Opeth: Worst to Best Albums 

I came here to undoubtedly be triggered.

"If you enjoy listening to Opeth then you are an Opeth fan" Very, very true!

For me: 1. Ghost Reveries 1. Blackwater Park 1. My Arms, Your Hearse 1. Deliverance 1. Still Life 1. Orchid 1. Watershed 1. Morningrise 1. Damnation 1. Sorceress 1. Heritage 1. Pale Communion

Opeth is one of the greatest modern bands if Pink Floyd and Death had a baby Opeth would be the child.

Watershed let's go!! most underrated Opeth album =]

"I love that BWAMRH!-do,do,do,do,deedle-dede,doo-do-do-BWAMRH!...BWAMRH!...MMMPH!" After this, Notes' quit RU-vid to kickstart his revolutionary death metal acapella career.

Morningrise is so underrated. Almost half of the album is acoustic, and it's immersed in a cold, melancholic mood throughout which is maybe why people can't fully appreciate it. P.S. It's 'Black Rose Immortal', not 'Eternal'.

I absolutely adored Pale Communion when I listened to it and it grew on me every time I played it , i still don’t understand why people avoid it and rate it really low among opeth’s discography.

Dryer for November? LOL?!

My Top 5 1. Ghost Reveries - a pure masterpiece in my opinion 2. Pale Communion 3. Damnation 4. Still Life 5. Blackwater Park

I feel Heritage is criminally underrated. You have to listen to it from a less is more perspective. The sheer atmosphere provided from the silent parts really accentuates everything else. Solid riffs and singing and just all around amazing to listen to. This album is top three tier for me.

I saw this video when it came out and thought "How can anyone, even if they are a prog fan put "Pale Communion" on top?" So, I come from a extreme metal background and Opeth is one of, if not my absolute favourite band. But, as many other fans I have not been the biggest fan of their more prog turn of direction. That is until "In Cauda Venenum " came out, an album which I love! I said to myself "You have to give Heritage, Pale Communion and Sorceress another go, you have to invest time!" So, out of my love for the band I really started listening to those albums and they finally clicked for me! I can finally say that Opeth have not made a single bad album.

Morningrise, still life , black water park my favorites

Hair Drier for November is my favorite

1. Ghost Reveries 2. Blackwater Park 3. My Arms, Your Hearse 4. Deliverance 5. Still Life 6. Orchid 7. Watershed 8. Morningrise 9. Damnation 10. Sorceress 11. Heritage 12. Pale Communion Yes, Pale Communion is their weakest for me. I really like the first 3 songs though, especially Cusp of Eternity. There's good stuff on every album for sure.

Love your channel, you're a really articulate and engaging reviewer of music, which is rare on RU-vid.

My best to worst. 01. Deliverance 02. Damnation 03. Blackwater Park 04. Watershed 05. Ghost Reveries 06. My Arms, Your Hearse 07. Still Life 08. Pale Communion 09. Heritage 10. Sorceress 11. Morningrise 12. Orchid

Your enthusiasm is totally infectious.

The idea of a "worst" Opeth album is a logical fallacy and therefore renders this video an abomination to the space time continuum. Such an insult to the physics of reality should not be allowed to exist.

1st damnation 2nd three way tie with blackwater park, ghost reveries and watershed and then the rest. ill give them like 9.5/10

I love how everybody likes and aprecciates each album in a different way, some of us think of Blackwater Park as their best and other people have this album not even in top 5. Makes you realize how amazing this band is, even at it's lowest points.

1. Still Life 2. Morningrise 3. Damnation 4. Blackwater Park 5. Ghost Reveries 6. Orchid 7. My Arms, Your Hearse 8. Deliverance 9. Watershed 10. All the albums that came after Watershed.

