Sorry I don't have a scanner, just got this in the mail and low and behold what I read in their music section. No mention of their new album but it does feature a small picture of Mikael.
Stuff Magazine December 05 2005, page: 62
A posers guide to Scandinavian Death metal: Opeth lead singer and guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt reviews the art of black metal
What it is:
Started in the early '80s in Sweden and Finland and later migrating into Norway, Scandinavian death metal is so violent that Norwegian monsters Mayhem reportedly once made a necklace of their dead lead singer's skull fragments after he shot himself. One bandmate is rumored to have eaten pieces of his brain. Be afraid.
Relevant bands:
Bathory
"They where responsible for the whole Norwegian death metal scene."
Dismember
"They where on of the most pure death-metal bands of the era. They still are."
Smesisgo
"They only put out two demos but where highly influential in Stockholm.
Essential Albums:
A blaze in the northern sky, Darkthrone
"Their second album is almost as responsible as Bathory for the death-metal thing sweeping Norway."
Left Hand Path, Entombed
"For the time, it was the album to get. I bought it on the day it was released, and I think it still sounds as fresh."
The red in the sky is ours, At the Gates
"Although I was disappointed with the production, At the Gates' first full-length record was highly anticipated."
Stuff Magazine December 05 2005, page: 62
A posers guide to Scandinavian Death metal: Opeth lead singer and guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt reviews the art of black metal
What it is:
Started in the early '80s in Sweden and Finland and later migrating into Norway, Scandinavian death metal is so violent that Norwegian monsters Mayhem reportedly once made a necklace of their dead lead singer's skull fragments after he shot himself. One bandmate is rumored to have eaten pieces of his brain. Be afraid.
Relevant bands:
Bathory
"They where responsible for the whole Norwegian death metal scene."
Dismember
"They where on of the most pure death-metal bands of the era. They still are."
Smesisgo
"They only put out two demos but where highly influential in Stockholm.
Essential Albums:
A blaze in the northern sky, Darkthrone
"Their second album is almost as responsible as Bathory for the death-metal thing sweeping Norway."
Left Hand Path, Entombed
"For the time, it was the album to get. I bought it on the day it was released, and I think it still sounds as fresh."
The red in the sky is ours, At the Gates
"Although I was disappointed with the production, At the Gates' first full-length record was highly anticipated."
