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 JAM! Music reprots that for years, Swedish metalheads Opeth have contrasted the heavy with the
not-so-heavy: Machine-gun guitar blasts with moody piano interludes,
boss-monster howling with clean choruses, and so forth.
But on their latest album Watershed, Opeth's revamped lineup takes
the "anything-goes" approach even further, incorporating prog, jazz,
funk and folk.
"I simply cannot have Opeth be tied down to one particular
kind of genre," explains frontman Mikael Akerfeldt from a tour stop in
London, Ont. "In fact, I love writing songs now because we have this
infinite freedom to do whatever we want, which is what we've been
working towards all these years. It feels like we're home."
On Watershed, the followup to 2006's Ghost Reveries,
Akerfeldt and his cohorts dabble in everything from lilting Renaissance
Fair intros to psychedelic organ freakouts; from Stevie Wonder-esque
funk breaks to someone's guitar being detuned while they play.
While there's still enough of a metal influence to keep the
headbangers happy, Akerfeldt says he draws inspiration from more
far-flung points on the musical spectrum these days.
"I listen to so many different kinds of music that it's
inevitable I'll start experimenting," says Akerfeldt, a voracious
collector of obscure records who listened to a lot of fusion, jazz,
Joni Mitchell and The Zombies while prepping Watershed. "Generally, I
don't even listen to much metal music anymore. It's all the other stuff
that's been getting me inspired to write."
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