These aren’t clean looking creatures with a pale pallor. The descriptions given here remind me of both Ken Foree’s comment, “When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth,” and the zombies seen in Zombi. Essentially a lyrical representation of zombies rising from their graves in search of their next meal, it’s pure horror incarnate. This 1992 demo was featured on the 2000 reissue of the band’s second album Morningrise. I saw her shadow (standing) in the darkness Just read these lyrics and tell me you don’t get a little bit of that feel: “In The Mist She Was Standing”Ĭoming from the band’s first album Orchid, there’s a section in these lyrics that makes me wonder if James Wan and Leigh Whannell didn’t use it as inspiration for the Bride in Black. Venture forth to marvel in this band and the glorious music they put forth, as well as the nightmare-inducing words that erupt from vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt. It’s that latter part that inspired me to write this piece, which highlights several songs and their lyrics as they sound like something right out of a horror novel that would rival Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, Shelley, King, Barker, etc… I know that I personally felt myself swell with excitement as Opeth is one of my favorite bands.īecause of this news, I found myself revisiting their older material and marveling in their brilliant songwriting and sometimes horrifying lyrics. The recent news this week that Swedish progressive rock/metal band Opeth had signed to Nuclear Blast Records and would be releasing their new album Sorceress this fall took the metal community by surprise as we hadn’t heard anything from the band in a while.
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