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Opeth

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Progressive Rock
Death Metal
Progressive Metal
Acoustic

http://www.opeth.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/opeth
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opeth

20 апр 2025 :	MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT On OPETH's Musical Evolution: 'I Don't Believe In Staying True To The Roots'
15 апр 2025 :	OPETH Guitarist FREDRIK ÅKESSON On His Debut Solo Album: 'I'll Do My Best To Finish It As Quickly As Possible'
29 мар 2025 :	OPETH Wins Swedish GRAMMIS Award For 'The Last Will And Testament'
24 мар 2025 :	OPETH Guitarist FREDRIK ÅKESSON's Debut Solo Album To Include Guest Appearance By SAXON's BIFF BYFORD
14 фев 2025 :
22 янв 2025 :	OPETH's FREDRIK ÅKESSON: 'As A Unit, We're Stronger Than Ever'
10 янв 2025 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Pays Tribute To HEAVY LOAD's RAGNE WAHLQUIST
9 янв 2025 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Pays Tribute To PAUL DI'ANNO: 'His Influence On Metal Music Cannot Be Understated'
24 дек 2024 :	OPETH Unleashes "The Drapery Falls" Live At Bloodstock 2024; Official Pro-Shot Video Posted
17 дек 2024 :	OPETH Performs "Deliverance" At Bloodstock 2024; Watch Official Pro-Shot Video
12 дек 2024 :	OPETH Performs "Ghost Of Perdition" At Bloodstock 2024; Watch Official Pro-Shot Video
1 дек 2024 :	OPETH's FREDRIK ÅKESSON On 'The Last Will And Testament': 'This Album Is Special To Me'
29 ноя 2024 :	Watch OPETH's Epic Headline Set At Bloodstock 2024; Official Video
26 ноя 2024 :	Watch: OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Takes You Through Entire 'The Last Will And Testament' Album
23 ноя 2024 :	OPETH's FREDRIK ÅKESSON Says 'The Last Will And Testament' Album Is Another 'Step Forward'
10 ноя 2024 :	OPETH's FREDRIK ÅKESSON Explains How Drummer WALTTERI VÄYRYNEN Landed Gig As Replacement For MARTIN 'AXE' AXENROT
8 ноя 2024 :	OPETH Share "§1" Bass Playthrough Video
3 ноя 2024 :	See OPETH Perform In Los Angeles During Fall 2024 North American Tour
31 окт 2024 :	See OPETH Perform In Denver During Fall 2024 North American Tour
17 окт 2024 :	MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT On IAN ANDERSON's Guest Appearance On New OPETH Album: 'It's Amazing That He's On Our Record'
8 окт 2024 :	OPETH's ÅKERFELDT Says Growling Vocals 'Became An Asset' During Songwriting Process For 'The Last Will And Testament'
5 окт 2024 :	OPETH - Special 25th Anniversary Edition Of Still Life Album Available On Double Black/Red Splatter Vinyl In November
3 окт 2024 :	OPETH Guitarist On 'The Last Will And Testament': 'It's An Action-Packed Album'
26 сен 2024 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT: How I Got Into Vinyl Record Collecting
24 сен 2024 :	OPETH's 'The Last Will And Testament' Album Pushed Back By Six Weeks Due To 'Delays In Manufacturing Process'
17 сен 2024 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Finds It 'Slightly Annoying' That So Much Focus Has Been Placed On His Return To Growling Vocals

13 авг 2024

OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT: 'I Don't Really See Myself As A Singer Or A Guitar Player For That Matter'

In a new interview with Finland's Chaoszine, OPETH guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt spoke about his evolution as a singer. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I don't really see myself as a singer — or a guitar player for that matter. I see myself as a — I am a musician. I like to come to write music. I think that's fun. The singer thing, it's, like, nobody else wanted to do it [in the early days of OPETH]. I guess it has to be me. And I don't compare myself to my peers or my idols, especially my idols. I don't go, like, 'Hey, Ronnie Dio, what's your trick? Mine's this and that. I'm gonna teach you something.' Those guys up there. I'm just like a bum who got lucky, if you know what I mean.

"With our own albums, I wanna listen to the record and not really hear that it's me, so to speak," he explained. "So I like to distance myself from the person singing on the record. And with death metal vocals, that's quite easy, because, of course, I don't sound like that when I'm talking to you now. And with the clean vocals, I'm just kind of trying to get as close to my idols as I can. But everybody's given this particular voice. I don't have any training. I don't know what the hell I'm doing most of the time. The last album that we recorded, I think I tried to sing more clean vocals with a bit more grovelly type of thing."

