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@@xedasxedas I like Blackwater Park Opeth, the new album does have some gothic vibes to it though - I dig it. Still miss the growling. Mikael definitely looks like he owns a doghouse.
"Do you want to hear one more song?" *crowd cheers* "Actually, it's written in our contract that we have to play one more song, so it doesn't matter what you want." Wacken 2019
When I saw them open for Dream Theater he told the crowd that Opeth used to cover the Scorpions and Whitesnake. The crowd cheered and he said "Unfortunately for you we only play Opeth songs now."
@@rockaddict3744 /watch?v=utj5ZD9GMJc it was at this gig in 2011. If you go to around 0:45 seconds in this clip you will see when he said it . I was hooked from that moment :D
@@rockaddict3744 You discovered them yourself my man! But enjoy your journey, I kind of envy getting to listen to their songs for the first time again like you!
I met him a year ago in Mexico's City concert. I looked for him after the gig for a photo and autograph. So I was super excited chatting with him and I said: "I really, really love your music so much" so he replyes: "Really? , me too".
In Moncton, NB when they last came he said he wanted burger from McDonald's. Some guy left the show and got him a burger combo meal and threw it on stage. He took the time to sit down and eat the burger while the band played elevator music. That will be one of the funniest moments I will ever see with my own eyes live.
when i found out they came to moncton i was upset because it was when i wasnt really into opeth(heard a song or two back then) and i think it was a year or two later i really got into them
Just to give more details to the story. During the show, he mentioned that he was hungry and could really go for some McDonalds. Someone in the crowd left the show, went to McDonalds, bought a Big Mac, came back to the show and threw the McDonalds bag on stage. Mikael then sat down on the drum riser for 5 min and ate it. Amazing.
@@morbid1983 Actually there is even more backstory behind this. He got a sudden fall in blood pressure since he hadn't eaten and got really dizzy and started to shake, then he jokingly asked if anyone had some food and the rest is history.
I saw Opeth at a festival about 11 years ago. Mikael was talking between songs when somebody hit him with a full cup of beer. Mikael stayed chill the whole time, not raising his voice a bit: "Oh. Oh my. Why have you done this? What a waste of good beer." And moved on with the show.
Once when I saw Opeth, Mikael said that they were going to play a new song. He said "we consider this new one to be more of a Swedish folk song....because we're Swedish and we're folks." and then they went into this super heavy song
A lot of the times I've seen them in Norway, he's made some sort of comment about Martin Mendez' "nej nej-headbanging" ("no no headbanging"). Stuff like "Martin has stopped doing the nej nej thing. Cut his hair. No more nej nej."
I saw them live in San Antonio & some guy yelled "we love you Michael". Mikael akerfeldt says my name is Mi-ka-el asshole, he made everyone chant Mi-ka-el for five minutes.
My favorite moment: At Roskilde Festival they were told that they had to leave the stage in 3 minutes and might have enough time to play one more song(yeah right) so the next band could come and play. They fucking played Deliverance (a 13 minute song and they somehow made it longer) and once they were done Mikael went "Okay I think we have to leave now, there's a guy standing over there to my left doing this" **pretends to cut throat with finger** And then everyone in the band just ran off.
It might be funny seem from outside, but from an organisational pointview it's moronic and disrespectuf for the bands that have to play after you. Imagine having your set cut short because the previous band wouldn't stop playing just because they want to mess with you
So the concert goes on later thr next band still plays their full set haha what makes you immidiately assume that rock festibals have a strict adherence to punctuality haha its a laid back industry, eberyonrs having a good time but you man lol
My favorite moment. At Roskilde Festival, Opeth and Bob Dylan is playing the same day. Mikael meets Bob at a backstage area and starts talking. Wich at one point, Bob asks Mikael "are you gonna come watch my show?" And Mikael calmly replies "No Bob, fuck off" 😂😂 the crowd was in tears
Saw them in Worchester MA and he kept saying in between songs. "This is a song I wrote a long time ago" and he started plucking the opening chords of Sabbath's Paranoid. He slowed the riff and stopped and looked around at his bandmates. Then admited, "Alright, you got me. That was a different band" Later he set up a stool. Carefully tuned and acoustic. Cleared his throat, then announced "This next song is called Paranoid"
Nope. Same gag. They got to the last song and he asked. "What would you like to hear?" And everyone started yelling Paranoid. And he just said, "You must be confusing us for a different band" and went into demon of the fall.
