OPETH

More than three decades into their career, Opeth have trained their admirers to expect the
unexpected. But even by their own standards, the Swedish progressive titans have conjured
something extraordinary this time around. The band’s 14th studio exploration, The Last Will
& Testament, is the darkest and heaviest record they have made in decades, it is also the
most fearlessly progressive. A concept album recounting the reading of one recently
deceased man’s will to an audience of his surviving family members, it brims with haunting
melodrama, shocking revelations and some of the wildest and most unpredictable music
that songwriter/frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has ever written.