Ghost Reveries (2005)

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After the calm and acoustic album "Damnation" released in 2003, the musicians of Opeth have returned back to metal. On this album the band shows how close its musicians have came up to progressive metal, and if Mikael Akerfeldt wouldn't sing with brutal voice on this album, "Ghost Reveries" might be the sample of what true progressive metal should actually be. The major difference of this album from the previous ones is an appearance of keyboard parts everywhere on the album. This is the first Opeth's album recorded with keyboardist Per Wiberg, who became an actual member of the band not long ago. I don't know how the old Opeth fans regard to this new member, but personally I'm very glad that such musicians as Opeth keep searching for new ways of music performance with every new their album.