Swedish prog-metallers OPETH have officially announced the complete routing for their upcoming North American tour with KATATONIA. The itinerary is as follows.

September

19 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
20 - Webster Theater - Hartford, CT
21 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
22 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
23 - Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
26 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
27 - Expo Five - Louisville, KY
28 - Cannery Ballroom - Nashville, TN
29 - Amos’ Southend - Charlotte, NC
30 - Center Stage - Atlanta, GA

October

1 - House of Blues - Lake Buena Vista, FL
3 - Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
4 - – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater - Austin, TX
5 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
6 - The Beaumont Club - Kansas City, MO
7 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
8 - Burton Cummings - Winnipeg, MB
10 - Edmonton Events Centre - Edmonton, AB
11 - MacEwan Hall Ballroom - Calgary, AB
13 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
14 - Knitting Factory Concert House - Spokane, WA
15 - Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA
16 - Roseland Theatre - Portland, OR
18 - The Warfield - San Francisco, CA
19 - Mayan Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
20 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
21 - The Fox Theater - Pomona, CA
22 - Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
24 - The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT
25 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
27 - The Rave - Milwaukee, WI
28 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
29 - St. Andrews Hall - Detroit, MI
30 - Guelph Concert Theatre - Guelph, ON
31 - Mr Smalls Theatre - Millvale, PA

November

1 - Rams Head Live! – Baltimore, MD

Opeth's new album Heritage will be released by Roadrunner Records on September 20th. The first single and video from Heritage will be the song 'The Devil’s Orchard'. Heritage follows up 2008’s Watershed and 2005’s Ghost Reveries, each of which garnered the forward-thinking, genre-bending band some of the best reviews of their career.

Opeth frontman and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt weighed in on Heritage, saying, "It will be our 10th album/observation. I dig it; we all do. In fact, it feels like I've been building up to write for and participate on an album like this since I was 19."

Åkerfeldt went a little deeper and described the music contained within Heritage, saying, "It's quite intense at times in some 'old' murky way, and quite beautiful and stark at times, if I may say so myself. It's obvious I'm going to say nice things about it since I wrote basically the whole piece, but I guess it will raise a few eyebrows and it certainly is an acquired taste. I think you'll need a slightly deeper understanding of our music as a whole to be able to appreciate this record. I've realized my influences for this album are so diverse that I can't really say what it sounds like. If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it's different from the stuff we've done before. I've listened a lot to ALICE COOPER for the last year, yet I can't say it sounds like 'No More Mr. Nice Guy'. I hope you'll like it once you hear it."

The album was produced by Åkerfeldt and mixed along with PORCUPINE frontman/guitarist Steven Wilson, who is a labelmate of Opeth. Longtime collaborator Travis Smith also worked with Åkerfeldt to create, design and execute the album’s artwork.

The tracklisting for Heritage is as follows:

'Heritage'

'The Devil's Orchard'

'I Feel the Dark'

'Slither'

'Nepenthe'

'Haxprocess'

'Famine'

'The Lines in My Hand'

'Folklore'

'Marrow of the Earth'

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 bands own official Omerch webstore; and as a double LP. There is something for every Opeth fan, thanks to this expansive variety of options.

As previously reported, a photo has surfaced of Opeth in the studio, mixing the upcoming Heritage album with keyboardist Joakim Svalberg (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, GLENN HUGHES). Although nothing has been announced by the band or Roadrunner Records we have been told that Joakim worked on the album following the departure of Per Wiberg but he has not been made an official member of the band.