Metalsucks — Few albums this year are as likely to cause internet flame wars as Opeth’s Heritage. People have been freaking out for months about the fact that there’s no screaming on it; I suspect they’ll freak out even more when they hear the actual music.... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Opeth's Heritage is an unending swirl of riffs and swinging, aerobic percussion. Opeth abandons death-metal growls and riffage for '70s hard rock and clean vocals on its 10th LP. Read more » more info

Metal Injection — "If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it's different from the stuff we've done before. I've listened a lot to Alice Cooper for the last year, yet I can't say it sounds like No More Mr. Nice Guy. I ... more info

Metal Injection — I'm loving what I've heard so far of the new Opeth record. Between the above track and hearing "The Devil's Orchard", this new proggy all-clean vocals stuff is really winning me over. I thought I'd be bothered by the lack of guttu... more info

Metalsucks — September 27th might be the grandaddy of all metal release days of 2011, but there’s one big release coming out exactly a week before, too. It’s the album that metalsphere pundits are calling “not metal.” The album that Mikael Akerfeldt says... more info

Metalsucks — Horns up for reader Kimberly De Simone. She correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Introrectalgestation. For her efforts, Kimberly wins  a copy of the CD booklet for Opeth’s Watershed that has been signed by the enti... more info

Metalsucks — I may not be a huge Puscifer fan, but nothing is going to top this this year. Not even Opeth’s heads in a tree. Conditions of My Parole is out October 18. -AR [via The PRP, who think it may be the best album art of the decade] more info

Metalsucks — Congrats to reader Peter Eisenberg. He correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Aposepsy, and for his troubles, he wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion archives. Enjoy ‘em, Pete! This week we have a really super awesome... more info

Stereogum — Swedish progressive metal stalwarts Opeth’s 10th album Heritage — which follows 2008′s Watershed and 2005′s Ghost Reveries — is their strangest, most genre-melding to date. For starters it includes guest spots from Swedish flautist/composer... more info

Metal Injection — UPDATE: Here is a working link I am not sure if you can sense my excitement with the title, but today we get our first taste of what the new Opeth album will sound like. One kind soul has ripped "The Devil's Orchard" off the radio and posted it ... more info