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Blackwater Park is the fifth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on March 12, 2001, in Europe and a day later in North America through Music for Nations and Koch Records .
This is the second Opeth album with a major delayed release (the first being Orchid) and the recording for My Arms, Your Hearse was done a year before its release, just like Orchid. My Arms, Your Hearse was released on 18 August 1998 simultaneously in Europe and the United States on CD by Candlelight Records and Century Black , respectively.
Opeth released its fifth studio album, Blackwater Park, on 21 February 2001. AllMusic has stated that the album "keeps with Opeth's tradition by transcending the limits of death/black metal and repeatedly shattering the foundations of conventional songwriting". [25]
Lamentations (Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 2003) is the first live album and video by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released under the Music For Nations label in 2003. It was recorded at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 25 September 2003.
Steven Wilson joined Opeth in the studio for their fifth album, 2001's Blackwater Park, producing and providing extra backing vocals and instruments. The band supported the album with their first worldwide tour. [5] After promoting the album, Opeth entered the studio again, recording two albums.
Åkerfeldt is a collector of obscure 1970s rock and heavy metal albums. [10] [11] He also draws influence from these obscure bands, making references to them in Opeth album titles such as Blackwater Park, Still Life, and My Arms, Your Hearse, as well as in songs like "Master's Apprentices" and "Goblin."
Ghost Reveries is the first album by Opeth to include keyboardist Per Wiberg as a "permanent" member (although Wiberg contributed keyboard work to Opeth's live performances starting around the time of Lamentations), and it is the last Opeth album to include drummer Martin Lopez and long-time guitarist Peter Lindgren. [4]
During his career in Opeth, Lindgren co-wrote the music for several songs along with Mikael Åkerfeldt, such as "Black Rose Immortal" from Morningrise, "Demon of the Fall" from My Arms, Your Hearse, as well as "Dirge for November" and "Blackwater Park" from Blackwater Park.