Opeth formed in Stockholm in 1990 around singer-songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt, who is the only founding member of the band still active today. In the thirty years during which they have released thirteen albums, Opeth has undergone not only a number of personnel changes, but most importantly a major musical evolution.
Although the original label of death metal band has been close to their hearts for a long time, the band finally broke out of it on their current album “In Cauda Venenum”. “On this record, it’s really us. We no longer have the ambition to conquer the world or push the boundaries of our popularity to the next level, but to push ourselves creatively and make music the way we feel it – here and now,” adds the frontman, who on the new album allowed himself one more departure from their previous work – to record the entire album in Swedish. According to the singer, this too added to the sincerity of their music, but with their non-Swedish fans in mind, Opeth eventually decided to finish the English version as well.
Program
19:00 doors
19:45 – 20:30 The Vintage Caravan
21:00 – 23:00 Opeth
“Of course we want people to like everything we do. But that’s not in our power. I don’t know how people listen to music today. I don’t know what they feel when they listen to music. I only know how I feel about music. And how I listen to it – I always focus on just listening to the record, I don’t let it be a backdrop, where I’m doing something else. And I wish our fans would approach it the same way. Because whoever really listens will hear something new again on this record (as on all our previous records),” concludes Mikael Åkerfeldt.
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