#12 - Damnation (An acoustic masterpiece. I have to be in the right mood to get into it but when I am it really takes me places. I put it last just because all the songs kinda follow the same pattern and soundscape and also some album had to be last but I still adore all of their works!) #11 - Heritage (Just like Damnation, if I'm at the right mood for this Prog materpiece then I'll fully enjoy it. Most underrated album of theirs in my opinion!) #10 - Pale Communion (What they wanted to achieve with Heritage, they achieved it here! Just like you said, every song in here is a favourite!) #09 - Sorceress (For me, their best work of their Prog Rock trilogy. Taking elements both from Heritage and Pale Communion and it works perfectly. Will O The Wisp showing a more Elysian Woes kind of vibe while Strange Brew is dark brilliance, kind of a Famine vibe!) #08 - Deliverance (Their most brutal album yet so beautiful in places...Almost every riff on here is spot on awesome and the song Deliverance is just flawless!) #07 - Blackwater Park (Starting with the first riff of The Leper Affinity and grabbing me right by the balls and ending with the final acoustic melody of Blackwater Park just leaving me wondering of what a brilliant album I've just heard, this record is definately a journey!) #06 - My Arms, Your Hearse (For me, their first four albums had something that no other album after them was able to achieve and that is dark ambient forest atmosphere along with the lyrics of their first four records which are pure poetry and blended perfeclty with what the music wanted to say. This is just a flawless concept album from beginning to end!) #05 - Orchid (The most dark album, I've ever heard! Combined with the fact that I listened to these records in a village in the woods, these melodies will follow me until I die...I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael could write and record these beautifully dark and complex pieces! From the extremely haunting acoustic melody of Under The Weeping Moon to the glorious finishing solo of The Apostle In Triumph, this a jaw-dropping debut!) #04 - Watershed (If this is indeed their last album featuring Death Metal (which I hope not) then they certainly went out with a bang! From Coil to Burden to Hessian Peel, this album is just dark emotional and brutal brilliance!) #03 - Ghost Reveries (I don't have much to say about this one, you described it all yourself. From Ghost Of Perdition to Isolation Years, this album flows perfectly between beauty and brutallity!) #02 - Morningrise (For some people, Black Rose Immortal is an overrated song stating that people like it just because it's 20 minutes long. For some other people, Black Rose Immortal is Opeth's absolute masterpiece with flawless riffs and a perfect ballance between beauty and brutallity. I always go with the second side of opinions. This album is a just a beautiful journey from the beginning of Advent until the ending of To Bid You Farewell! Just like Orchid, I still can't understand how a 20-year old Mikael wrote this...) #01 - Still Life (My all time favourite Metal album! Combining the concept with Mikael's poetry and a foresty dark ambient atmosphere, this is the perfect balance between beauty and brutallity! From the haunting start of The Moor to the melancholic melody of Benighted to the atmospheric Moonlapse Vertigo to the jazzy sound of Face Of Melinda to the brutallity of Serenity Painted Death to the ending melody of White Cluster, this record is the peak of their discography for me and probably always be!)

Morningrise second worst ? It is actually my most favorite Opeth album..

Watershed is my favorite. I listened to them when Morningrise came out (awesome fretless bass!),but then lost interest until I watched the making of deliverance and damnation and got into them a lot after. Heir Apparent is (imo) their best song, and I believe only song to have just death growl vocals

I also love Ghost Reveries, each instrument is totally clear, great grooves, oscillating between heavy and softer.

1. Still Life 2. Blackwater Park 3. Ghost Reveries 4. Damnation 5. My Arms, Your Hearse 6. Morningrise 7. Deliverance 8. Watershed 9. Orchid 10. In Cauda Venenum 11. Pale Communion 12. Sorceress 13. Heritage

You got the names Of half the songs wrong lol

1 Morningrise 2 Still Life 3 In Cauda Venenum 4 Orchid 5 Pale Communion 6 My Arms, Your Hearse 7 Blackwater Park 8 Watershed 9 Damnation 10 Deliverance 11 Ghost Reveries 12 Heritage 13 Sorceress

I would love to see you do a BtBaM worst to best!

1 BP 2 Deliverance 3 Watershed 4 ICV 5 SL 6 GR 7 Damnation 8 Morningrise 9 Orchid 10 Heritage 11 PC 12 Sorceress 13 MAYH

morningrise is criminally underrated....

Here's the right answer: 1. Blackwater Park 2. Still Life 3. Ghost Reveries 4. Watershed 5. Damnation 6. My Arms your hearse 7. Deliverance 8. Pale Communion 9. Orchid 10. Morningrise 11. Sorceress 12. Heritage

my personal top 5 would prob be 1. orchid 2. ghost rev 3. blackwater park 4. pale com 5. still life sucks to see so many people put orchid near the bottom, its a great album :)

For the most part I agree with your opinions. I think Ghost Reveries is number 1 but that's MY opinion. Love the video!!

