![]() The only thing I was thinking about with this record was to write that songs didn’t musically connect. The thoughts behind this record developed as I was writing. This record, like the last record, didn’t take long to write. “This time around I didn’t think about what I wanted to do,” Åkerfeldt reveals. Sorceress is, by definition, moored in Åkerfeldt’s impressive record collection-his one true vice-but, as always, there’s more invention than appropriation at play. From the album’s opener “Persephone” to “The Wilde Flowers” and “Strange Brew” to the album’s counterpart title tracks “Sorceress” and “Sorceress II”, Opeth’s twelfth full-length is an unparalleled adventure, where visions cleverly and secretly change, colours mute as if weathered by time, and sounds challenge profoundly. ![]() Opeth’s new album, Sorceress, their first for Nuclear Blast via the band’s imprint label Moderbolaget Records, is proof chief architect Mikael Åkerfeldt has a near-endless well of greatness inside. They’ll all tell you the same thing: Opeth are peerless. Or, get a label representative to talk Opeth. Enquire with any band that’s shared the proverbial pine with the Swedes. ![]() Since forming in the tiny Stockholm suburb of Bandhagen in 1990, the Swedes have eclipsed convention, defiantly crushed the odds, and, most importantly, crafted 12 stunningly beautiful, intrinsically intense albums to become one of the best bands on the planet whether that be live or on record . There are few bands that can or will match Sweden’s Opeth. ![]()
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