non-deliverance Opeth, where do i start??

i picked up Deliverance after i saw Opeth with Porcupine Tree. I loved that album, and after a while, their other stuff (cookie monster vocals and all) started to REALLY grow on me. i bought the new DVD and LOVED it! now i'm wondering what albums to buy. i love the songs Bleak and Deliverance, as well as all the songs from the DVD. So what albums do you think are the best to start with?

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Blackwater Park. Then Damnation. Actually, go for both.

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Get Still Life or Blackwater Park, and immerse yourself in them in their entirety. If you 'get it', buy every other album, seriously.

Blackwater Park.

And of course, all the rest.

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Blackwater Park
Still Life
My Arms Your Hearse

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Get Still Life or Blackwater Park, and immerse yourself in them in their entirety. If you 'get it', buy every other album, seriously.

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Get Still Life or Blackwater Park, and immerse yourself in them in their entirety. If you 'get it', buy every other album, seriously.

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wow, i just reread the post, and i didn't even notice....the album i first bought was DAMNATION, not Deliverance. dammit. so from what i gather, go:

Blackwater Park
Deliverance
Still Life
???

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Blackwater Park is where it's at... it also has my favorite Opeth song of all time... The Drapery Falls

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Blackwater Park is where it's at... it also has my favorite Opeth song of all time... The Drapery Falls

I concur.

In your case:

Blackwater Park
Deliverance
Still Life
My Arms, Your Hearse
Morningrise --> IMO their best album, but perhaps you're not quite ready for it.
Orchid

Definitely start with Blackwater Park, as it contains one of my favorite Opeth songs "Bleak" You can't go wrong with Still Life either - just the opening track "The Moor" is worth the price of the CD alone. The production however leaves a lot to be desired. And only then get Damnation, as it shows the mellower side of the band. Welcome to the Opeth bandwagon - you won't regret hopping in

Dude, your posts make no sense. You said you owned Damnation and after a while you really got used to the growling? Riiiiight.

Don't listen to the mob, Still Life is their best album.

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Yup my vote is for Still Life too, amazing amazing album, can't go wrong with it.
But then everything they've done is amazing, so it doesn't really matter what you get

Id go with Still Life first, it's got a good representation of what the band is about. The first song "The Moor" is one of my favorites from them too.

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Either BP or Still Life will do your body good. But, eventually, Morningrise will kill you.

Get Blackwater Barn next!

i heard the growling songs by download and from the opeth dvd

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Dude, your posts make no sense. You said you owned Damnation and after a while you really got used to the growling? Riiiiight.

Don't listen to this clown, Goalkeeper. Obviously having the DVD, you'd have heard lots of the scrowling vocals.

My suggestions would be:
1. Blackwater Park
2. Damnation
3. My Arms Your Hearse
4. Still Life

Enjoy! I just started getting into Opeth about 6 months ago, and I can't get enough now.

Edit: I still need to get Morningrise and Orchid myself, so I can't put those on my recommended list yet, though I'm sure they rule.

Blackwater Park (inc. the special edition w/ 2 incredible acoustic tracks) has everything an Opeth fan could ever ask for. I see it the way I see DT's Scenes, I can't comprehend how they could ever top it.

No dissenting vote here.. Blackwater Park IS where it's at. It has my favorite Opeth song, Bleak. Also Dirge for November and The Drapery Falls are incredible songs.

Still Life is also awesome, i'd pick that one up after BWP.

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I really don't know what my favourite Opeth album is. Maybe a mix from every album of theirs...

"Melancholic music is very uplifting. Why? Because its a shared experience. In contrast, I find music that is artificially happy or very joyful to be very depressing." -Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree

Just get EVERYTHING from one of the greatest bands known to mankind.

Their first two(Orchid and Morningrise) focus more on absolutely genious guitar harmonies, the next two(My arms, your hearse and Still life) are concept albums where they changed their sound towards more dissonant stuff and Blackwater Park ist their best produced one with really catchy songs(Harvest owns).
But in my opinion their real masterpiece is Deliverance, it still blows me away everytime I listen to it.

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Either BP or Still Life will do your body good. But, eventually, Morningrise will kill you.

That's probably what I recommend, yep .

Also, if you want to try going for a 'non-Opeth deliverance', check out the albums "Human" and "The Sound Of Perserverance" by the band Death.