Few groups have combined distorted and guttural cacophony with disarmingly melodic passages like this Swedish progressive metal group. Drawing as much from the likes of 70s progressive rock as the dregs of death and black metal, they’ve managed to stretch the boundaries of what metal can be, often to transcendent effect. Here are my favorite songs from the Stockholm-based songsmiths.

*This list will be updated in the event of any future (including posthumous) releases.

Honorable mentions

Blackwater Park

The Funeral Portrait

The Grand Conjuration

Hessian Peel

Wreath

Top 10

10. Windowpane

9. The Moor

8. Moonlapse Vertigo

7. Heir Apparent

6. Deliverance

5. The Leper Affinity

4. Bleak

3. Harlequin Forest

2. Ghost of Perdition

1. The Baying of the Hounds

Favorite Album Cover

Damnation (2003)

Favorite Track on Each Album

Orchid (1995): In Mist She Was Standing

Morningrise (1996): Black Rose Immortal

My Arms, Your Hearse (1998): When

Still Life (1999): Moonlapse Vertigo

Blackwater Park (2001): Bleak

Deliverance (2002): Deliverance

Damnation (2003): Windowpane

Ghost Reveries (2005): The Baying of the Hounds

Watershed (2008): Heir Apparent

Heritage (2011): I Feel the Dark

Pale Communion (2014): Faith in Others

Sorceress (2016): Will o the Wisp

In Cauda Venenum (2019): Lovelorn Crime

Albums Ranked

13. Heritage (2011)

12. Sorceress (2016)

11. Orchid (1995)

10. Pale Communion (2014)

9. In Cauda Venenum (2019)

8. My Arms, Your Hearse (1998)

7. Morningrise (1996)

6. Deliverance (2002)

5. Damnation (2003)

4. Still Life (1999)

3. Watershed (2008)

2. Blackwater Park (2001)

1. Ghost Reveries (2005)