Opeth discography | |
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Studio albums | 13 |
Live albums | 4 |
Video albums | 4 |
Music videos | 6 |
Singles | 17 |
Box sets | 3 |
The discography of Opeth, a Stockholm, Sweden-based progressive metal band, consists of thirteen studio albums, four live albums, three box sets, three video albums and seventeen singles.
Opeth was formed in 1990 by vocalist David Isberg. He later recruited bassist Mikael Åkerfeldt without the consent of the other band members he previously hired, which resulted in the departure of all members except Isberg and Åkerfeldt. Isberg soon left, but Åkerfeldt decided to remain in the band and keep it in activity. For this he contacted guitarist Peter Lindgren, bassist Johan De Farfalla, and drummer Anders Nordin. [1] With this lineup, they recorded a demo, which led to the band's first record label contract. Candlelight Records signed the band. [2] In 1995, Opeth released their first studio album, Orchid , and after more changes to the lineup, the band released Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse in 1996 and 1998 respectively. [3]
Åkerfeldt and Lindgren, the two remaining members of the band, asked drummer Martin Lopez and bassist Martín Méndez to join the band, both of whom accepted. In 1999, they released the concept album Still Life . [4] 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. The first album, Deliverance that was released in 2002, debuted at number 19 on the Top Heatseekers in the United States. [6] The second album, Damnation was released a year later, and peaked at number 192 on the Billboard 200. [4] [6] Per Wiberg joined the band as a keyboardist and recorded Ghost Reveries , which peaked at number 64 on the Billboard 200. [6] Lopez and Lindgren both left Opeth and were replaced by Martin Axenrot and Fredrik Åkesson. In 2008, the band released their ninth studio album Watershed , which debuted at number 23 on the Billboard 200 and peaked at the top of the Finnish charts. [7] Their tenth studio album Heritage which released in 2011, debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200, at number 2 on the US Hard Rock Albums and at number 6 on the Rock Albums charts, making it highest-charting record to date. [6] The album also peaked at number 22 on the UK Albums chart. [8]
Joakim Svalberg became the band's new keyboardist in 2011. Their 2014 album Pale Communion achieved some of the band's highest international chart placements, reaching number one in Finland [9] and the top five in several other countries. Their 2016 album Sorceress reached number 1 in Germany [10] and the top ten in several other countries. Their latest album In Cauda Venenum was released in September 2019.
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | ||||||||||
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SWE [11] | AUS [12] | FIN [13] | FRA [14] | GER [15] | JPN [16] | NLD [17] | NOR [18] | SWI [19] | UK [20] | US [6] | |||
Orchid |
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Morningrise |
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My Arms, Your Hearse |
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Still Life |
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Blackwater Park |
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Deliverance |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Damnation |
| — | 54 | 37 | 112 | — | — | 97 | — | — | 181 | 192 |
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Ghost Reveries |
| 9 | 35 | 10 | 72 | 39 | 263 | 38 | 21 | — | 62 | 64 |
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Watershed |
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 47 | 23 | 52 | 14 | 7 | 24 | 34 | 23 |
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Heritage |
| 4 | 12 | 2 | 24 | 9 | 55 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 22 | 19 | |
Pale Communion |
| 3 | 17 | 1 | 45 | 3 | 48 | 23 | 5 | 24 | 14 | 19 | |
Sorceress |
| 7 | 7 | 3 | 29 | 1 | 69 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 24 | |
In Cauda Venenum |
| 12 | 20 | 2 | 46 | 5 | 97 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 59 | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | ||||
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SWE [11] | FIN [13] | FRA [14] | JPN [16] | ||||
Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003 |
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The Roundhouse Tapes |
| — | — | 176 | 159 |
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In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
| 60 | 36 | — | — | ||
Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater |
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||
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SWE [24] | FIN [25] | NLD [26] | JPN [27] | FRA [28] | |||||||
Lamentations |
