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"Of 70's and progressive inspiration, "Ghost Reveries" is once again an excellent album from Opeth, a band that never stops evolving according to its desires and inspirations."
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What do we expect from Opeth now? After an almost perfect "Blackwater Park", a double album Deliverance / Damnation with a double face, the band seems to have reached the end of a cycle... "Damnation" really allowed Opeth to take a step forward by fully assuming its calm, progressive and vintage side. The keyboardist who was indispensable on the "Damnation" tour, Per Wiberg, has been hired full time and he didn't forget to bring his mellotron with him.
'Ghost Of Perdition' opens the album aggressively and immediately takes us into a whirlwind that only Opeth can offer. Michael Akerfeldt's voice is perfect and his clean vocals have never been so mastered and varied. "The Baying Of Hounds" comes next and confirms the trend with an original riff and a very present mellotron giving a very 70's atmosphere. The track is full of ideas and variations, confirming the very progressive turn of the album. This same orientation is also confirmed by a complex and varied rhythmic pattern, which highlights the limitless talent of the drummer. Given that Michael Akerfeldt composed almost the entire album on a twelve-string guitar, one can better understand the harmonic richness of the whole.
But you can't really talk about "Ghost Reveries" without mentioning the enormous 'The Grand Conjuration', probably one of Opeth's best songs. Its alternation of melodic and death metal passages is devastating and its final acceleration accompanied by the completely hysterical screams is indescribable. If some tracks are too long and the quiet songs are not necessarily very touching ('Hours Of Wealth' and 'Isolation Years'), we can only bow to the work done on the aforementioned track or the epic 'Reverie/Harlequin Forest'.
What do we expect from Opeth? Who asked for a calmer direction? Nobody. Who expected a pure Death Metal album? No one. Who wanted a more simplistic and direct album? No one. In fact, the band may have done exactly what was expected of them. They've taken it a step further, enriched their music and once again made the album that matches their current inspirations. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Ghost Of Perdition
02. The Baying Of Hounds
03. Beneath The Mire
04. Atonement
05. Reverie/harlequin Forest
06. Hours Of Wealth
07. The Grand Conjuration
08. Isolation Years
LINEUP:
Martin Lopez: Batterie
Martin Mendez: Basse
Michael Akerfeldt: Chant / Guitares
Per Wiberg: Claviers
Peter Lindgren: Guitares
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LAST INTERVIEW
OPETH (SEPTEMBER 3RD, 2024)
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Opeth are back with a new album, and what an album it is! A concept based around the legacy of a sterile and cruel patriarch, illustrated by the return of the long-awaited growls!
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