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Opeth

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Progressive Rock
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17 фев 2024 :	JETHRO TULL's IAN ANDERSON To Guest On OPETH's Next Album
6 янв 2024 :	OPETH Founder DAVID ISBERG To Release Second Poetry Book
17 ноя 2023 :	OPETH Release "Windowpane" (The Lost Tape); Video Streaming
19 окт 2023 :	OPETH Announce 20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Of Damnation Album
25 янв 2023 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Pays Tribute To DAVID CROSBY: 'He Crafted So Much Fantastic Music, It's Incredible'
20 сен 2022 :	Watch: OPETH Plays First Concert With New Drummer WALTTERI VÄYRYNEN
10 сен 2022 :	OPETH Enlists Ex-PARADISE LOST Drummer WALTTERI VÄYRYNEN
9 авг 2022 :	MARTIN 'AXE' AXENROT's Vaccination Status Led To His Exit From OPETH, Says His BLOODBATH Bandmate
27 июн 2022 :
6 май 2022 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Releases Soundtrack From NETFLIX Series 'Clark'
28 мар 2022 :	OPETH Drops Previously Unreleased Song 'Width Of A Circle', Announces 'In Cauda Venenum (Extended Edition)'
27 ноя 2021 :	Watch OPETH's Entire Atlanta Concert
17 ноя 2021 :	OPETH Plays First Show With Drummer SAMI KARPPINEN (Video)
17 ноя 2021 :	OPETH Parts Ways With Longtime Drummer MARTIN 'AXE' AXENROT
27 июл 2021 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Says He Has Been Working On Score For NETFLIX Series 'Clark' Since March 2020
16 июл 2021 :	OPETH Premier Official Lyric Video For "Harvest"
15 июл 2021 :	OPETH Frontman MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Looks Back On Writing Blackwater Park Album - "Our Future Looked Bleak, Just Like The Song"
11 июл 2021 :	MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Reflects On OPETH Classic Blackwater Park - "A Cross Between Death Metal, Black Metal And Jazz Chords"
20 апр 2021 :	OPETH Celebrating Blackwater Park Album's 20th Anniversary With Special Edition Vinyl And Merchandise; Now Available For Pre-Order
9 окт 2020 :	OPETH: Paperback Version Of 'Book Of Opeth' Includes Extra Text And Photographs
23 июл 2020 :	OPETH Live At Hellfest 2017; Pro-Shot Video Of Full Performance Streaming
10 июл 2020 :	OPETH Announce European Tour Dates For March 2021; THE VINTAGE CARAVAN Confirmed As Support
14 май 2020 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT To Score NETFLIX Series 'Clark'
18 фев 2020 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Suffering From 'Acute Laryngitis'; Band Cancels Three Shows On North American Tour
28 янв 2020 :	OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Pays Tribute To SEAN REINERT And NEIL PEART
25 янв 2020 :	OPETH Keyboardist Understands Fans' Frustration Over Lack Of Death Metal Vocals On Band's Recent Albums

19 май 2012

Mikael Åkerfeldt\'s (OPETH) Favorite Things

Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt was interviewed by Spin magazine about his favorite things, and some of the answers may surprise even longtime fans!

Favorite thing to do on tour between shows:
On tour I go out and get records every day. When I'm [in the U.S.] I'm concentrating on collecting American records; American presses. On this tour I've probably bought 200 vinyls so far and we've been on tour for five weeks. I got a bunch of Kiss stuff lately. I bought Mountain stuff, too, and a few 13th Floor Elevator records from a friend of mine. Generally, I'm just collecting psychedelic progressive-rock from the '60s and '70s. They have to be from the country that they're from. I couldn't live with having a copy of [Free's] Fire and Water from a Spanish pressing, you know what I mean? It has to be the original. Otherwise I would feel nauseous.

