Sorceress
by Opeth

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Sorceress by Opeth
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-09-30
Overall rank: 7,267th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 69 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2016 (122nd)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (1,403rd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,267th)

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Opeth bestography

Sorceress is ranked 12th best out of 19 albums by Opeth on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Opeth is Blackwater Park which is ranked number 755 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,286.

Opeth album bestography « Higher ranked (4,871st)
In Cauda Venenum This album (7,267th)
Sorceress Lower ranked (7,267th) »
Sorceress

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Sorceress rankings

Sorceress rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,267th | 2010s rank: 1,403rd | 2016 rank: 122nd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 69 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.9.


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From 03/15/2023 23:25 | #295046 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This was a slow burner for me as not what I expected. A different rendition from earlier albums with this being mellower, even folkier on a few tracks. This is due to the total absence of any guttural vocals but they still maintain their skilled music complexity. Decent; just took me a while to warm to it.
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From 12/31/2017 23:56 | #204238 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Possibly the weakest of the three prog metal albums by Opeth, IMO.
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From 10/08/2019 08:33 | #243515 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The most progressive Opeth album IMO
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