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| | Metal Refuge Review: Opeth - Blackwater Park |
 | | From the opening crescendo of "The Leper Affinity" to the lingering guitar melody of the album's closer "Blackwater Park", Swedish metal band Opeth pulls out all the stops in the epic album Blackwater Park. | | | The underground legends bring a mix of energy, emotion, musicality, and lyrical genius to the table in this, their 5th studio album. | | | Then with the transition into the ferocious sound of the double bass and moving guitar licks coupled with the raw, growling vocals, the song hits you like a ton of bricks. |
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http://www.metalrefuge.com/cdrev/opethbwp.html
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| | Metal Hordes - Extreme Metal Mp3s |
| | That was their recipe for "Blackwater Park," an album that, by turns, both induces trances and (as in the case with the opening of the song "Bleak") rocks irresistably. | | | "Blackwater Park" is an album that will live forever among metalheads, even though Opeth broke many of the inviolate rules of metal to accomplish it. | | | Opeth's lyrics are every bit as enthralling as their music. |
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http://www.metalhordes.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=74
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| | Blackwater Park (Opeth) Review |
| | "Blackwater Park," sometimes one of my favorite songs on the album. | | | Blackwater Park is an excellent album to start off with if you are thinking of giving Opeth a chance. | | | As you can see, this is a very consistent album that displays all sides of Opeth's music. |
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http://www.gametz.com/?x&A=Reviews&ruid=292
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| | Opeth - Satan Stole My Teddybear |
| | The album is significantly more aggressive than Blackwater Park ("Deliverance" in particular), and Åkerfeldt grunts quite a bit more than he has in recent memory. | | | Opeth has proven with their last three releases that their songwriting consists of their aforementioned formula and that they are simply stuck in a rut. | | | The songs presented on Blackwater Park do very little to engage listeners beyond some very pretty or intriguing passages. |
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http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/db/searchrev.php?artistID=850&showReview=true
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| | Amazon.com: Blackwater Park [IMPORT]: Music |
| | Blackwater Park, the band's fifth release, is their fifth amazing album. | | | No band has ever captivated my imagination and love for music the way this band has, and Blackwater Park is the album that started it all. | | | Without a doubt, Blackwater Park is full of crashing guitars and brutal growls, yet Opeth balances with melodic acoustic passages and vocal deliveries with icy beauty. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056H7W?v=glance
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| | thrashPIT - the music site that goes to 11! |
| | One listen to Blackwater Park (Their first album to be released in the U.S. thanks to the fine folks at Koch Entertainment) and it is easy to see where all the hype came from, in fact it’s not hype at all but well placed praise. | | | Blackwater Park is an album of Epic proportions that can easily be called a modern metal masterpiece. | | | But by far the most impressive elements to this band and album is the musicianship, instrumentation and the composition. |
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http://www.thrashpit.com/reviews/cd/2001/march/opeth.shtml
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Blackwater Park |
| | 'Blackwater Park' has to be their best release to date.The opening song 'The Leper Affinity' is probably the best track on the album as it has heavy and melodic metal parts, relaxing acoustic parts, and a lovely piano solo to finish. | | | Blackwater Park: Well, this just finishes off the album perfectly, some awesome riffs and a soft acoustic part makes you think that this is not gonna get heavy, you're damn wrong, some heavy ass riffs come into play, one of the best songs on the album. | | | Other stand out tracks are 'Bleak', 'The Funeral Portrait', and 'Blackwater Park', the title track. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056H7W
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| | Luna Kafé - Opeth: Blackwater Park |
| | Blackwater Park has been co-produced by Opeth and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, who also provides some additional vocals, guitar and a lovely piano outro to the opening track. | | | Most of their songs contain both the aggressive, crunching guitar riffs with the typical death metal "cookie monster" vocals, and the more subtle approach of acoustic guitars with "clean" vocals - the latter providing a beautiful, melancholic counterpoint to the former. | | | Because of the beautiful "breathing spaces" in Opeth's music, Blackwater Park might be a very good place to start if you're interested in getting into some of the more extreme music that's out there. |
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http://www.lunakafe.com/moon55/se55b.php
