Opeth discography
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{{Infobox artist discography
| Artist = Opeth
| Image = Opeth at Ruisrock.jpg
| Caption = Opeth live at Ruisrock 2008 in Turku, Finland
| Studio = 14
| Live = 4
| Option = 3
| Option name = Box sets
| Video = 4
| EP =
| Singles = 17
| Music videos = 6
}}
The discography of Opeth, a Stockholm, Sweden-based progressive metal band, consists of fourteen 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.{{cite web|author=Åkerfeldt, Mikael |url=http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-ii |title=Opeth - Biography: Chapter II |publisher=Opeth.com |access-date=2008-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828073241/http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-ii |archive-date=2008-08-28 }} With this lineup, they recorded a demo, which led to the band's first record label contract. Candlelight Records signed the band.{{cite web|url=http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-iii|title=Opeth - Biography: Chapter III|last=Åkerfeldt|first=Mikael|publisher=Opeth.com|access-date=2008-08-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828073246/http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-iii|archive-date=2008-08-28}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-iv |title=Opeth - Biography: Chapter IV |last=Åkerfeldt |first=Mikael |publisher=Opeth.com |access-date=2008-08-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828073252/http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-iv |archive-date=2008-08-28 }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/opeth-p214051/biography|title=Opeth > Biography|last=DaRonco|first=Mike|work=AllMusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|access-date=2008-08-21}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-vi|title=Opeth - Biography: Chapter VI|last=Åkerfeldt|first=Mikael|publisher=Opeth.com|access-date=2008-08-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828073307/http://www.opeth.com/index.php/biography/show/tpl/chapter-vi|archive-date=2008-08-28}} 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. The second album, Damnation was released a year later, and peaked at number 192 on the Billboard 200. Per Wiberg joined the band as a keyboardist and recorded Ghost Reveries, which peaked at number 64 on the Billboard 200. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=98838|title=Opeth's Watershed Tops Finnish Album Chart|date=2008-06-11|publisher=Roadrunner Records|access-date=2008-08-10|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801212044/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=98838|archive-date=2008-08-01}} 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. The album also peaked at number 22 on the UK Albums chart.{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=163757|title=OPETH's 'Heritage' Lands On U.K. Chart|date=2011-09-25|publisher=blabbermouth.net|access-date=2011-09-25|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104192403/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=163757|archive-date=2013-01-04}}
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{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifpi.fi/lista/|title=Suomen Virallinen Lista|website=Musiikkituottajat|language=fi-FI|access-date=2019-10-14}} and the top five in several other countries. Their 2016 album Sorceress reached number 1 in Germany{{Cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-312178|title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts|website=offiziellecharts.de|access-date=2019-10-14}} and the top ten in several other countries. Their latest album The Last Will and Testament was released in November 2024.
Albums
=Studio albums=
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scope="col" rowspan="2" | Title
!scope="col" rowspan="2" | Album details !scope="col" colspan="11" | Peak chart positions !scope="col" rowspan="2" | Sales |
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scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|SWE {{cite web |url=http://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Opeth |title=Swedish charts portal - Opeth: Album |publisher=Hung Medien |language=sv |access-date=2008-01-25}} !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|AUS
!scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|FIN !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|FRA !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|GER !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|JPN !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|NLD !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|NOR !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|SWI !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|UK
!scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|US |
scope="row"| Orchid
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scope="row"| Morningrise
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scope="row"| My Arms, Your Hearse
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scope="row"| Still Life
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scope="row"| Blackwater Park
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scope="row"| Deliverance
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
scope="row"| Damnation
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 54 | style="text-align:center;"| 37 | style="text-align:center;"| 112 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 97 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 181 | style="text-align:center;"| 192 | |
scope="row"| Ghost Reveries
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| style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| 35 | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| 72 | style="text-align:center;"| 39 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| 21 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 62 | style="text-align:center;"| 64 | |
scope="row"| Watershed
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| style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 47 | style="text-align:center;"| 23 | style="text-align:center;"| 52 | style="text-align:center;"| 14 | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 24 | style="text-align:center;"| 34 | style="text-align:center;"| 23 | |
scope="row"| Heritage
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| style="text-align:center;"| 4 | style="text-align:center;"| 12 | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | style="text-align:center;"| 24 | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| 55 | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| 8 | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| 22 | style="text-align:center;"| 19 | |
scope="row"| Pale Communion
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| style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| 17 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 45 | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| 48 | style="text-align:center;"| 23 | style="text-align:center;"| 5 | style="text-align:center;"| 24 | style="text-align:center;"| 14 | style="text-align:center;"| 19 | |
scope="row"| Sorceress
