Strangest place to find Opeth...

[cyanopsis]

Last tuesday, Peter Lindgren of Opeth featured in Dagens Industri (Industry Today), one of Sweden's biggest financial paper. The title reads "Physicist, big exporter of death metal". The article dealt mostly with the Swedish music export in general, where Opeth was considered a good example. It is said in the article that Deliverance has sold perhaps 5-6000 copies in Sweden compared to 140 000-150 000 worldwide, which makes them quite invisible on the home front. Further down it is said something about Peters background; that he has a BA in literature and a major degree in technical physics with financial mathematics as a speciality.There are two pictures, a recent one of Peter and a classic band photo. The article was a full page.

 

[Ermz]

Very nice.

 

[mot-]

Cool. Someone get Peter to write the lyrics.

 

[Lethal01]

cool Must have missed it. Time to go dig through the piles of old newspapers. but 5-6000 in sweden? Thats like, nothing.

 

[dorian gray]

translate "major degree" please. is that like a masters degree?
i admire musicians with education - it's hard to find time to do both.
anyway, i didnt know this. thanks for posting it.

 

[Ermz]

I mean those are some serious qualifications. If Opeth were to ever disband, Peter would be pretty set on other career paths.

 

[Luz]

I didn't know this, thanks for posting. As Dorian said, it's hard to find musicians with education.
Also Cyanopsis, could you please show me/us that pic?

\m/

Luz.-

 

[cyanopsis]

luz: sorry, I don't have it scanned.
Major degree... yeah, he's a Master of Engineering

 

[foulwing]

peter just became more dreamy!

aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!!

 

[Jinn]

Post the article

 

[opethpainter]

yeah, scan it and post it here

 

[The Invoking]

I think one of the strangest actual run-ins to one of the guys would have to be if your in a toilet stall next to one of the guys, and their moaning and have a terrible case of diarhea.

EDIT: You will probably want to wait until after they have washed their hands to sign some of your stuff.

 

[opethmaniac]

I wish they could have published this article in France actually...coz, for interviewers, journalists or media in general, we are really really crap,stupid and pointless you know...writing in a economic review that a guy (a guitarist !!) in a metal (death metal here, amazing !!) can have done long and *smart* studies would have been welcome from all the french metalheads, really..

 

[Risquit]

140,000 to 150,000? That might be the biggest sales total for D1 that we've heard...if its accurate.

 

[U Amtey]

In my ex-gf's car?

 

[Lethal01]

I went ahead and hunted the paper out from the bag of doom and scanned the article.

http://lethal01.shackspace.com/opeth/peterdi.jpg

 

[Nico]

^Good man.

 

[FUBAR]

^ cool, if only I could read swedish

 

[Ermz]

Cheers dude. That pic makes Peter look really old.

 

[deliverance]

^ cool, if only I could read swedish

my thoughts, exactly.