Favorite music to listen to on tour:
When I go to bed, I still listen to ABBA for some reason. It just makes me feel comfortable. It makes me feel at home. But when we're drinking, I'm usually the power DJ. I'm very restless when I've had a couple of glasses of wine, so I play songs really fast, and I never play a whole song. It's like a compilation thing: everything from ABBA to bands like the Scorpions and Iron Maiden.

Favorite city to play:
It is really fun to play in Santiago, Chile. There are a lot of people coming out and they're fucking crazy. They're so loud. And it kind of detaches you from your role as a musician. You don't really think about what you're playing because you're enjoying the whole thing. The crowds are always good. Most of the night I'm usually just listening to how we're doing as a band as opposed to listening to how the crowd is reacting. But in Santiago it's just crazy.

Favorite fan encounter:
We played a festival called Desert Rock, which was in Dubai. I had never been to Dubai and it's mostly Muslim. We have a lot of fans out in the Middle East, but because of whatever restrictions, we can't play in some of those countries. After the show, I met with, like, 50 fans from all over the Middle East — from Saudi Arabia, to Iran, to Iraq, from Jordan, and from Dubai, obviously. We were talking and they were so fucking happy. It was amazing for me. I was a bit drunk I think. But I was standing and talking to them about what it's like in their countries. Like, if they want to listen to some of the records, they have to do it really secretly. Otherwise, they might be arrested. This music is forbidden. It's illegal for them to go to shows and they can't buy the record. It's such a struggle for them just to listen to the music. It was really profound.

Favorite ways to unwind at home:
I have two daughters, so I spend a lot of time with them. It's the beauty of this trade that I don't have to grow up so much. I was interested in playing video games and stuff like that, but I've become more and more restless with age. I also have a fish tank I take care of with all sorts of fish. One, the direct translation would be a "fire eel." I asked my daughters to name it but they just call it the eel. I have another big fish — I don't know what they call it in English but it's a big fucking fish that sits on the bottom just hanging out. I was sold when I bought it because I could eat it. When it's too dull to watch, I might just fry it up!

Favorite book:
I read a lot of musician's biographies. I guess it's not like fine literature if you're reading a Mötley Crüe book, but that's what I enjoy.

Favorite author:
I do read some poetry but I only have one favorite poet that I read all the time. It's a Swedish guy named Bruno K. Öijer. In the early days of the band, I got a lot of inspiration from him because his poems are a bit surreal, a bit twisted and dark. Very dark. I went to see one of his spoken-word shows once, and it was amazing. He's like a rock star to me. I saw him in a record store once and I just froze. I was like, "Wow." I love him.

Favorite food:
Italian food. I like carpaccio. I love it. I could eat Italian food every day. In Italy, you can go into pretty much every restaurant and it's going to be decent. When we're on tour — because we're always visiting these countries on tour and I never go on holiday — we're connoisseurs when it comes to food. We're not gonna run into McDonald's, you know? Most of the time we eat really good food.

Favorite TV show:
There's a couple of TV shows in Sweden that I watch. One is like COPS almost. They have cameras on the subway — so someone mugs this girl and there's just people acting fucking stupid. It's my favorite thing to watch. I also like cooking shows, especially if it's got a bit of a twist, like Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. I love that. I love that shit even if it's more produced. I still love it.

Favorite movie:
The first one that comes to mind is Smoke, the film with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt. I love that film. It makes me cry. I also love The Deer Hunter. It's my favorite film of all time. If we're talking newer films, I did love The Wrestler, it was a beautiful film. I loved Black Swan. That was fucking amazing. It's the best film I've seen lately.

Favorite guitar:
PRS built a guitar for Johnny Hiland, that he sent in for repair [to a guitar shop where Åkerfeldt once worked] and never picked up. It was just lying there so I played it. And I just — it was amazing. It was love. I didn't end up getting it, but they built another guitar almost like that one, that I love. But I'm a very nostalgic person so I love very old guitars. I got a guitar from a guy who worked at another store and it was basically in two pieces. It was a wreck. It was fucking broken so he gave it to me and I fixed it up, and I still have it. We've recorded a few records with it, so it's also one of my favorites.

