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Before the pandemic, we caught up with Swedish prog-metal greats Opeth to hear how they create their colossal live sound. Read more on Reverb : https://bit.l

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Video: The Gear of Opeth's Prog-Metal Live Rig. Published June 11, 2020 by Reverb. Interviews. Artist. Before the pandemic, we caught up with Sweden prog-metal greats Opeth to hear how they create their colossal live sound. Amid the battery of instruments, you'll find a collection of PRS guitars, which Mikael Åkerfeldt explains how he got

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This is a community-built gear list for Mikael Akerfeldt. Find relevant music gear like microphones, guitar rig, amplifier setup, effects pedalboard, bass guitar rig, and other instruments and add it to Mikael Akerfeldt.; The best places to look for gear usage are typically on the artist's social media, YouTube, live performance images, and interviews.

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Opeth Effects Pedals Mikael Åkerfeldt. Fractal AX8 - This is a huge platform that Mikael only uses to add some echo, delay, and reverb to the guitar signal. He also uses it to change between the amp sounds, but more on that in a bit. You could replace it with a Hall of Fame and a Carbon Copy, easily, and for a fraction of the price.

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Before the pandemic, we caught up with the Swedish prog-metal heavyweights of Opeth to find out how they create their colossal live sound.

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Very special thanks to Coty Allinson, Opeth's guitar technician, who was kind enough to walk us through Mikael Åkerfeldt's live guitar rig.. Click on the thumbnails below to view the full-size images: Boss GT-8 Opeth's Guitars Laney Amplifiers

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Widely acknowledged as one of the most productive and ground-breaking periods in extreme metal history, the Swedish death metal boom of the early 90s certainly threw up its fair share of significant bands and musicians, but even though he and Opeth proudly remained part of that scene, Åkerfeldt cut a somewhat peculiar figure as his fascination

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October 8, 2019. Photo by Jonas Akerlund. The outspoken frontman pushes the muse—moving his band's sound beyond metal by blending vintage and cutting-edge instruments and sounds on their 13th studio album, In Cauda Venenum. Opeth's 2011 album, Heritage, marked a drastic stylistic shift by Sweden's premier progressive-metal band.

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In this most recent edition of Rig Rundown by our friends at Premier Guitar, Opeth guitarist Fredrik Åkesson goes through his entire live setup! From his and fellow guitarist/singer Mikael Åkerfeldt's 6-string PRS guitars and miniature Synergy amp modules to their pedalboards, this all-inclusive guitar rig should answer any and all guitar-related Opeth questions fans may have.

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Mikael Åkerfeldt can't remember precisely where he was when a disgruntled crowd member challenged him to a duel, but it was - inevitably - somewhere in America. Åkerfeldt's band Opeth were on a US club tour in support of their 2011 album Heritage, a record that jettisoned the last vestiges of their guttural extreme metal sound in favour of music that was pastoral, contemplative and

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Interview: Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt Talks New Album, Gear and More. By Andrew Bansal. published 28 March 2014. Swedish progressive metal stalwarts Opeth will soon release their still-untitled 11th studio album, the follow-up to 2011's Heritage, which saw the band veer toward an organic Seventies hard rock vibe.

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Opeth have become one of the most revered bands in modern metal due to an unceasing artistic drive. Chief songwriter and frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has steered the band through many styles and iterations over a highly successful career, rarely content to settle on any one genre or blanket sound.. The death metal of Opeth's early work gave way to more acoustic, expansive arrangements in

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The other Mikael Åkerfeldt might be gone, but the current embodiment is not afraid to wear the death metal mask of his band. This situates Opeth in a compelling and somewhat uncomfortable position where they refuse to fit conveniently as a straightforward metal or a purist rock band. They hold each countenance up to face the other in front of

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Metal Hammer. Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt: My Life In 10 Songs. By Rich Hobson. ( Metal Hammer ) published 10 June 2021. From Opeth and Storm Corrosion to Bloodbath, Mikael Åkerfeldt reveals the stories behind 10 classic songs. (Image credit: Press) When Mikael Åkerfeldt joined Opeth in 1990, he was just a death metal -loving kid from

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Introduction. Opeth guitarists Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson walk us through the various weapons in their sonic arsenal…. Alone, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson are easily two of the best guitarists around today. But together, they stand as a force most spectacular indeed: Mikael, as the prolific songwriter and creative

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Opeth, circa 2000: (L-R) Martín Méndez, Martín López, Peter Lindgren, Mikael Åkerfeldt (Image credit: Press). Not that there was much of it. A lot of the tracks came together at Studio Fredman almost haphazardly, with many parts being written and rewritten only moments before being recorded. Åkerfeldt's logic was that the snippets of music he'd already come up with were a good enough

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A founding member of the band, Akerfeldt has taken Opeth from the dark realms of progressive death metal to a more cerebral classic prog rock sound that is now filling arenas and raised their chart positions since 2008's Watershed but he hates categorizations. He recalls the time Opeth was called "a thinking man's metal band".

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Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson discuss the evolution of the band from its early death metal roots, their approach to songwriting and the import

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Arte conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH at this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, which is taking place this

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Prog. "We ended up with what I think is a beautiful record." How Opeth made In Cauda Venenum. By Dom Lawson. ( Prog ) published 27 September 2023. You can't control creativity, as Mikael Åkerfeldt discovered when he tried to take a musical break. Instead, he sowed the seeds for Opeth's 13th album, In Cauda Venenum.

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"I discovered Tommy Emmanuel maybe 10 years ago," continued Åkerfeldt. "He's fucking fantastic. When you hear him play, it's, like, 'Wow, I wish I could play like that.' I also love Bert Jansch and Nick Drake. Joni Mitchell is very underrated. "Then there's rhythm players like James Hetfield, Malcolm Young, Dave Mustaine, and those guys. "And I still love Yngwie!

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Having formed Opeth in 1989, Åkerfeldt has released 12 albums with the band (the most recent being Sorceress, which was released in September 2016) and has been the driving force behind the group's combination of death/black metal and prog/classic rock. We caught up with Mikael during the tail end of Opeth's 2017 European tour and

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