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The Roundhouse Tapes |
| 4 | 1 | — | 159 | — | |||||
In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
| — | — | 6 | 161 | 4 |
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Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater |
| — | — | — | 107 | — | |||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
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BEL [32] | ||
Deliverance & Damnation Remixed |
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Title | Box set details | Content |
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Collecter's Edition Slipcase |
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The Candlelight Years |
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The Wooden Box |
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Year | Song | Album |
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2001 | "The Drapery Falls" | Blackwater Park |
2002 | "Deliverance" [33] | Deliverance |
"Still Day Beneath the Sun" | Non-album single | |
2003 | "Windowpane" | Damnation |
"In My Time of Need" | ||
2004 | "Master's Apprentices" | Lamentations |
2005 | "The Grand Conjuration" | Ghost Reveries |
2006 | "Ghost of Perdition" [34] | |
"Soldier of Fortune" | ||
2008 | "Porcelain Heart" | Watershed |
"Mellotron Heart" | ||
"Burden" | ||
2011 | "The Throat of Winter" [35] | Non-album single |
"The Devil's Orchard" | Heritage | |
"Slither" [36] | ||
2014 | "Cusp of Eternity" | Pale Communion |
2016 | "Sorceress" | Sorceress |
"Will O the Wisp" | ||
"The Wilde Flowers" | ||
"Era" | ||
2019 | "Hjärtat vet vad handen gör" / "Heart in Hand" | In Cauda Venenum |
"Svekets prins" / "Dignity" | ||
"Cirkelns riktning" | ||
2024 | "§1" | The Last Will and Testament |
Year | Song | Director |
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2001 | "Harvest" | Fredrik Odefjärd |
2003 | "Windowpane" | |
2005 | "The Grand Conjuration" | Bill Yukich [38] |
2008 | ||
"Porcelain Heart" | Lasse Hoile [39] [40] | |
"Burden" | ||
2011 | "The Devil's Orchard" | Phil Mucci |
2017 | "Era" | Markus Hofko |
2019 | "Universal Truth" / "Ingen Sanning Är Allas" | Jess Cope |
Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. The band incorporates folk, blues, classical, and jazz elements into its usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from death metal, especially in their early works. Songs may include acoustic guitar passages, Mellotrons, death growls, and strong dynamic shifts.
Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt is a Swedish musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of progressive metal band Opeth. A former vocalist of death metal supergroup Bloodbath, he was also guitarist for the "one-off" band Steel, and part of the collaboration Storm Corrosion with Steven Wilson.
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. The album marks the first collaboration between Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson and the band, as Wilson had been brought in to produce the album. This contributed to a shift in Opeth's musical style. The songs "The Drapery Falls" and "Still Day Beneath the Sun" were released as singles.
Orchid is the debut studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released on 15 May 1995 in Europe by Candlelight Records, and on 24 June, 1997 in the United States by Century Black. It was reissued in 2000 with one bonus track called "Into the Frost of Winter", an early unproduced rehearsal recording by the band. The recording sessions occurred at the old Unisound studio, in Finspång with production by Opeth alongside Dan Swanö. The band did not record a demo to get signed to a record label. Lee Barrett, the founder of Candlelight Records, enjoyed an Opeth rehearsal tape, and decided to sign the band. The album received critical acclaim.
Deliverance is the sixth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 12 November 2002. It was recorded between 22 July and 4 September 2002, at the same time as Damnation, which was released five months after this album. The two albums contrast starkly with one another, purposely dividing the band's two most prevalent styles, as Deliverance is considered to be one of the band's heaviest albums, taking on a heavier and more brutal death metal-inspired sound, whereas Damnation experiments with a much mellower progressive rock-influenced sound.
Damnation is the seventh studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 22 April 2003, five months after Deliverance, which was recorded at the same time. Damnation is the last Opeth album to date to be produced by Steven Wilson although he did mix two future albums, Heritage and Pale Communion. Mikael Åkerfeldt dedicated both Damnation and Deliverance to his grandmother, who died in a car accident during the time the albums were being recorded.
