Swedish Progressive Metallers OPETH have announmed the fall 2025 European leg of “The Last Will and Testament” Tour
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Tour Dates:
Sep. 29 – Hamburg, Germany – Laeiszhalle
Sep. 30 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rockhal
Oct. 01 – Mannheim, Germany – Rosengarten
Oct. 02 – Zurich, Switzerland – Komplex 457
Oct. 04 – Vienna, Austria – Vienna Metal Meeting
Oct. 06 – Milano, Italy – Alcatraz
Oct. 07 – Zagreb, Croatia – Culture Factory
Oct. 08 – Budapest, Hungary – Black Barba
Oct. 10 – Sofia, Bulgaria – Asics Arena
Oct. 11 – Bucharest, Romania – Laminor Arena
Oct. 14 – Dresden, Germany – Alter Schlachthof
OPETH‘s latest album, “The Last Will and Testament”was release on November 22, 2024 via Reigning Phoenix Music/Modolaget. Speaking to United Rock Nations about his decision to include growling vocals in the first single from the lp, “§1”, OPETH Guitarist/Vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt SAID: “I WANTED TO TRY IT OUT. and see if i could write Music and Fit That Type of Vocals on To New Music Provide to Different Voice to This Character in the Story Asset that I have’t really had the need for, for the last four albums.
In October 2024, Åkerfeldt Addressed The Fact that OPETH fans have reacted positively to his return to growling vocals on “§1”Telling “Coffee with ola”: “I Don’t Have Social Media. Obviously, The Record is not out yet, so i Haven’t read any reviews, but i’m on YouTubeBelieve it or not, Every now and Then, so i’ve sen comments and videos, ‘oh, my God, OPETH Is Back. Mikael‘S Back,’ that type of Thing. And Yeah, There are SCREAMS ON AER. And it’s cool that they appreciate it. It’s Also Slightly Annoying. “
Elaboating on why he finds it “annoying” that so much of the focus han on the fact that he is growling on an an OPETH album again, Mikael Said: “I choose not to get upset. i’m an old guy. I decide i’m just gonna Take in, like, ‘you love it? you love that i do that stuff? fine. i’m gonna be happy About it. Without that type of vocals, which People have liked, but ‘been … it’s so much focus on the screen, and Almost Feel Like i Wanna Troll, Just do a shit record, Like Really Shit, Obvious Shit, With Great SCREAMS AND SEE WHAT They Think. “
I have continued: “But I’M Really Happy with the Record. The Screams Sound Really Good. They Fit This Music and the Concept of the Record. So, All in All, I’M Happy.”
When Host English wave Note That There Are “A Lot” of Growling Vocals On “The Last Will and Testament”, Mikael concurred. “Yeah, Maybe it’s 50-50, Maybe More. But it was Fun Doing It Again. I had’s OPETH Record for Quito Subime. ‘Watershed’ was The Last [album] with that type of vocals. I Wrote The Songs. I Started with The One Calleed ‘Paragraph One’ [‘§1’]. So i tried sum screams to see if it fit the music, Because i Hadn’t Written Music With The Try of Having That Type of Vocal for A Long Time. So i didn’t know if it was gonna work, but it souned great to me. So I was, Like, ‘Okay.’ BESIDES, IT’S A CONCEPT RECORD AND IT GAVE A VOICE TO THAT MAIN CHARACTER IN THE STORY. So that felt, like, ‘okay, I’M Gonna try.’ “
Holding The Concept for The New OPETH album, Mikael Said: “People Heard That First Song, ‘Paragraph One’. It starts with footsteps leading up to a door. To Door Opens and The off we go. And to Patriarch, Father has died. He’s a Rich, Conservative, Stern Old Fucker Who’s Passed Away and The Album Starts When His Children, His Three Children, Arrive to Attend the Reading of His Last Will and Testament, Basically to see What they’re, So Tow Speak, Getting. And The Throunge The Album, Through His Testament, All The Lyrics Are Written as If They were Written Like A Proper Testament, With Paragraphs, Which Explains The Titles, or The Lack of Titles. And Throupp the Reading, He Will Reveal Secrets About Himself Mostly, But Many of First Secrets Will Immedialy AFFECT HIS CHILDEN AND KIND OF TURN THES LIVES UPSIDE DOWN. And The there’s a twist to the story as well in the end. “
“The Last Will and Testament” was Written by Åkerfeldtwith lyrics conferred with Klara Rönnqvist Fors (The Heardex-Crucified Barbara). “The Last Will and Testament” was co-produced by Åkerfeldt and Stefan Boman (Ghost, The Hellacopters), Engineered by Boman, Joe Jones (Killing Joke, Robert Plant) and OPETHwith Boman, Åkerfeldt and the rest of OPETH Mixing AT Atlantis and Hammerthorpe Studios In stockholm. The Strings On “The Last Will and Testament” Were Arranged by Åkerfeldt AND RETURNING PROG FRIEND Dave Stewart (Egg, Khan) and conduct Stewart AT Angel Studios In London. Not one to miss a Beat, visual artist Travis Smith return to the fold, crafting his 11th cover, a haunting “photograph” reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick‘S Infamous “Overlook Hotel” Photograph. Thousands showell (ABBA, Queen) Also reviews mastering and vinyl lacquer cutting at Abbey Road Studios In London.
