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lars mikael åkerfeldt (swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːkərfɛlt]) (born 17 april 1974)[1] is a swedish musician who achieved fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of progressive death metal band opeth as well as the lead vocalist of death metal band bloodbath. he is known for his progressive rock-influenced songwriting style and his frequent use of both clean and growled vocals.
mikael (along with peter lindgren) were both ranked #42 out of 100 greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time by guitar world.[2] akerfeldt was also voted the 9th place in the book "top 100 heavy metal guitarists," ranking alongside legends such as dave mustaine, dimebag darrell, and john petrucci.
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a native of stockholm, mikael åkerfeldt was the vocalist for eruption, a death metal band which he formed in 1988. after eruption came to an end in 1990, he joined opeth, ostensibly as a bassist. when vocalist david isberg insisted åkerfeldt join the band, all other members left. isberg assumed guitar duties, and when he left opeth two years later, åkerfeldt replaced him as the vocalist. åkerfeldt performs the growling vocals on katatonia's brave murder day album and sounds of decay ep.
åkerfeldt is a collector of obscure 1970s rock and heavy metal albums. he also tends to show his influence from these obscure bands, making reference to them in opeth album titles such as "blackwater park," "still life" and "my arms your hearse", as well as songs such as "master's apprentices". he is also influenced extensively by both jazz and musician ritchie blackmore.[3]
on 15 august 2003, mikael åkerfeldt married his longtime girlfriend, anna sandberg. on 13 september 2004, anna gave birth to a daughter whom they named melinda, after the character in the concept album, still life. the couple had their second daughter, mirjam ebba maria åkerfeldt, on 28 october 2007.
åkerfeldt is known to be good friends with steven wilson, the frontman of one of his favorite bands, porcupine tree;[4] mike portnoy, former drummer of dream theater; and jonas renkse of katatonia. he is also presumed to be the basis for the character toki wartooth from the popular cartoon metalocalypse, as divulged in an interview with ultimate-guitar.com.[5]
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mikael åkerfeldt revealed in september 2009 that he is contemplating recording a singer-songwriter acoustic solo album.
"i've always been wanting to do a thing like that. i've got a bunch of lovely acoustic guitars back i wanna use more. even though opeth could probably do an album like that, i wanna do it on my own, and in that sense, i wanna record it on my own — in my house, basically. i think i can do it well. i think i can do a good album like that.
"i'd like to maybe simplify it even more [than the opeth acoustic stuff], and have it just chords playing, and maybe some finger-picking stuff, so i could be able to perform it if i would wanna do that. so i don't want it to be lots of tracks, like overdubbing guitars with lots of melodies; i want it to be fairly simplistic so if i wanted to, i could play it live on my own... on a stool. [laughs]"[6]