The 14th album from this band from Sweden.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute and vocals.
Three guests provided spoken words. Ian Anderson was one of this trio.
Opeth is one of the best bands in both the prog and the metal scene these days. It is a band who are a crossover between extreme metal, progressive metal and symphonic prog. Every new album from them is received with intense interest from these two scenes.
The music on this fifty minutes long album sounds like a rock opera... which it probably is. Not only that.. the music has a lot in common with the heavy, meaty Wagner operas. There is a lot of Wagnerian over the music here.
The mix of growls, operatic and clean vocals also adds a lot of Wagner operas to this album.
The music is both heavy, muscular, epic and very complex. Hence the opera connotations.
The musicianship is top notch. There are some very good guitar solos here too. The vocals too is superb.
The music is not immediate and does not feel great after the first ten listening sessions. But it really grows on the listener and I get the feeling that this album will, when the dust has settled and people has become used to it, be regarded as one of the great Opeth albums.
It is indeed a great album and one of the best albums from last year, 2024.
4 points
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