Opeth Premieres Title Track From Upcoming New Album "Sorceress"
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Opeth premieres the title track from the its upcoming new album "Sorceress", which will be out in stores September 30th via the band’s own Nuclear Blast Entertainment imprint label, Moderbolaget Records.
Check it out below, courtesy of Rollingstone.com.
For "Sorceress," Opeth returned to Rockfield Studios in Wales, also home to pivotal releases from Queen, Rush and Judas Priest, where the Swedes had tracked "Pale Communion" in 2014 with Tom Dalgety. The band spent 12 days recording at the countryside venue among its serene and inspiring surroundings. The album's track listing is:
1. Persephone
2. Sorceress
3. The Wilde Flowers
4. Will O The Wisp
5. Chrysalis
6. Sorceress 2
7. The Seventh Sojourn
8. Strange Brew
9. A Fleeting Glance
10. Era
11. Persephone (Slight Return)
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11 Comments on "Opeth Premieres Title Track From Upcoming New CD"
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2. writes:
I would actually argue the exact opposite - the previous two albums were stagnant rehashes of a 40 year old sound in a very regressive (rather than progressive) way that exhibited nothing even close to evolution.
While this track doesn't grab me like "My Arms Your Hearse" or "Watershed," its at least different from the previous two releases and has some semblance of heaviness added in with the guitars, so its at least a step in some direction instead of standing still in the 70's rock lane (except for that ending 10 seconds though - that's some straight up rehash rip off there).
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4. writes:
Holy crap, it's DB!
I like this track better than much of the past two albums, but the classic rock tones of the guitars and drums still irk me. If the guitar sound was a little thicker (maybe Deliverance guitar tone) and the drums were brighter sounding, this song wouldn't sound so dated. Imagine how the main riff would obliterate if the guitars distortion didn't sound so thin.
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5. writes:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. As per DJ's comment, the guitars sound like they are deliberately castrated just for the sake of it. You can almost hear the riffs screaming to be cranked up.
It's like Opeth is fighting themselves every step of the way. The music itself it written to be heavy, but because they are trying to take some kind of weird stance, they ignore that fact and instead of writing music to suit their intended direction, they keep on keepin' on, logic be damned.
Come on Opeth. If you want to write heavy music, make it heavy! I get that people like their new direction, and I don't fault them for it, but to me it just comes across as awkward.
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8. writes:
My two cents: I liked this track more than anything they did on the last two albums. Sounds quite a bit more stoner rocky but more interesting to me that the retro prog. The chorusy bit in there and the stop/start acoustic breaks were pleasingly familiar. It'll do.
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1. Mr. Chicken writes:
I dug it, although unlike some fans I really got into the last album / love their prog stuff on top of the classic guttural vocals. If I had to guess, this will get people stuck on their first few albums to say something like "Opeth is dead to me for making another album like this" since, you know, bands / artists can't evolve and need to rehash things for as long as possible.