Discography

About Our Albums

As you all know, it is sometimes very hard to put your finger on what makes a band original and unique. I am not trying to boast here, but in my point of view there is no other band just like Opeth. Personally I appreciate when bands shock you, when they take unexpected turns in their music that you couldn't see coming. That is somewhat the essence of Opeth, and I think it is something that is present on all our albums. See, when we started up as Eruption we were more or less a ordinary death metal band, but somewhere along the road we found something that made Opeth what Opeth is today. It might be our interest in symphonic and progressive music which to me is the ultimate form of music. We have come to the point where we don't care at all what kind of music we are playing, there are no boundaries at all! The strange thing is that it's not intentional. I don't doubt one second that we'd be a bigger band if we did what was good for Opeth..but we just don't! The day we would limit ourselves or adapt to the music scene, would be the day Opeth dies.

Certainly, there are some parts on our albums that was kind of daring. With "Morningrise" we incuded a balladlike track in "To bid you farewell" right in the midst of the rising Black metal trend.

Don't you think we'd be better off if we had blastbeats and satanic lyrics instead? Now, afterwards, "To bid you farewell" has done many good things for us, as we have now been accepted to be a bit odd. That's just the way we like it!

Opeth started up in 1990 I wrote all the material myself with suggestions from the former vocalist, David. When Peter joined in late 1991 I found someone that I could write together with. I had written a track called "Poise into Celeano" and it turned out way different from the things we had done before, and when Peter came in the picture, me and him started to re-arrange all the stuff we had. It was our most creative period, and we rehearsed 6 days a week at times. Eventually we had achieved a sound of our own. Twin guitar harmonies, loads of acoustic parts, no blastbeats, long, long tracks, even some normal singing. Eventually Candlelight wanted to do an album with us. That was "Orchid".