Heritage
by Opeth
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Opeth bestography
Heritage is ranked 10th best out of 19 albums by Opeth on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Opeth is Blackwater Park which is ranked number 753 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,293.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Heritage track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Heritage rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 52 Music Albums of 2011 | 2/52 | 5 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Missed The Cut- 2011 | 8/9 | - |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 20 Music Albums of 2011 | 8/20 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1d410Arthur | Top 99 Greatest Music Albums | 93/99 | 7 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 83 Music Albums of 2011 | 52/83 | 2 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 78 Music Albums of 2011 | 3/78 | 5 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 92/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Rock First Best Albums 2011 | 59/65 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 29 Music Albums of 2011 | 19/29 | 2 |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 90 Music Albums of 2011 | 50/90 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 80 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 324 | |||
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Heritage ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/11/2026 19:34 |  Special | 3,079 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2026 17:04 | bonnequestion | 1,709 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2026 22:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,297 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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Heritage comments
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zdwyatt TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/23/2013 20:24 | #89013 | TOP COMMENT
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Opeth have finally made the leap into full-on prog rock. Gone are the growled vocals; in with the flutes! I personally liked Opeth's transitional period, where they were slowly adding prog elements into their otherwise death metal sound. Heritage lacks the kick that those heavier elements provided. The album is still strong, and has some really nice guitar runs (for which I am always a sucker), but I'll be disappointed if they don't add some heft back into their sound going forward. (Edited)
This album is completely different from anything Opeth has ever done. The aggressive metal aspects are gone, and a mellow 70s prog rock feel underlies the entire album. I was not too impressed after the first listen, but after I stopped trying to compare it to Opeth's previous styles, I realized just how great of a "classic rock" album this is. Go in with a clear mind... (Edited)
Sounds a bit like a metal Jethro Tull. Still very good though - sombre and brooding and... detailed? Very... detailed. More subdued than Watershed,the instrumentation sparser and more fragile. And it made me want to listen to Aqualung, so five stars. (Edited)
This is one album that just needs to be listened from start to finish. Wonderful. (Edited)
paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/16/2011 15:44 | #33109 | TOP COMMENT
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i really like everything about opeth except the gruff, growling voice that pops up about half the time on all of their albums except "Damnation"...and now, "Heritage". There's no growl on this album at all, so i can enjoy the explosive, prog-metal that "heritage" brings. i like the musical range -- there are places on this mostly prog-metal album where it sounds closer to folk rock.
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