I don't know much about metal but I saw Opeth with my metalhead friend once and they came out and Mikael said "Do you know who we are?" and someone yelled out "SLIPKNOT" and Mikael said "No we are not Slipknot... and we are not Disturbed... well, we are not the band"
my favorite is Bloodbath Over Bloodstock when he said "They're not gonna film you guys so much. They're not going to film the guys in the band so much.They're going to film me a lot. I think." -Mikael Åkerfeldt
I saw them Play at Loud Park. He said, "I've been told by the stage manager that we have only eight minutes left to play. Unfortunately, our last song is over ten minutes long. So, I guess we'll play it a little faster than normal"
They were warming up for Iron Maiden in Gothenburg: "As some of you know, we get credited for the creation of Gothenburg Metal. We are from Stockholm..."
I met him and the guys in 2015 for their PC tour in Sydney. I stayed behind after the meet and greet while they were getting ready to go and get ready (what a sentence lol) for the show, and just had a nice little chat with Mikael and complimented Frederik on his Candlemass shirt. I actually asked Mikael, "what's the weirdest thing you've ever signed?" out of pure curiosity. He said, "there was one lady who got me to sign her dog. Oh, and I've signed a car too." On stage he actually gave me a shout-out as well! Because I've been brought up on metal and have listened to Opeth since I was a literal toddler. And I told him that; on stage he was like, "and today I met a girl who has been listening to us since she was three years old!" AND I HAD JUST STOPPED RECORDING No real point to my comment. Mikael is just an awesome, funny guy. Totally friendly and down-to-earth. I loved meeting him and the guys and hope to have another opportunity one day.
I know I’m quite late but that is so cool my dude. My dad exposed me to Opeth when I was a toddler and I couldn’t be more thankful. I love your story and ugh 😍 it’d be a dream to meet Mikael
I saw Opeth at Wacken 2015. The band goes on stage and plays "Eternal Rains Will Come" and "Cusp of Eternity" without Mikael saying one word in between. So after +12 minutes, he finally addresses the audience...: "Mein Hund ist dunkelblau".
His stage personality is like a stoic, deadpan stand-up comedian pulling jokes and satirical references here and there with a straight face (😐). He also sounds a bit stuck-up and patronizing, but hopefully always that's all in the performance 😁👍🏾
I remember before he played The Grand Conjuration he said something like: “This next song is not about a chick. It’s actually about a man. A big, muscly man.” *crowd laughs* “No, no, not like that. This song is about... SATAN!” *crowd goes wild*
In Dallas they were at a club called The Trees. I remember Mikael saying they always felt at home there because, when they started, they considered themselves forest metal. Cracked me up at the time.
When he played in Brazil last year he kept joking about how hot it was, and how the last show they made in São Paulo was in a really bad place (it was actuallly the same house). They were also playing Master's Apprentice, which was not on setlist, so he missplayed it, the whole band stopped playing and started laughing as he tried to explain his mistake.
From a show in my city, Ankara TR, someone from the crowd yelled as "I love you Mikael" couple times and, eventually, Mikael answered him back with a fatherly, growl voice "I Love you too son!". That was hilarious.
This summer I saw them at the Artmania festival. The night before Dream Theater was the headline and when Opeth came to the stage the second night dude was like: So..how was DT last night? Audience: *cheering* "Yea, those guys practice A LOT. Some time ago I met John Petrucci and he said hey let's jam together. And I said: let's not"🤣🤣🤣🤣 We laughed about it for days
Dry humor may can also stem from the numbness of existential dread...and that's serious business. Germans and Scandinavians are very realistic and sarcastic at the same time. It is a prank, ironically speaking.
In Stockholm on the sorceress tour he presented each member of the band and their instrument. Only when it came to Axe he said each fucking part of the drumkit, and Axe responded by playing the named part. Hilarious.. "Floor tom one" *boom* "Floor tom two" *bOOm* Etc
I saw Opeth on the Deliverance tour back in like 2003 or so, at the House of Blues in New Orleans. Mikael made some comment apologizing for being sloppy because of a trip down Bourbon Street and the generous servings of alcohol that can be found there, but the band were in reality not at all sloppy.
They're the only band I can comfortably say that they've never made a bad song. That being said, their glory years were from My Arms Your Hearse to Watershed.
Opeth isn't a metal band anymore, though. They've expanded their sound further into Prog Rock, which has been there since the beginning. They still play their Death Metal stuff at live shows, it's just not the material they want to produce anymore. Hearts change.
