The best thing you can do for artists is pirate everything (cutting out Spotify etc), and purchase an album a month from a band/artist you actually want to support. Buy direct for the artist, or Bandcamp (especially on Bandcamp Fridays)
Thats the weird thing, Damnation is probably my favourite Opeth album, just ahead of Ghost Reveries, and I DO love 70's Prog, and I still didn't care for their recent albums. It just weirdly didn't seem like Opeth to me, somehow. Felt like them doing a 'thing'.
Edit: corrected Deliverance to Damnation. Whoops. [6]
The best thing you can do for artists is pirate everything (cutting out Spotify etc), and purchase an album a month from a band/artist you actually want to support. Buy direct for the artist, or Bandcamp (especially on Bandcamp Fridays)