{"id":2446282,"date":"2019-07-12T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=858348"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:30:26","slug":"hear-opeths-proggy-new-single-in-both-swedish-and-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-opeths-proggy-new-single-in-both-swedish-and-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Opeth\u2019s Proggy New Single in Both Swedish and English"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swedish prog-rock unit Opeth<\/a> recorded two versions of their upcoming In Cauda Venenum<\/em> album, which they\u2019ll release in each language on September 27th. To build up hype, they\u2019re releasing one song in both languages as a monster, 17-minute YouTube. The Swedish version, \u201cHj\u00e4rtat Vet Vad Handen G\u00f6r,\u201d plays first \u2014 replete with imagery that plays off the album art \u2014 and it\u2019s immediately followed by the English take, \u201cHand in Heart,\u201d starting at the 8:28 mark.<\/p>\n

Against a backdrop of chugging guitars, unpredictable rhythms and ominous melodies, frontman Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt sings about dropping acid and death; the band prefers the Swedish version. In between it all, he and Fredrik \u00c5kesson play sound-blurring guitar solos.<\/p>\n

In a statement, \u00c5kerfeldt said that the track was one of the first he wrote for the album and that he thought it was a natural single. \u201cI guess it\u2019s one of the more straightforward songs on the album, a rather rocking little thing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s got one of the \u2018happy mistakes\u2019 in it, too. [Mart\u00edn] Mendez\u2019s bass broke down in the middle of recording. At the time, he played an old Hofner, Beatles-esue bass guitar that started humming real bad, but it sounded so good we immediately decided to keep it in there. I\u2019d be putting myself down if I said that noise is the best part of the song, but it\u2019s up there. I like when stuff happens out of your control, and it actually adds to the piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the tune is not necessarily representative of the rest of the tracks. \u201cAll the songs on the new album are different from each other and therefore equally representable in my view,\u201d he said. He also said that he no longer defines \u201cheavy\u201d for himself as metal, despite the fact that Opeth formed 30 years ago as a death-metal group. \u201cI can listen to Korn and say, \u2018OK, that\u2019s heavy,\u2019 but it doesn\u2019t really mean anything to me,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an impossible mission, to be the heaviest. \u2026 I\u2019m not trying to tap into that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band will be touring in support of the album, mostly in Europe this summer and fall. Their lone announced U.S. date as of right now is an appearance at the festival Psycho Las Vegas on August 18th.<\/p>\n

In Cauda Venenum<\/em><\/strong> Track List (in Swedish and English)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cLivet\u2019s Tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd\u201d \/ \u201cGarden of Earthly Delights\u201d
2. \u201cSvekets Prins\u201d \/ \u201cDignity\u201d
3. \u201cHj\u00e4rtat Vet Vad Handen G\u00f6r\u201d \/ \u201cHeart in Hand\u201d
4. \u201cDe N\u00e4rmast S\u00f6rjande\u201d \/ \u201cNext of Kin\u201d
5. \u201cMinnets Yta\u201d \/ \u201cLovelorn Crime\u201d
6. \u201cCharlatan\u201d
7. \u201cIngen Sanning \u00c4r Allas\u201d \/ \u201cUniversal Truth\u201d
8. \u201cBanemannen\u201d \/ \u201cThe Garroter\u201d
9. \u201cKontinuerlig Drift\u201d \/ \u201cContinuum\u201d
10. \u201cAllting Tar Slut\u201d \/ \u201cAll Things Will Pass\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swedish prog-rock unit Opeth recorded two versions of their upcoming In Cauda Venenum album, which they\u2019ll release in each language on September 27th. To build up hype, they\u2019re releasing one song in both languages as a monster, 17-minute YouTube. The Swedish version, \u201cHj\u00e4rtat Vet Vad Handen G\u00f6r,\u201d plays first \u2014 replete with imagery that plays […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 12:58:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}