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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Swedish metal band Opeth is its album with new drummer Waltteri Väyrynen.
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- Record Label: Reigning Phoenix
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, Death Metal
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Nov 25, 2024Last Will and Testament is a stunning recalibration by a group that, by incorporating new musical and sonic ingredients for the last decade and a half, has made their palette even richer. With the extreme metal side back alongside their unquenchable thirst for all things 1970s progressive rock, this is a new high-water mark for one of metal’s most acclaimed and beloved bands.
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Nov 22, 2024[The] Last Will and Testament is among Opeth's most adventurous and sophisticated outings. Like a cross between Watershed and In Cauda Venenum, it's heavier and more adventurous than either while bringing the band's past, present, and future under a single creative umbrella.
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Nov 22, 2024What’s apparent immediately is that it’s a tremendous album, up there with turn-of-themillennium Opeth high-water marks Still Life and Blackwater Park. [Oct 2024, p.70]
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The WireNov 22, 2024Mikael Åkerfeldt’s death growls are back, as are the intricate sextuplet grooves familiar from Ghost Reveries – but the style is also restlessly omnivorous, deftly changeable between moments of brutal death metal, bucolic folk, orchestral segues, power balladry and the head-spinning melodic complexity of 1970s progressive rock. Recently recruited drummer Waltteri Väyrynen shines throughout. [Nov 2024, p.55]
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Nov 22, 2024Opeth’s most cohesive and impactful album since Ghost Reveries. That one will be hard to surpass, and Last Will isn’t quite there, though it’s easily in the upper tier of Opeth releases.
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Nov 22, 2024Opeth have broken new ground, entered fresh realms both oppressive and melodic – but their rapier-like determination to be different may be too much for some.
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Nov 26, 2024The Last Will and Testament is slickly produced, conceptually sound and stronger in its first half. Unfortunately, it lacks an overall aesthetic that would see this record reach the accolades of Blackwater Park, Watershed or even Heritage while dabbling in those clear elements.