When I saw them in Phoenix, he made comments about the green room having bo toilet paper, played the YMCA, and introduced the drummer with every individual piece of his kit.
Omg he is funny AF!!! The headbanging, I was so thinking that very thing; that looks stupid without music!! lol I could watch video's of him doing all day he's great!! Thanks Loudwire!!! \m/
Just the other night in Montreal, in between songs, Mikael says, "I love Canada, the second bast hockey nation in the world." (the Crowd playfully boos him). Then he says, "Who fooking cares about hockey? Hockey sucks. My favourite sport is badminton!" Later on he mentions it was his birthday a couple days prior. He says he only got socks for his birthday. Socks. Then he launches into a vicious rendition of Ghost of Perdition. Priceless.
I remember , when he was once introducing the band at the end he said : "and my name is Mikael...and I don''t play guitar.. actually it is all a big scam..."
Great stuff! My favourite band (and frontman) since 2008. I really like listening to Forest of October live at the Royal Albert Hall and the speach at the end. They fucking kick ass performing a classic Opeth song and then Mikael is starting this whole speach on being the first death metal band performing in the RAH. "We are actually bringing death metal in the halls of fine culture" Love it :) My overall favourite live performance (that was professionally recorded) of them, is the one at the Roundhouse, though. The freaking Demon of the Fall closer, God damn!
I saw them in a little place in Santa Cruz, Ca on the Sorceress tour. About mid show Martin Mendez whispers something in Mikael's ear and walks off stage. Mikael walks up to the mic and says " he just told me he has to pee, so now I guess I have to talk to you fu**ers for a couple of minutes". When Martin returned Mikael looked at him and asked " do you feel better" with that Martin gave a visible sigh of relief and the show continued.
One time I saw them at Download and he began every song with “We’re Whitesnake and this next song is called “(Opeth song)” Very last song he said “We are Opeth and this next song is called Whitesnake” I just love this man.
Ah but don't forget at the start as well he said "Hello Download. We're just the shit opening band for Motley Crue. Which means the name of this band is...Whitesnake" Lost my shit hahah
Gig in Swedens second biggest town Gothenburg (translated) "We are Opeth and we are from Stockholm" * *crowd boos because of rivaly* * "But now we are here in Gothenburg. Its like I always say. Its a lovley town. Too bad about the people"
Last concert I saw them he walked in on stage and first thing he said was: "Hi, we're Slipknot"
The Mars Volta used to do that every time, they'd say "Hi, we're Mudwayne".
When did Slipknot become this good?
@@barfymann362 what are you doing here? Old opeth or new Opeth? Or both?
@@xedasxedas I like Blackwater Park Opeth, the new album does have some gothic vibes to it though - I dig it. Still miss the growling. Mikael definitely looks like he owns a doghouse.
@@barfymann362 That's acctually the first album that i purchased from them. A real meeting of the minds we got going on in here...
"Do you want to hear one more song?" *crowd cheers* "Actually, it's written in our contract that we have to play one more song, so it doesn't matter what you want."
Wacken 2019
Hahahahaha
"Do you have any plans? Cancel them, because the next song is three weeks long" - Oslo 2019, before Deliverance.
🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha, Christ, the fucking outro alone...
In Buffalo, NY
Mikael - "Are there any Red Hot Chili Peppers fans here?"
Crowd - "Cheers and applauds"
Mikael - "...Please leave"
I like both RHCP and Opeth. Is that a problem?
@@jarovanduren5641 yupp
@@jarovanduren5641 Nah is just a joke, your money is always welcome!
RHCP and their drug show... They suck
Wow.
When I saw them open for Dream Theater he told the crowd that Opeth used to cover the Scorpions and Whitesnake. The crowd cheered and he said "Unfortunately for you we only play Opeth songs now."
LOL
If Mikael ever retires from music, he should consider becoming a comedian.
Heavy metal needs better comedy and Mikael's the guy for it
First time i saw them he came out with "We are Opeth, we are from Switzerland, i am just a poor clock maker"
Hahaha😂😂 which tour was this??
@@rockaddict3744 /watch?v=utj5ZD9GMJc it was at this gig in 2011. If you go to around 0:45 seconds in this clip you will see when he said it . I was hooked from that moment :D
@@ClaudioSanchezCC that was awesome!! I haven't actually listened to much Opeth, but I think I will!! Thank you for getting me into another band!!
@@rockaddict3744 You discovered them yourself my man! But enjoy your journey, I kind of envy getting to listen to their songs for the first time again like you!
