In Cauda Venenum
by Opeth
- Type: Album
- Released: 27 September 2019
- Label: Nuclear Blast
- Country: Sweden
- Length: 1:08:02
- Community rating: 3.83/5 from 14 ratings
Artists on this release: Joakim Svalberg, Fredrik 脜kesson, Martin Axenrot, Mart铆n M茅ndez
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'In Cauda Venenum', Opeth fully embraces their progressive rock inclinations, delivering one of their most immersive and richly textured albums. Uniquely, the album was recorded in both Swedish and English versions, allowing listeners to choose their preferred lyrical experience. The music is a complex tapestry of beautiful acoustic passages, intricate rhythms, soaring vocal melodies, and heavy, powerful riffs, eschewing the death metal elements of their past for a sound deeply rooted in 70s progressive rock.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, complex, atmospheric, progressive, long-form
Tracklist
- Garden of Earthly Delights (3:29)
- Dignity (6:36)
- Heart in Hand (8:30)
- Next of Kin (7:10)
- Lovelorn Crime (6:34)
- Charlatan - English Version (5:29)
- Universal Truth (7:30)
- The Garroter (6:45)
- Continuum (7:22)
- All Things Will Pass (8:35)
Credits
- Opeth - primary artist, engineer, co-producer, mixed by [with]
- Dave Stewart - arranged by [strings], producer [strings produced by], recorded by [strings]
- Mikael 脜kerfeldt - artwork [with], design [with], lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, mastered by [with], mixed by, music by, lyrics by, producer, written-by [strings written by]
- Travis Smith - artwork, design
- Mart铆n M茅ndez - bass guitar
- Tim Borror - booking [north america for sound talent group]
- Sound Talent Group - booking [north america for]
- Tobbe Lorentz - booking [world ex north america for united talent agency]
- United Talent Agency - booking [world ex north america for]
- Jasper Schuurmans - coordinator [project coordinated by], management [assisted by]
- Martin Axenrot - drums, percussion
- Stefan Boman - effects, engineer, co-producer, mastered by [with], mixed by
- Tom Jondelius - engineer [additional engineering]
- Unknown Artist - instruments [bowed instruments]
- Joakim Svalberg - keyboards, backing vocals
- Fredrik 脜kesson - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals, whistle
- Andy Farrow - management [for northern music co.]
- Northern Music Co - management [for]
- Geoff Pesche - mastered by
- Olof Palme - voice [spoken word (an excerpt from his new year's speech to the swedish nation, 1969)]
- Bruno K. 脰ijer - voice [spoken word (an excerpt from the poem: "inget s盲rskilt har h盲nt")]
- Alva 脜kesson - voice [spoken word]
- Klara R枚nnqvist Fors - voice [spoken word]
- Melinda 脜kerfeldt - voice [spoken word]
- Mirjam 脜kerfeldt - voice [spoken word]
- Tora Ahlberg - voice [spoken word]