Opeth
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Ask any Opeth fan, enquire with any band that’s shared the proverbial pine with the Swedes, or get a label representative to talk Opeth – they’ll all tell you the same thing: Opeth are peerless. And they’re only getting better.
There are few bands that can or will match Sweden’s Opeth. Since forming in 1990, the band have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and, most importantly, crafted fourteen stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to become one of the best bands on the planet; whether that be live or on record.
Certainly, every Opeth record has had diversity. In 1995, Orchid reset the rules of death metal. Six years later, Blackwater Park hit the high note for musicality in a genre generally devoid of it. Damnation, in 2003, was the work of a band determined to upend the norm. Five years after that, Watershed closed Opeth’s chapter on death metal by visiting its darkest corners and holding its native brutality aloft.
In 2014, Pale Communion officially bridged the progressive music gap by twisting the intrepid sounds of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s into contemporary brilliance. 2016’s Sorceress is an unparalleled adventure, where visions cleverly and secretly change, colours mute as if weathered by time, and sounds challenge profoundly. In Cauda Venenum (2019) is tricky in its complicated simplicity, resourceful in its ability to charm with delightful if wistful melodies. Really, it’s just Opeth being Opeth.
More than three decades into their career, Opeth have trained their admirers to expect the unexpected. Their fourteenth studio album, The Last Will & Testament, is the darkest and heaviest record they have made in decades, and also the most fearlessly progressive. A concept album recounting the reading of one recently deceased man’s will to an audience of his surviving family members, it brims with haunting melodrama, shocking revelations and some of the most unpredictable music that songwriter and frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has ever written.
Opeth have built a catalogue defined by evolution, intent and a refusal to follow expectation. After more than thirty years, they remain one of the most distinctive and respected bands in heavy music.
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