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OPETH’S MIKAEL AKERFELDT – “METAL HAS A NEW MEANING TO ME”

Posted on March 13, 2013

Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt recently spoke to Andrewhaug.com in Australia. In this 18 minute interview Mikael discusses new song ideas, one of which he describes as sounding like an “evil Queen’ish metal song”. Mikael also talks candidly about the response to the band’s latest album ‘Heritage’ & his thoughts on contemporary metal; “Metal has a new meaning to me. ‘Heritage’ is metal.”

Listen to the full interview below.

Opeth // Heritage is out now on Roadrunner Records. Click here now to get your copy!

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