Biography

Opeth added progressive influences and acoustic instrumentation to their brand of Swedish death metal. Orchid and Morningrise appeared respectively in 1995 and 1996, but it was their third album, 1998's My Arms, Your Hearse, that established the band as a leading force in progressive death metal. 1999's Still Life displayed even more prog rock influences, followed by Blackwater Park in 2001 and Deliverance in 2002. In 2003, Opeth released Damnation, an album almost completely devoid of heavy metal trappings. Ghost Reveries arrived in 2005, followed by Watershed in 2008. Opeth shifted stylistic gears dramatically for 2011's Heritage; it was the sound of the band leaving death metal behind. ~ Mike DaRonco

Top Tracks

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• A Fair Judgement

• Blackwater Park

• Bleak

• By The Pain I See In Others

• Closure

• Coil

• Deliverance

• Dirge For November

• Ending Credits

• Eternal Soul Torture

• Famine

• Folklore

• For Absent Friends

• Ghost Of Perdition

• Heir Apparent

• Hessian Peel

• Hope Leaves

• In Mist She Was Standing

• In My Time Of Need

• Isolation Years

• Master's Apprentices

• Patterns In The Ivy

• Reverie/harlequin Forest

• The Amen Corner

• The Devil's Orchard

• The Funeral Portrait

• The Leper Affinity

• The Night And The Silent Water

• Under The Weeping Moon

• Weakness

• Windowpane

• Wreath

Discography

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• Heritage

  Roadrunner Records

  2011

• In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

  Roadrunner Records

  2010

• Watershed

  Roadrunner Records

  2008

• Ghost Reveries

  Roadrunner Records

  2005

• Damnation

  Koch Records

  2003

• Deliverance

  Koch International

  2002

• Still Life

  Peaceville/Snapper

  1999

• My Arms, Your Hearse

  Century Media

  1998

• Morningrise

  Century Media

  1996

• Orchid

  Century Media

  1995