Opeth

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Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band renowned for blending death metal, progressive rock, and acoustic elements into complex, atmospheric compositions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Swedish metal band
band
progressive metal band
associatedAct Bloodbath
Katatonia
Porcupine Tree
Steven Wilson
Storm Corrosion
bassist Martín Méndez
countryOfOrigin Sweden
debutAlbum Orchid
formedInCity Stockholm
formedInCountry Sweden
formedInYear 1990
founder David Isberg
genre acoustic rock
avant-garde metal
death metal
extreme metal
folk rock
progressive metal
progressive rock
hasAlbum Blackwater Park
Damnation
Deliverance
Ghost Reveries
Heritage
In Cauda Venenum
Morningrise
My Arms, Your Hearse
Orchid
Pale Communion
Sorceress
Still Life
Watershed
hasFormerMember Anders Nordin
David Isberg
Johan De Farfalla
Kim Pettersson
Martin Axenrot
Martin Lopez
Mattias Ander
Nick Döring
Per Wiberg
Peter Lindgren
Stefan Guteklint
Tomás Åkvik
hasLiveAlbum Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Lamentations (Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire 2003)
The Roundhouse Tapes
hasMember Fredrik Åkesson
Joakim Svalberg
Martín Méndez
Mikael Åkerfeldt
keyboardist Joakim Svalberg
label Candlelight Records
Century Media Records
Music For Nations
linked to: Music for Nations

Roadrunner Records
languageOfLyrics English
leadGuitarist Fredrik Åkesson
longestServingMember Mikael Åkerfeldt
lyricalTheme death
existentialism
melancholy
romanticism
notableAlbum Blackwater Park
Ghost Reveries
Still Life
notableFor blend of death metal and progressive rock
dynamic shifts between heavy and acoustic passages
long, complex song structures
notableSong Deliverance
Ghost of Perdition
The Drapery Falls
Windowpane
releaseYear 1995
styleCharacteristic frequent tempo and time-signature changes
melancholic and atmospheric sound
use of growled and clean vocals
touringRegion Asia
Europe
North America
South America
vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt

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