{"product_id":"heritage","title":"HERITAGE |","description":"\u003cp\u003ePersonnel: 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); Mart?n Mendez (upright bass, electric bass); Martin Axenrot (drums, percussion).\n\u003cbr\u003eAudio Mixers: Steven Wilson; Mikael ?kerfeldt.\n\u003cbr\u003eRecording 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).\n\u003cbr\u003ePhotographer: Sandra Artigas.\n\u003cbr\u003eHeritage, 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 Mot?rhead 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 early 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 Acu?a 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 sometimes blurry focus, is a brave album. It opens the door for Opeth to pursue many new directions and reinvent themselves as a band. ~Thom Jurek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2011-09-20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Love Vinyl Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49260498059506,"sku":"YF5X1S-GHYW-VB","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/opeth-heritage_YZAAs.jpg?v=1779723512","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/heritage","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}