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Heritage (Special Edition)

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Opeth’s 10th studio album plays like an equal tribute to early Yes recordings and the band’s keyboardist Per Wiberg, who left the Swedish metal band following its recording. Heritage marks a final shift from Opeth’s death metal trappings as it fully embraces progressive metal. Wiberg’s unaccompanied grand piano introduces the opening title track with a melancholy solo before the band joins in on “The Devil’s Orchard”. He switches from piano to Hammond B-3 organ and an eerie-sounding Mellotron as singer Mikael Åkerfeldt abandons his death growls for melodic inflections. The song’s instrumental interlude feeds from the roots of prog rock with clever time signatures and vintage instruments recalling early-’70s recordings by the late, great Bo Hansson. British folk–inspired acoustic arpeggios dance around “I Feel the Dark”, with Mellotron woodwinds lending an authentically classic sound. Fans of early Hawkwind and Deep Purple will warm to the familiar tones of “Slither”, while “Famine” plays like a Latin–tinged King Crimson. Both “Pyre” and “Face in the Snow” make for impressive bonus tracks.

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Heritage

A brilliant album, lack of growls but more than made up for sheer musical genius!!!!!

Excellent

This is a must for any Opeth fan, but the fact there are no death growls and that it is a much softer album than their previous works, may put off some people. They have certainly progressed and changed their sound a fair bit, wether for good or bad, that is just preference. But for me, this is a very good album, and a must for fans of Opeth, although, if you haven't ever heard them before, i would buy one of their previous albums to get into them; Blackwater park, still life, watershed and ghost reveries are all good starting points.
Enjoy! (:

Like Damnation With Heavier Guitars

This album is Opeth taking a new direction- something that a lot of bands do during their careers. This album takes the focus away from the "Death Metal" from the "Progessive Death Metal" aspect of their genre, and focuses on the progressive side of things. You can tell this album has been heavily influenced by 70's prorg rock, but sticks to the familiar Opeth sound of the flowing acoustic dwindles and instantly recognisable vocals of Mikael Åkerfeldt. There is no denying that the musicianship on this album is superb and it still sounds like Opeth.
However, this album is toned down from previous resleases and is more comparable to "Damnation", but couldn't be more different to Damnation. The only real similarity is that these songs are more acoustic based, and without Åkerfeldt's death growl vocal style. This is due to the influence of this album's genre. The album does contain some heavy guitar based moments, but these do not signify the general sound of the record.
You may question as to why I have only rated this album 4/5 stars. This is because this album wasn't what I was looking for in a new Opeth album, but it is still a very good record due to the songwriting ability the band has and because of the the outstanding production on the album, which makes it sound quite retro, yet modern at the same time.
This album is one for the Opeth fans, but does not capture Opeth's signature "sound" as this album is definitely an experiemental album for Opeth, but is an Opeth album nonetheless.
Buy it if you like Opeth. Buy it if you like classic progressive rock. Hell, buy it anyway.

Biography

Formed: 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Brought together in Stockholm by guitarists Peter Lindgren and Mikael Åkerfeldt in 1990, Opeth added progressive influences and acoustic instrumentation to their brand of Swedish death metal. As the group progressed, it was very common for an Opeth live set to fly in several different musical directions — and an average song lasted no less than ten minutes. Impressed by their originality, Candlelight Records released their debut full-length in 1995, which was titled Orchid, and featured a rhythm...
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  • £8.99
  • Genres: Rock, Music
  • Released: 14 September 2011
  • ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V.

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