Isberg and Åkerfeldt recruited drummer Anders Nordin, bassist Nick Döring, and guitarist Andreas Dimeo. An ensuing argument led to all members but Isberg and Åkerfeldt leaving to form a new project. When Åkerfeldt showed up to practice on the day after Isberg invited him, it became clear that Isberg had not told the band members, including the band's current bassist, that Åkerfeldt would be joining the band. In 1990, Isberg asked former Eruption band member Mikael Åkerfeldt to join Opeth as a bassist, replacing Martin Persson. In this novel, Opet is the name of a fictional Phoenician city in South Africa translated as "City of the Moon". The band name was derived from the word "Opet", taken from the Wilbur Smith novel The Sunbird. Opeth was formed as a death metal band in 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden, by lead vocalist David Isberg. Åkerfeldt (pictured) and Isberg decided they would carry on with the band after most of the members had gone separate ways. As of November 2009, the band has sold over 1.5 million copies of their albums and DVDs worldwide, including 300,000 collective SoundScans of their albums Blackwater Park, Damnation, and Deliverance in the United States. 23 on the Billboard 200, and topped the Finnish albums chart in its first week of release. 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 No. The band released its debut album Orchid in 1995. Opeth has released 13 studio albums, four live DVDs, four live albums (three that are in conjunction with DVDs), and two boxsets. The band 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 is also well known for their incorporation of Mellotrons in their work. Many songs include acoustic guitar passages and strong dynamic shifts, as well as death growls. Opeth has consistently incorporated progressive, folk, blues, classical, and jazz influences into its usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from death metal, especially in their early works. Mikael Åkerfeldt has been Opeth's frontman and primary songwriter since Isberg's departure. The group has been through several personnel changes, including the replacement of every single original member notably Isberg in 1992. I would really love to hear the Eruption stuff, or any live material recorded in the 90s/early 2000s.Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal/ rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1990 by lead vocalist David Isberg. Considering how huge they are, it’s interesting they have no demo compilations released. I really wish early Opeth demos and rarities would (officially) see the light. Though obviously, melodic death metal and melodic black metal were comparable at the time. If anything, they feel the most death metal that Opeth ever were, even more so than the doom/death-adjacent stuff they would develop on the next 3 albums. The vocals are higher and a bit closer to that style, but overall their first 2 albums are squarely (prog) melodic death metal to me. Interesting to see people interpret them as more black metal back then. The final heavy part of “Forest of October” with the climactic solo and vocal melodies, is just too fuckin classy. “In Mist She Was Standing” and “Forest of October” are still some of their best songs, and really helped me “get” Opeth, back when I was pretty lukewarm on their songwriting. “Under the Weeping Moon”’ sounds so damn good on the Roundhouse Tapes live album, and fits in really well with their later stuff despite being a different style. I’m always juggling which out of My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, or Blackwater Park I like best, but the debut is always high up on my ranking of their discography, and one I listen to the most.
Orchid is definitely one of my favorite Opeth albums.
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