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| | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | The structures are twisted and weird yet, with oddities as "Patterns in the ivy", a very short acoustic track, or "Blackwater park", a dark-psychodelic long song that carries us into another state of mind. | | | But not only the calm fragments of the songs are great, the death metal is still present and it´s more inspired than in the previous "Still life", in my humble opinion. | | | I can say the vocal arrangements are better than ever, conforming a mature album in its true sense of the word, if you like that kind of descriptions. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Blackwater Park [Import] |
| | The bass guitar is also more active on "Blackwater Park" than on the last two albums and enhances the album's rhythmic progressiveness. | | | With "Blackwater Park," Opeth has released their fifth straight excellent album - and their first two albums should now be counted on the short list of metal's all-time greats. | | | Musically, "Blackwater Park" mixes the heavier sounds and production of "My Arms Your Hearse" and "Still Life" with the reflective moments and jazz textures of "Morningrise." The piano, played by guest musician Steven Wilson, is more prominent than on any album since "Orchid" and is a welcome addition to the mix. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056H7W
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| | Blackwater Park, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic |
| | Like all Opeth LPs, Blackwater Park is divided not so much into songs as "movements," as the band likes to call them. | | | As for more experienced Opeth disciples, few will disagree with the fact that, even compared to lofty prior achievements, Blackwater Park is surely the band's coming-of-age album, and therefore, an ideal introduction to its remarkable body of work. | | | With all this in mind, singling out specific highlights is pretty much a futile exercise; but for the benefit of first-time listeners, why not start out with the colossal, Arabian-flavored riffs of "Bleak," the memorable chorus of "The Drapery Falls," the surprisingly gentle intro of "Dirge for November," and, finally, the all-encompassing title track. |
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http://www.emusic.com/album/10750/10750927.html
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| | Transcending the Mundane: Review of 'Blackwater Park' by Opeth |
| | Blackwater Park is more of a spiritual journey than a metal album. | | | But the lyrics to the album tell a twisted story involving a place of that name. | | | There are points in songs like "Bleak" and "The Funeral Portrait" where his words (and Wilson's) will touch you and bring the accumulated pain in these songs together in moments of clarity. |
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| | OPETH Blackwater Park reviews and MP3 |
| | The album closer Blackwater Park is also an incredible piece of metal, with much of the same elements as the other songs mentioned. | | | "Blackwater Park" by Opeth is an absolute work of art and is my second favorite Opeth album along with the second release "Morningrise". | | | Blackwater Park is an incredible album and Opeth are an incredible band. |
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http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=5796
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| | Opeth - Blackwater Park sputnikmusic |
| | As for the Still Life or Blackwater Park thing, I haven't listened to SL nearly as much as I should have to be able to choose one above the other. | | | Speaking of the title track, Blackwater Park, it's next, and is also the longest and heaviest. | | | Opeth is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. |
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| | MSJ - Opeth-Blackwater Park |
| | "Blackwater Park" is a superbly played and produced record that is recommended for those who like a heavy dose of gloomy mood mixed with their heavy metal. | | | Opeth is a metal band, but there's enough here to appeal to the bolder fans of progressive rock, Gothic and even folky music. |
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| | VRI: Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | For those embarking on their dark, haunting journey for the first time, imagine if you will a combination of styles taken from 70's prog bands Anglagard and Camel mixed with a death/black metal hybrid. | | | The aural assault to your senses continues with "Bleak" as Akerfeldt's other-worldy presence is interweaved with a more ethereal musical sound as well as Steven Wilson's occasional softer vocals. | | | His addition, both technically and musically has added further subtleties to Opeth's sound that began to take shape and mature with Still Life. |
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| | Opeth - "Blackwater Park" |
| | In fact, just about every song on Blackwater Park has acoustic breaks, and two of the songs, the lovely Harvest, and the haunting instrumental Patterns in the Ivy, are entirely acoustic. | | | Harvest, in fact, is a song that would not at all be out of place on a PT album. | | | Nor are they afraid to bring acoustic instruments into their death metal sound. |
