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Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's only founding member and primary driving force throughout the years. Opeth has consistently incorporated progressive, folk, blues, classical and jazz influences into their usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from death metal, especially in their early works. Many songs include acoustic guitar passages and strong dynamic shifts, as well as both death growls and clean vocals. Opeth rarely made live appearances supporting their first four albums; but since conducting their first world tour after the 2001 release of Blackwater Park, they have led several major world tours.

Opeth has released eleven studio albums, three live DVDs, three live albums (two that are in conjunction with DVDs), and two boxsets. The band released its debut album Orchid in 1995. Although their eighth studio album, Ghost Reveries, was quite popular in the United States, Opeth did not experience major American commercial success until the 2008 release of their ninth studio album, Watershed, which peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200, and topped the Finnish albums chart in its first week of release. Opeth has sold over 1.5 million albums and DVDs worldwide, including 300,000 collective SoundScans of their albums Blackwater Park, Damnation and Deliverance in the United States.

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  2. ^ "Opeth Release Four Album Reissues and Continue Tour With Mastodon". Pure Rock News. May 2, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2013. 

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Genres rock prog rock death metal acoustic avantgarde
Top release Blackwater Park

Albums

  1. Orchid
    1995
  2. Morningrise
    1996
  3. My Arms, Your Hearse
    1998
  4. Still Life
    1999
  5. 5.0
    Blackwater Park
    2001
  6. Deliverance
    2002
  7. Damnation
    2003
  8. Ghost Reveries
    2005
  9. Watershed
    2008
  10. 2.0
    Heritage
    2011
  11. Pale Communion
    2014

Other releases

  1. Lamentations
    2003
  2. Collector's Edition Slipcase
    2006
  3. Blackwater Park / Deliverance
    2007
  4. The Roundhouse Tapes
    2007
  5. The Candlelight Years
    2008
  6. 2003-07-18: Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, USA
    2009
  7. The Wooden Box
    2009
  8. In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
    2010
  9. The Devil's Orchard: Live at Rock Hard Festival 2009
    2011
  10. 2013-04-20: Record Store Day, Newbury Comics, Leominster, MA, USA
    2013
  11. Deliverance & Damnation
    2015