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| - | Opeth is a Metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. The music is a mixture of Melodic Death Metal, Progresseive Metal and Progressive Rock. Lately there have been some Folk and Jazz influences in Opeth's music. The music varies between fast deathmetal parts with blastbeat-drums and growling and slow accoustic parts with clean vocals. Founder, guitarist, singer and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt is the driving force behind the band and is the only remaining original member. | ||
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| + | Opeth is a Metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. The music is a mixture of Melodic Death Metal, Progresseive Metal and Progressive Rock. Lately there have been some Folk and Jazz influences in Opeth's music. The music varies between fast deathmetal parts with blastbeat-drums and growling and slow accoustic parts with clean vocals. Founder, guitarist, singer and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt is the driving force behind the band and is the only remaining original member. | ||
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Opeth
Opeth is a Metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. The music is a mixture of Melodic Death Metal, Progresseive Metal and Progressive Rock. Lately there have been some Folk and Jazz influences in Opeth's music. The music varies between fast deathmetal parts with blastbeat-drums and growling and slow accoustic parts with clean vocals. Founder, guitarist, singer and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt is the driving force behind the band and is the only remaining original member.
Name?!
The unusual Bandname Opeth was propably taken from Wilbur Smiths' book The Sunbird from the year 1972, in which a City in the desserts of Africa was called Opet. In this novel Opet meant City Of The Moon. The bandmembers just added an H to the name to make it look like an English word and therefore it would be pronounced as one. Other rumors say that Opeth is a fictional word, set together from the two single words Opera and Death , some others say that it is short for The Opus Of Death (The Work Of Death). The band has recently confirmed in an Interview that the first version for the bandname is correct.
Band History: Foundation and Early Years
Band History: Breakthrough
Band History: Major Label Deal
Musical Style
Discography
Studio Records
* 1995: Orchid * 1996: Morningrise * 1998: My Arms, Your Hearse * 1999: Still Life * 2001: Blackwater Park * 2002: Deliverance * 2003: Damnation * 2005: Ghost Reveries * 2007: The Roundhouse Tapes (Live CD 2007) * 2008: Watershed
Demo Tapes
* 1991: Demo '91 * 1993: Apostle in Triumph * 1993: Rehearsal * 1994: Promo
Singles
* 2001: The Drapery Falls * 2003: Still Day Beneath The Sun * 2005: The Grand Conjuration
DVD-Releases
* 2004: Lamentations (Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire 2003)
