Finally back Opeth, as you know and love!

Aside from the great title track you have to say but that most of Deliverance has left a little disappointed back. On the one hand there was not really anything new, that had all heard already times, on the other hand the whole thing seemed a bit unmotivated and listless.
The first signs of life on the occasion of the new album "Ghost Reveries" lies, however, listen up: With the South American influences in the percussions and a latent-threatening uncanny Atmossphäre comes "The Grand Conjuration" at once clearly innovative and therefore has almost a bit of what Opeth vs. Sepultura. That sounds pretty unorthodox and probably is, but after repeated listening does a really good figure and above all wanting more.
That's all I have now got ... a lot more than I expected: This is definitely a contender for the title "Album of the Year"! Not so melodically like Still Life, a bit less gloomy than Blackwater Park Opeth but nevertheless again in pure culture with fresh sound and new ideas. The curtain rises on "Ghost Reveries"!
The opener "Ghost Of Perdition" is equal to where the rubber meets the road and is similar to "The Leper Afinity" to business. Quiet and melodic parts alternate with stick passages where Michaels growls a little ground than previously come along. Really creamy are the diverse interludes, which pick up the eerie atmos of the already mentioned "Conjuration" and yet open again in quite poignant vocal runs. Really forget a worthy entry, the "Deliverance" makes. Even "The Baying Of The Hounds" and "Beneath The Mire" move to the proven concept a noble fireworks genuinely progressive death metal from: "The Baying" convinced than almost vielfältigstes piece and "Beneath" was already after the double bass thunderstorm won at the beginning. Rarely have so Opeth sounded around ... "Atonement" is a classic, shorter progressive rock piece and leaves time before we again get served the next 10 minutes cracker in the form of "Reverie / Harlequin Forest" to breathe. Here convince the same excellent start riffs. "The Grand Conjuration" remains the most unusual song on the album and is flanked by "Hours Of Wealth" and "Isolation Years", two so incredibly nice prog rock songs that one always cold running down the back (especially the chorus of " Isolation ").
It only remains for me to say that here is a top band in Sweden clearly shows how übelst good DM forms a perfect symbiosis with progressive and technically impressive guitar music and again the result is a timeless album with this is that one is dealing for months. After the umpteenth run you discover still new ... strong buy recommendation! :)