OPETH - New Album Teaser Or 2013 North American Tour?

December 21, 2012, 11 years ago

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Roadrunner Records has posted a 30-second teaser where OPETH's logo is seen landing on North America. Is it a possible tour or a teaser for follow-up to their 2011 studio album, Heritage? Stay tuned for updates and check out the teaser below:

Heritage entered the US Billboard charts at #19 upon it's release, the band's highest chart position ever in the US.

The album also achieved the following first week chart positions around the world: Denmark - #8, Norway - #8, Germany - #9, Netherlands - #10, Australia - #12, Austria - #16, US - #20, UK - #22, Canada - #23, France - #24, New Zealand - #26, Ireland - #34, Belgium - #87.

The video for the Heritage album track, 'The Devil's Orchard', can be seen below:

Opeth guitarists, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, were interviewed by Marshall on the first date of their recent UK tour. They talk about the amps they use onstage, and walk you through their live rigs. Watch below:

Roadrunner recently issued a new interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt. A couple of excerpts follow:

Q: You’ve been touring behind Heritage for over a year now, so in your mind, which of these songs will still be in the set list three or four years from now?

A: "Well, 'Devil’s Orchard' is the single, so to speak - it doesn’t mean much in the metal world to put out a single, but we still love playing that song and getting a good reaction. We played 'Famine' for the first time on this tour, which I also love playing; it’s really spooky, so that might be in the set, who knows? But generally I think we’re gonna revolve songs from this album in the future, just like we do with other records. But I think 'Devil’s Orchard' is definitely gonna be in the set more often than not."

Q: As the music moves in a more progressive direction, and away from metal, can you ever see Opeth becoming a band that “jams” onstage?

A: "Hard time seeing that happening, to be honest [laughs]. I’m not a really big fan of jams. I remember going to see the BLACK CROWES play, which I liked their album that they had out at the time, Amorica, with the lady’s crotch on the cover. And they were just jamming, and they didn’t really play any songs off their record, and they seemed really fucked up on whatever they were taking at the time, and I thought it was not… it wasn’t for me. Besides, I’m not a good jamming guitar player, and I can’t stand around singing “Ooh baby” all the time [laughs], so I can’t really see that happening. We’re more song-based, and we’ve always been, so I think that’s what we’re gonna try and do in the future. Even though I love progressive music and ’70s music, and obviously many of those bands’ shows were based on jams, I don’t think that’s going to happen for Opeth, to be honest."

Read the full interview here.


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