@@ClaudioSanchezCC But it took that spark, and you planted the seeds, my friend. Once again, thank you so much!! Rock on \m/
sydney, australia at the opera house.
some guy: "love you slipknot!"
"love you too austria"
Fuck I would have loved to see them at the Opera house
Are they able to play there? Considering all the Mendeath horses. And sex.
I met him a year ago in Mexico's City concert. I looked for him after the gig for a photo and autograph. So I was super excited chatting with him and I said: "I really, really love your music so much" so he replyes: "Really? , me too".
¿En verdad? Eso es genial jajaja
Yo moría de ganas de verlos por primera vez en vivo en el Domination y el pinche coronavirus arruinó todo :(
In Moncton, NB when they last came he said he wanted burger from McDonald's. Some guy left the show and got him a burger combo meal and threw it on stage. He took the time to sit down and eat the burger while the band played elevator music. That will be one of the funniest moments I will ever see with my own eyes live.
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They came to moncton?? I literally live in fredericton how tf didnt I know about this
@@x666xIronMaiden you the real mvp
I was there for that! One of the best shows of my life
when i found out they came to moncton i was upset because it was when i wasnt really into opeth(heard a song or two back then) and i think it was a year or two later i really got into them
He stopped mid show to eat a big mac in moncton new brunswick. Funniest thing I've seen at a show.
Just to give more details to the story. During the show, he mentioned that he was hungry and could really go for some McDonalds. Someone in the crowd left the show, went to McDonalds, bought a Big Mac, came back to the show and threw the McDonalds bag on stage. Mikael then sat down on the drum riser for 5 min and ate it. Amazing.
Julien LeBlanc fucking incredible lmfao
hey hey hey ... don't forget the elevator music
th-cam.com/video/jvSb6l-GcJ0/w-d-xo.html for those too lazy to search. Pretty funny
@@morbid1983 Actually there is even more backstory behind this. He got a sudden fall in blood pressure since he hadn't eaten and got really dizzy and started to shake, then he jokingly asked if anyone had some food and the rest is history.
I saw Opeth at a festival about 11 years ago. Mikael was talking between songs when somebody hit him with a full cup of beer. Mikael stayed chill the whole time, not raising his voice a bit: "Oh. Oh my. Why have you done this? What a waste of good beer." And moved on with the show.
What a douchebag
"Those guys in Dream Theater, they practice a lot. They just sit in their rooms and dununu dununu dununu"
Once when I saw Opeth, Mikael said that they were going to play a new song. He said "we consider this new one to be more of a Swedish folk song....because we're Swedish and we're folks." and then they went into this super heavy song
Haha that's so random
What heavy song? Harl forest?
The first time I ever saw them, Mikael introduced Martin Mendez at least 6 times throughout the show.
A lot of the times I've seen them in Norway, he's made some sort of comment about Martin Mendez' "nej nej-headbanging" ("no no headbanging").
Stuff like "Martin has stopped doing the nej nej thing. Cut his hair. No more nej nej."
First time i saw Opeth he did the same thing with Fredrik because it was his birthday
@@OyvindBjorgo I could never figure out how Mendez managed to keep his hair from getting horribly tangled up in the bass.
I saw them live in San Antonio & some guy yelled "we love you Michael". Mikael akerfeldt says my name is Mi-ka-el asshole, he made everyone chant Mi-ka-el for five minutes.
I might have been there. Was that the show they played with Enslaved?
Ye sir. Awesome show!
As a Swede I can confirm that it's pronounced rather differently but spelled almost exactly the same.
My favorite moment: At Roskilde Festival they were told that they had to leave the stage in 3 minutes and might have enough time to play one more song(yeah right) so the next band could come and play.
They fucking played Deliverance (a 13 minute song and they somehow made it longer) and once they were done Mikael went "Okay I think we have to leave now, there's a guy standing over there to my left doing this" **pretends to cut throat with finger** And then everyone in the band just ran off.
Shiba I had to catch a train and they did this. Only saw 3 songs of theirs that night. Tedious.
It might be funny seem from outside, but from an organisational pointview it's moronic and disrespectuf for the bands that have to play after you. Imagine having your set cut short because the previous band wouldn't stop playing just because they want to mess with you
lame, should've done black rose immortal
😂
So the concert goes on later thr next band still plays their full set haha what makes you immidiately assume that rock festibals have a strict adherence to punctuality haha its a laid back industry, eberyonrs having a good time but you man lol
My favorite moment. At Roskilde Festival, Opeth and Bob Dylan is playing the same day. Mikael meets Bob at a backstage area and starts talking. Wich at one point, Bob asks Mikael "are you gonna come watch my show?" And Mikael calmly replies "No Bob, fuck off" 😂😂 the crowd was in tears
there's recordings of that?, I neeeed to watch it to believe it!