It changes all the time, but here's the current ranking: 13. Sorceress 12. Morningrise 11. My Arms, Your Hearse 10. Heritage 9. Orchid 8. Pale Communion 7. Watershed 6. In Cauda Venenum 5. Damnation 4. Deliverance 3. Still Life 2. Ghost Reveries 1. Blackwater Park

Nice list and great channel. Keep on recording! Now I'm waiting for "Camel: Worst to Best" ;D

Stopped the video when Morningrise was mentioned early on - A brilliant, underrated prog/doom album.

Can you make king crimson: worst to best?

I started to feel the trigger but I actually agree with your list! Very nice review man, your enthusiasm is contagious!

My thoughts on this video: Ok first of all, and I'm really sorry if this comes off as offensive because I know you're dyslexic, but "Drier for November" made my day XD! Second of all, I really love how much passion you have when you describe how much you enjoy some of the albums listed on here. My favorite is Blackwater Park, and I'm personally not as crazy about your top 2, but I still felt your passion and your enjoyment for the pieces of music you mentioned on this list. I'm also really happy to find someone who loves Watershed as much as I do. To me, it really showcases a lot of their experimental side, and it results in some gorgeous tracks. It is also the first album since Blackwater Park that really takes me on a full musical journey from the first to very last song. Great job! Keep it up :) EDIT: Wow, thank you for pinning my comment! It is a real honor, and I mean that whole-heartedly :D

Opeth has never made a bad album. All of their albums are amazing.

When I was in my teens I bought the "My Arms, your Hearse" album. I haven't opened it yet and never listened to the songs (except for tDemon of the Fall) because I don't ever want to feel that there's not another album by them for me to discover, so I am keeping it for when I turn 100 years old. I am a professional classical musician, but Opeth is my favorite music of all time. Man I love them so much, up to Ghost Reveries I don't have any favorites, I loved them all the same. I saw them in Zurich a couple of days ago and it was great but I had that feeling you mention on your review of some of the albums, it was kind of disjointed, the growing energy of the crowd was constantly interrupted with changes of mood, great show nevertheless. Great video, thanks!

The beauty about music is that it is subjective. We will all enjoy or dislike different albums depending on where we are emotionally at the time we hear them. Great vid.

12. Orchid 11. Morningrise 10. My Arms, Your Hearse 9. Deliverance 8. Still Life 7. Watershed 6. Sorceress 5. Heritage 4. Pale Communion 3. Damnation 2. Blackwater Park 1. Ghost Reveries

1. Still Life 2. Ghost Reveries 3. Blackwater Park / Deliverance 4. My Arms, Your Hearse 5. The rest

Where is this guy from? He seems like a native English speaker, but having watched a few of his videos he mispronounces about half the titles he mentions.

I would’ve put Damnation in the top 4, IMO. Damnation is a such a beautiful album and it showcases more of Opeth’s creative songs and riffs. Windowpane is a great opening song and it just draws you in and you just get immersed into all of the album. But I might also be biased on this because I grew up listening to this album while falling asleep but I still appreciate it to this day.

My man said "Hair Apparent"😂 I love the list for the most part, very well-thought out and defended. I'd put Heritage on the bottom, like you. I'd definitely put Ghost Reveries as number one, so we're close there as well. Also, Pale Communion is an underappreciated gem. Good video.

worst: sorceress best: deliverance/ still life

love this series! keep it up man

The riff from face of Melinda you played is my absolute favorite of all time... And blackwater Park is #1 lol.

A bit late but i have to do it. It is ''Black Rose Immortal'' not ''Black Rose Eternal''. I think you are not too familiar with it, that's why is so low on your list, but it's your list... so i respect that anyways. Btw, i'm new to your channel and it's great!

"Hair Apparent"? 😂

For me it would be: 13. Morningrise 12. Heritage 11. Sorceress 10. M.A.Y.H. 9. Orchid 8. In Cauda Venenum (next four could be at same level of greateness) 7. Deliverance 6. Pale Comunion 5. Blackwater Park 4. Watershed 3. Damnation (absolute beauty) 2. Still Life (brutally gorgeous) 1. Ghost Reveries (one of the best fucking albums I have heard, period.)

