| CD REVIEW Opeth |
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Band : Opeth Opeth, the band with singer/guitar player Mikael Åkerfeldt calling all the shots is something different from all you’ve heard before. World wide the band is hailed for their subtle approach on things. The roots of Opeth are knee deep in Swedish death metal but today they take a different path. On Heritage there’s not one single death grunt. It looks like grunting and being heavy is something Åkerfeldt preserves for his project called Bloodbath. On Heritage he surprises us but than again this was what lot of people expected him tot do. The overall sounds takes you back to the seventies and hold a lot of folk influences combined with the finest of finest prog rock elements. You will like this very much or be bored to death by it. There’s no way around that. It goes without ay saying that Åkerfeldt is a musical genius. He know what he wants and gets away with it time and time again. It would be pretty unfair to label this as bad music because it’s not. But just like me I’m sure their will be lots of people that find this not as interesting as much of the other releases out their at this moment. The new music is pretty complicated and a lot of time to arty farty. When jazz comes around in a song like "Nepenthe" I completely get lost. I do understand that some people will be in heaven when hey here this. It also shows the big confidence Åkerfeldt has. He’s a great guy, has a good eye for detail, even the album cover if full of symbolism, but I’m gonna pass at this one. 70/100 Stef Maes. |