STILL LIFE

Well, I guess it was time for me to start reviewing my personal favorite genre of music, as I previously had steered away from reviewing Tech/Extreme Prog Metal bands because I felt that the metalhead in me would explode at the mere thought. I think I'm fine now. Let's begin at the very peak of the genre: Opeth's Still Life

There's probably not much more to say than what has already been said about Still Life. A masterpiece of progressive death metal? Sure. Flawed? Certainly, but sometimes flaws are like the dust and cracks of great work of art that has been left sitting the attic. Since the overblown digital productions of the modern age, Metal as a genre has gone out of its way to fix those minor cracks and the end result has been an overlypolished caricature and mirage. Still Life is one of those rare albums that is only about the music within, and the story to fit the music. It takes you to a haunting Moor in the Medieval ages, bathes you in memorable melodies and destroys your head in a way only Opeth can. All the tracks have their places, although the weakest one is clearly White Cluster. Most people overlook the gems that are Godhead's Lament and Moonlapse Vertigo, but I digress.

With this album Opeth created an atmosphere that is almost unrivalled in terms of Death Metal, and it can be seen as their peak, and although many of the following albums are brilliant as well, they never captured that diamond in the rough sound which already was hinted at in My arms, Your Hearse. This is an album that will not be surpassed in quite sometime. 5/5

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