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19 май 2012

Deze

Ха. Так АВВА все любят, такая уж группа )))

19 май 2012

Robert_Dent

мне кажется Аббу невозможно не любить

19 май 2012

Merzbow

Так подали информацию, как будто это что-то постыдное.

во-во

А я не люблю Аббу(((

Аббу вполне возможно не любить. Вот как её можно любить - не пойму.

19 май 2012

Nakedman

А вот и нелюбители набежали. =)

19 май 2012

Йа Олдфаг

chuvaksurala Shame on you
Ты, наверное, ещё и котят ненавидишь.

микаэль пидор

помню на концерте в Питере он прямо со сцены сказал: в Швеции есть две хорошие группы: Opeth и ABBA

19 май 2012

The Eye of Seth

Металл нужно любить, а не ABBB'у !

19 май 2012

Deviant-Artist

Так это же Швеция! АББА там национальная гордость и достояние!

19 май 2012

Arseniy

А bassilius6668 забанен на неделю.

19 май 2012

Under

Я так и знал, что Микаэль нормальный человек! И что для него главное - музыка, а не конкретно металл. Странно, что некоторые его поклонники этого не понимают.
А когда сорокалетние мужики Iron Savior распевают припевы типа Heavy Metal Never Dies, это лажа. Нельзя в сорок лет ориентироваться на подростков. Если ты умный человек, конечно, и не музыкальная проститутка.

Музыка Аббы несёт в себе просто нереальный позитив, даже сравнить не с чем.

20 май 2012

Nakedman

"А когда сорокалетние мужики Iron Savior распевают припевы типа Heavy Metal Never Dies, это лажа."

Очень спорное утверждение. Я и Аббу люблю, и Iron Savior, а Opeth вообще частый гость в плеере. И уж точно никогда не загоняюсь дурацкими мыслями о тот, кому во сколько лет что играть и петь. Поразмысли на досуге.

20 май 2012

Under

Тот факт, что ты любишь Аббу, Iron Savior и Opeth, никоим образом не доказывает спорность моего утверждения. Я и сам их всех люблю.
О чём поразмыслить-то? Я не понял :)

20 май 2012

Nakedman

А я процитировал про "лажу". Никогда не задумывался, что Зилк действительно всё это любит? На концерте данная песнь звучала более чем искренне и товарищ немец радовался, как ребёнок. Не вижу проблемы никакой, можно и в 70 лет про это петь и не тебе говорить, что лажа, а что - нет. Всё просто.

20 май 2012

Under

>>>поразмысли на досуге
>>>не тебе говорить
Командир штоле? В каком полку служил? :)

>>>товарищ немец радовался, как ребёнок
Не боись, солдат ребёнка не обидит :)
Предлагаю считать Iron Savior исключением из моего "сомнительного" правила. Спорить не хочу.

20 май 2012

Nakedman

>>>Спорить не хочу
Да, "миру - мир, войне - пиписька". :)

20 май 2012

Yumi

Где-то в обсуждении какой-то мелодет группы была фраза.
Если группа играет каждый альбом одно и то же - самоплагиат. Если экспериментирует - группа скатилась в УГ, раньше было лучше. Третьего не дано.

Так вот. Если Iron Savior всю жизнь поют одно и то же - флаг им в руки, если ребята столько лет ловят кайф от своей музыки. Я вот не понимаю, как Blind Guardian могут всю жизнь петь про хоббитов и драконов. Но ведь клево поют-то =)
А Микаэль - всем известный экспериментатор, и разносторонность его вкусов - ни капли не удивляет.

20 май 2012

Nachtzeit

Iron Savior молодцы, хорошую музыку делают. Микаэль тоже молодец, нормальный человек без всяческих тараканов на почве митола. А "Heritage" мне очень понравился. Также сильно, как и остальные альбомы группы.

20 май 2012