Opeth – Ghost of perdition

Canción de la semana

Opeth es una banda de metal progresivo sueca formada en 1990 por su compositor principal: Mikael Åkerfeldt.

Posee en sus composiciones influencias del rock progresivo, jazz, blues y de guitarras acústicas de corte clásico y folk, más notorias en su álbum Blackwater Park (2001), y Ghost Reveries (2005). Además, también se aprecia una evidente influencia del death metal, especialmente en la manera de cantar en varias canciones de su vocalista, Mikael Åkerfeldt, y de doom metal dada la ambientación y velocidad de algunos de sus temas.

Desde la grabación de su primer disco, han lanzado 10 álbumes de estudio, dos DVD, dos box sets, tres singles y dos álbumes en vivo. Una completa excepción de su estilo musical son los álbumes Damnation (2003) y Heritage (2011) que muestran un estilo absolutamente orientado hacia el rock progresivo.

Letra – ghost of perdition

Ghost of Mother
Lingering death
Ghost on Mother’s bed
Black strands on the pillow
Contour of her health
Twisted face upon the head

Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew deceiving

Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
“You have to live before you die young”

Holding her down
Channeling darkness
Hemlock for the Gods
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating inner light

Rode into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher

Darkness by her side
Spoke and passed her by
Dedicated hunter
Waits to pull us under
Rose up to its call
In his arms she’d fall
Mother light received
And a faithfull servant’s free

In time the hissing of her sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
And like marked pages in a diary
Everything seemed clean that is unstained
The incoherent talk of ordinary days
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and what’s within a haze
What you should take and what to give

Ghost of perdition
A saint’s premonition’s unclear
Keeper of holy hordes
Keeper of holy whores

To see a beloved son
In despair of what’s to come

If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would change
Would conviction fall
In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten morals
Where the victim is the prey

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