Ghost Reveries
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August 2005 |
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March 15 to June 1, 2005 |
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| Label (s) | Roadrunner Records | |||
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8th |
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66:46 |
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Opeth and Jens Bogren |
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Ghost Reveries is the eighth studio album by the Swedish metal band Opeth . It was released on Roadrunner Records in 2005 .
Creation and publication
After the live DVD Lamentations , Per Wiberg, who had been Opeth's live keyboard player for some time, became a permanent member of the band. In contrast to previous albums, Opeth rehearsed for several weeks before the actual recordings and, with mostly finished pieces, went to Fascination Street Studios in Örebro from March 2005 to record Ghost Reveries . Contrary to Mikael Åkerfeldt's plan, the recordings did not last until April, but until June 1st. The album was produced by the band, Jens Bogren acted as co-producer and mixed the album.
Opeth's previous label Music for Nations was dissolved in 2004. Ghost Reveries is the band's first release on Roadrunner Records, beating offers from SPV , InsideOut Music and Century Media . The album was also released in a limited edition in 2006 with a cover version of Deep Purple's Soldier of Fortune as a bonus title and a DVD containing a surround sound version of the album, a music video and a documentation.
Track list
- Ghost of Perdition - 10:29
- The Baying of the Hounds - 10:41
- Beneath the Mire - 7:57
- Atonement - 6:28
- Reverie / Harlequin Forest - 11:39
- Hours of Wealth - 5:20
- The Grand Conjuration - 10:21
- Isolation Years - 3:51
style
After the mostly acoustic, very calm album Damnation , Opeth return on Ghost Reveries to their characteristic amalgamation of Death Metal , Progressive Metal and Progressive Rock and develop them further. With their hard riffs , acoustic passages, melodic solos, the guttural and clear vocals , the compositions are again multi-layered and varied, but sound more organic than on previous albums. Some influences from psychedelic rock are new - especially through Per Wiberg's use of the Mellotron and Hammond organ .
reception
Ghost Reveries has received critical acclaim from the press. Thom Jurek from Allmusic thinks the album is “breathtakingly beautiful” and Mike Borrink from Rock Hard says: “You can't combine Death and Prog elements more intelligently and make fans from Morbid Angel to Pink Floyd equally happy.” Henning Mangold from the Babyblauen Seiten sums up: “Two years ago I wrote that if Death and Doom Metal were ever really socially acceptable and should be played in educated concert halls, then this music would probably sound a little like Opeth's. Today I'm happy that Opeth has an album to which this thesis fits even better than it was then. ”Both Rock Hard and eclipsed magazine included Ghost Reveries in their respective lists of the most important Progmetal albums.
Web links
- Ghost Reveries at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Ghost Reveries on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biography - Chapter X ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , opeth.com , accessed December 9, 2012.
- ↑ Thom Jurek: Ghost Reveries at Allmusic , accessed December 9, 2012.
- ^ Henri Kramer: Opeth - Ghost Reveries , powermetal.de , accessed on December 9, 2012.
- ↑ Mike Borrink: Opeth. Ghost Reveries , Rock Hard # 220, accessed December 9, 2012.
- ^ Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Opeth. Ghost Reveries , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 9, 2012.
- ↑ Rock Hard No. 270, p. 95.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.
