ghost reveries is a weak album?

[Cognitive Intercourse]

I don't think it is weak but it sure is the only album I have a hard time listening to from start to finish. It starts awesome with Ghost of Perdition and Baying of the Hounds but then comes the triad Beneath The Mire, Atonement and Reverie/Harlequin Forest, three of my least favorite tracks one after the other, and it just gets a bit tedious. A different track order may have made it better

I just think that's interesting, as the triad of Mire, Atonement and Reverie is the most interesting part of the album for me. Ehhh, to each his own I suppose. Although I think that Baying of the Hounds is quite possibly my favorite Opeth song of all time.

Overall, I think GR is one of my favorite albums. I guess I can "kind of" see how some people don't hold it up in as much esteem as they do with MAYH or Still Life. But as great as those albums are, they just don't seem to hold my attention quite as much as this one does. I always seem to find something new each time I listen to it.

 

[Vamos]

I just think that's interesting, as the triad of Mire, Atonement and Reverie is the most interesting part of the album for me. Ehhh, to each his own I suppose. Although I think that Baying of the Hounds is quite possibly my favorite Opeth song of all time.

Overall, I think GR is one of my favorite albums. I guess I can "kind of" see how some people don't hold it up in as much esteem as they do with MAYH or Still Life. But as great as those albums are, they just don't seem to hold my attention quite as much as this one does. I always seem to find something new each time I listen to it.

That is alright

I think that it is a good thing that we all disagree a lot about our favorite albums/songs by Opeth.

 

[Cognitive Intercourse]

I think that it is a good thing that we all disagree a lot about our favorite albums/songs by Opeth.

If nothing else, it just goes to show how incredibly complex and mutli faceted this band is. And why they hold our attention so much (Of course I can only speak for myself, but still....).

 

[Chinese Whispers]

I don't think it is a weak album - there really isn't anything I think you could seriously call filler there - but I can understand if the direction they took wasn't to someone's taste. I've heard far, far, far, far worse albums. Personally I think Ghost Reveries is one of Opeth's more consistent albums.

 

[Lateralus14]

Isolation Years doesn't feel like it beongs, probably just because of the lingering remains of the original concept in all the other songs, but individually, no song is bad, and it's still my favorite Opeth album because the 5 heavy songs are 5 of my favorite metal songs period.

 

[Dammnare]

GR, together with the Holy Trinity ( BWP, SL and MAYH ) is my favourite Opeth album.

 

[beast from the east]

GR, together with the Holy Trinity ( BWP, SL and MAYH ) is my favourite Opeth album.

The Holy Trinity - I like that! Well said...and accurate

 

[Fields Of Sorrow]

It's actually the only one I haven't at any point gotten slightly bored of. GoP is insane.

 

[Nasty-Fire]

To me, Ghost Reveries is the second (or third) really complex and complete album.

Still Life
Ghost Reveries
Blackwater Park

 

[Yaow!]

GR, together with the Holy Trinity ( BWP, SL and MAYH ) is my favourite Opeth album.

Correction: The Unholy Trinity!

 

[Chinese Whispers]

Correction: The Unholy Trinity!

Sorry already taken. The Unholy Trilogy is 'Black Sabbath' by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath.

 

[Lateralus14]

And if not there, the Unholy Trinity has referred to Ride the Lightning > Master of Puppets > ...And Justice For All (aka good Metallica's entire discography minus the less distinctive Kill 'Em All) for quite some time.

 

[Chinese Whispers]

And if not there, the Unholy Trinity has referred to Ride the Lightning > Master of Puppets > ...And Justice For All (aka good Metallica's entire discography minus the less distinctive Kill 'Em All) for quite some time.

Nah, it is still Black Sabbath.

 

[norvegian ghost]

my perception of the album is wrong?

GR is a good album but not amazing for me.... is amazing for you?

i'm not saying "GR is a weak album" , i'm trying to say "GR is less brutal than others"

do you think GR is equally brutal than deliverance? (the last power album before GR) i don't think so

GR is maybe less heavy than deliverance, but it's GR has got some of the very very best songs Opeth has ever made (f ex GoP, TGC). GR is more varied. I think deliverace is maybe Opeth's most singleminded album ("I'm a HEAVY motherf***") but GR is not missing anything that deliverance has got.
That said, I don't think GR manages to keep the level all the way. Although I think Reverie/Harlequin Forest and HoW are cool songs, they are not good enough to keep up with the rest of GR.

 

[toast reveries]

GR is the best album i heard

 

[Lateralus14]

Saying GR has to be as heavy as Deliverance to be heavy for an Opeth album is such retarded logic. That's like saying a Led Zeppelin album has to be equal to Led Zeppelin IV to be a good Led Zeppelin album, or like saying every Opeth album has to sound like Watershed to be progressive at all. GTFO with your illogical statements, Allfader.

 

[Chinese Whispers]

Saying GR has to be as heavy as Deliverance to be heavy for an Opeth album is such retarded logic. That's like saying a Led Zeppelin album has to be equal to Led Zeppelin IV to be a good Led Zeppelin album, or like saying every Opeth album has to sound like Watershed to be progressive at all. GTFO with your illogical statements, Allfader.

I agree with you on this on Lateralus. It still boggles my mind why people want - nay, NEED - Opeth to be heavier than the 300 ibs. gorilla in the corner.

 

[O P E T H]

GR is the best album i heard

I agree.

 

[Jester-Race]

Ghost reveries is amazing, but is no where near the caliber that was Still Life or Blackwater Park.

Easily the top 3 though.

 

[Nasty-Fire]

Near the caliber of Still Life and Blackwater Park for sure ¬¬.