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My choice is My Arms, Your Hearse. It's so amazing and well written. My absolute favorite by them.

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Still Life because the atmosphere is just too perfect
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Damnation by Steven WilsonLOL
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I could easily choose either BP, Still Life, and Watershed. Right now, I'm in more of a BLEAK mood thoughEvil%20Smile
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Damnation: SWilson + no Growling = a listenable album for me.
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All of them.  So I can't vote.  Wacko
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Blackwater Park. Still Life is oh so close but BP has the Drapery Falls and as such, takes the cake. fav. Opeth album to date.

also, kudos to their newest for re kindling my interest in the band. not their best but. . . interesting.
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Blackwater park by Miles away. It going to take a long time for Opeth to make a superiot album.

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Damnation for me because it's so melancholic,and i really like the mellotron. Blackwater Park and Still Life round out my top three.
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Blackwater Park. With the help of Steven Wilson they created the most melencholic, haunting and even beautiful album that I've ever heard, that just happens to absolutely rock.
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Damnation, because Cookie Monster stayed home on Sesame Street where he belongs. Wink
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Watershed: there's just an emotion there that the other albums don't have, and also because it's more varied than past releases.
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My Arms, Your Hearse

Unprecedented sophistication in songwriting that would lay dormant until Damnation and Ghost Reveries. All of the songs are excellent, but it has my favorite Opeth song, "Epilogue."
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Ghost Reveries is my favorite, to me it's great riffs, great technicality, but very emotional passages.  Might be the best metal album I own.
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I choose "Deliverance"... It's the first Opeth album I heard and still my personal favourite. I really like the powerful guitar sound, and of course, the incredible Martín López drums, his best in my opinion.

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Ghost Reveries has such a tremendous set of riffs, memorable passages, melodies, guitar solos, etc., great atmosphere, and great flow, among other things.
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I've been listening to this band for a long time. Blackwater Park has always been number one...but I still feel like something will take its place. Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse have the potential. Damnation is always nice to listen to for some easy listening Opeth. Great band, always putting out quality albums.
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Blackwater park.

Cause it has the best production of all Opeth albums (thanks to mr Wilson). It might be their most brutal moment while having some of the best acoustic pieces they have done. It´s got Opeth arguably best known song (The drapery falls) and their best (The leper affinity, although thats just my opinion). It´s, along with Ghost reveries, probably the album that has the most flow to it, every song seems to marriage each other really well, as opposed to Still life, where every song is killer but they seem to individual, no connection with the next one, Blackwater has it, and it has it better than in any other Opeth album. All songs are incredibly composed and they are quite varied within each other, in tempos primarly, which is another thing Still Life doesnt have. All songs, as said before are great, but it´s never really "on", it never really get´s fast and heavy, it seems a bit too lineal at times (probably due to the production), Blackwater park doesn´t, it´s a mountain ride that doesn´t let go. And Wilson sings in one song... what more can you ask for?
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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Blackwater park.

Cause it has the best production of all Opeth albums (thanks to mr Wilson). It might be their most brutal moment while having some of the best acoustic pieces they have done. It´s got Opeth arguably best known song (The drapery falls) and their best (The leper affinity, although thats just my opinion). It´s, along with Ghost reveries, probably the album that has the most flow to it, every song seems to marriage each other really well, as opposed to Still life, where every song is killer but they seem to individual, no connection with the next one, Blackwater has it, and it has it better than in any other Opeth album. All songs are incredibly composed and they are quite varied within each other, in tempos primarly, which is another thing Still Life doesnt have. All songs, as said before are great, but it´s never really "on", it never really get´s fast and heavy, it seems a bit too lineal at times (probably due to the production), Blackwater park doesn´t, it´s a mountain ride that doesn´t let go. And Wilson sings in one song... what more can you ask for?

You forgot that Wilson plays keyboards on a few sections.Wink
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Points: 6890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2008 at 19:14
I've been putting off getting anything before Still life for awhile, I guess I should jump on it. I guess Still life would be their best that I own, though I think Ghost of Perdition is their best song easily.
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