That was so fucking funny! wasn't it at Roskilde 05 at the arena ?
Sounds about right. Arena for sure!
average metalhead .. I bet there is, somewhere, someone is sitting on all the rights to it and is a cunt and wont share
Perhaps I’m just slow or I’m reading wrong but how did he speak to bob backstage and the crowd hearing without being on stage ?
I fucking love Mikael Akerfeldt
Saw them in Worchester MA and he kept saying in between songs. "This is a song I wrote a long time ago" and he started plucking the opening chords of Sabbath's Paranoid. He slowed the riff and stopped and looked around at his bandmates. Then admited, "Alright, you got me. That was a different band" Later he set up a stool. Carefully tuned and acoustic. Cleared his throat, then announced "This next song is called Paranoid"
And? They played Paranoid?
Nope. Same gag. They got to the last song and he asked. "What would you like to hear?" And everyone started yelling Paranoid.
And he just said, "You must be confusing us for a different band" and went into demon of the fall.
I don't know much about metal but I saw Opeth with my metalhead friend once and they came out and Mikael said "Do you know who we are?" and someone yelled out "SLIPKNOT" and Mikael said "No we are not Slipknot... and we are not Disturbed... well, we are not the band"
my favorite is Bloodbath Over Bloodstock when he said
"They're not gonna film you guys so much. They're not going to film the guys in the band so much.They're going to film me a lot. I think." -Mikael Åkerfeldt
I saw them Play at Loud Park. He said, "I've been told by the stage manager that we have only eight minutes left to play. Unfortunately, our last song is over ten minutes long. So, I guess we'll play it a little faster than normal"
Did they play it faster?
They were warming up for Iron Maiden in Gothenburg:
"As some of you know, we get credited for the creation of Gothenburg Metal. We are from Stockholm..."
Here is an "Å" for you.
ÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅ
So annoyed
I'm thinking about giving a to Mikael to be honest
I'll take it, thÅnks
I met him and the guys in 2015 for their PC tour in Sydney. I stayed behind after the meet and greet while they were getting ready to go and get ready (what a sentence lol) for the show, and just had a nice little chat with Mikael and complimented Frederik on his Candlemass shirt. I actually asked Mikael, "what's the weirdest thing you've ever signed?" out of pure curiosity. He said, "there was one lady who got me to sign her dog. Oh, and I've signed a car too."
On stage he actually gave me a shout-out as well! Because I've been brought up on metal and have listened to Opeth since I was a literal toddler. And I told him that; on stage he was like, "and today I met a girl who has been listening to us since she was three years old!" AND I HAD JUST STOPPED RECORDING
No real point to my comment. Mikael is just an awesome, funny guy. Totally friendly and down-to-earth. I loved meeting him and the guys and hope to have another opportunity one day.
That's such a lovely feeling for a young metal fan.
I know I’m quite late but that is so cool my dude. My dad exposed me to Opeth when I was a toddler and I couldn’t be more thankful. I love your story and ugh 😍 it’d be a dream to meet Mikael
Mikael Åkerfeldt is my man crush.
Gaybo
Tobias TK he is my God
I guess the term platonic has been forgotten. It sounds more g*y....but at the same time it's more accurate.
I saw Opeth at Wacken 2015. The band goes on stage and plays "Eternal Rains Will Come" and "Cusp of Eternity" without Mikael saying one word in between. So after +12 minutes, he finally addresses the audience...:
"Mein Hund ist dunkelblau".
What does that mean 😂
@@mukund5453 it means "my dog is dark blue"
That was actually funny
His stage personality is like a stoic, deadpan stand-up comedian pulling jokes and satirical references here and there with a straight face (😐). He also sounds a bit stuck-up and patronizing, but hopefully always that's all in the performance 😁👍🏾
Machabe Leloka its call dry humor lol
@Andy Salter He's sweedish
As you pointed out, that's part of the show he puts on. On a personal level, he's rather shy and modest, quite calm person.
“You can like Winger and you can like Europe. You can like 80’s Whitesnake but you cannot like Poison”
Thanks, i was wondering what he was saying when he said Poison!
