Editing Opeth (section)

===''Heritage'' (2011–2013)===
{{Main|Heritage (Opeth album)}}

[[File:Opeth - Kavarna Rock Fest 2011.jpg|thumb|right|Opeth at [[Kavarna Rock Fest]] 2011]]

In September 2010, Mikael Åkerfeldt stated that he was writing for a new Opeth album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/opeth-porcupine-tree-mainmen-work-together |title=Opeth Exclusive: See Special Live Video Clip |publisher=Classic Rock Magazine |date=9 September 2010 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100910002120/http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/opeth-porcupine-tree-mainmen-work-together/ |archive-date=10 September 2010 }}</ref> The band announced on their website that they would start recording their tenth album on 31 January 2011, at the Atlantis/Metronome studios in Stockholm, once again with [[Jens Bogren]] (engineering) and [[Steven Wilson]] from Porcupine Tree as co-producer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opeth.com/index.php/news/show/id/195 |title=Opeth to enter studio in January 2011! |publisher=Opeth.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101111337/http://opeth.com/index.php/news/show/id/195 |archive-date=1 January 2011}}</ref> Shortly after mixing was complete on the new album in April 2011, Per Wiberg left the band.<ref name=PerW>{{cite web|publisher=[[Roadrunner Records]] |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/Opeth-Part-Ways-With--Keyboardist-Per-Wiberg-22880.aspx |title=Opeth Part Ways With Keyboardist Per Wiberg |date=7 April 2011 |access-date=29 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411235009/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/Opeth-Part-Ways-With--Keyboardist-Per-Wiberg-22880.aspx |archive-date=11 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Åkerfeldt said the band, "came to the decision that we should find a replacement for Per right after the recordings of the new album, and this came as no surprise to Per. He had, in turn, been thinking about leaving, so you could say it was a mutual decision. There's no bad blood, just a relationship that came to an end, and that's that."<ref name=PerW/>

Opeth's tenth album, ''[[Heritage (Opeth album)|Heritage]]'', was released on 14 September 2011, to generally favorable reviews.<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/heritage/critic-reviews|title=Heritage|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=11 October 2011|archive-date=7 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107063629/http://www.metacritic.com/music/heritage/critic-reviews|url-status=live}}</ref> The album sold 19,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release and debuted at number 19 on the ''Billboard 200'' chart.<ref name=goallin>{{cite news|title=Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt On Next Album: It's Time To Go 'All In' With String Instrumentation|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeths-mikael-akerfeldt-on-next-album-its-time-to-go-all-in-with-string-instrumentation/|work=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=4 January 2014|access-date=24 January 2014|archive-date=3 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203051148/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeths-mikael-akerfeldt-on-next-album-its-time-to-go-all-in-with-string-instrumentation/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Heritage'' debuted at number four in the band's native country of Sweden.<ref name="SWE">{{cite web |url=http://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Opeth |title=Swedish charts portal – Opeth: Album |publisher=Hung Medien |language=sv |access-date=16 May 2015 |archive-date=11 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211165647/http://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&search=Opeth |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Heritage'' became the second Opeth album to not feature any death growls and had a much more [[progressive metal|progressive]] style than their previous albums, a direction that Åkerfeldt was already interested in pursuing with Opeth.<ref name=about>{{cite web|author=Chad Bowar|title=Opeth Interview: A Conversation with Vocalist/Guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt|url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/Opeth-Interview.htm|publisher=[[About.com]]|date=15 October 2011|access-date=22 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106192605/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/Opeth-Interview.htm|archive-date=6 November 2015}}</ref>

The first two songs Åkerfeldt wrote for ''Heritage'' were in the style of ''[[Watershed (Opeth album)|Watershed]]''. After hearing the songs for the first time, [[Martín Méndez]] told Åkerfeldt that he would be disappointed if the album continued in that direction.<ref name=Faceculture>{{cite web|title=Face Culture|publisher=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2pMSu7EUI|date=15 July 2011|access-date=21 July 2011|archive-date=18 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218222757/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2pMSu7EUI|url-status=live}}</ref> Relieved that Méndez was not interested in doing another conventional Opeth album, Åkerfeldt scrapped the two songs and started the writing process over in a different style.<ref name=Faceculture /> In the press release for ''Heritage'', Mikael Åkerfeldt revealed that he felt as though he had been building to write the album since he was 19 years old.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeth-heritage-album-details-revealed/ |title=OPETH: 'Heritage' Album Details Revealed |publisher=[[Roadrunner Records]] |date=26 May 2011 |access-date=16 May 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151721/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeth-heritage-album-details-revealed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a review for [[Allmusic]], Thom Jurek called ''Heritage'' the band's most adventurous album, describing the songs as "drenched in instrumental interludes, knotty key and chord changes, shifting time signatures, clean vocals, and a keyboard-heavy instrumentation that includes Mellotrons, Rhodes pianos, and Hammond organs".<ref>{{cite web|author=Thom Jurek|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/heritage-mw0002193946|title=Heritage – Opeth|website=[[Allmusic]]|access-date=16 May 2015|archive-date=28 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428035946/http://www.allmusic.com/album/heritage-mw0002193946|url-status=live}}</ref>

Opeth supported ''Heritage'' with a tour that would last for over 200 tour dates.<ref name=Sinisterriffs>{{cite news|title=OPETH Mainman Says Next Album Will Have 'More Sinister-Sounding Riffs'|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeth-mainman-says-next-album-will-have-more-sinister-sounding-riffs/|work=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=2 September 2013|access-date=24 January 2014|archive-date=13 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213202714/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeth-mainman-says-next-album-will-have-more-sinister-sounding-riffs/|url-status=live}}</ref> The tour was the band's first with new keyboardist, Joakim Svalberg, who played on the opening track of the album.<ref name="Heritagelinernotes">{{cite AV media notes | others=Opeth | title=Heritage| year=2011 | type=booklet |publisher=[[Roadrunner Records]] | id=RR 1686-177052}}</ref> During the tour, Opeth played with bands such as [[Katatonia]], [[Pain of Salvation]], [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]], [[Ghost (Swedish band)|Ghost]] and [[Anathema (band)|Anathema]] all over the world in countries such as the United States, Europe, Turkey, India, Japan, Greece, Israel, Latin America and Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opeth.com/home/tour-dates |title=Official website – Tour dates |publisher=OPETH |access-date=27 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207000750/http://www.opeth.com/home/tour-dates |archive-date=7 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mastodon-opeth-ghost-north-american-tour-dates-announced/ |title=MASTODON, OPETH, GHOST: North American Tour Dates Announced |work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |access-date=27 February 2012 |archive-date=24 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024063621/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mastodon-opeth-ghost-north-american-tour-dates-announced/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opeth.com/home/news/item/141-von-hertzen-brothers-to-support-opeth-in-scandinavia|title=Von Hertzen Brothers to support Opeth in Scandinavia|publisher=Opeth.com|date=17 July 2012|access-date=20 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731043805/http://www.opeth.com/home/news/item/141-von-hertzen-brothers-to-support-opeth-in-scandinavia|archive-date=31 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|author=Mike Hohnen|title=Opeth Announces 2013 Australian Tour Dates – Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Culture|url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/opeth-announces-2013-australian-tour-dates/|magazine=Music Feeds|access-date=25 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008160121/http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/opeth-announces-2013-australian-tour-dates/|archive-date=8 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The tour concluded with "Melloboat 2013".<ref name=Sinisterriffs />