**** NEWS ****

[BLiTzER]

"Mikael will be featured as a guest vocalist on the new album by Ayreon entitled "The Human Equation"

[BLiTzER]

From Bravewords:

"Candlelight Records are reissuing OPETH’s Orchid, Morningrise and My
Arms, Your Hearse albums on October 20th in very limited edition logo
embossed tins. This edition is limited to a run of 2,000."

Ligo arga alla anyway.. ego tora to phra xampari kai ta paraggeila :P

Gia tous fans mono fantazomai. Den yparxei tpt extra (ektos apo ton teneke :P kai ena sticker)

[StationEleven]

Shooting endangers life of band --

On Monday 27th October 2003, the four band members of Opeth had a near miss experience, whilst caught in the crossfire on their tour bus between a gang of bank robbers and the Norwegian police during a day off on their current Scandinavian tour. Whilst returning to the tour bus, which was parked outside Oslo's Central Station and Central Post Office, Opeth guitarist Peter Lindgren and his girlfriend Jessica witnessed a car at full speed crashing into the Central Post Office. At first, they presumed that the occupants of the vehicle were 'joy-riders', but they immediately heard gunfire, and made a hasty retreat to the tour bus. Once within the relative safety of the tour bus, the police arrived and engaged the perpetrators in a cops and robbers style shooting only yards from the tour bus. As Opeth viewed the proceedings from the tour bus windows, they witnessed the robbers escape away from the Post Office and across the parking lot, where one of the robbers took shelter behind the Opeth tour bus. Trying to do their civilian duty, the band tried to notify the police of the whereabouts of the hidden robber, by shining a light through the tour bus window, but without success. Unfortunately they were confined to the tour bus for quite some time due to the fact that they didn't dare leave the bus as the trigger happy police may not have realised the difference between a black-clothed bank robber, or a black-clothed metal band member. Peter Lindgren said "It was an action filled end to a usually boring day off!"

paraligo...fiouuu

[BLiTzER]

Pali kala...

Kai mia kai den to anefera sta news apo ton enthousiasmo na mpo se leptomereies, to DVD me ton titlo "Lamentations" kykloforhse th Deytera 24 Noemvrh sthn Eyroph kai shmera 28 Noemvrh kykloforei Amerikh. Perissoteres plhrofories sto sxetiko thread.

[Dragonlord]

OPETH have been forced to cancel their previously announced gig in Jordan due to sickness.

The following is OPETH frontman Mikael Akerfeldt's official statement on the matter:

"It's seem to be a dark spell upon OPETH at this moment. First Chile and now Jordan. I'm in a terrible state myself right now but will try to explain to you our reasons for cancelling.

"[OPETH drummer] Martin Lopez called me 10 minutes before I was supposed to get in the cab for the airport saying he couldn't go. He's suffered a stress-related breakdown and said he simply couldn't do this. We've never cancelled a gig ever before due to the state of the band, so I knew he was serious when he said this. He has a doctors appointment and my guess is that he's suffering from panic or anxiety attacks. This is the reason why we decided to cancel this gig in Amman, Jordan.

"Yesterday our entire (all but one) crew dropped off due to the recent terrorist attacks. See, our crew is from the UK and were worried they'd be going into trouble. So at one point we had no crew, and the gig was in danger of being cancelled. After close talk with Mute Records we decided that we'll go anyways regardless if we had enough crew guys or not, and now this!!

"I want to stress out to all the fans that has travelled high and low to get to the venue in Amman that we are beyond sorry! I can't tell you how bad we feel about this. We sincerely hope that we'll get another chance to do a gig in Jordan soon, in fact we are trying to talk to Mute Records about that possibility. All of us really looked forward to going to Amman, not only because of the gig but also because there was a day set out for us to do some serious sightseeing of your country.

"These are dark times for OPETH and it seems like the circumstances got the best of us this time. We've done over 150 gigs this year I believe so in a way I'm not surprised.

"As I'm writing this I've just got informed about a death in the Akerfeldt family so my mind is not what it should be. I'm trying to keep it together here and explain to you, and apologize for all the problems we've caused.

"Anyways, we love you all and again, we're so sorry!! I'm gonna post something about Martin Lopez state as soon as I know myself."

