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Opeth Front Man Mikael Akerfeldt Issues Road Report

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Opeth front man Mikael Akerfeldt has issued the following tour road report:

"OK, good people, time for another boring post about some retarded little boy that thinks it's fun to pose like me and write 'fun' posts about new Opeth album titles etc.

"To be honest, I'd be surprised if anyone actually believed it was a page run by me. It's so silly that it'd take an enormous amount of ignorance, or booze, to actually fall for this hoax. The page is a Twitter (which I've never even heard of) page and is found here.

"If you email this little cretin tell him to 'fuck off' from me please. But I'd rather you all just ignore him. Once again, the only page actually run by me in person is this one, I don't have Facebook, Twitter or anything else by those standards.

"I just got back home from Gotland (original home for Grave and some Vikings too). It was nice but very rainy. Went with wife and kids and had a nice time despite the rainfall.

"Other news, we'd been offered a support tour in the US by Tool but we didn't get it this time, Hopefully in the future it might work out.

"We're currently doing festivals during the weekends. The last one in Oslo/Norway was very nice. We almost had to pull out since a thunderstorm came by and almost tore the whole stage down, but it was fucking awesome in the end. Almost 'magic' for me personally. We've also done a bunch of Swedish ones and they've been cool.

"Next up is one in Romania which will be fun, never been there before. Aparently the site is real close to the ruins of Castle Vlad Tepes (The dude on my shirt on the 'Roundhouse' DVD), and we'll all try and make it over there of course....

"It's kinda late and I have to go to bed, knackered...."

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7 Comments on "Opeth Front Man Issues Road Report"

RememberMetal?'s avatar

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1. RememberMetal? writes:

HA! I called that sh** weeks ago. Knew it would be Tool or Metallica. Too bad it didn't happen.

Bummed out about the new album title, seemed a little soon but the bands on a two year cycle now so I did get my hopes up over "Insomnicide"...having had bouts of insomnia myself, I can relate...

# Jul 10, 2009 @ 1:40 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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2. metaljus writes:

dude that would have been freakin sick to have tool and opeth tour why the hell did that not go down.

# Jul 10, 2009 @ 2:33 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. cppchriscpp writes:

Tool and Opeth together... that would be an interesting tour.. never was too into Tool but seeing Opeth live again would be worth my time.

# Jul 10, 2009 @ 2:48 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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4. robw writes:

opeth has all the dates booked overseas already.

# Jul 10, 2009 @ 10:13 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. Blindgreed1 writes:

RM: Indeed you did and I was salivating over the possibilities in anticipation of the announcement. Damn, this concert year just isn't working out for me at all. *kicks dirt and walks away mumbling obscenities*

NP: Children Of The Grave - Blind Greed

# Jul 10, 2009 @ 11:19 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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6. DeathInEye writes:

Fvck. Tool and Opeth are in my top ten to see live list. I would've done embarassing things to see them together. I wonder who got the Tool show, though?

# Jul 10, 2009 @ 2:01 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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7. Blindgreed1 writes:

DIE: No doubt. I'd have drank turpentine and pi$$ed on a brushfire to see that one.

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