Opus Eponymous 02/17/2022 John Sambataro

John Sambataro

more refined Fresh Air

"Legendary

a good indication that the 11 songs here aren't necessarily designed to be heard outside of the film

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Opus Eponymous 02/17/2022 John SambataroBy 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,