[BLiTzER]

"Opeth are confirmed to play the annual Sweden Rock festival in Karlshamn/Solvesborg in July 2004. The festival will be one of VERY few performances during 2004 as the band will be in resting/writing and eventually recording mode. Sweden Rock is headlined by the newly reformed Judas Priest among others."

Pshnetai kaneis? :P Btw Priest tha erthoun kai Rockwave... hmm...

[Oriion]

..ti egine ..pethane to Forum?

..nai siga mhn pao 234534523452345xlm makria gia na do Priest Headliners..

...epishs ta tins den einai gia fans, einai gia thymata..

[BLiTzER]

Nai opos ta singles/ktl ton Metz ;P

[BLiTzER]

"Opeth has once again been nominated to the Swedish Grammy award in the category best Rock/Metal act of the year. This is the third year in a row that Opeth has been nominated. Last year they won the award for their 6th album Deliverance. This year Damnation are nominated. The nominees in this category are apart from Opeth, Backyard Babies, Evergrey, The Haunted and Mustasch. Keep your fingers crossed on the 9th of february!"

http://www.opeth.com/

[BLiTzER]

"Mikael Akerfeldt and the band will go into writing mode sometime in May of this year.

The band are currently looking into studios in which to record the next (8th!) album. Steven Wilson has already agreed to produce the next observation. Possible time of recording might be early 2005 with a release before the Summer of the same year.

In related news, Mikael has decided not to participate on the next Bloodbath album to due lack of time. His replacment will be announced later this year. Check out http://www.bloodbath.biz for more information."

http://www.opeth.com

[Stormrider]

2 pragamatakia pou diavasa se kapies sinentefxeis...
sinfona me ton petrucci (kitharistas dream theater ) to agapimenotou album gia tion xrinai pou mas perase itan to damnation..
kai sinfona me ton akerfeldt to agapimeno tou itan twn katatonia ...

afta... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Morganth]

Μιχαλάκης Χωραφάς + Σταύρος Θελησοϋός

OPETH mastermind Mikael Akerfeldt and PORCUPINE TREE frontman Steven Wilson will reportedly collaborate on a LINDA PERHACS cover for a tribute CD to the early '70s U.S. singer/songwriter, due later in the year.
-- link (http://www.blistering.com/news/newsdet.php3?ID=4675)

Btw, αυτό είναι αυτό το περιβόητο που ακούγαμε "Steven Wilsom και Μιχάλης μαζί"; Εμένα μου είχαν πει ότι θα είναι σε Porcupine Tree album... Αλλά δεν βρήκα πουθενά καμία τέτοια δήλωση.

[BLiTzER]

Arghsa ligo, opote paizei poly neo:

"On the 21st of August Peter Lindgren got married with his longtime girlfriend Jessica Svensson at Galogaden outside Stockholm. Pictures coming (hopefully) soon! Congartulations!"

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"Mikael Akerfeldt's wife, Anna gave birth to a healthy and beautiful baby girl on the evening of Monday the 13th. This is the couple's first baby, and also the first born child within the Opeth camp. Their daughter's name Melinda Akerfeldt (of course)!! Weight: 3290 grams, height: 50 centimeters."

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"Opeth's management, Northern music are still negotiating with several recordlabels. At this point there are no information about who might be the (lucky) label that gets to release the next Opeth opus. Speaking of which is currently being written (between changing diapers) at the Akerfeldt household. Hopefully to be recorded in the late Spring of 2005."

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"Opeth have secured a endorsement co-operation with Seymour Duncan pickups. Mikael is already using their SH-10 pickup on 2 of his PRS guitars."

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"Opeth session keyboardist Per Wiberg has laid down his keyboard tracks at Studio Fredman for the new, upcoming Spiritual beggars album. Due for release late this year or early 2005. He's also recently embarked on a shorter North-Swedish tour with legendary blues band, Sky High, led by famed guitarist Claes Yngstrom."

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"Bloodbath will soon release their second full length Cd, "Nightmares made flesh" at the end of September. Although Mikael has stepped down from the vocal position in favour of Peter Tagtgren it is still very much a endorsed release by the Opeth camp!"

