Opeth (Swedish)

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout several years. Opeth has consistently incorporated progressive, folk, blues, classical and jazz influences into their usually lengthy compositions. Many songs include acoustic guitar passages and strong dynamic shifts, as well as both death growls and clean vocals. Opeth rarely made live appearances supporting their first four albums; but since conducting their first world tour after the 2001 release of Blackwater Park, they have led several major world tours.

Opeth has released nine studio albums, three live , three live albums (two in conjunction with DVDs), and two boxsets. The band released its debut album Orchid in 1995. Although their eighth studio album, Ghost Reveries, was quite popular in the United States, Opeth did not experience major American commercial success until the 2008 release of their ninth studio album, Watershed, which peaked at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200, and topped the Finnish albums chart in its first week of release.

I became a fan of Opeth a little bit before they became successful with Blackwater Park. I had never considered it before really, but I realized that they were one of my favorite bands when I saw I had 9 of their cd's in my collection lol). Did I just repeat myself? Fuck it.

Can't wait to see them live, in less than two months!

Lucky! I haven't listened to anything from the new album yet, heard some bad criticism, but that usually follows a lot of Opeth albums unjustifiably.

The new record is only with clean vocal, with a big jazzy influence and some heavy solos. Like it a lot

Well the new one is really cool. But ^"My Armes your Hearse" will be my Favorite forever.^^

Oh yeah... definitely, My Arms, Your Hearse (along with Blackwater Park) is one of my favs!!!

This is one of my favorite bands. I have an Opeth tattoo and I have met Mikael two times here in Brazil. I love them, I love all their albums with no exceptions and I can't wait to hear the new one, I believe it will be heavier than Heritage.
It took time for me to choose a favorite album, but now I can say that is Morningrise with no doubts   

Do you have some news about an upcoming record?  

Take a look here:
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeth-mainman-on-next-album-its-a-metal-record-and-a-progressive-record-and-something-else-too/