Opeth orchid album artwork5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Stylistically the material on "In Cauda Venenum" is in the heavy progressive rock style with folk leanings that Opeth have played since "Heritage" (2011). The instrumental part of the music is the same on all releases/versions, only the lyrics and the language are different. One double album version featuring the album in a Swedish language version and an English language version (on two discs), and two seperate one-album versions featuring the Swedish language version and the English language version. "In Cauda Venenum" was released in three different versions. It´s the successor to "Sorceress" from September 2016 and features the exact same quintet lineup who recorded the predecessor. The album was released through Moderbolaget Records in September 2019. "In Cauda Venenum" is the 13th full-length studio album by Swedish progressive rock/metal actOpeth. And if you've convinced yourself that Opeth can't do justice to their metal side any more, just listen to the furious version of Deliverance that rounds out this exceptional set. Several of the songs here are Opeth live standards - indeed, if you have The Roundhouse Tapes you have renditions of several of these from about a decade earlier - but there's enough tracks which haven't seen the light of day on an official Opeth live release to ensure it doesn't feel redundant. The set list mixes their gentler progressive rock material with more progressive metal-oriented pieces in a setlist which seamlessly blends both sides of their sound, and so the album stands as evidence that if Opeth have stopped making metal albums, it's not because they are no longer able or willing to play metal - they're just working on a different aspect of their portfolio for the time being. Garden of the Titans captures a live set from Opeth which, coming after the release of Sorceress, follows a string of albums (beginning with Heritage) where they had more or less abandoned metal entirely.
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