Source: Bravewords.com
The first date has been announced for OPETH‘s upcoming North American Heritage Tour 2013, with special guests KATATONIA.
The tour will hit Flint, Michigan’s The Machine Shop on Friday, May 10th. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 11th at 10 AM at this location.
Roadrunner Records recently posted a 30-second teaser for the tour, in support of the 2011 studio album, Heritage. Check out the teaser below:
Roadrunner have asked a bunch of their artists to fill out a brief survey telling us the highlights (and lowlights) of their year. Here’s what Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt had to say:
Best show you played: Damn, we did our 156th show for the Heritage tour yesterday [November 27], so I can’t remember. Last good “heavy” show was in Brussels, Belgium, and last good “mellow” show was in Bochum, Germany.
Best show you saw: I’ll be honest with you and say a tiny fucking show featuring Lee Kerslake from Uriah Heep in Stockholm. He played with our keyboardist, Joakim Svalberg, and some other good musicians. Maybe I was drunk or happy or something, but it was just real fucking good, I thought. I get bored at shows but this one was fun.
Favorite thing you ate/drank: Probably some BBQ in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Favorite song of 2012: Maybe one of my own, but that sounds arrogant, right?
Most interesting interview question you were asked this year: Not the above one anyways. Maybe “Tell me about your band” or something completely shit like that.
Place you visited for the first time: Quite a few actually. Some Eastern Bloc countries, the Maldives, China, South Korea, Taiwan. Might have been last year, actually. I can’t remember.
Biggest celebrity you met: Probably Orianthi. We had dinner with the PRS endorsees. I think she said hi back to me, but that was definitely it.
Moment you wish you could “do over”: A bunch of show fuck-ups, but I don’t care for those. I can get caught in downward spirals, so there are countless.
Personal highlight of the year: The year has been pretty shit for me personally, ha ha, but some good moments. Being with my kids. Traveling. Playing some nice shows.
Source: Bravewords.com
Sweden-based Uppsala Student Radio recently caught up with OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt. Check out three clips from the intervie below:
Roadrunner Records has posted a 30-second teaser where Opeth’s logo is seen landing on North America. Is it a possible tour or a teaser for follow-up to their 2011 studio album, Heritage? Stay tuned for updates and check out the teaser below:
Roadrunner has posted online a short OPETH video teaser, commenting breafly: Something’s happening, It’s just over the horizon… Stay tuned!
Roadrunner has posted online a video where Opeth recently performed some—not “unplugged” exactly, but low-volume—shows in the UK and Germany. Here’s some fan-filmed video of them playing two cover songs at Christuskirche in Bochum, Germany: Napalm Death‘s “You Suffer” and Black Sabbath‘s “Solitude.” Enjoy!
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Swedish progressive metallers OPETH performed a special “unplugged” show this past Friday , November 16 at the Union Chapel in London, England.
The band’s setlist was as follows:
01. Heritage
02. Credence
03. In My Time Of Need
04. Häxprocess
05. Var Kommer Barnen In? (HANSSON DE WOLFE UNITED cover)
06. Solitude (BLACK SABBATH cover)
07. Benighted
08. Demon Of The Fall
09. Hope Leaves
10. Atonement
11. Marrow Of The Earth
Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below.
In a recent interview, OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt stated about where the idea to do an acoustic show came from, “We’re constantly looking for new ways to push things forward with the live set. We’ve done so many, so to speak, run-of-the-mill type of tours, meat-and-potatoes type of tours where we just go up and play our songs. So this is a little bit of an odd thing, which both makes me excited and a bit nervous; I kind of wanna run away and hide. We’ve never done unplugged shows. I’m not sure if it’s gonna be ‘unplugged’ unplugged; it’s just gonna be laid back. But it was out manager, Andy [Farrow of Northern Music Company, who came up with the idea of doing this]. He’s constantly working with the band what we can do, and we say ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ So this was his idea, because he had done a show there with Devin Townsend before, and said it’s a beautiful place and it would really fit our music. And our discography is quite diverse and we can do things like that, so we figure, why not?”
Asked what he enjoys about the live acoustic format, Mikael said, “Well, there’s more emotion in our playing, firstly because the volume is lower, and I always felt that singing clean is more… it looks more emotional than when I’m doing full-on metal. We sound really good as a band when we kind of hold back a little bit. We sound good when we play really heavy and fast [as well], but when we play those heavy songs, I kind of tend to listen to what I’m doing as opposed to what we’re doing. So when we kind of take it down a little bit, we become more of a band.”
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