With 'Still Life' Swedish progressive extreme metal band Opeth continue in the vein of their previous album 'My Arms Your Hearse', mixing beautiful, folky spanish guitar passages with alternately urgent and lamenting death-metal influenced sections and bluesy leads and solos. Album opener 'The Moor' starts with a hypnotic little clean guitar part that goes on, no doubt intentionally, for a little to long before bursting into the song proper, with the epic songs on 'Still Life' all bleeding into one another effortlessly as do the forceful/melancholy riffs and incongrous yet complementary folky sections, and the songs progress in an organic manner that never lets the ...  Read the complete review