WATERSHED

Its predecessor, Ghost Reveries, was phenomenal, a perfect album, so my expectations for this album were pretty high and after giving it a chance... my jaw dropped after finishing. Watershed is easily one of the best Opeth albums, this album is far from being a clone of Ghost Reveries as i thought it would be, yes, elements of it are present here, but with even more diversity. This is a creative album, which brings a lot of surprises.

The album begins with the acoustic "Coil" Featuring duet female vocals, this is an intriguing start of what's to come and then the album continues with the overpowering and aggressive "Heir Apparent" easily one of the most aggressive songs ever made by Opeth, powerful, aggressive, melodic it is excellent, this is a very brutal and very dynamic song, the album goes to the crazy and ambitious "The Lotus Eater" and it is on this track that the album demonstrates dynamism and creativity of Watershed, the song is unpredictable and full of layers, but with a very interesting cohesion, the addition of a keyboardist for the band it proves effective in this song, giving more dimensions and even more versatility, easily one of the best songs on the album and in Opeth career and one of my favorites on the album, "Burden" is calm and quite beautiful, the musicality is excellent and i love Mikael clean vocals and the organ solo by Per Wilberg, further demonstrating the album versatility, really great song, then comes "Porcelain Heart" very underrated song, the Mikael clean vocals are very beautiful here, the riffs are great, and the atmosphere of the song is really great, it's a song that slowly grows on you and i feel like this is the song where Martin Axenrot shines the most as a drummer, the next song, "Hessian Peel" is the most prog song on the album, an epic of over 11 minutes, this song together with "The Lotus Eater" is the best song of the album, excellent in every way, "Hex Omega" it's a good song with great riffs but i feel like it's not the best way to end the album, but it's still a good song, in conclusion, Watershed is incredible, is the most versatile and prog release of Opeth, be it the crazy and creatives "The Lotus Eater" and "Hessian Peel" the dynamics "Heir Apparent" and "Porcelain Heart" and the beautiful "Coil" and "Burden", although the album is very creative and has a lot of experiments, it has an impressive cohesion, which never makes the album confusing to listen to, each track has layers and new features, this is easily one of the most versatile and incredible releases ever made by Opeth, a true prog masterpiece and my third favorite album by them.