Opeth
Sorceress

I have dvd 5.1 version of this album. 5.1 audio is so expensive but it is worth to pay to buy.

An excellent 6-page digipack for 2 discs with an envelope for the booklet in the center, but not with the image on the discs, only with the logo. The sound is great.

“Sorceress” is the twelfth studio album by the Stockholm based Swedish progressive metal band OPETH. Recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and produced by the British sound-engineer Tom Dalgety, it was released on 30 September 2016 via Nuclear Blast Records and the band's own imprint Moderbolaget. The band’s line-up on “Sorceress” is similar to that one working on “Pale Communion” in 2012-2014: Mikael Åkerfeldt (vocals, guitars), Fredrik Åkesson (guitars, backing vocals), Martín Méndez (bass guitar), Martin Axenrot (drums, percussion), and Joakim Svalberg (keyboards, percussion, backing vocals). With “Sorceress” the band further consolidated their transition towards epic melodic Prog-Rock/Metal leaving all Death-Metal influences behind them. The music incorporates the elements of Art-Rock, Folk, Classic Rock, and even World-Fusion melting together both electric and acoustic sounds. The tracks showcase plaintive piano or acoustic guitar prologues, complex compositional developments, intricate dynamic shifts, lush string arrangements, strong riffs, solid groves, and gorgeous organ-guitars duels. There are no metallic fury or death growls even at the most bombastic and savage sections of the songs. Åkerfeldt uses only clean melodic singing throughout the album or even soft-spoken voicing over mellower passages. As well as the progressive character of the songs unfolds primarily via his intelligent songwriting. Yes, OPETH are becoming less and less Metal, more discreet and elegant melodically. It’s not a problem at all. However, I have to admit that the band is somehow wasting its individuality as the nostalgic nods to the Giants of the 70’s Prog-Rock became too obvious. Limited edition of the album comes as a double-disc set: “Sorceress” itself (11 tracks, 57 minutes) and a bonus disc (34 minutes) which contains 2 non-album tracks and 3 live tracks recorded on September 19th, 2015 at The Ancient Roman Amphitheater, Plovdiv, Bulgaria with The Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s quite a worthy addition to the studio album, I have to say.

This new album for Opeth is probably their best album - the price is great for 2cd - recommended

The atmosphere in this album is claustrophobic and Opeth continue their adventures in the progressive rock world with little hints of their metal past!