Another new track "Eternal Rains Will Come."
5/27/14 8:08PM-11:52PM
apparently this is real. Even more of a departure from Heritage?
edit: PULLED not surprised. I'm sure another link or 2 will surface (of course the RR reps will try and report those, and eventually give up if enough of them are put up, and not necessarily on YouTube).
edit 2: back, even with the low bitrate. A link on Reddit has a link with a much better sounding rip, but for those looking, use Google.
Preorders available Tuesday June 3rd
Sorry for lack of updates. This album has been pushed back until August 26th (I know it's old news, but still worth including with the artwork and news now).
5/27/14 8:00PM
June 17th, 1st single May 6th. Steven Wilson is mixing (and singing some harmonies).
edit: From Steven Wilson on FB
For the first part of the year I’ve been doing a lot of mixing work for other artists, something I always find very inspiring.
The new Opeth album Pale Communion was mixed into stereo and 5.1 at my studio in February. I also sang harmony vocals. It’s by no stretch of the imagination a metal record but it’s still plenty heavy and a great piece of work - for me the epic orchestrated ballad “Faith in Others” that closes the album is Mikael Åkerfeldt's finest achievement to date. Pale Communion is released by Roadrunner Records on 17th June. It’s also the first Opeth album to be recorded and mixed in higher resolution 96/24. I hope Roadrunner will release a high res format, but I don't know their plans on that.
At the start of the year I mixed the new solo album by my long term friend and collaborator Tim Bowness. Abandoned Dancehall Dreams mainly consists of songs Tim wrote with a no-man record in mind, and was recorded with members of the touring band, so the material definitely has that DNA. The album is released by Inside Out Music on 23rd June.
Other mixes I have done recently are 4 songs on the forthcoming ANATHEMA - official band page album Distant Satellites, released by Kscope on 9th June, and one song on John Wesley’s fantastic new album Disconnect, which was just released by InsideOut.
From here on I'm focusing on writing more material for my next album, which I plan to record with my band in the Summer. More news soon…
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/opeth-pale-communion-20140408
Opeth has announced the release of their hugely anticipated eleventh studio album. Pale Communion arrives everywhere June 17.
Pale Communion, which was produced by bandleader Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed by longtime collaborator and Porcupine Tree frontman/guitarist Steven Wilson, will be heralded by the lead single, “Cusp of Eternity,” and available for pre-order starting Tuesday, May 6. Pre-orders made via the iTunes Store will receive an instant download of “Cusp of Eternity,” with multiple configurations also available via both the Roadrunner Records Webstore and O Merch.
The new material finds Opeth once again challenging the boundaries of extreme music. In a recent interview with VICE’s Noisey, Åkerfeldt stated, “I wanted to do something more melodic with this album…there’s stronger vocal melodies and more melodies overall…I was pretty consistent with that frame of mind throughout the writing process.” Recently, Metal Injection’s Greg Kennelty broke down Pale Communion in a track-by-track review, exclaiming, “This record knows exactly what it's doing and nails it through and through…one of my favorite records of 2014. If not my favorite record of 2014.”
The track listing for Pale Communion is as follows:
1. Eternal Rains Will Come
2. Cusp of Eternity
3. Moon Above, Sun Below
4. Elysian Woes
5. Goblin
6. River
7. Voice of Treason
8. Faith in Others
Previously posted info about it