Star Opeth's work

[Risquit]

Orchid--***
Morninigrise--***1/2
My Arms Your Hearse--*****
Still Life--*****
Blacwater Park--*****
Deliverance--****
Damnation--****1/2
Lamentations--****
Ghost Reveries--?

 

[Ermz]

Too hard to read like that. I'll do it as a simple #/5.

Orchid - 3.5/5
Morningrise - 2/5
MAYH - 4/5
Still Life - 5/5
BWP - 3.5/5
Deliverance - 1.5/5
Damnation - 2.5/5
Ghost Reveries - TBA/5

 

[saut]

Orchid - 4/5
Morningrise - 2.5/5
MAYH - 4.5/5
Still Life - 5/5
BWP - 3.5/5
Deliverance - 3/5
Damnation - 3.5/5

 

[scorpian007]

Orchid - 3.5/5
Morningrise - 3.5/5
My Arms, Your Hearse - 4.5/5
Still Life - 5/5
Blackwater Park - 4/5
Deliverance - 4/5
Damnation - 4/5
Lamentations - 5/5
Ghost Reveries - /5

 

[R0l0]

Orchid - 4.5/5
Morningrise - 4/5
My Arms, Your Hearse - 4/5
Still Life - 5/5
Blackwater Park - 3/5
Deliverance - 3/5
Damnation - 3.5/5
Lamentations - 4.5/5
Ghost Reveries - ?/5

 

[Wreath]

Orchid: 4/5
Morningrise: 4/5
MAYH: 4/5
Still Life: 4/5
Blackwater Park: 4/5
Deliverance: 5/5
Damnation: 3/5
Lamentations: N/A
Ghost Reveries: N/A

 

[Dreadful]

Orchid - 5/5
Morningrise - 5/5
My arms your hearse - 5/5
Still Life - 5/5
Blackwater Park - 5/5
Deliverance - 3/5
Damnation - 3.5/5

Opeth is my favorite band you guys, first 5 albums are just pieces of art.

 

[R0l0]

Opeth is my favorite band you guys, first 5 albums are just pieces of art.

yeah, I think a lot of us rated the albums on "Opeth standards" as opposed to rating them with all other bands/music in mind. for instance if Deliverance was released by another band I'd be very impressed....

 

[Dreadful]

true...like the last Dying Fetus album, "Stop at Nothing" was pretty disappointing for Dying Fetus. But if a new death metal band came out with the exact same album, I would have been an instant fan.

 

[Protected Witness]

Orchid - 3 stars
Morningrise - 3.5 Stars
My Arms Your Hearse - 3 stars
Still Life - 4.5 stars
Blackwater Park - 4.5 Stars
Deliverance - 3 stars
Damnation - 4.5 stars
Ghost Reveries - 4.9 Stars

SL, BWP, Damn, And GR are all solid albums, all the way through.

The other four are good albums, but "suffer" from having a few really killer classic opeth songs and then others on the album that just don't match up.

Deliverance has the "worst" production...not that it's bad sounding or muddy, it's just too clean, thin, dry, digital, whatever you want to call it...production that was more suited to Damnation and not a regular Opeth album. Deliverance also is an album with a few classic songs and a few "Opeth in cruise control" songs.

With Ghost Reveries, I feel they have finally nailed the perfect production that suits the band.

 

[Protected Witness]

true...like the last Dying Fetus album, "Stop at Nothing" was pretty disappointing for Dying Fetus. But if a new death metal band came out with the exact same album, I would have been an instant fan.

Don't you think that is a shallow way to look at things? I mean crap is crap. You either like it or you don't. It's bad for one band to put out crap, but if another band does it, than it's great? That doesn't make sense to me.

 

[One Winged Angel]

Just because a band releases an album that isn't up to par with their other work doesn't mean it's a bad album. And judging by your ratings it looks like you're comparing them to albums outside Opeth because you didn't give any of yours a 5.

Orchid - 3
Morningrise - 3
My Arms Your Hearse - 5
Still Life - 5
Blackwater Park - 3.5
Deliverance - 4
Damnation - 3
Lamentations - 3.5
Ghost Reveries - ???

 

[the_3_toed_sloth]

Orchid - 3
Morningrise - 3 1/2
My Arms Your Hearse - 4
Still Life - 5
Blackwater Park - 5
Deliverance - 4
Damnation - 3 1/2
Lamentations - 4

...though those ratings pretty much change daily

 

[Olllie]

Orchid - ***
Morningrise - ****
My Arms Your Hearse - ****1/2
Still Life - ******
Blackwater Park - *****
Deliverance - ****1/2
Damnation - ****
Lamentations - ****

 

[Nairolf]

Orchid 4.5/5
Morningrise 5/5/
My arms your hearse 4.5/5
Still life 4/5
Blackwater park 3.5/5
Deliverance 4.5/5
Damnation 3.5/5
Lamentations 4/5

 

[Anarkissed]

Don't you think that is a shallow way to look at things? I mean crap is crap. You either like it or you don't. It's bad for one band to put out crap, but if another band does it, than it's great? That doesn't make sense to me.

I woudln't say shallow, as such. Being a fan of a certain band, it's very easy to judge how good or bad an album is by comparing it to previous works. St Anger is one example. Whilst I dont like it that much, I believe that if another band had made that album, I might just like it a bit. But the fact that Metallica - after releasing awesome albums like AJFA and Master of Puppets - simplified their music so horribly makes it extremely hard to accept the album.

Some people here call Deliverance Opeth's weakest album, but i'm sure many would still say that it's a shitload better than a lot of other music out there.

 

[Hypnos]

Orchid 4.5/5
Morningrise 4/5
MAYH 5+/5
Still Life 4.5/5
Blackwater Park 3.5/5
Deliverance 4/5
Damnation 3/5
"TGC" 3/5

 

[narcoleptic haze]

Blacwater Park--*****

Orchid - N/A
Morninigrise - N/A
My Arms Your Hearse - 2.5/5
Still Life - 4.5/5
Blackwater Park - 5/5
Blackwater Park Bonus Disc - 6/5
Deliverance - 5/5
Damnation - 4/5
Lamentations - 4/5
Ghost Reveries - N/A (TGC = 5/5)

 

[BRI]

orchid - 4/5
morningrise - 5/5
mayh - 3.5/5
still life - 5/5
bwp - 4.5/5
deliverance - 3.5/5
damnation - 4.5/5

 

[Kichacid]

Orchid - 4/5
Morningrise - 2.5/5
MAYH - 3/5
Still Life - 5/5
BWP - 5/5
Deliverance - 3.5/5
Damnation - 4/5
Lamentations - 4/5