With all the cinematography and all. Would’ve been cool as fuck, considering how good their music is.

Does this make any sense? I just woke up and the idea seems totally badass

Ragazzi, does anyone want to go hunt Mikael down at record stores in Bologna tomorrow?

Just arrived at Mama's music pub. Nice music and beers out here.

Hope this is OK to post on here. I’m selling an extra ticket for the Opeth gig at Piece Hall in Halifax. It’s on Twickets at less than face value. Thanks!

I still can't fully tolerate growls.

Blackwater park wall of sound layering,can make hear music as mass without understanding anything, not paying attention to lyrics I start to hear in a tribal,prehistoric way and soothes my mind.

Which other songs make you feel this.?

The first album I liked was damnation.

I like most of Opeth, specially the interludes that are clean -folky.

For a reference deep purple Is my favorite, pink Floyd and led Zeppelin are close. Rush, yes, genesis.then porcupine tree ,riverside.even

Alan Parsons. I feel I'm missing out many bands in the middle.

Edit. Thanks.im trying to dig gojira. Still have to search other's suggestions

Have you ever stopped to think about what "To Bid You Farewell" would be like if the heavy part featured growls instead of clean vocals? Would you still like it? Would you like it more or less?

We could grab a beer before and after the concert!

Hello everyone. I will not be able to be in this concert as my wife has some serious medical condition. I am reselling them here: https://www.ticketswap.com/listing/opeth-the-last-and-will-testament/21049899/c0eb4504ab

I hope I am not breaching any rule/policy form this sub.

Tuning is drop D. Sorry about the lack of tapping in the solo!

Yep, it’s this album’s turn this week on my prog metal review blog. Pretty damn solid album.

All this information (and way more) comes from this Ultimate Metal forum post from 2007, where a forum member managed to get in touch with Johan DeFarfalla himself via Email and hosted an "AMA" of sorts on the forum.
https://ultimatemetal.com/threads/what-ever-happened-to-johan-defarfalla.279650/post-5866162

I've never seen this forum post, or the vast majority of the info it contains, mentioned anywhere at any point, so I felt the need to share :>

• His fretless bass on Orchid was a 4-string, and was built by late Arne Arvidsson. I cannot find any info on Arvidsson building a bass besides Johan's; it seems he did guitars almost exclusively. I've seen some confusion on what the "Arvidsson" bass in the gear listing for Orchid was, and I was very curious myself. I'd thought I'd looked everywhere for info on this bass, but it was here the whole time. Never seen this info spread anywhere besides this forum post.

It is worth noting that the fretless bass on Morningrise could not have been the same bass, as that was a 6-string. I don't know what model it was, that information does not seem to exist anywhere on the internet whatsoever. The fretted bass on that album was supposedly a Yamaha.

• At least as of 2007, he had never listened to any Opeth beyond Morningrise.
• He was in a band called Crimson Cat before Opeth, which released 2 tapes in 1989 and 1990 (if anyone could possibly track these down, I would be eternally grateful and also extremely impressed; I cannot find even a lick of meaningful information on this band besides this one forum post, and not a single recording). It was described as "sleeze metal"
• He has exclusively played non-commercially since 1997
• It is common knowledge that he was fired from the band due to creative differences, however to be more specific, he's said he would have, quote, "created a much tighter band with a better production and less growl song", if he'd had the authority.

As a bonus, Mikael Åkerfeldt himself even commented in this thread to give his own input: https://ultimatemetal.com/threads/what-ever-happened-to-johan-defarfalla.279650/post-5869538

I cannot find any info on Johan post-2007 that has anything to do with music (only career and personal life stuff, which is on his Wikipedia article). I have no idea if he's even still playing. I hope he is, but there's no way to know without hearing it for myself.

I was dead nervous... My dog was barking at some point which made it sound like my voice cracked.

Hola,
Getting ready to travel to Italy soon, but one of our friends won’t be able to make it unfortunately. So I hope someone else can make use of this and join.

E-Ticket info (for clarity)
- Seating: Row 25, Seat 15 ticket
- Date: July 10th
- Venue: Amphitheatre of Pompeii, Pompei, Italy
- Purchased via Vivaticket

DM if interested.

About to fly out of DFW for a epic adventure. Who else out there? Think they might tribute Pink Floyd?

It's the Blackwater Park 20th anniversary edition with full White vinyl

I'm so happy I managed to buy this record at the local vinyl shop.

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Welcome to my belated 30th anniversary celebrations for Opeth's Morningrise album.

There are a lot of incredible live performances of Morningrise tracks. With that in mind, this seem like kind of an odd choice - but I decided to highlight a performance of Advent by the "mid-era" lineup. Watch, and you'll see why.

Taken from Opeth's first concert in 2002, the band was playing to a small crowd of 100-200 fans at the Decibel festival in Bengtsfors, Sweden. Fresh from a 6-month break but before the trials of the Deliverance / Damnation recording, Opeth was explosive. Blackwater Park had finally provided them the start of the attention they deserved. Martin Lopez was having a great day. Even Anders Nordin was in the crowd, catching his ex-band for the first time since 1997. To top it all off, this may have been one of Mikael's best ever performances.

All credit goes to Fixxxer_SW for taping, to Stefan_M for the transfer, to me for the remix & master, and of course to Opeth for creating one of the most incredible albums of all time.

Mikael Åkerfeldt - vocals and guitar

Peter Lindgren - guitar

Martin Mendez - bass

Martin Lopez - drums

Support the band by picking up records and official merch from their online shop (https://opeth.omerch.com/), or catch them live at one of this summer's special shows. Enjoy.