Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
Tracklist
| (Swedish Version): | |||
| 1-1 | Livets Trädgård | 3:29 | |
| 1-2 | Svekets Prins | 6:37 | |
| 1-3 | Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör | 8:30 | |
| 1-4 | De Närmast Sörjande | 7:10 | |
| 1-5 | Minnets Yta | 6:34 | |
| 1-6 | Charlatan | 5:29 | |
| 1-7 | Ingen Sanning Är Allas | 7:22 | |
| 1-8 | Banemannen | 6:44 | |
| 1-9 | Kontinuerlig Drift | 7:23 | |
| 1-10 | Allting Tar Slut | 8:31 | |
| (English Version): | |||
| 2-1 | Garden Of Earthly Delights | 3:29 | |
| 2-2 | Dignity | 6:37 | |
| 2-3 | Heart In Hand | 8:30 | |
| 2-4 | Next Of Kin | 7:10 | |
| 2-5 | Lovelorn Crime | 6:34 | |
| 2-6 | Charlatan | 5:29 | |
| 2-7 | Universal Truth | 7:22 | |
| 2-8 | The Garroter | 6:44 | |
| 2-9 | Continuum | 7:23 | |
| 2-10 | All Things Will | 8:31 |
Companies, etc.
- Licensed To – Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH
- Licensed From – Moderbolaget Records
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Moderbolaget Records
- Copyright © – Moderbolaget Records
- Published By – Communion Music
- Published By – Kobalt Music Services Ltd.
- Recorded At – Park Studio
- Mixed At – Park Studio
- Recorded At – Junkmail Studios
- Produced At – Angel Studios
- Recorded At – Angel Studios
- Mastered At – Abbey Road Studios
- Glass Mastered At – Technicolor – CAP04796
- Glass Mastered At – Technicolor – CAP04793
Credits
- Arranged By [Strings Arranged By], Producer [Strings Produced By], Recorded By [Strings Recorded By] – Dave Stewart
- Artwork [Artwork With], Design [Design With] – Mikael Åkerfeldt
- Artwork, Design – Travis Smith (4)
- Bass Guitar [Assorted Bass Guitar] – Martin Mendez
- Booking [North American Bookings For] – Sound Talent Group
- Booking [North American Bookings] – Tim Borror
- Booking [World Ex North American Bookings For] – United Talent Agency
- Booking [World Ex North American Bookings] – Tobbe Lorentz
- Coordinator [Project Coordinated By] – Jasper Schuurmans
- Drums, Percussion – Martin Axenrot
- Effects, Sounds [Old Rusty Things] – Stefan Boman
- Engineer [Additional Enginering By] – Tom Jondelius
- Engineer [Engineered By], Co-producer [Co-Produced By] – Stefan Boman
- Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Joakim Svalberg
- Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Whistle [Whistles], Sounds [Coughs] – Fredrik Åkesson
- Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitar [Guitars], Speech [Ramblings] – Mikael Åkerfeldt
- Management [Worldwide Management Assisted By] – Jasper Schuurmans
- Management [Worldwide Management For] – Northern Music Co.*
- Management [Worldwide Management] – Andy Farrow
- Mastered By – Geoff Pesche
- Mastered By [Mastered With] – Stefan Boman
- Mixed By – Stefan Boman
- Mixed By [Mixed With] – Opeth
- Music By [All Music Written By], Lyrics By [All Lyrics Written By], Producer [All Music And Lyrics Produced By] – Mikael Åkerfeldt
- Voice [Spoken Word (An Excerpt From His New Year's Speech To The Swedish Nation, 1969)] – Olof Palme
- Voice [Spoken Word (An Excerpt From The Poem; "Inget Särskilt Har Hänt")] – Bruno K Öijer*
- Voice [Spoken Word] – Tora Ahlberg
- Written-By [Strings Written By] – Mikael Åkerfeldt
Notes
Issued in a 6- Digipak with clear trays on the middle and the right. Comes with a 16-page booklet.
[Hype sticker over shrink wrap]
Opeth
In Cauda Venenum
"A colossal epic masterpiece - Opeth have sured themselves!"
Rock Hard (IT)
Limited 2CD-Digi
incl. Swedish & English album versions
Tour dates / merchandise / more info: www.nuclearblast.de
[Booklet]
"In Cauda Venenum" is an observation by the musical collective Opeth. Its chronological number is 13.
Recorded and mixed at Park Studios/Psykbunkern, Örby, Stockholm, Sweden, between November 18, 2018 and March 6, 2019
Additional recordings made at Junkmail Studios, Stockholm, Sweden during 2018
Published by Communion Music AB, istrated by Kobalt Music Services Ltd.
Strings arranged, produced and recorded [...] at Angel Studios, London, UK
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
Issued under exclusive license from Moderbolaget Records to Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH
[Back cover]
℗ + © 2019 · Moderbolaget Records · Issued under license to Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH
Track times not printed on the release.
Both discs contain CD-Text technology.
[Hype sticker over shrink wrap]
Opeth
In Cauda Venenum
"A colossal epic masterpiece - Opeth have sured themselves!"