Mikael added: "I don't think about vocals. It's an instrument like any other. Sometimes it demands a full-on type of singing, sometimes a really laid-back type of singing. Lucky for me, I can produce the sounds that I want to hear. So I'm fairly wide as a singer in that sense. I'm not great, but I can sing softly, I can sing midrange a bit stronger and I can do death metal screams. So in that sense, I'm kind of covering a lot of bases from the music that I wanna do. But I'm not a master in either style, if you know what I mean. It's just kind of… I can achieve the results I want. And also it's hard for me to, like I said, see myself as a singer. With that said, nobody else can take my place, if you know what I mean, after all these years. In this band, I am the singer; it's just how it is. And even for me it's hard sometimes to get that through my head."

Asked if he feels that the clean singing and death metal vocals go like hand in hand, so if he becomes better with the clean singing, it also helps with the screaming, he responded: "Good question. Not necessarily, I think. It's a different type of technique, I guess. Clean singing to me, first and foremost, you wanna try and be in pitch, kind of. Then, if you look at other singers, there's people who sing perfect pitch, but they don't really have a great, a nice voice to listen to, if you know what I mean. For me, I mostly hear the negative aspects of my clean voice, which, what I said before, I don't really like to hear me, meaning the ugly aspects of my own voice, so to speak. So, I try to develop a style that doesn't really sound like me. And over the years, that's the vocal style that's been developed the most while, in a way, the death metal vocals have suffered a little bit for that. But playing live, of course, playing lots of old songs, you do both. Death metal vocals, for me, feel more consistent than the other vocals. But then again, I don't know. It's all perception. What do people think out there in the crowd? 'Oh, he was shit that day,' or 'great that day.' And I thought I was shit both days, if you know what I mean. [Laughs]"

OPETH's new album, "The Last Will And Testament", will arrive on October 11 via Reigning Phoenix Music/Moderbolaget.

OPETH's fourteenth album was written by Åkerfeldt, with lyrics conferred with Klara Rönnqvist Fors (THE HEARD, ex-CRUCIFIED BARBARA). "The Last Will And Testament" was co-produced by Åkerfeldt and Stefan Boman (GHOST, THE HELLACOPTERS),engineered by Boman, Joe Jones (KILLING JOKE, ROBERT PLANT) and OPETH, with Boman, Åkerfeldt and the rest of OPETH mixing at Atlantis and Hammerthorpe Studios in Stockholm. The strings on "The Last Will And Testament" were arranged by Åkerfeldt and returning prog friend Dave Stewart (EGG, KHAN) and conducted by Stewart at Angel Studios in London. Not one to miss a beat, visual artist Travis Smith returns to the fold, crafting his 11th cover, a haunting "photograph" reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's infamous "Overlook Hotel" photograph. Miles Showell (ABBA, QUEEN) also revisits mastering and vinyl lacquer cutting at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Åkerfeldt rolls out the red carpet for storied flautist and JETHRO TULL mainman Ian Anderson. Not only do Anderson's signature notes fly on "§4" and "§7", he narrates on "§1", "§2", "§4", and "§7". Joining Anderson, EUROPE's Joey Tempest lends a backing vocal hand on "§2", while Åkerfeldt's youngest daughter, Mirjam Åkerfeldt, is the disembodied voice in "§1".

"The Last Will And Testament" is a concept album set in the post-World War I era, unfolding the story of a wealthy, conservative patriarch whose last will and testament reveals shocking family secrets. The narrative weaves through the patriarch's confessions, the reactions of his twin children, and the mysterious presence of a polio-ridden girl who the family have taken care of. The album begins with the reading of the father's will in his mansion. Among those in attendance is a young girl, who, despite being an orphan and polio-ridden, has been raised by the family. Her presence at the will reading raises suspicions and questions among the twins.

"The Last Will And Testament" is the darkest and heaviest record OPETH has made in decades, and it is also the band's most fearlessly progressive. A concept album recounting the reading of one recently deceased man's will to an audience of his surviving family members, it brims with haunting melodrama, shocking revelations and some of the wildest and most unpredictable music that Åkerfeldt has ever written.

The follow-up to 2019's widely acclaimed "In Cauda Venenum", "The Last Will And Testament" is set in the shadowy, sepia-stained 1920s. It slowly reveals its secrets like some classic thriller from the distant, cobwebbed past, with each successive song shining more light on the stated machinations of our dead (but definitely not harmless) protagonist. The emotional chaos of the story is perfectly matched by OPETH's vivid but claustrophobic soundtrack, which artfully winds its way towards a crestfallen but sumptuous finale. Masters of their own idiosyncratic musical domain, OPETH have never sounded more unique.

