Opeth - Damnation (2003) [Japan Edition]

Artist : Opeth
Country : Sweden
Release : Damnation [Japan Edition]
Year : 2003
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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Damnation is a complex and often acoustic album that demonstrates beyond question Opeth's high regard for the sweet harmonies and post-psychedelic atmospherics of '70s rockers such as Camel, Steve Hackett, and, especially, Barclay James Harvest. Then there's Opeth's own pedigree. Steeped in the bloodier aspects of metal, singer Mikael Akerfeldt has no time for sweet love or fanciful flights of fantasy; he's trapped in post-relationship depression, drowning in loneliness and regret.

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Opeth - Deliverance (2002) [Japan Edition]

Artist : Opeth
Country : Sweden
Release : Deliverance [Japan Edition]
Year : 2002
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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Another Opeth album, and again the pillars of progressive metal must inevitably quake in terrified awe. Luckily, most will remain safe since Opeth basically remains a niche within a niche. For the esurient progressive music fan not queasy with a hellish vocal, however, it is obvious that they are one of progressive metal's leading bands.
Opeth's latest album continues to their brutal heavy passages with gorgeous acoustic interludes and a protean expanse of other flavors ranging from Scandinavian folk to jazz to 70s prog. Even though this is their sixth album, Mikael Åkerfeldt's bohemian preoccupation with creating progressive music remains as poignant as ever. While _Deliverance_ does call upon familiar elements from past albums, it likewise adds new assets to the Opethian palette -- especially the final song, "By the Pain I See in Others". After all, Opeth is nothing if not surprising.

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Opeth - Heritage (2011) [Special Edition]

Artist : Opeth
Country : Sweden
Release : Heritage [Special Edition]
Year : 2011
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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The band's roots in the doom-laden shade of occult-infused Scandinavian death metal and dark romanticism are undeniable and will never elicit apology. But the transcendent emotional and melodic heights achieved on the brilliantly titled tenth full-length Opeth album, Heritage, marks a new chapter in the storied quintet's career. Band leader, singer, guitarist, songwriter and long-running consistent member Mikael Åkerfeldt has reshaped the pathway forward for his artistic vehicle without sacrificing the hard won spiritualism of previous endeavors.
This masterwork from the Stockholm, Sweden based virtuoso musicians is a mind-boggling dense maze of tempo shifts, off-time signatures, percussive experimentation and warped rhythms. It is all expertly melded together by a myriad range of emotional outpouring and breezy melodic optimism which soars above the songs like a woodland spirit surveying its forest. There are multiple hints of darkness but Heritage moves the band forward into broader dimensions.

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Opeth - Watershed (2008) [Japan Edition]

Artist :       Opeth
Country :     Sweden
Release :     Watershed [Japan Edition]
Year :           2008
Genre :       Heavy Metal
File Type :   mp3 320

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2008 album from the forward-thinking Swedish titans, who seemlessly and fluidly combine Metal, Classic Rock, Prog, Folk and Free Form Jazz. With this, their ninth effort, Opeth continue to shake things up, turn the corner and push the limits of their sound. And the results are breathtaking. Ultimately, Watershed sounds at once completely like and absolutely nothing like previous Opeth records. Watershed takes all that is Opeth, and goes where Opeth have never gone before.

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Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005) [Special Edition]

Artist : Opeth
Country : Sweden
Release : Ghost Reveries [Special Edition]
Year : 2005
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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Opeth's Ghost Reveries is a Prog/Death masterstroke, becoming more simplistic in places while expanding the overall template. Having explored their split personalities in great detail on Deliverance and Damnation, Opeth pulls them back together for Ghost Reveries, and in the process they have once again upped the ante on what a Death Metal band can accomplish. While there is a bolder use of instrumentation on this release, the rhythms and time changes have simplified just a bit, giving the songs on Ghost Reveries a more direct impact. Both the harsher and softer aspects have made the band more well-rounded, from the rousing organ in "The Baying of the Hounds," to the use of Middle Eastern polyrhythms in the beautiful "Atonement." But the integration of the two styles does not mean the band has necessarily mellowed.

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Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) [Legacy Edition]

Artist : Opeth
Country : Sweden
Release : Blackwater Park [Legacy Edition]
Year : 2001
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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Took me awhile to get into opeth. With their unique style of folk death metal ( that's what I call it anyways.) Blackwater park in my opinion is their pinickle album in their ever changing sound. I guess there's so much going on in their sound and in each album and Michael and co. Approach each album in a different and creative way you really don't know what your going to get a full on death metal album, folk acoustic album, or a 70s era prog record. Which I think is always a good surprise. But back to Blackwater park the first track starts off as a acoustic jam before bursting into a full on death metal opus with Michael trading off death metal vocals with clean vocals.

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Opeth - The Candlelight Years (2008)

Artist : Opeth
Country : Sweden
Release : The Candlelight Years
Year : 2008
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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What more can you ask for; the first three albums released by Opeth under the "Candlelight" label... thus the name of the bundle ("The Candlelight Years"). If you are a fan of metal music... or even some harder rock, do yourself a favor and pick up this great deal, you will not be disappointed.

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