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Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Advantages: amazing musicianship, beautiful songs/vocals
Disadvantages: sucks to be you if you don't have this CD already!

...album they put out. Ghost Reveries is excellent from the minute it starts all the way until the end. Anyone familiar with Opeth's unique approach to songwriting and musicianship will not be let down with this album. It is intensely heavy and dark throughout and also is soft and melodic when it needs to be. The production quality is top notch on this record and the overall tone is subperb. The album kicks off with the classic Opeth death metal style ...
...groovy progressive song with great breakdowns and acoustic parts. The album continues on with a couple of great heavy/progressive songs. Hours of Wealth is one of the most beautiful pieces Opeth has ever done and will bring a tear to your eye. I would recommend this album to everyone who loves Opeth (if you do you probably already have this album!) and to anyone who is just a music lover in general. I would have to say this was the best metal album ...

satchjr2 21.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Ghost Reveries - Opeth

Another triumph of progressive metal

Advantages: Gives great appreciation for all styles of music
Disadvantages: if you just want Opeth's heavier stuff, you will be disappointed.

I have eagerly awaited the release of this album as I did with Ghost Reveries and it's predecessor. After Ghost Reveries, I did not know what to expect as that album included pretty much every style and influence of music into all of the songs. So let's look at which genres are included in most Opeth albums: Blast beating death metal ..... Check Classical guitar ....check classic rock.... check grunge .... check pop music ..... check jazz .... ...
...on.... And this is what I love about Opeth, to me they are primarily a metal band, but they open your mind to every other style of music and artistic expression. So onto this album Watershed, it ticks all the boxes for meshing all different types of genres into their signature sound and I think this album surpasses their other albums. It is not as heavy as other albums, but when they are heavy, e.g. in 'the lotus eater' they totally nail it and ...

worf22 26.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Watershed - Opeth

Face of Perfection...Opeth's best album?

Advantages: Expansive, beautifully crafted, musically moving
Disadvantages: Once hooked, it's difficult to give Opeth up...

Brutal and agressive, with beautiful melody and atmosphere. Indescribable except as an exceptional metal album, spanning genres from black metal to classical and folk. The Progressive elements which have since become more prevelent in Opeth's albums really came to the fore in this release from 1999. There also feature nuances of a far "jazzier" Opeth than seen previously (or subsequently, though I await my first listening of "Watershed" the album ...
...with other albums by the band "StillLife" has a concept, one I won't spoil for new listeners by revealing, other than to say it has a tragic overtone, told with Shakespearean stylings. "Serenity Painted Death", coming towards the albums climax, is pivotal in the tale, and is also, in my opinion, the best track on the album, and I'd go so far as to say Opeth's best track (and criminally underrated as such). Featuring more twists and turns in a single ...

Azran 06.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Still Life - Opeth

Dunno what to call this one... Deliverance?

Advantages: everything, great musicianship
Disadvantages: stop it, nothing at all.

...the MUST HAVE metal record: Deliverance by Opeth. WHO IS OPETH? *********************** Opeth is a Swedish band, playing together for 10+ years. Their roots lay clearly within the death/doom genre, but they write songs with actual melodies. Opeth's music has become so much more, and dare I say it, truly unique. Over the years, they have garnered quite a large following (by underground standards) due to the critical and financial success of their ...
...hearse, Still life, Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation. There is an 8th one on the way this year. The band was co-founded by guitarist/vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt who eventually recruited second guitarist Peter Lindgren, drummer Martin Lopez (ex-AMON AMARTH), and bassist Martin Mendez. The musical ability of Mikael Akerfeldt and company have earned OPETH the Swedish equivalent of a Grammy award. They have come a long way since their inception ...

monsieur.Joda 13.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Deliverance - Opeth

To Rid The Disease.

Advantages: brilliant arrangements by some classically trained musicians, excellent lyrical themes.
Disadvantages: some may find it depressing.

Damnation is the seventh album from progressive metal band Opeth. It surprisingly showcases the bands lighter side and was their first album to reach the Billboard Top 200, "Windowpane" being the album's single. Damnation is an outstanding, yet not drastic contrast from Opeth's roots in Scandinavian death metal. It successfully fuses aspects of blues, folk, rock and jazz through its clean and controlled vocal stylings, brilliantly composed classical ...
...bands flexibility. Opeth really shine here, despite putting aside their usual blast beats, heavy growling vocals and distorted riffs, in favour of more subdued melancholy musical patterns. As always, the arrangements are superbly orchestrated. Drums are at a steady pace, the guitar work is great, and the entire album is permeated with some truly brilliant synth, and has a subtle undercurrent of rhythm that brilliantly complements the fantastic high ...

Mutalisk 18.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Damnation - Opeth