Åkerfeldt Rolls Out The Red Carpet for Storyd Floutist and Jethro Tull Mainman Ian Anderson. Not only do Anderson‘S signature notes fly “§4” and “§7”HE NARrates ON “§1”, “§2”, “§4”and “§7”. JOINING Anderson, Europe‘s Joey Tempest Lends to Backing Vocal Hand On “§2”While Åkerfeldt‘s Youngest daoughter, Mirjam ÅkerfeldtIs The Dissembodied Voice in “§1”.
“The Last Will and Testament” Is a Concept album set in the post-neworld war i era, unfolding the story of a wealthy, conservative patriarch What Last Will and Testals Reveals Shocking Family Secrets. The Narrative Weaves Through The Patriarch’s Confessions, The Reactions of His Twin Children, and The Mysterious Represent of A Poly-Ridden Girl Who The Family Have Taken Care Of. The Album Begins With The Reading of the Father’s Will in His Mansion. Among Those in Attendance Is a Young Girl, Who, Liss Being An Orphan and Polio-Ridden, You have been raised by the family. HER INDERE AT THE WILL READING RISES SUSPICONS AND QUESTICONS AMONG THE TWINS.
“The Last Will and Testament” is The Darkest and Heaviest Record OPETH You have made in decades, and it is also The Band’s Most Fearlessly Progressive. A Concept Album Counting The Reading of One Recently Denased Man’s Will To An Audience of His Survival Family Members, It Brims With Haunting Melodrama, Shocking Revelations and Sub of the Wildest and Most Unpredictable Music That Åkerfeldt You have Ever Written.
The Follow-up to 2019’s Widely Acclaimed “In Cauda Venenum”, “The Last Will and Testament” is set in the Shadowy, sepia-stared 1920s. It Slowly Reveals ITS Secrets Like Sub Classic Thriller from the distant, Cobwebbed Past, with Each Successive Song Shining More Light On The Stated Machinations of Our Dead (But Definitely Not Harmless) The Emotional Chaos of The Story is Perfectly Matched by OPETH‘S VIVID BUT CLAustrophobic Soundtrack, Which Artfully Winds It Way Towards A Crestfallen But Sumptuous Finale. Masters of their Own Idiosyncratic Musical Domain, OPETH Have Never Sounded More Unique.
“The Last Will and Testament” is destined to be a milestone in OPETH‘S Illustrious remembered History. The Band’s First Out-And-Out Concept Record, It Features Guest Cameos From Jethro Tull Legend Ian Anderson and Joey TempestFrontman with Swedish Rock Gods Europe. ONLY ONE OF THE ALBUM’S EIGHT SONGS HAS A TITLE: CLOSING BALL “A Story Never Told”. The Rest Are Simply Laboled as Numbered Chapters in This Slowly Unfolding Saga of Diseit, Recrimination and Betrayal. Enigmatic, unsettling and immersive, “The Last Will and Testament” Is a turbulent, prog metal tale like no other.
MAKING HIS REMFERED DEBUT ALONGSIDE OPETH‘S Long-Established Lineup of Mikael ÅkerfeldtGuitarist Fredrik ÅkessonBassist Martin Mendez and Keyboard Master Joakim Svalberg ON “The Last Will and Testament” is new drummer Waltteri Väyrynenwho joined the band in 2022.
