23 September, 2011

Opeth: The Devil's Orchard – new video / Heritage – new album

 

 

Out September 14th/16th/19th/20th, 2011 through Roadrunner Records, OPETH's “10th album/observation” (“I dig it; we all do. In fact, it feels like I’ve been building up to write for and participate on an album like this since I was 19,” confessed Mikael Åkerfeldt) is being exclusively streamed over at NPR Music: just click here to get there. Recorded at Atlantis/Metronome Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, produced by OPETH's driving force, vocalist and one of the greatest metal guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, engineered by Janne Hansson and mixed by no less than Steven Wilson, album's art was created by OPETH's longtime collaborator Travis Smith. OPETH's just released video is the work of Phil Mucci.

“ ‘Heritage’, OPETH tenth studio offering, finds the Swedish band abandoning death metal: no growled vocals, no blistering fast power riffs, no blastbeats,” [writes Thom Jurek, AllMusic] “Written primarily by vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, these ten songs are drenched in instrumental interludes, knotty key and chord changes, shifting time signatures, clean vocals, and a keyboard-heavy instrumentation that includes Mellotrons, Rhodes pianos, and Hammond organs - ironic since keyboardist Per Wiberg left the band after ‘Heritage’ was completed… Love it or hate it, ‘Heritage’, for its many excesses - and stellar conception and execution - is a brave album. It opens the door for OPETH to pursue many new directions and reinvent themselves as a band.”

Besides Mikael Åkerfeldt on guitar, vocals and piano, Fredrik Åkesson on guitar, Per Wiberg on keyboards and piano, Martin Mendez on bass and Martin Axenrot on drums, ‘Heritage’ also features percussionist Alex Acuña and flautist Björn J:son Lindh on the seventh track called ‘Famine’.

Opeth_Heritage

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