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Swedish prog-metal overlords Opeth have been making vast and ambitious music for about three decades now. They've spent that entire time restlessly playing around on the borders of their own sound. It's entirely possible that there's never been another band as comfortable with the idea of switching abruptly from death-metal bone-rattle to ethereal folk reverie…
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submitted by Nick Jun 3rd 2014 12:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Before putting on “Chimes At Midnight” to write about here, I was listening to Opeth’s forthcoming Pale Communion (which I wrote about yesterday) and before that, to In Flames forthcoming Siren Charms (which I probably won’t write about at all unless it appears in The Black Market as a cautionary example),...
submitted by Nick Jun 2nd 2014 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Opeth’s last album, 2011′s Heritage, saw the band taking an unusually stark turn away from their death metal roots — not that Opeth were ever a traditional death metal band, but Heritage was pretty much a pure psychedelic prog record. Anyone hoping for Opeth to return even to the sounds of 2001 breakthrough Blackwat...
submitted by Nick Apr 8th 2014 10:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Progressive metal band Opeth put out their last album in 2011, the psychedelic Heritage. Now the band have announced details about the follow-up due later this year, titled Pale Communion. In addition to being produced by guitarist and lead singer Mikael Åkerfeldt it will also be mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree (another band [...]
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Opeth mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt doesn't foresee the Swedes revisiting their death metal roots too heavily on their new album.


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