GHOST REVERIES

My first contact with Opeth was with the albums "Deliverance" and "Damnation", but those albums didn`t do it for me. So when "Ghost Reveries" was released it didn`t paid my attention at first. When I finally got hold of a copy and listened to it I felt that there was something there that I really liked. The contrast between the brutal progressiv deathmetal and the beautiful soft acoustic parts. The more I listened to it, the more I got stuck to it. Now I have been listening to the album more or less constantly the last sixth months and it still gets better and better. This album opened up my eyes for Opeth and I immediatly got hold of "Still Life" and "Blackwater Park", and after that I was totally blown away by this genius band. I believe that Opeth plays a more complex structured music than what the great Dream Theater perform. I just can`t understand how anyone can write this complex long and totally awesome songs. How you can get away with a mix of brutal death metal, jazzinfluences, acoustic parts and progressiv metal/rock, is just fantastic The opener "Ghost of Perdition" is one of the best songs ever. The riffs are just brutal and the contrast with the soft acoustic parts and the beautiful song makes this something out of the ordinary. I just can`t go inte detail with every song because its to much elements and complex structures to analyze. Give this album a couple of listenings and you will understand what I mean! One of the best albums ever!!! Mikael Åkerfeldt is a genius, no doubt about that. Buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!