New Opeth track

So here's the new Opeth track, from the God Of War soundtrack. The EP also contains new tracks from Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Dream Theater, Taking Dawn and Mutiny Within, but who gives a shit.

Frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt had the following to say about the song:

"Song is very odd, it's good I think, or for my taste it is, but even I can understand it's very....odd! Produced and recorded it from scratch and I'm happy with the sound if I may say so myself. Fred laid down a killer acoustic solo and Per laid down an amazing twiddly tweet moog solo. It's not a very metal song, I'm saving up for that..later.....yet it's got a metal ‘mentality’, or what I remember metal used to do to me. I can feel it, even though it's not a ‘metal’ song per definition."

No, The Throat Of Winter isn't very metal. In fact, it wouldn't have sounded out of place next to some of the mellower pieces on 2008's Watershed or even 2003's all mellow Damnation. Perhaps it has one too many strange transitions between parts that don't necessarily go together that well, but on the whole I'm digging the song big time. But I'm a fanboy, that's to be expected.

What sold me on it in the end were Åkerfeldt's amazing vocals - I can't seem to get over what an improvement he's made, both in the growling department and in regards to his clean vocals. Hard to believe it's the same guy who delivered the feeble, insecure vocals on Orchid fifteen years ago.

(mp3) Opeth - The throat of winter
Available on V/A - God of War: Blood & Metal (2010)