Artist: OPETH
Album: SORCERESS RED VINYL (2LP)

Release date: 2016
Media type: LP

OPETH’s new album, »Sorceress«, their first for Nuclear Blast via the band’s imprint label Moderbolaget Records, is proof chief architect Mikael Akerfeldt has a near-endless well of greatness inside. From the album’s opener ‘Persephone’ to ‘The Wilde Flowers’ and ‘Strange Brew’ to the album’s counterpart title tracks ‘Sorceress’ and ‘Sorceress 2’, 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. »Sorceress« is, by definition, moored in Akerfeldt’s impressive record collection—his one true vice—but, as always, there’s more invention than appropriation at play.


Side A:

01. Persephone
02. Sorceress
03. The Wilde Flowers
04. Will O The Wisp

Side B:

01. Chrysalis
02. Sorceress 2
03. The Seventh Sojourn

Side C:

01. Strange Brew
02. A Fleeting Glance
03. Era
04. Persephone (Slight Return)

Side D (bonus):

01. The Ward
02. Spring MCMLXXIV


LINE-UP:

Mikael Akerfeldt | vocals, guitars
Fredrik Akesson | guitars
Martin Mendez | bass
Martin Axenrot | drums
Joakim Svalberg | keys