Members

Mikael Akerfeldt

Name: Lars Mikael Akerfeldt

Instrument: Voice, guitar

Birth date: April 17, 1974

Lives in: Stockholm/Sweden

Status: Married

Family: My wife Anna and my two daughters, Melinda & Mirjam, and 3 cats

Equipment: PRS guitars, Laney amps, D'addario strings, Dunlop picks, Seymor Duncan pickups

Previous/other bands or projects: Bloodbath, Eruption, Sorskogen

Website: www.myspace.com/mikaelakerfeldt

Influences: Obscure prog/psych, singer songwriters, metal and jazz and Ritchie Blackmore

Drinks: Corona, Diet Coke, dry Red Wine, Water and European Coffee

Eats: Esparagus, Italian, Greek, Swedish cousine and everything else

Favourite Opeth song: The lotus eater (right now)

Playlist May 2008:

• Vangelis - Earth
• Univers Zero - Ceux du dehors
• Jan Johansson - Jazz pa Svenska (eternal playlist)
• Colosseum - Daughter in time
• Bill Withers - Just as I am
• Jon Lucien - Rashida
• Joni Mitchell - Blue
• Warning - Same
• Black Sabbath - Born again
• Accept - I'm a rebel

Martin Mendez

Name: Martin Mendez

Instrument: Bass guitar

Birth date: 78-04-06

Lives in: Stockholm

Status: In a relationship

Family: Sandra and Noak

Equipment: Fender Jazz basses, 8x10 Fender cabinets, D´addario strings, Line6 pedalboard, American standard Jazz Bass, Fender TB- 1200 amp.

Previous/other bands or projects: Vinterkrig, Proxima.

Influences:

• Astor Piazzolla
• Morbid Angel
• Jaco Pastorius
• Stanley Clarke
• Darkthrone
• Joni Mitchell
• Madrugada
• Husnu Selendirici & Taksim Trio
• Jimi Hendrix
• Pink Floyd
• Chick Corea
• Scott Walker
• Alfredo Zitarrosa
• Queen
• Stevie Wonder
• Madder Mortem
• Triana

Drinks: Water, wine...

Eats: Meat, vegetables, cream brule

Favourite Opeth song: The Moor, Hessian Peel

Playlist May 2008:

• Testament - The Formation of Damnation
• Jaco Pastorius - Jaco

Per Wiberg

Name: Per Wiberg

Instrument: Keys

Birth date: June, 1968

Lives in: Stockholm

Status: Girlfriend

Family: Mom, Dad, Sister

Equipment: Nord Electro 2, Nord Wave, Korg Triton Extreme, Vox Wah, Boss DD3, 2 Laney VC 30

Previous/other bands or projects: King Hobo, Mojobone, Spiritual Beggars, Death Organ, Sky High...

Website: www.hippodomemusic.com

Influences:

• Hendrix
• Miles Davis
• Vincent Crane
• Colin Towns
• Jeff Beck
• Jan Hammer
• Mahavishnu Orchestra
• Diamanda Galas
• Venom
• Bad Brains
• ZZ Top
• Sabbath
• King Crimson
• Larry Young
• Magma
• Joy Division

Drinks: Guinness

Eats: Seafood and Hot dogs

Favourite Opeth song: Demon Of The Fall, Blackwater Park

Playlist May 2008:

• Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
• Diamanda Galas - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
• Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
• Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
• Ornette Coleman - Skies Of America
• Kamchatka - Demos 2008
• North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando
• Betty Lavette - The Scene of the Crime
• The Roots - Rising down

Martin Axenrot

Name: Martin Axenrot

Birth date: March 5, 1979

Status: Engaged

Family: Nathalie and Max

Equipment: DW Drums and hardware, Sabian Cymbals, Pro Mark sticks

Previous bands: Witchery, Bloodbath, Satanic Slaughter, Nifelheim, Nathalie Lorichs

Web site: http://web.mac.com/clorichs/Nathalie

Drinks: Brämhults, Beer, Red Wine

Eats: Smoked fish(salamon), Rosemary lamb and anything that Linguini serves.

Favourite Opeth song: Moonlaps vertigo, Hex Omega

Playlist August 2008:

• Jeff Buckley - Grace
• Testament - The Formation of Damnation
• Dire Straits - Dire Straits
• The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

12.05.2009 1:46 PM:

For the US shows go to: http://bit.ly/4CZZMm and click on "Tickets" Login is: opeth Password is: tickets

12.05.2009 1:44 PM:

For the European shows go to: http://bit.ly/794xBz and click on "Tickets Pre-order" Login is: opeth Password is: tickets

12.03.2009 3:28 AM:

... we've never had a release party, never celebrated anything officially. Well, now is the time, you hear? - Mikael Akerfeldt

12.01.2009 5:18 PM:

OPETH "Evolution XX: An Opeth Anthology" - 20th Anniversary shows, read all about it here: http://bit.ly/8Hita9

11.30.2009 1:15 PM:

Playing Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden on 03-30-10.