Peter Lindgren is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth.
Ghost Reveries is the eighth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 29 August 2005. It was their first album after signing with Roadrunner Records, and first album since Still Life (1999) to not be produced by Steven Wilson.
Lamentations 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.
The Roundhouse Tapes is the second live album and video by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. The CD was recorded on 9 November 2006 and was released on 23 October 2007 in the US, on 5 November in Europe, and on 20 November in the rest of the world. A two-disc DVD version was released on 10 November 2008, and includes exclusive menu music written by Mikael Åkerfeldt and Per Wiberg. The title is a play on the name of Iron Maiden's first release The Soundhouse Tapes, as well as the venue where the record was recorded. Åkerfeldt said, "The Roundhouse concert will always be a very memorable gig for us for many reasons, but most importantly it caught the band at the peak of the Ghost Reveries tour". This is the final Opeth release with Peter Lindgren.
The Formation of Damnation is the tenth studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on April 29, 2008. It was Testament's first album since 2001's First Strike Still Deadly and their first of new material since 1999's The Gathering. It was also Testament's first release with original guitarist Alex Skolnick since 1992's The Ritual and bassist Greg Christian since 1994's Low, as well as the band's only studio album recorded with drummer Paul Bostaph, who joined Testament in 1993 but became a full-time member in 2007 before leaving the band four years later.
Watershed is the ninth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. Released by Roadrunner Records, Watershed is the first studio album by Opeth to feature guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and drummer Martin Axenrot, who replaced longtime guitarist Peter Lindgren and drummer Martin Lopez. The artwork for the album was made by Travis Smith in collaboration with Mikael Åkerfeldt. It was the band's last studio album to contain death growls or any death metal elements until 2024's The Last Will and Testament.
In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall is the third live album and video by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. The DVD was recorded on 5 April 2010. It was released on 20 September 2010 in Europe and on 21 September 2010 in the rest of the world. The concert was part of the band's Evolution XX: An Opeth Anthology tour, made in celebration of their 20th anniversary, and was the fourth show of the tour, filmed at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.
Storm Corrosion was a musical collaboration between Swedish musician Mikael Åkerfeldt of progressive metal band Opeth and English musician Steven Wilson of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Åkerfeldt and Wilson began a longstanding musical partnership in 2001 when Wilson produced Opeth's fifth studio album Blackwater Park. The two began writing together for a new project in 2010, releasing their self-titled only studio album in 2012 through Roadrunner Records.
Heritage is the tenth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 13 September 2011 through Roadrunner Records. The album was recorded in early 2011 at Atlantis Studios in Stockholm and produced by Mikael Åkerfeldt, engineered by Janne Hansson, and mixed by Steven Wilson. It takes on more of a progressive rock sound, something the band had wanted to do for some time, resulting in a stark contrast to the progressive death metal sounds of their past albums.
Pale Communion is the eleventh studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. The album was released on 26 August 2014 through Roadrunner Records. The album was produced by Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed by Steven Wilson. Pale Communion is the first album with keyboardist Joakim Svalberg after the departure of Per Wiberg in 2011. The album sold 19,090 copies in its first week of release in the United States, debuting at number 19 on the Billboard 200.
Sorceress is the twelfth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. The album was released on 30 September 2016 via record label Nuclear Blast and the band's own imprint Moderbolaget.
In Cauda Venenum is the thirteenth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released on 27 September 2019 through Moderbolaget and Nuclear Blast. It was released in two versions: a Swedish-language version and an English-language version. The band toured in support of the album throughout 2019 and into 2020. At 67 minutes and 57 seconds, it is the band's longest studio album. It is also the band's last album to feature drummer Martin Axenrot before his departure in 2021.
Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater is the fourth live album and video by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released on 2 November 2018 via Nuclear Blast. It was recorded on 11 May 2017 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, United States, as the band was touring the United States in support of their album Sorceress. It is their final live album to feature Martin Axenrot on drums.