Ghost Reveries [VINYL]

Ghost Reveries is simply one of the best albums Opeth ever released, if not THE best one ever, this is what really got me into Opeth. Released in 2005, Ghost Reveries consists of eight songs which feature a variety of music styles, e.g. progressive death metal, progressive rock, even some acoustic guitar work. I love this album so much that I can't pick a favourite song from it, they're all really good and there are no filler tracks on the album whatsoever, I would say the same about all the other albums Opeth released before Ghost Reveries - Watershed and Heritage (which followed Ghost Reveries) are very good albums in their way as well but I don't think they quite have the magic that Ghost Reveries and the other albums before that had, still have and always will have in years to come.What I like about Ghost Reveries is that it is (to some extent) quite different from all the other albums Opeth released before that, while at the same time sticking to their musical roots. One thing I noticed with this album and not on any other metal album I have bought in my lifetime, is that in some of the songs on this album (if not all of them) Opeth used a guitar tuning which I never came across until buying and listening to Ghost Reveries, the guitar tuning in question is called Open D Minor 9 (low to high string: D A D F A E), although as far as I know they mostly used the Drop D tuning (low to high string: D A D G B E) as well as Open D Minor 9.Another thing to point out is that around halfway into the album the instrumental piece titled "Reverie" starts on a negative time of -1:05 before "Harlequin Forest" when the track mark on CD players changes from track 4 to track 5, even though on the album track 5 is titled "Reverie/Harlequin Forest", and when copying the album onto the iTunes library the instrumental piece "Reverie" becomes part of track 4 "Atonement" instead of track 5 "Harlequin Forest". Perhaps "Reverie" was used as a hidden track on the album, although maybe it could have been made a separate track or even part of track 5 in positive time instead of negative time making "Harlequin Forest" 12 minutes and 45 seconds long instead of 11 minutes and 39 seconds long, (it's not a criticism of any kind, it's just something I happened to notice while looking at my CD player and listening to the album).Overall, I very highly recommend Ghost Reveries to anyone who is a huge fan of metal music in general and to those who like very long tracks as four of the eight songs on this album are at least 10 minutes long, "Ghost of Perdition", "The Baying of the Hounds", "Harlequin Forest" and "The Grand Conjuration" being those four songs in question, whereas the other songs "Beneath the Mire", "Atonement", "Hours of Wealth" and "Isolation Years" are not as long but are just as good. A perfect album by such a fantastic metal band, well done Opeth.

If you listen to Reverie twice and don't like it, I can't help you. It's one of the best written songs ever with multiple layers. The rest of this album grew on me with subsequent listens until I even preferred a few of them. Perfect as a missing-link between Prog Opeth and Metal Opeth.

One of Opeths finest albums, been slowly building a collection of my favourite albums on 180g viynl and this is the latest. Great mix of growling, melody and all the other amazing stuff this band does. We'll worth the investment on black shiny plastic

Ghosts of Perdition alone is worth the asking price, add in The Baying of the Hounds and Reverie/Harlequin Forest and you've got yourself a great album. The changes from growls to clean vocals are done superbly by Mikael Akerfeldt and any fan of death metal owes it too themselves to pick this album up.

Awesome, thank you...

Decidedly, Opeth'm getting to like the metal. I must say that their music is very elaborate. They spend the progressive metal in EVERY pieces, it is a treat.

This is Opeth, baby!

This was bought as an anniversary gift, and went down very well! Great album, great vinyl.