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| | .: Metal Storm - Opeth - Blackwater Park - review |
| | By doing so, I?m implying that Blackwater Park, and indeed all of Opeth?s works, can be somehow compared with any other album by any other band. | | | Forget that Harvest is one of the greatest acoustic songs ever written. | | | After the calm interlude Blackwater Park becomes one of the best heavy songs I know. |
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http://www.metalstorm.ee/bands/review.php?id=102&band_id=opeth
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| | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | "The Funeral Portrait" and "Blackwater Park" stand out as two of the albums strongest tracks for their structure,overall feel, and presentation. | | | "Patterns In The Ivy" is a simple interlude into the albums title track and last, "Blackwater Park". | | | Their latest album "Blackwater Park" is sure to lure many more! |
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| | Blackwater Park by Opeth CD |
| | Beautiful though they are, they are admittedly not worth the extra money if you already have the album in its other form and don't adore the band. | | | This edition of BLACKWATER PARK includes a bonus Enhanced CD, which contains previously unreleased audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | | If you're a dedicted fan of the band, you need this album (but you already knew that). |
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| | village voice > music > Blessed By The Night: The Dark Metal Compilation; Opeth, Blackwater Park by Erik Davis |
| | Despite delightful eruptions of atonality and old-school prog moves, many songs here are more repetitious and conventionally structured, and so wear their length less justifiably than on 1999's amazing Still Life. | | | After twisting and turning through a fistful of angry riffs, "The Leper Affinity" ends with the man on the grand piano, tinkling out rainy day ruminations that simply drift away to a diminished end. | | | While the 11-minute "The Drapery Falls" starts out with catchy choruses and lots of acoustic strumming, the tune gets twisted after the five-minute mark, with ice-cave vocals, crazy Frippertronics, and manic beats from the two Uruguayans named Martin who back up Åkerfeldt and guitarist Peter Lindfren on bass and drums. |
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| | The Metal Crypt - Reviews |
| | There are various stages you go through when listening to a Opeth album as I found out listening to Blackwater Park for the first time. | | | I am a new follower to the band as this was the first album from them I had purchased but the very moment I finished listening to this I was online ordering the entire back catalogue. | | | If you can't tell by now I kind of liked this album a little. |
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| | Aquarius Records: Search Results for Title: Blackwater Park |
| | In Opeth's arsenal, there's vocals both growled and clean, acoustic guitar, an incredible sense of dynamics, and inspired melodicism. | | | While it would be hard to be much better than that album (and that's what we thought about Still Life's predecessor, My Arms Your Hearse too), Opeth continue to perfect perfection, I guess. |
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| | rubiks's ROCK N ROLL REFERENCE DISCOGRAPHY |
| | Opeth - "Dirge For November" (Blackwater Park) music for nations//koch 2001 | | | Opetha - (Blackwater Park) music for nations/koch 2001 | | | Opeth - "Funeral Portrait, The" (Blackwater Park) music for nations//koch 2001 |
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| | MetalBite - Heavy Metal Webzine - Tracks |
| | Saw this album with reviews on the Amazon website so I checked it out..several weeks later I remain convinced that this is one of the best albums ever put out in any genre, let alone metal. | | | Better than 'Deliverance', which is a great record as well, but 'Blackwater' stands alone amongst the competition. | | | If you are an Opeth fan, you should already have this, but for all you skeptics out there this is a great way to discover, firsthand, their complete and utter brilliance! |
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http://www.metalbite.com/tracks.asp?album=702
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| | CoC : Opeth - Blackwater Park : Review |
| | Opeth are songwriters of the highest order who are expert at combining strains of dark, distorted intensity with moments of exquisite melancholic beauty. | | | You will probably enjoy it if you like Opeth's style, but if you don't, it won't change your mind about them."] [Paul Schwarz: "Rare are albums which inspire such a feeling of wonder as _Blackwater Park_ does, yet from Opeth such an exquisitely brilliant release is not a surprise, but an expectation. | | | Still, there are solid enough quantities of well written music here to make this a good album; I just feel Opeth can do better. |
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| | Absolut Metal - album review - Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | Perhaps you were lucky enough to see Sweden's best kept secret recently on their first ever U.S. tour with Nevermore...if you did, chances are you've already picked up this amazing album. | | | Absolut Metal - album review - Opeth - Blackwater Park |
