Opeth And Religion / Faith

[Padre Bob de France]

Do you know what are the thoughts of Opeth about faith, religion etc...?
Are they really against?
Do you have some interview of Akerfeldt about these things?

 

[Land Of Grey And Pink]

Do you know what are the thoughts of Opeth about faith, religion etc...?
Are they really against?
Do you have some interview of Akerfeldt about these things?

I beleive he is at least agnostic if not atheist. I highly doubt he is religious in any sense. Not to mention the newest album is supposed to be based on the occult...and 95% of death metal fans/bands are not religious. So im gonna say no on this one.

 

[Moonstruck]

I believe Mikael said in an interview that Christian people are the most evil people on the planet.

 

[TheFourthHorseman]

I'll try and find something he said in an old LotFP interview...
Naah can't find it...well I remember reading from somewhere that he wasn't really pro-religion anyway. You can tell from Still Life that he isn't that happy about religion I suppose. Even if it's just a story. I mean, Neal Morse wouldn't make an album where religious people hang a guy and slit his girl's throat.

 

[suislidE]

Thats what religious people did back then to certain individuals..

 

[Testamentt]

I remember an interview (I might be off) from a couple years ago where Mikael said "I never took to religion" or something like that, even though i think his family was somewhat religious? Something along these lines.

 

[The Guy outside the Windowpane]

I've got religion and I like their music but then again I'm a newbie

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

i dont know why religious ppl shouldnt like music made by not religious ppl...

 

[prowlergrig]

quote from mikael in 99:

Well, them Christians never get enough. I hate them! I despise Christianity, but I try not to care at all. I get disgusted when I see people who are so...nice! It’s shining through, those people gets my vote for being the sickest people on this earth. I bet they’re raping their children at home. They are sick motherfuckers!

http://www.mindspring.com/~raggije/interviews/OPETH03-1999.htm

i think this was a more personal interview, before they got as big as they are now.. i bet mike wouldn't say something like that today.

i don't blame him tho

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

that's straight! sounds really unakerfeldtesque...

 

[TheFourthHorseman]

Right, that's the interview I was looking for...well, I think I looked through it too, but the LotFP interviews with Mike are just pretty long.
Agree with Narrot, too. Works vice versa too, even though I'm still to find a christian band that I like. Nick Cave comes close, but he isn't christian. He's a god, though.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

nick cave rules

 

[TheFourthHorseman]

Yase...I might as well stop listening to Dying Fetus, it's getting kinda late.

 

[animalstack]

from a more current interview (Metal Refuge, '03)

"I’m actually baptized, and I was confirmed too, but that was one of the things you did, everybody did it. But I didn’t have any beliefs. We went on this trip up to the North in Sweden, for confirmation, like this camp. We stayed there for a week and we read the Bible and we had to do our own prayers. But I brought my death metal album, I wasn’t into that whole thing at all. It was just pretty much a theme because once you got in the front, you got a lot of gifts. My sister did it, I saw she got money and I was like “yeah” you know. All my friends did it, so I went there. But I’ve never believed in anything, any religion at all."

http://www.metalrefuge.com/interviews/opeth.html

 

[Katatonic]

I've got religion and I like their music but then again I'm a newbie

Dont worry dude, I'm an oldie and I've "got religion"

 

[Post_Scriptum]

It's okay, why do you guys care?

 

[iseesmurfs420]

I dont know if this is relvant but at the SF show before they played Demon of the Fall he said he made Demon sitting in a circle worshipping satan.

 

[Nico]

The beleifs of the band members has no effect on their music.

And I very much doubt that they're in any way occultists.

 

[Katatonic]

I dont know if this is relvant but at the SF show before they played Demon of the Fall he said he made Demon sitting in a circle worshipping satan.

I love it how metal bands think this stuff is offensive to Christian metalheads, it makes me laugh