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Sep 29, 2011Heritage isn't the type of record to blow away one's mind upon first listen; it takes time to grow in its complexities.
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Sep 20, 2011Heritage has some strong predecessors to live up to. But it will surely be seen as one of their most accomplished works in years to come.
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Sep 20, 2011The Swedes' 10th album, Heritage, is a brave, melancholic and often beautiful heavy rock record that revels in the warm, analogue tones and shimmering mellotrons of the pre-punk 70s while still exuding a sense of wonder at new ideas.
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Sep 19, 2011Heritage, for its many excesses--and stellar conception and execution--is a brave album. It opens the door for Opeth to pursue many new directions and reinvent themselves as a band.
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Sep 19, 2011Heritage is an infinitely more audacious beast, full of jazzy noodling, serpentine guitar leads, folky introspection and general acid-drenched freakiness.
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Oct 11, 2011While the album is often indulgent, this isn't necessarily a downfall.
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Oct 5, 2011Frontman Mikael Akerfeldt's material is sunnier than usual, but still has room for synapse-stimulating musicianship.
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Sep 28, 2011They exhibit unexpected energy and rhythm.
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Sep 27, 2011It's a pretty, well-thought out collection--but for all the ideas and layers, Heritage feels somewhat empty.
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Kerrang!Sep 29, 2011It's an album that succeeds on its own terms but if it really does mark the effective end of Opeth as a metal band, that will remain our loss. [Sept 17 2011, p.50]
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UncutSep 23, 2011On Heritage, [they're] jettisoning practically all trace of heavy whatsoever. [Oct 2011, p.86
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Q MagazineSep 21, 2011Drifting, dreamy and at times, driving, it's further proof of the Swede's eclecticism. [Oct 2011, p.120]
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Sep 20, 2011There is really nothing bad about what Opeth have presented us here, but after ten full lengths they're starting to develop a moderate case of Dream Theater syndrome, although obviously less self-indulgent.
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Sep 20, 2011Akerfeldt should be praised for breaking free of an often repetitive genre--there's nothing wrong with radical reinvention. But this departure didn't need to be quite so lacklustre.
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Jan 5, 2012The record's ADD can be felt with every unbridged leap between ideas to its shocking lack of transitions, and the whole time there is this pervading sense that Heritage doesn't really have anything to say at all.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 46
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Mixed: 7 out of 46
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Negative: 2 out of 46
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