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| Creator: Opeth
Label: Roadrunner
Category: Music
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 668528
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 016861796280
EAN: 0016861796280
ASIN: B0015435Q6
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Album Description
Double vinyl LP pressing. 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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 Same old, same old November 7, 2008
not sk8r gurl (California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album fails to break any new ground for Opeth. Some of their previous works had their merits - "Still Life" is one of my favorite albums - but "Watershed" is just dull.
Opeth's main problem is that their music lacks direction. Their tracks are more than 8 minutes long on average, yet they fail to take me on any sort of journey. It's just riff after riff, with no connection between each one. The tracks don't tell stories. They are more like a bunch of loosely related snapshots.
The riffs aren't particularly interesting, either. I hear the same old chord progressions, and the same old transitions. By now, it has all become very predictable. Opeth varied it up a bit with some new sound effects, but that's about it.
To anyone who hasn't heard it, I would recommend "Still Life", for its very unique production and for its downright otherworldly sounding guitar riffs. It is Opeth's best work, by far.
 Great CD from Opeth as always October 30, 2008
CGM913
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't be fooled by the 3 stars because very few albums deserve a 5 in my eyes. Watershed is a great CD. It's a good blend of death metal and progressive rock, as Opeth continues to push the limits of extreme metal without becoming too watered down or disorganized. Any fans of good extreme metal or those just looking for something a little out of the ordinary should get this.
 FInding balance in the darkness October 13, 2008
S. Perry (MA)
With Watershed Opeth continues to push outwards with their sound without abandoning what they were. The balance between heaviness, softness and progressiveness continues to grow and become more deeply nuanced. The end result is spectacular and still as dark and beautiful as ever.
This is exactly the sort of album that turns a more casual Opeth fan like myself into a much more substantial follower of their work, and I'm already looking forward to more.
One of the most musically significant albums to come down the pike in a long, long time October 8, 2008
Rehu (PA)
Watershed sports some of the best use of vocal effects, best guitar tones and most addictive melodies I've ever heard. This album has something for everybody.
Possibly the only album to beat Still Life. October 4, 2008
Sweden Is God
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was extremelly worried, as the previous reviewer said, when I heard nearly everyone was gone from the band, but I knew Axe from his other groups and knew at least he could cut it. I was wonderfully surprised with their new guitarist who seems to fit liek a glove.
First thigns first, if you love Opeth, you will love this cd. Its the same as their previous releases, yet different. It IS more rock oriented, but for me, thats a good thing. Mikael's biggest inspiration was never his metal background, it was his background in rock havign grown up with favirotes such as Deep Purple, which is so much a part of why the music is so unique in metal and rock. The solo's gleam rock's hayday and whine like somethign out of the day's of Zeppelin's history. The drumming is TIGHT. I loved Lopez, I really did, ever since he was in Amon Amarth, but he can't hold a candle to Axe. He fits Opeth because of his ability to play any style and play it effectivelly as it pertains to the music. He plays in a classic death metal band, has played in thrash, and now I suppose prog, but he clearly has a strong background in jazz techniques and classic rock styles. He is a very complete drummer and deserves to be listed among today's best. As you can tell I love him, but he brings so much more to the band than lopez has since either My Arms... or Still Life. His drumming became stale in recent years and he tended to play the same things from song to song, which is probably part of why he left.
Mikael's voice has never been more beautiful either, and the metal segments are much heavier this time around. They actually sound very black metal, like they did pre-blackwater. The rock segments are my favirote though. I've now seen them play most of this cd live and its so amazing to watch mikael play his solo's. He's not Petrucci, but his solo's are meaningful and heartfelt and it shows. My favirote riff on this album is about 4:30 into song 6, Hessian Peel. Its a mix between something from late 70's rock and early 90's Melodic Death and it is so simple, yet ao amazing. Listen to it and rewind it 6 times, like I did ;p
Truelly, this is the Opeth we have been waiting for. All of the members are now commited to its existence and I've seen them live and it shows. It was my 6th time seeing them here in the states and I have to say it was their best show by FAR and its largly in part of the new members. Mikael has fun now in the show, he's talkative, and the rest of the band has fun. Its like this 25-year-old's one chance at seeing a part of what he missed in the 70's with bands liek Led Zeppelin. Watershed is a must own metal album for the ages. Buy it, listen to it, and worship it for what it is, a true classic.
P.S. I'm also glad that Mikael seems to finally be heading itno the limelight. I always knew it was him who was the genius behind the band as they have been my favirote band since Morningrise and I have practically stalked him, lol. But if its this album and the shift in personel to make peopel realize his true genius, than more power to him. Honestly, he belongs bunched in with the Page's, Gilmour's, and Townshend's of the world and I really wish he could get the rightly recognition in certain circles that he deserves.
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