STILL LIFE

Still Life, Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, the 3 albums that I always see many have one of them as their favorite, I met Opeth this year, dazzled and in love with the heavy and and beautiful sound, and then I started listening to the albums, I remember that when I finished listening to My Arms Your Hearse (my favorite album) I went straight to Still Life and I thought... strange, I mean... it was good but... something was missing... and that something took a while to appear, I went listening to Blackwater Park, I loved it, Ghost Reveries, I loved it, Orchid, I loved it, and then, in the end, the last album left to finally finish listening to the heavy ones, it was Still Life, and I've already tried to give it a chance a few times , but there was always something missing, but it grew on me, and after the last time I heard it, it happened, and nowadays Still Life is one of my favorite albums alongside My Arms Your Hearse and Blackwater Park, Still Life took time and mental effort to be able to appreciate it, its sound is quite complex and difficult to digest, and as it is one of Opeth's most popular albums, it was a shock, but it was all worth it, to talk about Still Life, first, its concept, is a concept album that revolves around the story of an unknown man, who was banished from his village because of his faith and who consequently returns to it because of his beloved, Melinda, the theme of the album ends up being loving and tragic, remembering me Romeo & Juliet and then, the music... god... THE MUSIC, every song here, is incredible, absolutely incredible, with complex structures, beautiful acoustics, heavy riffs, with a mix of death metal and progressive rock it's natural and well done, giving a sound that is unique and shows a lot of maturity, the sense of journey I had with this album was really cool as I listened to it more often, always noticing some part I had never heard before, be it the initial jazz section of ''The Moor'' which is one of the most powerful album starts I've ever heard or the country pop section of ''Godhead's Lament'' is so subtle, but once you notice it, it's so interesting that it ends up being an aspect that I really like about this album, the more you listen, the more you understand the album and it becomes like ''Wow, I didn't notice that before'', the without death vocals ''Benighted'' and ''Face of Melinda'' the melodic ''Moonlapse Vertigo'' the overwhelming ''Serenity Painted Death'' and the sensational ''White Cluster'', all the songs on this album are of the highest level, none are weak, and it ends up being difficult to say which one I prefer, most likely you won't like it at first, that's what happened to me and many people had a case similar, but anyway, listen, this album is phenomenal, it may not even be my favorite album, but Still Life is one of the greatest masterpieces ever released by Opeth, tragic, heavy and beautiful.