STILL LIFE

This album demands a bit of a hasrd work to listen to, for many different reasons. one of them is the rawness of the bandl, the feelings are cmpletely exposed as you can´t find in almost no other opeth album. The clean guitar work, reaches pits of perfecion, right before a brilliant passage to an almost 100% pure death metal agressitivity - but don´t be frightened to the metal scene in opeth if you´re not much of a metal fan - beeing from Sweden, its hard not to notice the melodic influences inherent to almost all of swedish music, even the agresive parts. The instrumental is almost perfect, even thought you can notice more perfection in posterior albums like Black Water Park and after. Its hard not to notice the evolution in Opeth Previous and after Still LIfe. specially when it comes to drumming, where Martin Lopez proves to work to improve himself Still life is definitely the best opeth album, It sets has a very important and distinctive interface from the the other albums. I spent some time till it got to me, but I have to admit, this is brilliant. The only problem about it is the production, it makes this cd hard to listen to, but besides that its definitely a masterpiece of prog!!