I really dig Opeth, especially in their heavy metal phase when they were releasing those albums, and let's not forget Ghost Reveries, Watershed, Morningrise, and even when they split apart the soft and heavy aspects into separate albums on Deliverance and Damnation. They have a very deep discography, but I'd say that Scandinavia has maybe the overall deepest heavy metal scene of any area on the planet. It's actually such a big deal there that extreme metal varieties like death metal and black metal have taken hold in mainstream popular culture. Because of that, I wouldn't say they're the best but they're up there and I'd say they're probably my personal favorite.
|