"The Last Will And Testament" is destined to be a milestone in OPETH's illustrious recorded history. The band's first out-and-out concept record, it features guest cameos from JETHRO TULL legend Ian Anderson and Joey Tempest, frontman with Swedish rock gods EUROPE. Only one of the album's eight songs has a title: closing ballad "A Story Never Told". The rest are simply labeled as numbered chapters in this slowly unfolding saga of deceit, recrimination and betrayal. Enigmatic, unsettling and immersive, "The Last Will And Testament" is a turbulent, prog metal tale like no other.

Making his recorded debut alongside OPETH's long-established lineup of Mikael Åkerfeldt, guitarist Fredrik Åkesson, bassist Martin Mendez and keyboard maestro Joakim Svalberg on "The Last Will And Testament" is new drummer Waltteri Väyrynen, who joined the band in 2022.

OPETH will embark on a North American tour this fall. The trek, which will kick off on October 11 in Milwaukee, includes stops in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Denver and more.

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13 авг 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Макаревич хуйни не скажет.
Но и скромняга - поет он иногда лучше, чем "ну пойдет". Minnets yta, она же Lovelorn Crime была красивой во многом из-за вокала.

13 авг 2024

gravitgroove

Вашингтон Ирвинг, не сказал бы что он похож на Макаревича, зубы не те, коварного прищура нет, волосы не вьются в афро.

13 авг 2024

IJzerklompje

Вашингтон Ирвинг, больше всех на Макара похож Даня Квят

13 авг 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

IJzerklompje, Квят похож на главного хуя из Колдплей.

13 авг 2024

Corpsegrinder04

В общем и целом да. Простой фуфлыжник. На Макарену не похож. Ему бы шляпу ковбойскую и больше будет похож на бича из голливудских фильмов, которые стоят у бочек с огнём греются.

13 авг 2024

gravitgroove

Corpsegrinder04, по мне ему отлично бы подошел образ персонажей Дюма, можно было поржать хотя бы. Например, образ кардинала Джулио Мазарини.

13 авг 2024

Corpsegrinder04

gravitgroove, Или коменданта замка Иф.
А вообще по образам Дюма мне только перестроечные советские фильмы заходят. Конца 80-х начала 90-х, там какая-то своя тёмная романтика, в отличии от клоунских мушкетёров 79-го или французских фильмов с Жаном Маре.

13 авг 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Corpsegrinder04, я знаю, почему тебе не нравятся фильмы с Жаном Маре)

13 авг 2024

Corpsegrinder04

Вашингтон Ирвинг, Фантомас очень нравится комедийный. Серьёзные же фильмы - нравятся тоже, но менее.
А свою голубизну он в подвиг не определял. Поэтому пофиг . Для французов "под хвост" баловаться нормальное явление, как не прискорбно бы это было .

14 авг 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Corpsegrinder04, фантомас заебись, вообще французские комедии того периода крутые, если видишь заставку Gaumont, то следующие 1.5 часа пройдут отлично.
а что до Маре - вот пока в своё время не прочитал про него, никогда бы не подумал, никакой манерности и т.д.

13 авг 2024

gravitgroove

Corpsegrinder04, Да ладно, я ржу до сих пор, когда Служанка Кэтти в исполнении Цыплаковой поет свою песню: "Усы и шпага - все при нём", или "Порадуемся на своем веку" - лучший трек для троллинга всех времен.

13 авг 2024

Corpsegrinder04

gravitgroove, Ну её в жопу. Меня радуют актёр типа Авилова. И в Монте Кристо и в продолжении мушкетеров Мордаунт.

13 авг 2024

WahrandPhain

Я не думаю о вокале. Это такой же инструмент, как и любой другой.

отлить в золоте, это должен повторять себе каждый говнарик и любитель волеро и лётчика

13 авг 2024

smolet18-02-44

Хорошо сказал по поводу "музыканта", да и скоромностью не обделён, этакий Ф. Емельяненко от мира музыки. Голос отличный как и чистый так и не чистый.

13 авг 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

smolet18-02-44, Федор супер скромный, встретил его в поезде однажды)

14 авг 2024

nkatsy

Классный он и певец, и гитарист.
Вживую вообще фантастика!

14 авг 2024

Наугад

ИМХО у этого "не певца" и "не гитариста" один из лучших гроулов в металле вообще. Ну и игра на гитаре тоже не самая последняя.

14 авг 2024

Mike Barlow

Между тем, играть и петь он умеет.
Кажется, это не про "ложную скромность', а про то, что для него главное общая картина музыкального произведения, а не демонстрация технических навыков/физических возможностей.

14 авг 2024

Fo0x

Ещё бы не косплеил проговых батьков как попугай, вообще был бы молодец.