Opeth - Heritage (2011) [FLAC] [DVD5 NTSC]



Category Rock/Pop, Heavy Metal, Progressive, Rock
Label Roadrunner
Orig Year 2011
Discs 2
Release Date Sep 20, 2011
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Mikael Akerfeldt
Engineer Janne Hansson; Mikael Akerfeldt
Recording Time 56 minutes
Personnel Mikael Akerfeldt - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, grand piano, Mellotron
Per Wiberg - grand piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron
Martin Mendez - upright bass, electric bass
Martin Axenrot - drums, percussion
Fredrik +‡kesson - electric guitar
Additional Info With DVD; Special Edition


Personnel: Mikael ≈kerfeldt (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, grand piano, Mellotron); Fredrik ≈kesson (electric guitar); Per Wiberg (grand piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron); MartÌn Mendez (upright bass, electric bass); Martin Axenrot (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixers: Steven Wilson; Mikael ≈kerfeldt.

Recording information: Atlantis Studios, Stockholm (03/2011); Junkmail Studios, Stockholm, Sweden (03/2011); No Man's Land Studios, Hemel Hempstead, UK (03/2011); Atlantis Studios, Stockholm (2010-2011); Junkmail Studios, Stockholm, Sweden (2010-2011); No Man's Land Studios, Hemel Hempstead, UK (2010-2011).

Director: Mikael ≈kerfeldt.

Editors: Tom Grimshaw; Mikael ≈kerfeldt.

Photographer: Sandra Artigas.

.: Tracklist :.


Heritage, Opeth's tenth studio offering, finds the Swedish band abandoning death metal: no growled vocals, no blistering fast power riffs, no blastbeats. Mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) and engineered by Janne Hansson, Heritage is easily Opeth's most musically adventurous -- and indulgent -- recording. Written primarily by vocalist/guitarist Mikael ≈kerfeldt, 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. Opening with the title track, a haunting solo piano instrumental, it careens into the explosive "The Devil's Orchard," with spectacular, arpeggiatic guitar work by Fredrik ≈kesson and matching drums by Martin Axenrot. With a huge, swirling B-3 in the backdrop, it melds progressive metal to prog rock, with ≈kerfeldt's clear, clean singing. "I Feel the Dark" marries ≈kerfeldt's classical guitar to piano, flute, a droning Martin Mendez bassline, and double-timed, quietly tense drum kit work. "Slither" sounds like Motˆrhead meeting early-'70s Deep Purple. "Nepenthe" begins as a ballad but shifts toward jazz-rock in the instrumental break before finding its way back to a middle ground with sparse instrumentation and taut dynamics. "Haxprogress" draws real inspiration from King Crimson; Mellotrons and nylon-string guitars give way to ≈kerfeldt's crooning, thundering basslines, and syncopated drums. At eight-and-a-half minutes, "Famine" is the album's most abstract cut, with guest Alex AcuÒa adding Latin percussion to the mix, creating spaciousness in a long intro before giving way to colliding prog rock at the seam where King Crimson's "Larks Tongues in Aspic, Pt. 2" meets Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick." "The Lines in My Hand" is the set's most aggressive cut, with a deeply satisfying guitar crunch. "Folklore," with its myriad instrumental and vocal parts, complex melody, and breakbeats, comes off as an eight-minute suite before closing with another jazz- and folk-inflected instrumental entitled "Marrow of the Earth." 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. ~Thom Jurek

Tracks:

1 Heritage
2 Devil's Orchard
3 I Feel the Dark
4 Slither
5 Nepenthe
6 Haxprocess
7 Famine
8 Lines in My Hand
9 Folklore
10 Marrow of the Earth

Disc 2

1 Heritage
2 Devil's Orchard
3 I Feel the Dark
4 Slither
5 Nepenthe
6 Haxprocess
7 Famine
8 Lines In My Hand
9 Folklore
10 Marrow of the Earth
11 Pyre
12 Face In The Snow


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