Blackwater Park (album)
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2001 |
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August to October 2000 |
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| Label (s) | Music for Nations | |||
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8th |
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67:13 |
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Opeth and Steven Wilson |
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Blackwater Park is the fifth studio album by the Swedish metal band Opeth . It was released by Music for Nations in 2001 .
Creation and publication
In 2000, Opeth switched to Music for Nations. In London Mikael Åkerfeldt met Steven Wilson and was able to win him over as producer for a new album. Blackwater Park was recorded at Studio Fredman from August to October 2000 . Wilson was also involved as a guest musician, as was Markus Lindberg. Wilson, Fredrik Nordström and Opeth mixed the album, Göran Finberg mastered it. Travis Smith designed the artwork . The album is named after the short-lived German progressive rock band Blackwater Park .
Music for Nations also released a limited edition with bonus CD. Sony Music reissued the album in 2006 and released a remastered version with a bonus title as well as a surround sound version and making-of on DVD in 2010 .
Track list
- The Leper Affinity - 10:23
- Bleak - 9:16
- Harvest - 6:01
- The Drapery Falls - 10:54 am
- Dirge for November - 7:54
- The Funeral Portrait - 8:44
- Patterns in the Ivy - 1:53
- Blackwater Park - 12:08 pm
Bonus CD 2001
- Still Day Beneath the Sun - 4:32
- Patterns in the Ivy II - 4:12
- Harvest (video)
Bonus title 2010
- The Leper Affinity (Live) - 9:27
style
Blackwater Park seems harder and more catchy than its predecessor Still Life , but consistently develops Opeth's characteristic amalgamation of Death Metal , Progressive Metal and Progressive Rock . The atmospherically dark album moves between “thundering drums and flashing guitar gushes” with guttural vocals on the one hand and calm, ballad-like passages with acoustic guitars and clear vocals on the other. In between there are hypnotic soundscapes, elegiac piano solos and guitar solos reminiscent of Andrew Latimer . The pieces are arranged in a complex manner, mostly not structured in a conventional manner, and thus repeatedly show unexpected musical twists and turns.
reception
The album was highly praised by the press and marked the breakthrough for the band. Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic regards Blackwater Park as Opeth's Coming of Age and recommends it as an introduction to her work. Christian Rode from Babyblauen Seiten considers it “the crowning achievement of the first five Opeth albums and their quintessence”, for Dennis Hirth from powermetal.de the album offers “an hour full of musical aggressiveness [sic!] , Epic and variety, and is Incidentally, one of the most aesthetic works that was ever allowed to pierce [s] an ear ”. Blackwater Park was Legacy magazine's seventh highest rated album in the first ten years , and eclipsed magazine included it in their Progmetal Milestones list. In June 2015, the renowned trade journal Rolling Stone voted the album 28th of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time . The German magazine Visions had the album in its list of the 66 + 6 best metal albums of the third millennium and in its list of the 55 best Swedish rock albums published in 2019.
Web links
- Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Blackwater Park on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English), accessed on December 9, 2012.
- ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Opeth. Blackwater Park , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 9, 2012.
- ^ A b Dennis Hirth: Opeth - Blackwater Park , powermetal.de , accessed on December 9, 2012.
- ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Opeth. Blackwater Park , Rock Hard # 166, accessed December 9, 2012.
- ↑ Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: Opeth 'Blackwater Park' Re-Release ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Legacy No. 79, accessed December 9, 2012.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.
- ^ Dan Epstein: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - Opeth, 'Blackwater Park' (2001). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 26, 2015 .
- ↑ oA: The 66 + 6 best metal albums of the millennium . In: Visions, issue 289, pages 52–66
- ↑ various authors: export world champion . In: Visions, issue 312, page 53
