Blackwater Park

Artist: Opeth
Label: Koch Records
Category: Music

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Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 099923842521
EAN: 0099923842521
ASIN: B000068QVZ

Release Date: 2002-07-23

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Tracks:

Leper Affinity
Bleak
Harvest
Drapery Falls
Dirge for November
Funeral Portrait
Patterns in the Ivy
Blackwater Park

Tracks:

Still Day Beneath the Sun
Patterns in the Ivy II
Harvest [Multimedia Track]

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Customer Reviews:

Opeth Perfects Themselves.......2007-02-05

Words cannot really describe just how great this cd is.I am completely floored by the precise musicianship of these guys. The songs are majestic and the melodies are constructed with such perfection.

My favorite is BLEAK,this experiments with the mediterranean style and such wonderful guitar on it. On most of the songs,there are like songs within songs and complex time-changes and tempo boosts that one who does not like the "growl",like me,will find themselves so engulfed with the music that everything else is secondary. I truly believe that,that's what Opeth is all about,making complex music to its extreme nature,pushing the limits of metal in prog.you've gotta respect that.
Metal Rules ! \0/

opeth, as usual..........2007-02-01

i'm warning you; after listening to opeth, your whole perception of music might change.and blackwater park is the right place to start this change.all the tracks are breathtaking, especially the orient-influenced track "bleak".this limited edition is even better since you'll have the chance to hear akerfeldt's heavenly vocal on two amazing songs.the video for harvest is also great for showing us that opeth are actually human beings who eat, drink and breathe just like us(i thought that people who create such unbelieveable good music cannot be humans!).highly recommended, you won't regret...

A small step back for Opeth.......2006-12-05

Please read this review with the understanding that Opeth is my favourite band of all time and that I greatly admire Porcupine Tree and Steve Wilson's work as a musician and producer. BUT......... As a huge fan of the brutality as well as the beauty in Still Life i find Blackwater Park a little too watered down for my tastes. The first three songs flow really well and make (along with the title track) the album a 4 stars. Somewhere in the middle it gets very acoustic heavy. And the bonus songs are great but are lacking in the acoustic brilliance that usually is Opeth. Still great but not my favourite.

Worth the two acoustic songs alone...........2006-09-30

Seriously, the two acoustic songs on the second disc of the limited release of "Blackwater Park", are a MUST HAVE! Mikael really shines on both guitar and vocals on "Still day beneath the sun" and "Patterns in the Ivy II". Songs that should have been on the original "Blackwater Park" release.
Truly amazing folk songs that display the true power of Mikael's songwriting talents. Perfect for a gray or rainy day, they will touch your soul.
Well worth buying this limited release though, you will not be disappointed, unless you hate the clean theatrics of Opeth.

My first Opeth album..........2006-09-30

Caused me to buy three others, despite my hesitance to buy. I was introduced by a friend online about this time last year just after I got out of the shower in my dorm room. I remember him saying that he was checking out Opeth online and wanted to know what I thought. At first, when I heard it, I thought, "are you kidding me, music with growling?" I'm not really into death metal, Pantera was the heaviest stuff I'd normally listen to and usually only when I was pissed off. I'm not all that into heavy stuff. I just let it keep playing though and layed down on my bed in the sweet spot in between my speakers, where I do most of my intent listening, I became mesmerized enough that by the end of the first song, I downloaded the whole thing. By Harvest I was in a such a trance like state that I could have easily mistaken myself for being aleep. I was in such sheer bliss that I just let the sound take me where It wanted to. I had never experienced something like this from music before. It invoked some of the most beautiful feelings I had felt in a while, I was not on anything either. I love losing myself in music, I have only experienced this from classical music, which I love to listen to to become relaxed. Blackwater Park can relax me to the point where other, softer music fails to, perhaps because the complex melody and immaculate production of this album engages my mind at the deepest possible level. Open your mind to this stuff no matter which side of it you come down on, be it too heavy or too soft, and you will not be disappointed.

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