Opeth - Heritage: Album art and Track listing

In a flurry of excitement, Opeth are releasing more and more details of their upcoming album, Heritage. It should be out in September this year, and to keep us all entertained until then, they've released some goodies.

First up is a full track listing. The titles all seem suitably Opethish and progressive, although with nothing else to go on we can only imagine. I'm assuming it'll follow Opeth tradition, with Heritage opening the album with a loud, complicated and thoroughly growly affair before calming down later on. All speculation at this point, though.

1. Heritage
2. The Devil's Orchard
3. I Feel The Dark
4. Slither
5. Nepenthe
6. Haxprocess
7. Famine
8. The Lines In My Hand
9. Folklore
10. Marrow Of The Earth

The other titbit  to ogle is the album art, again produced by the illustrious and illustrative Travis Smith. See what you think to this:

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How's about that, then, eh? It's certainly ... um ... not what I was expecting. Pretty cool in an incredibly progressive sort of way. Not sure what the heads in the tree is all about, and the odd little two-face devil seems to imply something. Not sure what, but something. The burning city and the queue of people must be ... something. Picking heads? Discarding skulls? Is it in any way a biblical allegory? I honestly don't know. 

Still, it's pretty. I suppose we'll have to find out what the songs listed in that lovely track listing are actually about before we can even begin to figure this one out.