Ghost Reveries
Occupation
- Vocals, Guitar: Mikael Åkerfeldt
- Guitar: Peter Lindgren
- Bass: Martin Mendez
- Keyboards: Per Wiberg
- Drums: Martin Lopez
Ghost Reveries is the eighth studio album by the Swedish metal band Opeth. It was released in 2005 on Roadrunner Records.
Creation and publication
After the live DVD Lamentations Per Wiberg was that some time was Opeth's live keyboard player, a permanent member. Unlike previous albums Opeth rehearsed before taking the actual shots several weeks and went with mostly finished pieces from March 2005 in the Fascination Street Studios in Örebro to record Ghost Reveries. The recordings lasted Mikael Åkerfeldt against planning but not until April but up to June 1. The album was produced by the band, Jens Bogren acted as co-producer and mixed from the album.
Opeth's previous label Music for Nations was dissolved in 2004. Ghost Reveries is the first release of the band on Roadrunner Records, which was able to prevail against offers of SPV, InsideOut Music and Century Media. The album was released in 2006 in a limited edition with a Deep Purple cover as a bonus track and a DVD that includes a Surround version of the album, a music video and a documentary.
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Style
After the mostly acoustic, very quiet album Damnation Opeth Ghost Reveries to return to their characteristic fusion of Death Metal, Progressive Metal and Progressive Rock back and develop them further. The compositions are with their heavy riffs, acoustic passages, melodic solos, the guttural and clean vocal again complex and varied, but sound more organic than on previous albums. New features - particularly by Per Wiberg use of Mellotron and Hammond organ - some influences from the psychedelic rock.
Reception
Ghost Reveries was highly praised by the press. Thom Jurek of Allmusic found the album " breathtakingly beautiful " and judge Mike Borrink from Rock Hard: "Intelligent you can Death and Prog elements combine easily and can do so fans of Morbid Angel to Pink Floyd equally not happy. " Henning Mangold of the Baby Blue Pages says: " two years ago, I once wrote when Death and Doom Metal are ever really socially acceptable and should be played in educated middle-class concert halls, then this music will probably be a bit like listening to Opeth. I am happy today that Opeth now present an album to which this thesis fits much better than was the case at the time. "Both Rock Hard and the eclipsed magazine took Ghost Reveries to their respective list of the most important prog metal albums.