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| style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| 29 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 69 | style="text-align:center;"| 11 | style="text-align:center;"| 8 | style="text-align:center;"| 6 | style="text-align:center;"| 11 | style="text-align:center;"| 24 | |
scope="row"| In Cauda Venenum
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| style="text-align:center;"| 12 | style="text-align:center;"| 20 | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | style="text-align:center;"| 46 | style="text-align:center;"| 5 | style="text-align:center;"| 97 | style="text-align:center;"| 16 | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| 59 | |
scope="row"| The Last Will and Testament
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| style="text-align:center;"| 4 | style="text-align:center;"| 29 | style="text-align:center;"| 4 | style="text-align:center;"| 52 | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| 44 | style="text-align:center;"| 12 | style="text-align:center;"| 13 | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| 42 | style="text-align:center;"| 140 | |
colspan="14" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
=Live albums=
class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title
!scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album details !scope="col" colspan="4"| Peak chart positions !scope="col" rowspan="2"| Sales |
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scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|SWE !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|FIN !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|FRA !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|JPN |
scope="row"| Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
scope="row"| The Roundhouse Tapes
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 176 | style="text-align:center;"| 159 | |
scope="row"| In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
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| style="text-align:center;"| 60 | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
scope="row"| Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
colspan="8" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
=Video albums=
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scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title
!scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album details !scope="col" colspan="5"| Peak chart positions !scope="col" rowspan="2"| Sales !scope="col" rowspan="2"| Certifications |
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scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|SWE {{cite web|url= http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/ | title = Veckolista DVD Album - Vecka 45, 7 november 2008 | publisher = www.sverigetopplistan.se | access-date= 2013-12-19}} {{cite web|url= http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/ | title = Veckolista DVD Album - Vecka 30, 27 juli 2006 | publisher = www.sverigetopplistan.se | access-date=2013-12-19}} !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|FIN !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|NLD !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|JPN !scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|FRA |
scope="row"| Lamentations
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| style="text-align:center;"| 14 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | | |
scope="row"| The Roundhouse Tapes
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| style="text-align:center;"| 4 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 159 | style="text-align:center;"| — | | |
scope="row"| In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 6 | style="text-align:center;"| 161 | style="text-align:center;"| 4 | | |
scope="row"| Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater
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| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 107 | style="text-align:center;"| — | | |
colspan="12" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
=Compilation albums=
class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title
!scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album details !scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions |
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scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|BEL {{cite web|url= http://www.ultratop.be/nl/album/4628d/Opeth-Deliverance-&-Damnation | title = Opeth - Deliverance & Damnation | publisher = www.ultratop.be | access-date= 2017-08-02}} |
scope="row"| Deliverance & Damnation Remixed
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| style="text-align:center;"| 166 |
=Box sets=
class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
scope="col"| Title
! scope="col" style="width:250px;"| Box set details ! scope="col" style="width:270px;"| Content |
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scope="row"| Collecter's Edition Slipcase
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scope="row"|The Candlelight Years
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scope="row"| The Wooden Box
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Singles
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! scope="col"| Year ! scope="col"| Title ! scope="col"| Album |
align="center"| 2001
| "The Drapery Falls" | Blackwater Park |
align="center" rowspan="2"| 2002
| Deliverance |
"Still Day Beneath the Sun"
| {{Non-album single}} |
align="center" rowspan="2"| 2003
| "Windowpane" | rowspan="2"| Damnation |
"In My Time of Need" |
align="center"| 2004
| "Master's Apprentices" | Lamentations |
align="center"| 2005
| "The Grand Conjuration" | rowspan="3"| Ghost Reveries |
align="center" rowspan="2"| 2006
| "Ghost of Perdition"{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Opeth-Ghost-Of-Perdition/release/2080768|title=Opeth - Ghost of Perdition|publisher=Discogs|access-date=2011-06-28}} |
"Soldier of Fortune" |
align="center" rowspan="3"| 2008
| "Porcelain Heart" | rowspan="3"| Watershed |
"Mellotron Heart" |
"Burden" |
align="center" rowspan="3"| 2011
| "The Throat of Winter"{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Opeth-The-Throat-Of-Winter/release/2830459|title=Opeth - The Throat of Winter|date=16 April 2011 |publisher=Discogs|access-date=2011-06-28}} | {{Non-album single}} |
"The Devil's Orchard"
| rowspan="2"| Heritage |
"Slither"{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Opeth-Slither/release/3271712|title=Opeth - Slither|date=21 November 2011 |publisher=Discogs|access-date=2012-05-24}} |
align="center"| 2014
| "Cusp of Eternity" | Pale Communion |
rowspan="4" align="center" | 2016
| "Sorceress" | rowspan="4" | Sorceress |
"Will O the Wisp" |
"The Wilde Flowers" |
"Era" |
rowspan="3" align=center"| 2019
| "Hjärtat vet vad handen gör" / "Heart in Hand" | rowspan="3" | In Cauda Venenum |
"Svekets prins" / "Dignity" |
"Cirkelns riktning" |
rowspan="2" align="center"| 2024
| "§1" | rowspan="2" | The Last Will and Testament |
"§3" |
Decibel Flexi Series{{cite web |last1=Mudrian |first1=Albert |title=Hear Exclusive New Opeth Song "Cirkelns Riktning" Via Decibel Flexi Series |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/10/02/hear-exclusive-new-opeth-song-cirkelns-riktning-via-decibel-flexi-series/ |website=Decibel |date=2 October 2019 |access-date=2020-01-07}} |
Music videos
References
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