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"Peaceville records have slight, though yet unconfirmed plans to release a 5.1 surround sound mix re-release of Opeth's 4th album, "Still life". More information as we have it."

(opeth.com)

[Morganth]

[zER]"On the 21st of August Peter Lindgren got married with his longtime girlfriend Jessica Svensson at Galogaden outside Stockholm. Pictures coming (hopefully) soon! Congartulations!"

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"Mikael Akerfeldt's wife, Anna gave birth to a healthy and beautiful baby girl on the evening of Monday the 13th. This is the couple's first baby, and also the first born child within the Opeth camp. Their daughter's name Melinda Akerfeldt (of course)!! Weight: 3290 grams, height: 50 centimeters."


:labiri:

[BLiTzER]

Melinda omos etsi? Proskyno tapeina.

[Morganth]

[zER]Melinda omos etsi? Proskyno tapeina.

Είναι καλτ ρε ο Μιχαλάκης :P Έχεις δει φωτογραφίες από τον γάμο του; (τί ρωτάω τώρα... :P) Θα μπορούσαν να είναι και cover σε album ας πούμε :P

[Morganth]

SW: How’s Martin (Lopez) feeling?

MA: He’s feeling well. He’s much better. He had a problem at the start of the tour which has been bugging him for quite some time and he suffered panic attacks and stress and he was very depressed and all that stuff so he had to go back home, and he missed the first three gigs.

SW: Oh that’s terrible.

MA: But he went to see a psychologist and they told him he’s got something that is in his family. Some kind of thing with his blood that gets his heart beating fast and then he gets depressed and all that stuff. So I think he was very relaxed by knowing what it is, because he was literally thinking that he was going insane. And now he knows what his sickness is and he can be helped and he got some medication and he’s going to see a psychologist on a regular basis when we get back home, and he’s much happier now and back to normal pretty much.
-- link (http://www.crushermagazine.com/featopeth.htm)

[Twisted_Bassist]

SW: How’s Martin (Lopez) feeling?

MA: He’s feeling well. He’s much better. He had a problem at the start of the tour which has been bugging him for quite some time and he suffered panic attacks and stress and he was very depressed and all that stuff so he had to go back home, and he missed the first three gigs.

SW: Oh that’s terrible.

MA: But he went to see a psychologist and they told him he’s got something that is in his family. Some kind of thing with his blood that gets his heart beating fast and then he gets depressed and all that stuff. So I think he was very relaxed by knowing what it is, because he was literally thinking that he was going insane. And now he knows what his sickness is and he can be helped and he got some medication and he’s going to see a psychologist on a regular basis when we get back home, and he’s much happier now and back to normal pretty much.
-- link (http://www.crushermagazine.com/featopeth.htm)

eisai i labiri i idia :worship:

[Morganth]

SW: How’s Martin (Lopez) feeling?

MA: He’s feeling well. He’s much better. He had a problem at the start of the tour which has been bugging him for quite some time and he suffered panic attacks and stress and he was very depressed and all that stuff so he had to go back home, and he missed the first three gigs.

SW: Oh that’s terrible.

MA: But he went to see a psychologist and they told him he’s got something that is in his family. Some kind of thing with his blood that gets his heart beating fast and then he gets depressed and all that stuff. So I think he was very relaxed by knowing what it is, because he was literally thinking that he was going insane. And now he knows what his sickness is and he can be helped and he got some medication and he’s going to see a psychologist on a regular basis when we get back home, and he’s much happier now and back to normal pretty much.
-- link (http://www.crushermagazine.com/featopeth.htm)

eisai i labiri i idia :worship:

Ο Μιχάλης φταίει που τα ομολογεί όλα :P

[Starbreaker]

http://www.opeth.com/biography/images/melinda2.jpg

To mikro akerfeldtidi. :P Glyka den einai?

[sereg]

Interview tou Akerfeldt opou milaei metaksy allwn gia to neo disko alla kai gia simvolaio me nea diskografiki etairia. Aksizei.

http://www.hailmetal.com/gate.html?name=MReviews&op=show&rid=83

[Stormrider]

http://www.opeth.com/biography/images/melinda2.jpg

To mikro akerfeldtidi. :P Glyka den einai?
to melindaki