Ghost Reveries - Opeth

[blindmuddy]

Re: Ghost Reveries - Opeth

Great album, just picked it up today

[the_drip]

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I think Blackwater Park adn Still Life are the best opeth albums to introduce yourself to the band with.

but you ahve to listen to the ENTIRE album before you judge. You'll be in shock...there's ALOT going on, and they have A TON of musicality.

They are truly amazing.

Ghost Reveries is also a very good album to listen to if you've never heard them. Though due to the keyboards, it doesn't really picture a good picture of the rest of their albums.

Also Orchid and Morningrise are enormously different in sound. The lenght of the songs are the same...but the style is different. These 2 early albums are heavy on the dual guitar melodies and countermelodies...very awesome stuff.

I prefer Orchid to Morningrise, just because the songs seem alot more cohesive , Morningrise IMO sounds a bit "glued" together, the songs sound long, for the sake of being long..and I lose interest in them. Orchid is the SHIZNIT, roflcopter.

so I would listen to Still Life, and Orchid. That will give you a complete taste of what Opeth is all about.

Opeth also got me into the growling "cookie monster" vocals. NObody pulls them off as menacingly as Mikael does. Peter Tagtren comes close.

[sevser]

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I love this album...I like Mikes clean and his growls better on this one. Not that they were ever bad. "Baying of the Hounds" is just kicking my ass right now. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] I love the use of the Hammond keys in it. "I hear the baying of the hounds in the distance...I hear them devouering"!!!!
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[GodOfRhythm]

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Demon of the fall is sick. After that acoustic break (which is one of the best build ups I've ever heard) there is that insane demonic passage where Mikael just seems to go insane. That is PURE energy caught on tape, it definitly made my hair stand up.

Same for the last 40 seconds or so of Godhead's Lament, it's one of their best songs, but those last couple of seconds are SO intense, sometimes I can barely take it.

Purely godlike.

[bibz]

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I love how they copy pasted the mixer channels from bloodbath on a few of these tracks [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
GR is up there with SL and BWP as my opeth faves. The fact it IS a little different totally smokes! The ambience created is perfect. And when Hours of Wealth came on I said 'man, this is the gayest shit ever'....then I heard that lead. The second most beautiful clean lead I've ever heard...(pantera - planet caravan)
Theres powertabs for a few tracks thats tuned to open d minor, and its a beautiful tuning. Usually I'm not a fan of open tunings, but if this gives them the edge and vibe, I'm all for it. The day after I found that out my old man got his new guitar delivered. A one owner 1955 Maton Mayfair, bigass fhole archtop acoustic, made in aus. Gorgeous thing. I played part of ghost of perdition and it blew my friggin' mind [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]

[DSS3]

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I fucking love it; bought it the day it came out, but had it long before that.

[paulbag]

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For someone new to Opeth I would suggest Blackwater Park. "Bleak" was the first song I ever heard by them and instantly fell in love with it. Bought Blackwater Park, and everything before it after hearing that one. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[gemini8026]

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Wow, just got it.

I'll say this right now. Opeth would be my favourite band if not for the cookie monster vocals. I LOVE their sound, its unique and fresh and this new album is a musical masterpiece.

I wish Akerfeldt would stick to clean vocals, as he is EXCELLENT at them. The entire band is tight, and even if you dont like the vocal style, have a listen and enjoy the music, that is what I am doing.

[horns666]

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I strongly disgree on the "cookie monster" thing..due to that it does not apply here. Mike Akerfeldt is one of the best death vocalist in the genre. Without that dynamic ..the music would be boring..IT really gives the music alot of light and dark..aggressive music requires aggressive vocals..It wouldn't be opeth is there was just one vocal style..I think it add great contrast that has been a constant element to their sound from the start....it's who they are ..and that is a reason why they are well known , and on a major label.

[Smallz]

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yep im in full agreement with horns on this one. the music wouldnt sound nearly as heavy without mike's death growls.

if you dont like growls you dont like growls...but i think he sounds amazing at them and as good as his clean vocals are, i think his growl is even better in comparison to other death metal vocalists.

[the_drip]

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most of the time people who shy away from Opeth's death growls just haven't let the albums sink in enough. It wouldn't be Opeth without them. His death growls have their own dynamic and add to the wide range of sound that Opeth makes use of in the albums.

[GodOfRhythm]

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Exactly!

I don't like cookie monster vocals, usually. Well, I DO listen to Nile, Behemoth, etc etc, but that's more to headbang to the extreme nice riffage and drumming.

With Opeth it just goes way beyond cookie monster growling, Akerfeldt's voice is part of the orchestra, part of the band, it is a musical instrument in its own right. He exploits the uses of the instrument to the absolute max and adds a whole new dimension to the music. Which is one of the reasons why he's such a musical genius.

[paulbag]

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Akerfeldt's growl rules. I'm not normally a fan of 'Death' vocals but there are a few that I do like and his are fucking very cool.

[gemini8026]

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Well, I make my comment solely because Damnation is likely my favourite album of ALL time, and the song Harvest from Blackwater fits in those lines and is easily one of my favourite songs too.

The screams and "growls" certainly appeal to some, just not everyone. I have always been searching for a band that sounds like Opeth, but with the lyrical singing of the ex singer from iced earth (the one who's a cop now)

Either way, the album is awesome after listening to it fully. These guys rule at setting ambiance and mood, while keeping their own distinct sound!

[Fragle]

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well, today i bought GR. i've only scanned through a couple of songs now, so i can't say if i like it or not....it's certainly not bad, it think it appears to be quite good actually. but then again, i think i'll have to listen to it at least a couple of times to understand whats going on....great.

however, for some strange reasons i think that some of the songs sound VERY dream theater - ish....kinda what i wished the new DT record to sound like. of course james labrie will never do growl vocals, but aside of that the whole songwriting and clean singing style is very DT....esp the second song.