Yes man!! I'm glad you put Pale Communion as your number 1! It's also my favourite of theirs. It's meatier than Heritage, but more structured than Sorceress. Like Still life but focused on prog rather than death metal. I love the direction Opeth has taken recently. They got all that growling out of the way, and what you get now is a more mature, refined Opeth that has aged well. Like a fine wine.

My List: 1. Ghost Reveries - 10 2. In Cauda Venenum - 10 3. Blackwater Park - 10 4. Pale Communion - 9,5 5. Damnation - 9,5 6. Still Life - 9 7. Sorceress - 8,5 8. Deliverance - 8,5 9. Watershed - 8 10. My Arms Your Hearse - 8 11. Morningrise - 7,5 12. Heritage - 7 13. Orchid - 7, I really like every Opeth´s albums. Greetings from canary islands.

YOURE ABSOLUTELY..... You’re absolutely right if that’s how you feel about it. I’m primarily a metal guy, that likes some prog Metal/rock and other things. And I’ve watched your vids on Rush, Genesis, etc. I was fairly shocked to see that you listened to death metal at all. And so naturally it makes sense to have a ranking different than the metal guys ranking. I think you did a damn good job on this list. And no, I don’t have mine sorted. I was a little late on the Opeth train. I love everything I’ve heard so far, but need more repeat listens to give a fair assessment

"worst" in opeth is less good. They all are good to me, and some amazing. Hessian Peel is my first and favorite.

cool channel, I subbed. I know this is YOUR favs, I somewhat disagree tho, Heritage is great! My fav is Ghost Reveries........respect your opinion tho.......carry on.

Still Life My Arms Your Hearse Morningrise Deliverance Blackwater park My top 5!!!

1. Blackwater park 2. Ghost reveries 3. Still life 4. Watershed 5. Deliverance 6. My arms your hearse 7. Pale communion 8. Damnation 9. In cauda venenum 10. Orchid 11. Morningrise 12. Sorceress 13. Heritage

9. Orchid/Morningrise/My Arms, Your Hearse/Sorceress I haven't listened to these so im not going to rank them 8. Pale Communion Only liked Cusp of Eternity and River off this album every thing else was forgetable to me 7. Ghost reveries Its like Opeth took the Opeth stereotype and threw it into an album. The heavy tracks are just too all over the place for me. I only relisten to the softer more acoustic tracls 6. Still Life Has everything i like about opeth the brutality but also the gorgeousness of the calm parts but not better then the other album that are higher 5. Deliverence If this was better recorded and more polished this would be in my top 3 but its just too unrefined for me 4. Watershed This is Ghost reveries done right. It was even more abrasive but it managed to still have cohesiveness 3. Heritage I have no idea why this album gets hate. I love how atmospheric it is and experimental. But i feel as if some tracks don't work like silther, but tracks like Devil's orchid and famine really make the album for me (plus it has face in the snow as a bonus track) 2. Damnation 1. Blackwater Park I call this 2 the yin and yang of Opeth. Damnation is Opeth at its most atmospheric and beautiful while Blackwater Park is Opeth at its most brutal and crushing. Blackwater Park is the Album that made me a fan and Damnation made them my favorite band

I think it's great that you like what you like regardless of what the most popular album is. It's cool that your giving those top two more attention. I'll listen to your favorite album later today. Haven't heard it, I'm stoked.

Ghost Reveries happens to be my favorite album by Opeth. Ghost of Perdition is such an incredible song. Somehow they can capture the feel of that rustic historic feel even just through the instrumental track. The best part is that the album tells a story, which in itself could probably be its own book. Fantastic!

13. Sorceress 4/10 12. Heritage 5/10 11. Morningrise 7.6/10 10. Pale Communion 8.5/10 9. Watershed 8.8/10 8. Orchid 9.3/10 7. ICV 9.5/10 6. Deliverance 9.8/10 5. Ghost Reveries 10/10 4. My Arms your Hearse 10/10 3. Still Life 10/10 2. Damnation 100/10 1. Blackwater Park 1,000,000,000/10

13:55 Serenity Painted Death is such an underated song in my opinion

My rank: 13 Sorceress 12 Heritage 11 In cauda venum 10 My arms your hearse 09 Damnation 08 Watershed 07 Pale communion 06 Morningrise 05 Deliverance 04 Ghost riveries 03 Orchid 02 Still life 01 Blackwater park

In my opinion the best to worst list (regarding musical and lyrical content) is : Still Life - Blackwater Park - Ghost Reveries - My Arms Your Hearse - Watershed - Deliverance - Damnation - Morningrise - Orchid . From the era after the Watershed album It's : Pale Communion - Sorceress - Heritage. Cheers!

