Opus Eponymous 02/17/2022 The playing is well rehearsed

The playing is well rehearsed and stellar

BRIAN ENO 2

simultaneously confounding expectations and leaving deep footprints in the landscape of modern musical art

haunted harmonies

Shirley Matthews

Opus Eponymous 02/17/2022 The playing is well rehearsedBy all rights, one would expect a band that hails from a heavy metal hotbed like Sweden, signs with a British heavy metal label, and pens songs steeped in Satanic liturgy, then performs them in frightful disguises while maintaining secret identities, to be a heavy metal band. But Ghost's 2010 debut album, Opus Eponymous, confounds such expectations by rating no higher than a three or four out of ten on a third millennium scale of metallic heaviosity,