OPETH

Release Year: 2017
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: mystical dreamy progressive death metal

classic fourth album [1999] by grand masters of evocative gloom marks the significant shift from dark melancholic death metal with blackened overtones practiced up until this moment to something more personal, fragile, subtle and unique, re-inventing and introducing anew the epic progressive side of the band, refining a magical fusion of atmospheric interludes juxtaposed to slash'n'burn intense and complex metal roots - with a few of seven intricate compositions reaching ten minute mark, this grandiloquent opus sounds like musical reading of a book, where Face of Melinda invokes reactions in exceptionally haunting way; recent British edition comes with a remastered sound