No matter which Opeth song / album is your fav, you'll be will be judged, thats how diverse their work is. I love the hauntingly beautiful elements of their songs.

Yeah, that's the beauty about Opeth: Everyone finds something else in their music :) You, for example, value the prog-aspects very high, as do I. But I value the dark melancholy, which is much more present in their "Mid-range-albums" (Damnation/Deliverance/BWP/Still Life...) even more. But your list might be a good way to approach someone with Opeth who also doesn't care much about that raw melancholy. Thanks for an interesting watch!

13. Sorceress 12. Heritage 11. Morningrise 10. Deliverance 9. Pale 8. In 7. Orchid 6. MAYH 5. Damnation 4. GR 3. BP 2. Watershed 1.Still Life

1) still life 2) blackwater park 3) morning rise 4) orchid 5) my arms your hearse 6) deliverence 7) watershed 8) damnation 9) ghost reverie's 10) pale communion 11) sorceress 12) heritage 13) in cauda venenum

Ghost Reveries! One if the best executed albums ever!... Unless you're talking BTBAM "Colors" !

12.Heritage 11.Sorceress 10.Orchid 9.Pale Communion 8.Morningrise 7.Deliverance 6.Watershed 5.Damnation 4.My Arms 3.Blackwater Park 2.Ghost Reveries 1.Still Life

12.Orchid 11.Morningrise 10.Heritage 9.Damnation 8.Sorceress 7.Watershed 6.Still Life 5.Deliverance 4.Ghost Reveries 3.My Arms Your Hearse 2.Blackwater Park 1.Pale Communion

"My arms your hearse" had a concept too.

My favourite are: - Morningrise (1996) - My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) - Deliverance (2002) - Sorceress (2016) - In Cauda Venenum (2019) I have ALL Studioalbums

1. Still life 2. Blackwater park 3. Ghost reveries 4. Watershed 5. Pale Communion 6. Damnation 7. Deliverance 8. Sorceress 9. My arms your hearse 10. Heritage 11. Morningrise

As far as personal enjoyment? My worst to best is: Deliverance Orchid Watershed Morningrise Ghost Reveries Sorceress Still Life My Arms, Your Hearse Pale Communion Blackwater Park Heritage Damnation THis is proabably wayyyy off from a lot of people, but pretty much everything from MAYH on is all equally amazing, to me.

Blackwater Park Ghost Reveries Damnation Watershed Pale Communion Still Life My Arms Your Hearse Morningrise Deliverence Sorceress Orchid Heritage

1. Blackwater Park 2. Ghost Reveries 3. Still Life 4. My Arms Your Hearse 5. Deliverance 6. Orchid 7. Morningrise 8. Damnation 9. Watershed

nice video. I'm listening to some albums and I listened to two opeth songs which are harvest and then ghost of perdition (So fucking good btw), some albums I tried to listen recently were from death, ghost, stratovarius, judas priest, megadeth morbid angel and vader (I say "tried" because I'm not sure if I like them), but I think I'm not going to hear opeth now because it's prog metal and I'm not sure if I can understand it very well (even the instrumental, but that aplies to the lyrics as well), I have this problem that some times I can't tell what the meaning of the lyrics is, and opeth seem to have this poetic, meaningfull lyrics, so... I think I'm not hearing it now, and I'll eventually get back to it. Another thing is that I have to improve my english too, I think I have an at least medium english, but there's a lot of words, and idiomatic expressions that I don't get''n stuff.

