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OPETH release a special edition of ‘Ghost Reveries’ on 6th November. This, their seventh album, has been lauded as a masterpiece and can only be added to by way of this special edition.
The package features the album in 5.1 surround sound, plus an exclusive additional track (a cover of Deep Purple’s ‘Soldier Of Fortune’). Also included in the twin pack is an additional DVD featuring the making of the album, filmed at the recording studio in Sweden and featuring band interviews and all kinds of insightful views and inter-band tomfoolery. It’s a candid look into the band’s inner workings and a must for any fan.
It would be no exaggeration to say OPETH are a band that have made journalists and fans alike, weep with joy. Terms like ‘jaw dropping’ and ‘genius’ are littered through previous magazine features, with the band receiving consistently stellar reviews their career through. They are a band that break rules. In a musical landscape swamped with traditionalists and bandwagon jumpers, Opeth create epic, soaring, iconoclastic music that makes most so-called sonic experimentalists seem decidedly one-dimensional. ‘Ghost Reveries’ sees them pushing their dynamic music even further, blending elements of death and black metal with folk, goth, classical and jazz touches, leading journalists to compare them to the likes of Pink Floyd and Mars Volta.
‘Ghost Reveries’ isn’t just a mindblowing spectacle, it’s the sound of a band setting unreachable goals and achieving them with grace. “There’s no other band on the planet like us,” says Akerfeldt, matter-of-factly. “We love death metal, so there are some Morbid Angel parts in there, but there are also Pink Floyd and King Crimson influences, as well as Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake. We love to surprise people...”
It’s no surprise then that ‘Ghost Reveries’ won numerous magazines’ ‘Album of the Year’ gong at the end of 2005. If you’re not already ‘au fait’, you now have no excuse for not picking up the album, with it’s bonus DVD and sumptuous packaging. You can also catch
| 1. | Ghost of Perdition |
| 2. | The Baying of the Hounds |
| 3. | Beneath The Mire |
| 4. | Atonement |
| 5. | Reverie/Harlequin Forest |
| 6. | Hours of Wealth |
| 7. | The Grand Conjuration |
| 8. | Isolation Years |
| 9. | Soldier Of Fortune |