Unsurprisingly, the results and subsequent rewards have served the band and the metal genre well, allowing for challenges and even changes to long held and outdated notions of what constitutes membership in the cool-kids-only club. As a result, Opeth’s music has continually taken on the qualities of multiple sources, all while being channeled through the creative minds of the individual musicians.īypassing the corpse paint, unabashed bigotry, and general dumbassery of many of their contemporaries at the time, Opeth made the courageous decision to dedicate their energy, focus, and time to the music they were creating. A product of their generation, the Opeth’s enormous success comes primarily by way of them incorporating all aspects of their influences into the music, as opposed to filtering out what isn’t strictly heavy. Nearly three decades later, Opeth are one of heavy metal’s most widely respected and polarizing acts, captivating and even confusing fans over the course of what’s now 12 albums (tallied here as 11, because a pair of them were re-released as a two halves of a double-LP). Despite most human beings not having the capability to walk and chew gum at the same age, Opeth vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt was just 16 years old when he was asked to join the band. Formed the same year that Sinead O’Connor stood in front of a camera crying and singing a Prince song, Sweden’s Opeth began their journey in the typical old-fashioned way wherein a couple of people who play instruments meet a couple other people who do the same, and they find out that they like the same kind of music and don’t annoy the living shit out of each other, so they form a band.
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