poetry and blended perfeclty with what the music wanted to say. This is just a flawless concept album from beginning to end!) #05 - Orchid (The most dark album, I've ever heard! Combined with the fact that I listened to these records in a village in the woods, these melodies will follow me until I die...I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael could write and record these beautifully dark and complex pieces! From the extremely haunting acoustic melody of Under The Weeping Moon to the glorious finishing solo of The Apostle In Triumph, this a jaw-dropping debut!) #04 - Watershed (If this is indeed their last album featuring Death Metal (which I hope not) then they certainly went out with a bang! From Coil to Burden to Hessian Peel, this album is just dark emotional and brutal brilliance!) #03 - Ghost Reveries (I don't have much to say about this one, you described it all yourself. From Ghost Of Perdition to Isolation Years, this album flows perfectly between beauty and brutallity!) #02 - Morningrise (For some people, Black Rose Immortal is an overrated song stating that people like it just because it's 20 minutes long. For some other people, Black Rose Immortal is Opeth's absolute masterpiece with flawless riffs and a perfect ballance between beauty and brutallity. I always go with the second side of opinions. This album is a just a beautiful journey from the beginning of Advent until the ending of To Bid You Farewell! Just like Orchid, I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael wrote this...) #01 - Still Life (My all time favourite Metal album! Combining the concept with Mikael's poetry and a foresty dark ambient atmosphere, this is the perfect balance between beauty and brutallity! From the haunting start of The Moor to the melancholic melody of Benighted to the atmospheric Moonlapse Vertigo to the jazzy sound of Face Of Melinda to the brutallity of Serenity Painted Death to the ending melody of White Cluster, this record is the peak of their discography for me and probably always be!)

Can you do one on Porcupine Tree please, another band with some amazing albums. Love your choices i like most of the bands you have featured so far. Cheers

Any chance to do a "" worst to best "" of beardfish ,the flower kings ,camel or deep purple

Watershed was the album that got be into Opeth too, its cool you put it as high as you did. WHile I am still going through the discography of Opeth, I think that so far your list is like how mine will be, just Pale Communion won't be as high maybe

I began to follow your channel because I noticed that casually we have the same oppinions and tastes within the progressive rock/metal (starting with having Genesis as our favourite band of all time), so, by the beginning of this video I knew you will put Pale Comunnion as your best Opeth album xDD.

Yeah, that will never be my number 1 :D That being said, nice walkthrough of the records. Definitely one of my favourite bands of all time. Opeth was a springboard for me as well, but just the other way around. I've been a straght up metal guy since I was a kid, but Opeth helped me appreciate prog rock. Throught them, I learned about PT and then there was no way back :D

I agree on the top 2 (and the rest of the list too for the most part) and I, too, would rank Pale Communion the highest. There's just something about it! I knew even the very first time I heard it that it was special. You mention the fact that it's hard to pick a favourite, and while I agree, I think what makes it stand out from the rest is that it plays so well from start to finish. And that says a lot when it comes to a band like Opeth, where that is true about most of their work. I just wanted to shed some light on that , because after much deliberation and pondering about what makes it so great, that's what I've come to realize. At least that's what does it for me. Anyway, great list and review.

Just FYI. I watch you at 2x. Which would point to making two videos. One short opinion video with the list a and a few comments . And then an in-depth discussion video . Cheers. Love your channel

Opeth is my all time favorite band. Ghost Reveries is what got me in to them. But Pale Communion is probably my favorite album by them. But my absolute favorite song is "A Fair Judgement" off of Deliverance. Great video.

As I discovered you through your Ayreon videos, I would love a worst/best of said artist!

Excellent reviews man. Especially for the Top 3. I agree with you at all, but i choose Watershed as no.1. It is the perfect mixture of all Opeth's material.

So I'm not the only person who thinks Pale Communion is amazing. Man, we have a pretty solid link up in lists, other than I would rank Watershed down a bit more. Deliverance was my first Opeth album, but Ghost Reveries tour was the first time I saw them. So good.

My favorites: Blackwater Park and Damnation. And I'm still waiting for Damnation 2.0

Grear review notes !!!i i agree most of your list but ,i would put damnation on first place . The rest of the list made sense IMO

Let me hear your portfolio?

Very similar to Jack Rock Musician, Giacomo James ranking , and I agree with you in a lot of songs you mentioned

You should really check out Toehider!

