{"id":11910,"date":"2016-12-08T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:31:56","slug":"album-mini-review-opeth-sorceress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/album-mini-review-opeth-sorceress\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Opeth &#8212; Sorceress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/opeth_sorceress.jpg\" alt=\"opeth_sorceress\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/opeth_sorceress.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/opeth_sorceress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01IR89228&#038;asins=B01IR89228&#038;linkId=4f7cf78995847ac93eafedf081986c0b&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <b>Porcupine Tree<\/b>, Metallica<\/p>\n<p>On their 12<sup>th<\/sup> studio album, Swedish group Opeth continues its move away from its death metal origins. Fans who cherish <b>Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt<\/b>&#8216;s Cookie-Monster-from-Hell vocal growling will be disappointed, but their loss is everyone else&#8217;s gain. In fact Opeth has been on this path for years now; their current sound maintains the uber-heavy riffage of old, but contextualizes it amid melodic minor-key excursions. Tracks like \u201cThe Wilde Flowers\u201d \u2013 the song title is a nod to the late &#8217;60s Canterbury scene \u2013 have it both ways, with organ runs that channels early &#8217;70s <b>Deep Purple<\/b>, and a central melody worth of <b>Metallica<\/b> at its best. Spanish guitars, Mellotron and vocal harmonies abound on <em>Sorceress<\/em>, offering up bone-crushing power and nuance in equal doses. It might not please aficionados of black metal, but with <i>Sorceress<\/i>, Opeth has crafted a work that rivals their very best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Porcupine Tree, Metallica On their 12th studio album, Swedish group Opeth continues its move away from its death metal origins. Fans who cherish Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt&#8216;s Cookie-Monster-from-Hell vocal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,49,62,65],"tags":[1623],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metal","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-opeth","cat-46-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11911,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/11911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}