Running Opeth album cover themes

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   Has anyone else noticed that all of Opeth's album covers since Morningrise feature a forest sort of atmosphere with a ghost lurking in each cover? The gloomy covers relate to the music really well, its almost as if their music has a ghostly atmosphere, especially damnation.

Morningrise has this gloomy landscape. there is no visible ghost but there might be one if you look closer. definetly has a ghostly atmosphere. I havent seen any other related artwork in the album book or case

My Arms, Your Hearse is a gloomy forest like landscape. Very difficult but you can clearly see a ghostly figure standing on the brown bit just to the right of the purple water in the middle of the cover. The ghosts face is visible. It's easier to see the figure on the back of the cd case on the version i have. (i dont know if there is any different artwork on the bonus tracks version)

Still Life is a lot more vivid and has more life to eat which fits with the title. i have always seen the woman in the picture as being a statue. it could be a real woman (perhaps melinda, a theme in the albums lyrics) or she could be a ghost. In the reflection of the red water underneath the crost you can see a human shape which could be a ghosts reflection, you cannot see the human casting the shadow.

Blackwater Park has some very gloomy human figures amongst the dying trees, i think these are ghosts, yeet it seems like there are 5 figures so it could be the band (with steven wilson). There is also another gloomy water shot like on all the other covers above.

Deliverance moves away from the gloomy landscape, this looks like a setting of a haunted house that could be in a gloomy forest near a lake like the other album covers. There is a ghost pearing into the window next to the grandfather clock. The doll creeps me out too.

Damnation has the creepy doll too. it looks like the same house as the previous cover. Maybe this is taken at a different angle or room of the house. The white light on the right is almost like a ghostly presence. Notice how this album is a lot lighter than the previous song, reflecting the more gentle tunes on the album.

Cant wait for the next album and to see what its cover is like. I bet it will have a theme of ghosts, maybe going back to outside rather than in a house.