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Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden (1990 – present)

Opeth is a progressive metal band from Sweden that is renowned for adding varying non-metal elements to its sound and for being influenced by diverse musical styles, ranging from jazz, 1970s progressive rock, blues and folk. Vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt is also noted for his singing, utilizing both clean and death growls, often in one song. Due to their unique blend of melodic and progressive elements, Opeth are often classified separately from more typical death metal acts. The name Opeth was taken from Wilbur Smith’s novel Sunbird and derived from Opet, a city of the moon named in the novel.

History

Opeth was formed in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden in 1990 by David Isberg. Isberg invited Mikael Åkerfeldt to join the band at a practice session as a bass player, but failed to inform the current bass player or any of the other members of the band. Because of this, all band members except for Isberg quit, and Åkerfeldt soon joined Opeth after his band, Eruption, faltered. With Åkerfeldt on guitar and David Isberg on vocals, Opeth still lacked members and needing more, they were soon joined by long-time friend of Åkerfeldt and former Eruption drummer Anders Nordin and Nick Döring on bass. Andreas Dimeo was recruited as a second guitarist. Rehearsing in an elementary school with old equipment they had found, this lineup lasted less than a year and only played one show. In 1991 they spent the summer rehearsing on the island of Hamnholmen outside Stockholm with their old school friend and bass player Max Jaderberg, who suggested a more prominent bass sound.

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Top Tracks

1	Coil	4,092
2	Windowpane full track	3,797
3	Heir Apparent	3,497
4	The Lotus Eater	3,474
5	Burden	3,369
6	Porcelain Heart	3,226
7	In My Time of Need	3,104
8	Bleak full track	2,957
9	Death Whispered a Lullaby	2,800
10	Ghost of Perdition full track	2,762
11	Hope Leaves	2,739
12	Harvest	2,726
13	Hessian Peel	2,716
14	Closure	2,557
15	Blackwater Park full track	2,457

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Layinginblack wrote:
56 minutes ago

Delano is a bastard.

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Layinginblack wrote:
57 minutes ago

It's also a female-fronted-metal bandwagon band. AGREED.

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FightforFreedom wrote:
2 hours ago

Usually prefer live to studio? Then check this group out! http://www.last.fm/group/Live+is+better+than+Studio

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Opeth_Watershed wrote:
3 hours ago

I'd have to say successful at making himself a moron, nothing else.

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Kevmaster wrote:
4 hours ago

Delano is a succesfull troll.

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SilentSscream wrote:
5 hours ago

\m/

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Tsjonkin wrote:
5 hours ago

otep is great, dyslexia isn't

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Victo_prog wrote:
8 hours ago

Hey, the 90's was also Faith No More. No bashing the 90's here. Otep really is a more vocal-centric Korn clone... It's also a female-fronted-metal bandwagon band.

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Justd1e wrote:
8 hours ago

Atleast Opeth had pretty darn good albums before. Otep got none. That whole "Watch me as I write about raep, molest unt abuse mambo jumbo and calling it sophisticated while blurping some smelly mass of nu methulz/hard cock abomination" is sooooo the 90's.

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neccy60 wrote:
9 hours ago

Korn on the CoB ftw

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The_Night_Head wrote:
10 hours ago

Someone join my group, http://www.last.fm/group/The+Church+of+Scientology

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EndoftheRoad wrote:
11 hours ago

Thats not the say Korn didn't have a ground breaking sound for their time, they did, but they don't have the skill Opeth do.

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EndoftheRoad wrote:
11 hours ago

Never listened to otep but I doubt they are better than opeth, opeth have one of the most unique sounds in music and otep looks like a Korn clone

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Layinginblack wrote:
12 hours ago

Otep are Garbage,imo.

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Delano999 wrote:
12 hours ago

Otep > Opeth

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Karppaky wrote:
yesterday afternoon

croc is so yesterday

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Layinginblack wrote:
yesterday afternoon

lol nice.

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Kevmaster wrote:
yesterday afternoon

because you're a faggot.

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s0ber wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Damn! Croc is gone again! Why? *crying*

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tomgallacher wrote:
yesterday morning

A mini-site for the new Opeth DVD, 'The Roundhouse Tapes' is now online at www.peaceville.com/opeth/theroundhousetapes The site has a trailer for the DVD, free mp3 download and more aswell as the chance to pre-order a copy of the special edition of the DVD.

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