Blackwater Park
by Opeth
- Type: Album
- Released: March 12, 2001
- Label: Music for Nations, Koch, Music For Nations
- Country: Sweden
- Length: 1:06:59
- Community rating: 4.48/5 from 57 ratings
Artists on this release: Martin Lopez, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Peter Lindgren, Martín Méndez
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Blackwater Park' marked a pivotal evolution in the band's style, seamlessly integrating brutal death metal with extended, folk-influenced acoustic passages. The album's crystalline production, a first-time collaboration with producer Steven Wilson, brought a new clarity and nuance that accentuated the dynamic shifts between Mikael Åkerfeldt's guttural roars and clean vocal harmonies. Through its ambitious, long-form compositions and intricate musicianship, the album is widely regarded as the band's creative magnum opus and a defining work of the progressive metal genre.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, growls, clean-vocals, dynamic, long-form
Tracklist
- The Leper Affinity (10:23)
- Bleak (9:15)
- Harvest (6:01)
- The Drapery Falls (10:52)
- Dirge for November (7:53)
- The Funeral Portrait (8:44)
- Patterns in the Ivy (1:52)
- Blackwater Park (12:11)
Credits
- Mikael Åkerfeldt - vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar
- Peter Lindgren - guitar
- Martín Méndez - bass
- Martin Lopez - drums
- Steven Wilson - clean and backing vocals, piano, additional guitar, record producer, engineering, mixing
- Markus Lindberg - egg shakers
- Opeth - producer, engineering, design
- Fredrik Nordström - engineering, mixing
- Göran Finnberg - mastered by
- Travis Smith - artwork, design
- Harry Välimäki - photography by