What turntable model is that? Also I agree about PC being their best work. My top five is: 1. Pale Commuinion 2. Blackwater Park 3. Still Life 4. Ghost Reveries 5. Sorceress

My list: 12: Heritage 11: Orchid 10: Sorceress 9: Morningrise 8: Pale Communion 7: Deliverance 6: My Arms, Your Hearse 5: Damnation 4: Watershed 3: Ghost Reveries 2: Blackwater Park 1: Still Life This list is so hard to make. Not the top 3, but Damnation, My Arms Your Hearse, Pale Communion and Deliverance could all have gotten the same place in my book. But Still Life is absolute masterpiece, especially because of the opening track, The Moor. The Moor is the perfect "Progressive Death Metal" in my book. The main riff leading up to "Outcast with dogmas forged below" in the middle of the song, and towards the end at "She is waterdrops over the pyre" is simply "perfectness" in my book.

My thoughts on this video: Ok first of all, and I'm really sorry if this comes off as offensive because I know you're dyslexic, but "Drier for November" made my day XD! Second of all, I really love how much passion you have when you describe how much you enjoy some of the albums listed on here. My favorite is Blackwater Park, and I'm personally not as crazy about your top 2, but I still felt your passion and your enjoyment for the pieces of music you mentioned on this list. I'm also really happy to find someone who loves Watershed as much as I do. To me, it really showcases a lot of their experimental side, and it results in some gorgeous tracks. It is also the first album since Blackwater Park that really takes me on a full musical journey from the first to very last song. Great job! Keep it up :) EDIT: Wow, thank you for pinning my comment! It is a real honor, and I mean that whole-heartedly :D

1. ghost reveries 2. blackwater park 3. the roundhouse tapes 4. damnation 5. my arms, your hearse 6. deliverance 7. watershed 8. sorceress 9. lamentations 10. still life 11. in cauda venenum 12. live at royal albert hall 13. pale communion 14. orchid 15. morningrise 16. heritage Opeth is by far my favorite band. I love almost every song they’ve ever made. The list isn’t me thinking about what’s worst, rather i put first what i listen to the most often. Blackwater Park, Ghost reveries, and The roundhouse tapes are what i enjoy most and listen to most often. then comes albums like my arms, your hearse, deliverance, watershed, and sorceress. i love all of these albums, and yes, even sorceress. i listen to lamentations a ton but i put it lower because the crowd can sometimes get annoying (the screaming on the first words in hope leaves, etc.). Still life has some great songs, but my favorite off of the album, Face of melinda, sounds better on the roundhouse tapes to me. the last few albums on the list i don’t listen to very often. there are great songs and sequences of songs on those albums, but there are a lot of misses on those albums. just my opinion.

_predecessing_ ? _to levee us_ ? _unabashionably_ ?? what kind of thesaurus and/or dictionary are you using?

My Arms your Hearse is a concept album, it's basically about someone who dies and dealing with being trapped in spirit form and the reaction of seeing his loved ones, both anger and sadness, throughout the seasons, hence songs like April Ethereal and Demon of the fall.... It has abit more to it than that but that's the basics of it and actually once you listen to it as a whole it hits different, if you read the lyrics it's all basically one long story, every song being a different chapter.

pretty decent review tbh. well done.

1. Still Life 2. Blackwater Park 3. Ghost Reveries 4. Damnation 5. My Arms, Your Hearse 6. Morningrise 7. Deliverance 8. Watershed 9. Orchid 10. In Cauda Venenum 11. Pale Communion 12. Sorceress 13. Heritage

Opeth has never made a bad album. All of their albums are amazing.

"Hair Apparent"? 😂

my personal top 5 would prob be 1. orchid 2. ghost rev 3. blackwater park 4. pale com 5. still life sucks to see so many people put orchid near the bottom, its a great album :)

morningrise is criminally underrated....

"My arms your hearse" had a concept too.

I love Ghost Reveries and Watershed. I liked Blackwater Park, but I guess I didn't get it, cuz it didn't stick with me. Gotta give it another spin. ALSO, because of you I'll definitely check out Pale communion

I slept on post-heritage Opeth for long, and finally picked up Pale Communion a month ago... It has been on repeat ever since. Every track is pure fire, but River is my all time favourite.