’s catalog, which arrived Sept. 27 . He’s not sweating the superstition related to the number, but he does admit while we converse during the late-summer evening to feeling apprehensive about the group’s latest aural change-up., it has traversed a path that began in the realms of black and death metal; meandered through folk, classic rock and psychedelic territories; and now comfortably resides at a crossroads where they all intersect.
Akerfeldt says the rest of Opeth was unconcerned when he told them about the idea. It was only after they heard a few demos that they realized they were recorded in Swedish, too. “That was one of my concerns: whether it’s going to stick out or not. Because I really didn’t want it to stick out,” he says. “I just wanted it to be like business as usual, only that it’s a different language.” .
What an Opeth album does or does not do is a debate that Akerfeldt is well aware of, and it’s discussion propelled by the band’s musical evolution. With 2011’s ultra-progressive, he heard how people questioned if Opeth was still metal.
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