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Opeth
Opeth is a name of a Swedish heavy metal band, being an important name in the world of music, right from its formation in the year of 1990 in the capitol of Stockholm. The band has gone through a series of changes, with regard to its members.

There is a one particular member, whom the band owes a credit for many of the things, named Mikael ?kerfeldt, he is singer, guitarist, and songwriter has remained Opeth's great power almost from the beginning of the band.

Opeth can best be defined as a band, which has firm roots in Scandinavian death metal. The band has continuously experimented with the fusion of progressive music, folk, blues rock and jazz into their generally very lengthy songs.

There are many compositions, formed by acoustic guitar interludes and strong dynamic shifts, along with both growling and clean vocals. Interestingly, they had such rare tours, to support their first four albums. In fact, Opeth had conducted the first world tour after the 2001 release of Blackwater Park.

It is very important to point out that, Opeth has released nine studio albums, two live albums, one box set, and one DVD, till date. The band had released its debut album titled "Orchid" in the year of 1995.

The band was unable to get the attention of the American music lovers, until the 2003 release of seventh effort Damnation which had a debut at number 192 on the Billboard 200. Opeth's ninth studio album, titled Watershed has been released on June 3, 2008, and it has entered the Billboard 200 at number 23.

According to the history of the Opeth, it was basically formed as a death metal band in the year of 1990 in Stockholm, by vocalist David Isberg. Isberg wanted to form a band and asked former Eruption band member Mikael ?kerfeldt to join the band as a bassist.

It is intersteing to tell you that ?kerfeldt was shown up to practice on the next day of Isberg"s invitation. At that time, Isberg had not cleared it to the band members that ?kerfeldt would be joining them. There was a conflict arose of the inclusion, but Isberg and ?kerfeldt left the band to form a one.

The name of the band was derived from the word "Opet", taken from the Wilbur Smith novel Sunbird, which meant "city of the moon". Isberg and ?kerfeldt had immediately recruited drummer Anders Nordin, bassist Nick D?ring, and guitarist Andreas Dimeo, for it.

Both D?ring and Dimeo had left the band after their first performance, as an indication towards the slow progress of the band.

They were replaced by guitarist Kim Pettersson and bassist Johan DeFarfalla. But controversies kept on being held, as right after the next show; DeFarfalla had left Opeth to spend time with his girlfriend in Germany.

So he was replaced by ?kerfeldt's friend, bassist Peter Lindgren. Lead guitarist Pettersson left following the band's next performance, and Lindgren switched to guitar. Isberg had lost all the interest in the band, and quitted in 1992 to join Liars in Wait.

The band had been survived with only three members, ?kerfeldt took over vocal duties, and the trio spent the next year writing and rehearsing new material.

The group began to rely less on the blast beats and aggression typical of death metal, and incorporated acoustic guitars and guitar harmonies into its music; developing the core sound of Opeth.