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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
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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

2 ноя 2014

OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT: 'We Still Feel That We Belong To The Metal Scene'

Italy's SpazioRock.it recently conducted an interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On where OPETH stands in the metal scene today:

Mikael: "It's easy in the metal world especially — I mean, I don't know anything else than the metal world, because that's where we are, if you know what I mean. But we're trying to push the boundaries a little bit. But mostly musically, but also sound-wise. And to be on our own. We don't like to belong in a group. We wanna be on our own. But we are okay with being defined within the metal scene, because that's our origins. Our roots come from real extreme metal, and then gradually I guess we have moved away from that. But we still feel that we belong to the metal scene, so to speak, but we don't feel an affinity with bands in the metal scene, and definitely not the sound from the metal scene of today."

On whether metal fans have embraced OPETH's more recent albums:

Mikael: "The metal scene is… It's something I've been thinking about and talking about a lot, it's very hard for me to define what it is., really. I know that if you listen to brutal death metal, you might have a problem with what we're doing today. But that is not the definition of metal. I think the definition of metal is very blurry, and I'm not sure if you can define what metal is. But, like I said, that's our roots, so I feel that we still belong. I still feel many of our fans have probably made this type of journey with us. They've grown up. Maybe they listened to the same stuff that we did. Maybe it's easier for them to understand what we're doing now."

On how OPETH's 2008 album, "Watershed", paved the way for 2011's "Heritage" and 2014's "Pale Communion":

Mikael: "I think [doing 'Watershed'] was necessary [to bring us to this point]. I didn't have to struggle a lot to push us forward. Once I started writing for 'Heritage' for real, so to speak — because I did try and kind of latch on to the 'Watershed' style for some time, and then I just [went], 'Ah, fuck it. Let's do something new.' And then it was easy, if you know what I mean. And by doing 'Heritage', even if a lot of metal fans, so to speak, don't like that album, I think it gave us a future. I love that album. I think it's unique. We couldn't repeat it if we wanted to, but we can build on from it. It gives us a future. And I think we would stagnate if we tried to latch on to the sound that made us popular, so to speak. And I still think if you compare 'Heritage' and 'Pale Communion', you can only compare it to OPETH, I think. You can't compare it, really, to anything else. People are saying we're trying to sound like KING CRIMSON, but they don't really know what they're talking about, because it doesn't sound anything like KING CRIMSON. It's just an inspiration for us."

OPETH's MIKAEL Г…KERFELDT: 'We Still Feel That We Belong To The Metal Scene'

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2 ноя 2014

WarSong

Проблема не в том, что Опетхы облегчили свое звучание, а в том что сама музыка после 2008 - откровенная лажа.

2 ноя 2014

ElectricRetard

Ненене, в этом году отличный альбом выдали, не надо тут.
Кстати вот 2008, действительно не очень.

2 ноя 2014

WarSong

В этом году лучше, чем в 2011 - это да, факт.