Rock Hard (IT)
Limited 2CD-Digi
incl. Swedish & English album versions
Tour dates / merchandise / more info: www.nuclearblast.de
[Booklet]
"In Cauda Venenum" is an observation by the musical collective Opeth. Its chronological number is 13.
Recorded and mixed at Park Studios/Psykbunkern, Örby, Stockholm, Sweden, between November 18, 2018 and March 6, 2019
Additional recordings made at Junkmail Studios, Stockholm, Sweden during 2018
Published by Communion Music AB, istrated by Kobalt Music Services Ltd.
Strings arranged, produced and recorded [...] at Angel Studios, London, UK
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
Issued under exclusive license from Moderbolaget Records to Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH
[Back cover]
℗ + © 2019 · Moderbolaget Records · Issued under license to Nuclear Blast Tonträger Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH
Track times not printed on the release.
Both discs contain CD-Text technology.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 7 27361 45570 5
- Barcode (Scanned: UPC-A): 727361455705
- Label Code: LC 86254
- Rights Society: GEMA
- Other (CD1 catalog number): NB 4557-0-2
- Other (CD2 catalog number): NB 4557-0-1
- Matrix / Runout (CD1, variant 1): CAP04796 NBT4557-0CD2 01 Technicolor
- Mastering SID Code (CD1, variant 1): IFPI LR76
- Mould SID Code (CD1, variant 1): IFPI UG29
- Matrix / Runout (CD1, variant 2): CAP04796 NBT4557-0CD2 01 Technicolor
- Mastering SID Code (CD1, variant 2): IFPI LR76
- Mould SID Code (CD1, variant 2): IFPI UG20
- Matrix / Runout (CD2, variant 1): CAP04793 NBT4557-0CD1 03 Technicolor
- Mastering SID Code (CD2, variant 1): IFPI LR79
- Mould SID Code (CD2, variant 1): IFPI UG29
- Matrix / Runout (CD2, variant 2): CAP04793 NBT4557-0CD1 03 Technicolor
- Mastering SID Code (CD2, variant 2): IFPI LR79
- Mould SID Code (CD2, variant 2): IFPI UG20
Other Versions (5 of 60)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| In Cauda Venenum (CD, Album) | Moderbolaget Records | NB 4557-2, 27361 45572 | Europe | 2019 | |||
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In Cauda Venenum (2×LP, Album, Picture Disc) | Moderbolaget Records | NB 4557-3, 27361 45573 | Europe | 2019 | ||
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In Cauda Venenum (2×LP, Album, Limited Edition, Clear) | Moderbolaget Records | NB 4557-1, 27361 45571 | Europe | 2019 | ||
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In Cauda Venenum (Box Set, Limited Edition, 2×LP, Album, Stereo, Swedish / Yellow Transparent, 2×LP, Album, Stereo, English / Orange Transparent, CD, Album, Stereo, Swedish, CD, Album, Stereo, English, Blu-ray, Blu-ray Audio, Multichannel) | Moderbolaget Records | NB 4557-5 | 2019 | |||
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In Cauda Venenum (CD, Album, CD, Album) | Ward Records | GQCS-90752~3 | Japan | 2019 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Let’s get it straight: to me, “In Cauda Venenum” confirmed “Pale Communion” as the best (up to that point, anyway) Opeth’s post-deathprog era album.
Does this mean this is a bad album? As always we are talking about Mikael Åkerfeldt’s band, not in a million years. To be honest, I don’t think there’s such a thing as a poor or even average Opeth album to this date. Quite an achievement, if you ask me.
Anyway, back on this particular album, 5 years after its release “In Cauda Venenum” is not quite the album I tend to play when I feel like listening to Opeth’s latest epoch.
I believe this is because I feel it doesn’t really bring anything new to the table. At that point, I felt as each album of the band’s new era had their own soul and personality, regardless of which one I preferred. However, when I finished playing “In Cauda Venenum” for the first time, my first thought was that I had just listened to a solid, perfectly competent progrock album… but that was about it.
Of course, there are some great moments scattered along the album, like the last third part or so of “Kontinuerlig Drift”/ “Continuum” and its pastoral and symphonic essence (really beautiful and inspiring), the guitar work in “De Narmast Sorjande“/ “Next Of Kin” or the rhythm work in “Charlatan”, the heaviness of “Svekets Prig”/ “Dignity” and its triumphant vocal choirs… but then there’s “Banemannen”/ “The Garroter” that feels a little samey once the initial guitar part is over or “Minnets Yta”/ “Lovelorn Crime” that feels too excessively similar to that great song titled “Burden” but, where the latter is a heartfelt triumph, the former falls short when reaching the same league, feeling like a pale, lesser copy despite of Fredrik Åkesson’s undoubtedly worthy, tasteful guitar solo.
To have two versions of the album, one sang in English and one in Swedish is a nice touch that brings something new to the Opeth universe (I for one prefer the Swedish version maybe for its “exotic” touch) but it’s not enough to put “In Cauda Venenum” up there on par with, to me, Opeth's best effors. -
love this album, it's totally varied and the best I've heard in 2019. I can only recommend it. 😉👍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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