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http://www.absolutmetal.com/OpethBlackwaterReview.htm
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| | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | The album kick off and ends with long, excellent tracks ("The Leper Affinity" and "Blackwater Park"). | | | What you get is 8 tracks, most of which are somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes, offering plenty of space for rhythm and melody changes, as well as clean versus grunted vocals. | | | On "Blackwater Park", there's only that one track. |
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| | Blackwater Park |
| | All four band members are incredibly talented, and Mikael Akerfeldt is nothing short of a musical genius. | | | And if you like it, be sure to pick up the rest of Opeth's albums as well- every one of them is a masterpiece. | | | I would recommend everyone to give "Blackwater Park" a try. |
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| | Opeth "Blackwater park" Guitar tabs |
| | Subject: o/opeth/blackwater_park.tab Opeth tab Band: Opeth Album: Blackwater Park Title: Blackwater Park Tabbed by "B-mac" E-mail: Musicman_16@msn.com Metaltabs.com forum user: "Wannabe" Ok. | | | Nobody on the internet has tabbed this song. |
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| | Blackwater Park - Buy the music for low prices |
| | Look at the covers and hear the music. | | | Blackwater Park - Buy the music for low prices | | | Buy the music of Blackwater Park for low prices. |
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| | Blackwater Park - Opeth bei dooyoo.de |
| | Auch hier ist es der Band wieder gelungen, die für sie wichtigen Aspekte zu einer Einheit verschmelzen zu lassen, sprich längere Songs, von denen jeder einzelne eine Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle... | | | Ja, Opeth haben auch schon wieder ein neues Album am Start. | | | Nach „Still Live“ folgt nun der nächste Epos „Blackwater Park“. |
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| | Blackwater Canyon Report-- Chapter 2 |
| | While Minnows, Sculpins, Chubs and Mad Toms do not appear to be numerous, they do exist and are the main forage fish for the above mentioned. | | | Even scrambling back up to the tracks without your boat is a serious matter. | | | Blackwater Pit is the largest recorded cave in the Canyon. |
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| | Blackwater Products |
| | ROBERT BRADLEY'S BLACKWATER SURPRISE Cd w/ KID ROCK | | | 1 CENT CD New Ground - Robert Bradley's Blackwater | | | Opeth: Blackwater Park 2CD Bloodbath Katatonia NEW S/S |
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| | metal.de - CD-Review: Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | "Blackwater Park" ist wieder ein sehr gutes Album, doch für mich bleibt "My Arms You Hearse" das non Plus Ultra in Sachen Sound, Dynamik und Aggression! | | | Fast unbemerkt kippt diese Melodie dann in brutale Grunts, die bis zum wieder melodiösen Ende über die bisweilen beißenden Harmonien jagen - Opeth at its Best! | | | Hier nun die Fremdwörter-Light Version, meines "Blackwater Park" Eindrucks. |
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| | My 2001 Playlists On SeismicRadio |
| | It was a week later when I finally posted this, so I don't remember who was listening or what was requested. | | | Opeth, Blackwater Park -- "Bleak," "Harvest," "The Drapery Falls," "The Leper Affinity," then tracks 5-8 to finish it out (people wanted to hear it and Jim Raggi had given me his sacred way-early promo copy :)) | | | My Thursday show, started a bit late and I was feeling really sick, so I was a bit lazy and played whole CDs by request. |
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| | freedb.org |
| | Opeth / Blackwater Park (Deluxe Edition - Disc 2) | | | Found a CD you have been desperately searching for? | | | We found the following Artist(s) and created some shortcuts to search Amazon and Ebay: |
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| | Opeth--Blackwater Park |
| | While not as distortionally sharp as a band like Lamb of God, Opeth oversteps many others in its genre due to its ability to create varying atmospheres and moods--and perform each with great talent. | | | TRACK LIST: The Leper Affinity/Bleak/Harvest/The Drapery Falls/Dirge for November/The Funeral Portrait/Patterns in the Ivy/Blackwater Park |
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| | Sonos Metallicos - Arvostelu: Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| | Opethin tullessa puheeksi jonkun sellaisen kanssa, joka ei ole siitä koskaan aiemmin kuullut, tulee monesti aivan aluksi suositeltua ja tutustutettua tämä musiikinystävä Blackwater Parkiin. | | | Ehkäpä Blackwater Park on se kaikkein turvallisin ja helpoiten yhtyeen tuotantoa esittelevä levy, vaikkei kyseessä olekaan mikään helppo levy, sitä se ei todellakaan ole. | | | Blackwater Parkin kuusi varsinaista 10-minuuttista kappaletta ja hieman kevyemmät välisoitot luovat levylle niin monenlaisia tunnelmia ja koukkuja, ettei levyn tarttumapinta voi kulua millään puhki, mistä osoituksena tätäkin levyä kohdannut monivuotinen tehokuuntelu. |
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