Opeth

Opeth is a progressive death metal band from Sweden. Opeth adds several lighter elements to their music, with acoustic guitar, clean vocals, and influences from jazz and blues, on top of the fast, churning death metal-esque sound. A remarkable fact about the band is that vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt does both clean singing and death vocals, and is quite proficient with both vocal styles.

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Progressive - Death metal - Sweden - Mikael Åkerfeldt - Death vocals

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Due to the addition of melodic and progressive elements, they are said to not conform to the death metal, or any other, genre. Another factor that separates Opeth from the death metal genre is their lyrics, which are hardly as brutal as other death metal bands and often involve a poetic theme about the beauty of pain. The name Opeth was taken from the book Sunbird (1972) by author Wilbur Smith, and was originally spelled Opet. In the book, Opet is the city of the moon.

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1972 - Wilbur Smith

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