OPETH: Ghost Reveries Vinyl LP (Black Silver Marble)

2005 was the year Opeth decided to be fully themselves, and the world's progressive metal heads have never really recovered. Ghost Reveries is the album where Mikael Åkerfeldt balanced crushing death metal and pastoral prog rock so perfectly that arguing about which side is better has been a pub argument in every alternative scene for twenty years, Melbourne included.

Tracks like 'Beneath the Mire' and 'Harlequin Forest' are the reason people get into progressive metal in the first place, and why they stay. This black silver marble 2LP pressing gives the album the physical weight it deserves, because Ghost Reveries is not background music, it is a commitment. If you're building a serious vinyl collection with any grunge, metal or dark aesthetic sensibility, this one fills a gap you didn't know was aching.

Format: Vinyl 2LP. Colour: Black Silver Marble. Genre: Progressive Metal, Progressive Death Metal. Origin: Sweden. Original release: 2005.

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