Blackwater Park

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.

For other uses, see Blackwater Park (disambiguation).
Blackwater Park
Cover art by Travis Smith
Studio album by
Opeth
ReleasedMarch 12, 2001 (2001-03-12)
RecordedAugust – October 2000
StudioStudio Fredman (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Genre
  • Progressive death metal
  • progressive rock
  • progressive metal
Length66:59
LabelMusic for Nations / Koch
ProducerOpeth, Steven Wilson
Opeth chronology
Still Life
(1999)		 Blackwater Park
(2001)		 Deliverance
(2002)
Singles from Blackwater Park
  1. "The Drapery Falls"
    Released: 2001
  2. "Still Day Beneath the Sun"
    Released: 2001

Although Blackwater Park did not chart in North America or the United Kingdom, it was a commercial breakthrough for the band. Often considered their magnum opus, the album was highly acclaimed among critics, with Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic stating that the album is "surely the band's coming-of-age album, and therefore, an ideal introduction to its remarkable body of work.” In 2020, Loudwire listed Blackwater Park as the number one progressive metal album of all time. Rolling Stone ranked the album as 55th on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.'

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