OPETH - Watershed Enters UK Charts
June 8, 2008, 16 years ago
OPETH's new album Watershed has entered the UK's BBC Radio 1 charts at #34. Other first week chart entries are as follows:
Australia - #7
Holland - #14
Japan - #15
Watershed is out now as a Regular Edition CD and Collector's Edition two-disc CD/DVD and Limited Edition 180-gram Vinyl.
Watershed tracklisting: 'Coil', 'Heir Apparent', 'The Lotus Eater', 'Burden', 'Porcelain Heart', 'Hessian Peel', 'Hex Omega'.
The Collector's Edition 2-disc CD/DVD set includes three bonus tracks - 'Bridge Of Sighs' from ROBIN TROWER's 1974 album of the same title, 'Den Ständiga Resan' (sung in Swedish) by Marie Fredriksson as well as the classic ALICE IN CHAINS song, 'Would?' - 5.1 audio mix of the entire album, extensive video content, and expanded artwork.
Limited Edition 180-Gram Double LP Set includes bonus track, exclusive poster and expanded artwork and more.
“I do wear my influences on my sleeve,” leader Mikael Akerfeldt told BW&BK; recently. “So some of the references on this album might be quite easy to pick up. I have progressive rock to thank for a lot of things. We found our style as a band pretty early on, and maybe we’re not pioneers or whatever, but it really helped us to develop songs and our own identity. Putting something like ‘Coil’ first on an album, our fans will just accept it. It’s a great position to be in. I don’t even see us as just metal musicians anymore. We’re musicians, and that’s it. I was speaking to Steve Wilson from PORCUPINE TREE recently, and he said, ‘I think this is your masterpiece! You’re not really a metal band anymore, you’re just Opeth!’ and I love that.”Watch for a major cover feature on Opeth to appear in BW&BK; #111 - out this month!
Opeth - 'Porcelain Heart':
