In Tenebris: The Underground Metal Report
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This summer I had the opportunity to take a time out of a day working at Sherwin-Williams and talk to Opeth co-founder, guitarist Peter Lindgren. For those shamefully unaware of Opeth (and if you are unaware of them, you should be ashamed!), Opeth has been one of the biggest forces in metal in recent years. They have combined the brutality of death metal with soft, melancholic parts, to create something that could only be Opeth. However, on the bands most recent album Damnation, they explore more fully the soft progressive elements of their music, leaving out all death metal. We began by talking about the band’s latest effort Damnation. In the past Opeth, has written albums with average song lengths of around eight minutes, while on Damnation they tend to clock in around five …



