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CD/DVD Releases: Opeth ''Heritage'' Special-Edition CD+DVD Including Exclusive Coin

Posted on Sunday, July 24 @ 00:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Speaking of special editions - which is was in the Dream Theater item posted at the same time as this, Swedish progressive metallers Opeth will release their new album, Heritage, on September 20 (one day earlier internationally) via Roadrunner Records. The CD was produced by the band's mainman, Mikael Åkerfeldt, and was recorded earlier this year at Atlantis studios (formerly Metronome studios) in Stockholm. Mixing duties were handled by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Åkerfeldt. Longtime collaborator Travis Smith also worked with Åkerfeldt to create, design and execute the album's artwork, which can be seen at left.

Play.com has listed a pre-order deal for Heritage that is not to be missed! The special edition includes a 5.1 mix of the album and making-of documentary, including a download card with two bonus tracks: "Pyre" and "Face In The Snow." The package also includes an Opeth coin, which can be seen in the picture at right.

To pre-order your copy of the special edition or the standard version of the album, visit Play.com.

Heritage will be released in several configurations that will certainly incite the interest of Opeth's legion of fans, known for their passion for collecting and collectibles. [*] The album will be released as a standard version; as a special edition loaded with extras; as a box set exclusive to the Roadrunner and the band's own official Omerch webstore; and as a double LP. [The planned injectable tracking microchip version was discarded due to the risk of infection at the injection site... ;-) -ed.]

In a recent interview with Radio Metal, Åkerfeldt stated about Heritage, "I never heard music like that, so I can't compare it to other bands. If you want to compare it to another band, it has to be us. But still, it's different. For me, it kind of makes sense, because I've been doing this for such a long time. So it's not a massive departure for me and for the guys in the band. But for fans, if they are, for example, into My Arms, Your Hearse [Opeth's third album, released in 1998], it might be a bit different. But I'm hoping that a lot of people are ready for this type of album from us. The music is all over the place. It's hard to define the album and say it sound like this or like that. There are no songs that represent more the album than any other songs. It's an album as whole. You can't listen to only one song and you'll know what the album is going to be like. Because, like I said, it's all over the place."

The Dutch site FaceCulture recently shot a lengthy video interview with Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, which can be seen in five parts below. Sayeth Roadrunner, Opeth's new album Heritage will be out September 20; without giving too much away, it presents a whole new vision of Opeth as a band. There are songs on Heritage that sound like nothing the group has ever done before.

Find the 5-part interview here

* if you read the comments at Blabbermouth.net's site attached to this news item, you'll find that the fans are more concerned with whether the music is good, not what comes with the release. Some of them reveal that the terms incite and passion are correct -ed.

[Source: Blabbermouth.net, Roadrunner Records]

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