My favorites: Blackwater Park and Damnation. And I'm still waiting for Damnation 2.0

My list: 12: Heritage 11: Orchid 10: Sorceress 9: Morningrise 8: Pale Communion 7: Deliverance 6: My Arms, Your Hearse 5: Damnation 4: Watershed 3: Ghost Reveries 2: Blackwater Park 1: Still Life This list is so hard to make. Not the top 3, but Damnation, My Arms Your Hearse, Pale Communion and Deliverance could all have gotten the same place in my book. But Still Life is absolute masterpiece, especially because of the opening track, The Moor. The Moor is the perfect "Progressive Death Metal" in my book. The main riff leading up to "Outcast with dogmas forged below" in the middle of the song, and towards the end at "She is waterdrops over the pyre" is simply "perfectness" in my book.

My Countdown: 12. Heritage 11. Sorceress 10. Pale Comunion 09. Orchid 08. Damnation 07. Watershed 06. My arms your hearse 05. Deliverance 04. Morningrise 03. Ghost Reveries 02. Blackwater Park 01. Still Life

Pale Communion is an underrated album. My favorite song is probably the closing track of the album "Faith in Others", so beautiful. But yeah, my favorite Opeth album varies from time to time, but currently it's probably Watershed.

Great video, good descriptions! Thanks

12 Heritage 11 Pale Comunion 10 Deliverance 9 Watershed 8 Sorceress 7 Damnation 6 Ghost Reveries 5 Blackwater Park 4 Still Life 3 Orchid 2 My Arms, Your Hearse 1 Morningrise

My list is as follows worst - best 12 - Orchid 11 - Heritage 10 - Sorceress 09 - Damnation 08 - Deliverance 07 - Still Life 06 - My Arms Your Hearse 05 - Pale Communion 04 - Morningrise 03 - Blackwater Park 02 - Ghost Reveries 01 - Watershed

1-Ghost Rev 2-Pale Com 3-Deliverance and Damnation 4-My Arms 5-Morningrise 6-BlackWater 7-Still Life 8-Heritage 9-Sorceress 10-Watershed 11-Orchid #whocares

For me, this is the list (just my preferences): 1. Pale Communion 2. Deliverance 3. Ghost Reveries 4. Blackwater Park 5. Morningrise 6. My Arms, Your Hearse 7. Sorceress 8. Watershed 9. Still Life 10. Orchid 11. Heritage 12. Damnation

It was intriguing to see how much I disagreed with what you said. Then I checked you shelves, and I understood why....we're leaving in a different univers and Opeth is the only common thing connecting us.

You said Dirge For November very wrong ^^, was waiting for you do see this one, fantastic video! :)

I 100% agree with Heritage being their worst album.

I must apologize, I was initially angry with your rankings and left an angry remark with a thumbs down, but then I came back to watch the rest of your video. I have since deleted my comment and turned that thumbs down into a thumbs up, you are clearly very passionate about Opeth and that is all that really matters with music, it is also extraordinarily difficult to rank Opeth's albums because even their worst album is better than most band's best, and it is possible to change your mind over time on what albums you think are better. I must say though, I think Sorceress & Heritage are very clearly their worst albums to date, and although I do enjoy Pale Communion there is no way I could ever consider it near the #1 spot, its too moody and sometimes a bit boring depending on my mindset, but to each his own I guess. Here are my rankings (not that anyone cares) 1. Blackwater Park (popular opinion) 2. Still Life (very close 2nd) 3. Morningrise (unpopular opinion, but I have a soft spot for this one) 4. My arms your hearse (underrated album) 5. Ghost Reveries (their most overrated album, still great though) 6. Orchid (often overlooked) 7. Damnation (tough to rank this one, very emotional) 8. Watershed (possibly too low?) 9. Deliverance (this one has fallen down a bit over the years) 10. Pale Communion (want to put it higher, but just can't do it) 11. Heritage (a clear change in the band's direction) 12. Sorceress (terrible sound quality, lack of interesting songs, this album is alarmingly below their lofty benchmark) My rankings are always subject to change.

i like how people get mad about this PERSONAL ranking

You lost me at “April Air-rear-three-all.” MAYH is their best album IMO, and if it’s not, then definitely top 3 with BP and SL.

1 - Ghost Reveries 2 - Deliverance 3 - Blackwater Park 4 - Morningrise 5 - Watershed 6 - Damnation 7 - Pale Communion 8 - Still Life 9 - My Arms, Your Hearse 10 - Sorceres 11 - Heritage

“Ghost reveries is their first true progressive rock proggy album...they introduced the mellotron and never looked back” What about Damnation?