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they’re progressive brand of metal has
proved relevant since the band’s
formation in 1990 hi I’m Rebecca Brayton
and welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re speaking with Opeth about the
band’s evolution and their album
heritage
so we’ll start by having you introduce
yourself tell us what you do invent and
give us the fun fact about yourself that
maybe not everyone would know well my
name is Lars Mikael åkerfeldt
lost Michael or Capello and I’m from
Sweden and I play guitar and sing in the
band called open I’m quite boring person
I’m not sure if it’s fun but that’s the
only thing that came to my head is that
I play this iPhone right here I’ll bring
with me to the toilet and I play Angry
Birds as I’m taking a shit so it’s got
particles oh my shit do one hold it
[Music]
so we always like to get the origin
stories of the bend that we introduced
ye tell us how hope that the first got
together I just formed a band like in
the late 80s called eruption and the way
we put we were three peas playing like
misfits songs and like our own songs and
Sabbath and I met a guy called David who
had a band called open and he wanted me
to play bass with it basically and I was
a guitar player I was lucky or whatever
because I like the logo and he has some
connections so I joined as the bass
player but soon enough kind of he fired
all the other guys I mean and were the
bad you know and then he quit in 91 or
something like that and I will have
became the singer and the rest is
history
why don’t you tell me about the
evolution of the opeth sound from album
to album well the first album was I was
19 when I did that album and it was a
mixture of death metal music and some
progressive music that I was into at the
time but yeah we had that sound for like
two records and then we switched and
made somewhat of a black metal record
for the third one and the fourth one was
really progressive you know I was really
into prog rock at the time and still I
am by the way
and Blackwater park was the fifth record
which was a popular record for us and
that was like if we have a breakthrough
record that’s the one that’s when we
started touring and became professional
musicians pretty much and then we did a
double album one released heavy album
called deliverance and then a soft
record called our nation then when we
signed a road on we didn’t album called
ghost for every search for there a bit
heavier a bit more progressive again
maybe a watershed that the last one was
also in that vein pretty much and then
we rd1 our heritage which is different
to anything we’ve done before it’s more
old earthy rootsy sounding
[Music]
I’m gonna tell us a bit more about
heritage you know like the writing and
recording process that we recorded in
the studio where Abba did the record
cisco call Atlanta studios
you know I produced is and wrote wrote
all the music and we have some guests
like you had the drama from weather
reports playing with us and we had a
Swedish flutist way I have a nothing
rate which is called this old school I
mean it’s it’s kind of forward thinking
but also backward thing you know like
all the inspiration is taken from old
music but I like to think that some of
the music Utley at least it’s not at all
retro we’re trying to do something fresh
[Music]
you guys are I mean labeled as
progressive metal do you agree disagree
just shunt labels altogether I don’t
mind what what people cause I like to
think that were progressive but in the
true sense of the word that we’re trying
to push the boundaries a little bit
because progressive metal is like it’s
in itself has become a little bit of a
genre skilled musicians playing
complicated music you know and that type
of stuff which is cool you know but it’s
not really progressive if you’re not I
mean some of these bands aren’t really
progressive
[Music]
they’re progressive brand of metal has
proved relevant since the band’s
formation in 1990 hi I’m Rebecca Brayton
and welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re speaking with Opeth about the
band’s evolution and their album
heritage
so we’ll start by having you introduce
yourself tell us what you do invent and
give us the fun fact about yourself that
maybe not everyone would know well my
name is Lars Mikael åkerfeldt
lost Michael or Capello and I’m from
Sweden and I play guitar and sing in the
band called open I’m quite boring person
I’m not sure if it’s fun but that’s the
only thing that came to my head is that
I play this iPhone right here I’ll bring
with me to the toilet and I play Angry
Birds as I’m taking a shit so it’s got
particles oh my shit do one hold it
[Music]
so we always like to get the origin
stories of the bend that we introduced
ye tell us how hope that the first got
together I just formed a band like in
the late 80s called eruption and the way
we put we were three peas playing like
misfits songs and like our own songs and
Sabbath and I met a guy called David who
had a band called open and he wanted me
to play bass with it basically and I was
a guitar player I was lucky or whatever
because I like the logo and he has some
connections so I joined as the bass
player but soon enough kind of he fired
all the other guys I mean and were the
bad you know and then he quit in 91 or
something like that and I will have
became the singer and the rest is
history
why don’t you tell me about the
evolution of the opeth sound from album
to album well the first album was I was
19 when I did that album and it was a
mixture of death metal music and some
progressive music that I was into at the
time but yeah we had that sound for like
two records and then we switched and
made somewhat of a black metal record
for the third one and the fourth one was
really progressive you know I was really
into prog rock at the time and still I
am by the way
and Blackwater park was the fifth record
which was a popular record for us and
that was like if we have a breakthrough
record that’s the one that’s when we
started touring and became professional
musicians pretty much and then we did a
double album one released heavy album
called deliverance and then a soft
record called our nation then when we
signed a road on we didn’t album called
ghost for every search for there a bit
heavier a bit more progressive again
maybe a watershed that the last one was
also in that vein pretty much and then
we rd1 our heritage which is different
to anything we’ve done before it’s more
old earthy rootsy sounding
[Music]
I’m gonna tell us a bit more about
heritage you know like the writing and
recording process that we recorded in
the studio where Abba did the record
cisco call Atlanta studios
you know I produced is and wrote wrote
all the music and we have some guests
like you had the drama from weather
reports playing with us and we had a
Swedish flutist way I have a nothing
rate which is called this old school I
mean it’s it’s kind of forward thinking
but also backward thing you know like
all the inspiration is taken from old
music but I like to think that some of
the music Utley at least it’s not at all
retro we’re trying to do something fresh
[Music]
you guys are I mean labeled as
progressive metal do you agree disagree
just shunt labels altogether I don’t
mind what what people cause I like to
think that were progressive but in the
true sense of the word that we’re trying
to push the boundaries a little bit
because progressive metal is like it’s
in itself has become a little bit of a
genre skilled musicians playing
complicated music you know and that type
of stuff which is cool you know but it’s
not really progressive if you’re not I
mean some of these bands aren’t really
progressive
[Music]
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