GHOST REVERIES

"Ghost of Perdition" has to be my favorite Opeth song; it's heavy, mellow, experimental, and has many new elements in it. 5/5 stars.

"The Baying of the Hounds" took me a while to get used to since it just seemed like another Opeth song, but this song (once you listen to it a couple of times) grows on you. 4/5 stars.

"Beneath the Mire" is another great song with an awesome build up to the vocals, doesn't really sound too similar to other Opeth stuff I've heard (though I may be ignorant to say this)...5/5

Up to the third song there has been regular singing and death growls/grunts, but now in this next song "Atonement" there is only regular singing. This song is not heavy at all like the first 3, they really experiment with their sound here. Some of the vocals remind of The Beatles "Blue Jay Lane", but from the vocals it goes into an instrumedly. There's even bangos. 5/5

"Reverie / Harlequin Forest" has a really cool intro and beginning; the beginning has no death growls, only regular singing until the vocalist decides to throw some in...The song builds up from a swift riff to a heavy death metal piece then to something mellow and all over the place...The song gets long and dry after a couple times of listening to it. 4/5 stars.

"Hours of Wealth" sounds like something off of the "Damnation" album. It's a decent song to settle off the dust in the album. I guess I'll give it a 4/5, but I'm just being nice...

Just when you think the album is going to take a turn for the mellow stuff it goes the other way! This song "The Grand Conjuration", (though very long) is a great listen. Starts off heavy, dies down to mellowness, then slaps you in the face with the harshest death metal growl on the album. He says: "The eyes of the devil, fixed on the sinner". A bit satanic, but as an unpracticing Christian, I don't mind...All in all a really heavy song with many progressive elements. 5/5 stars.

"Isolation Years" along with "Hours of Wealth" didn't really impress me since we've all heard the same mellowness on "Damnation", but for what it's worth 4/5 stars since they did a good job on all these tracks mellow or soft.

Best songs: Ghost of Perdition, The Grand Conjuration, Beneath the Mire.

The rest of the song are great, but nothing as impressive as these 3 to me.

4.5 stars to "Ghost Reveries" as it is Opeth's most matured album with "Everything in its Right Place".

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