Zyklon said:
The band has stated on several occasions that it was a one off thing.
They are actually recording an album at the moment, hopefully it should be out later this year. For some reason I think it's going to suck though, because apparently they are now on Roadrunner (label filled with nu-metal and metalcore shit)
They tend to go with whatever's popular at the time really.
I think they're starting to push their nu-metal/mallcore bands a bit less now and they're constantly signing other types of metal bands.
In particular they seem to be pushing this whole "new wave of american heavy metal" thing a lot with like, Chimaira, Killswitch Engage, etc.
Even Roadrunner seem to have accepted that nu-metal is essentially dead so they kinda went after CoF, Nightwish and now Opeth.
And I know you're not a Nightwish fan but, the new album didn't suffer after jumping to Roadrunner. Let's just hope that the Opeth one doesn't either.