Epic and Eclectic.

 

Album Notes:

Ghost Reveries is the eighth full-length album by Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. It was released on August 27, 2005. It is their first album since signing with Roadrunner Records. Musically, the album is similar in style to Deliverance. However, it retains the atmospheric elements of Damnation, with clean vocals that carry a more gothic quality than what was heard in previous efforts.

 

Ghost Reveries is the first album by Opeth to include keyboardist Per Wiberg as a “permanent” member (although Wiberg contributed keyboard work to Opeth’s live performances starting around the time of Lamentations (Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire 2003)), and it is the last Opeth album to include drummer Martin Lopez and long-time guitarist Peter Lindgren.

 

The album’s only single is “The Grand Conjuration”. A music video of the song was released, although about half of the song was edited from the video, due to the length of the song. Lopez does not appear in the video, as he was sick and was temporarily replaced by Gene Hoglan.

 

Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth’s driving force throughout the years. Opeth has consistently incorporated progressive, folk, blues, classical and jazz influences into their usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from black metal and death metal, especially in their early works. Many songs include acoustic guitar passages and strong dynamic shifts, as well as both death growls and clean vocals. Opeth rarely made live appearances supporting their first four albums; but since conducting their first world tour after the 2001 release of Blackwater Park, they have led several major world tours.

 

Opeth has released ten studio albums, three live DVDs, three live albums (two that are in conjunction with DVDs), and two boxsets. The band released its debut album Orchid in 1995. Although their eighth studio album, Ghost Reveries, was quite popular in the United States, Opeth did not experience major American commercial success until the 2008 release of their ninth studio album, Watershed, which peaked at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200, and topped the Finnish albums chart in its first week of release.

 

Opeth has sold over 1.5 million albums and DVDs worldwide, including 300,000 collective Soundscans of their albums Blackwater Park, Damnation and Deliverance in the United States.

 

Personnel:

Mikael Åkerfeldt: vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, Mellotron

Peter Lindgren: lead guitar

Martin Mendez: bass

Per Wiberg: Hammond organ, Mellotron, grand piano, Moog

Martin Lopez: drums, percussion

Martin Axenrot: drums (“Soldier of Fortune”)

 

Additional Personnel:

Jens Bogren: production, engineering, mixing, mastering (at Cutting Room Studios), 5.1 remix

Opeth: production, engineering, mixing, mastering, art direction, recording (“Soldier of Fortune”)

Pontus Olsson: engineering (“Soldier of Fortune”), mixing (“Soldier of Fortune”)

Rickard Bengtsson: recording

Anders Alexandersson: recording

Niklas Källgren: recording

Thomas Eberger: mastering

Travis Smith: art direction, illustration, layout

Anthony Sorrento: band portraits

 

Track List:

All songs written and composed by Mikael Åkerfeldt, except where noted[16].

A1. Ghost of Perdition   [10:29]

A2. The Baying of the Hounds   [10:41]

B3. Beneath the Mire   [7:57]

B4. Atonement   [6:28]

C5. Reverie/Harlequin Forest (Reverie appears in the pregap)   [ 11:39]

C6. Hours of Wealth   [5:20]

D7. The Grand Conjuration   [10:21]

D8. Isolation Years   [3:51]

 

Ghost Reveries2xLP 180 Gram Vinyl] by Opeth is factory-sealed new. It has never been played and has always been kept in its original packaging. The LP is not a promo or cutout. There are no marks or punches of any kind. All our CDs and vinyl are new! If you have any questions or want to see additional photos, just email us.

 

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