Style: Progressive death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Opeth take their now signature sound and make it a bit heavier, a bit more brutal
Thoughts: After honing their trademark sound for two albums Opeth decide to change things up just the tiniest bit for their fifth album: they get heavier than they ever have before. Blackwater Park has less clean vocals than ever before, and the riffs are on the lower frets more often than not. It's a monstrous album that many consider the best the band ever put out.
These eight songs weave through the riffs unlike any other in their discography. The band really knows what they are doing at this point and have absolutely perfected their craft. We start to get a little bit of the riffs overstaying their welcome, but not nearly as much as the band would on subsequent releases.
The major area that the band has improved in is the transitions. All of the songs have silky smooth transitions that flow effortlessly. It's a bit of an analogy for the whole album. It flows so effortlessly that it all seems natural. I'm sure these songs took forever to write, but the end result here is some of the most enjoyable death metal to ever be created. A classic in progressive music.
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