'Steven, shut the f... up.' - Åkerfeldt classic. :D
I remember before he played The Grand Conjuration he said something like:
“This next song is not about a chick. It’s actually about a man. A big, muscly man.”
*crowd laughs*
“No, no, not like that. This song is about... SATAN!”
*crowd goes wild*
Loudwire -- why do you censor these videos? It's fucking metal
TH-cam doesn't care if it's metal :(
So if you don't cut out f-bombs, does youtube put an adult rating on it or something? Thanks for the response, I've been watching for years!
Jay Straw they demometise the video, so loudwire doesn't make any money from their content.
Mikael Akerfeldt is the gift that never stops giving.
Now do it with the willy wonka of heavy metal...
Devin Townsend!!!!
RERDITI RÉRTHZ omfg, PLEASE!
Willy Wanker😎
In Dallas they were at a club called The Trees. I remember Mikael saying they always felt at home there because, when they started, they considered themselves forest metal. Cracked me up at the time.
When he played in Brazil last year he kept joking about how hot it was, and how the last show they made in São Paulo was in a really bad place (it was actuallly the same house). They were also playing Master's Apprentice, which was not on setlist, so he missplayed it, the whole band stopped playing and started laughing as he tried to explain his mistake.
From a show in my city, Ankara TR, someone from the crowd yelled as "I love you Mikael" couple times and, eventually, Mikael answered him back with a fatherly, growl voice "I Love you too son!". That was hilarious.
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Mikael Akerfeldt is one of the coolest frontmen
Every album is just amazing
Looks like loudwire knows my internet history. They always seem to put videos of the band that I just start listening to.
you got Zucked man
oh yeah.... welcome to the fun
welcome to Analytics
GHOST OF
MOTHER
LINGERING DEATH
BLACK STRANDS ON THE PILLOW
@@sushantrathore3230 CONTOUR OF HER HEALTH
@@busski TWISTED FACE UPON THE HEAD
I was impressed because when I saw Opeth, Mike went the entire night without saying "beer"
This summer I saw them at the Artmania festival. The night before Dream Theater was the headline and when Opeth came to the stage the second night dude was like: So..how was DT last night?
Audience: *cheering*
"Yea, those guys practice A LOT. Some time ago I met John Petrucci and he said hey let's jam together. And I said: let's not"🤣🤣🤣🤣
We laughed about it for days
Got only respect for this man, such a humble and good-natured, not to mention extremely talented musical genius :)
Jesus he seems so serious and all in his music. Didn't know he's a prank dude.
dry sarcasm is as serious as prankster can get
Dry humor may can also stem from the numbness of existential dread...and that's serious business. Germans and Scandinavians are very realistic and sarcastic at the same time. It is a prank, ironically speaking.
Mikael: "We're gonna play a song from the latest record"
Crowd: *screaming Eaten*
Mikael: "No not that one, we're gonna play it later*
They forgot the one where he says he's Swiss, not Swedish XD
therainman and he is a clockmaker! Ha! Classic Mikael
In looking for that one for years
I like how calm this guy is throughout this whole thing, man
In Stockholm on the sorceress tour he presented each member of the band and their instrument. Only when it came to Axe he said each fucking part of the drumkit, and Axe responded by playing the named part. Hilarious..
"Floor tom one" *boom*
"Floor tom two" *bOOm*
Etc
He'd be a great comedy pairing with Devin Townsend.
darren kenna there would be no music it would be stand up comedy lmao
They have toured together before! I saw them back in the day, and the lineup was Devin Townsend Band, Dark Tranquillity, and Opeth.
1:19 I adore how the god of music plays insane metal and yet sports a semi-hollow PRS on stage. That is off-the-charts badass.
2:31 You missed the first part where he says he talked on the phone with Diego Maradona in 1986. That was the funniest bit.
"Hello. We are Otep."
I saw Opeth on the Deliverance tour back in like 2003 or so, at the House of Blues in New Orleans. Mikael made some comment apologizing for being sloppy because of a trip down Bourbon Street and the generous servings of alcohol that can be found there, but the band were in reality not at all sloppy.
This man's music cured my depression and so does his banter
Anyone who is new to Opeth, I highly recommend the songs “Moonlapse Vertigo” and “The Baying of the Hounds”
They're the only band I can comfortably say that they've never made a bad song. That being said, their glory years were from My Arms Your Hearse to Watershed.
I recommend To Bid You Farwell as a start
Iiiiiiiiii turneddd awaaaayyyy myyyy eyeeessss
Anything with LOPEZ! 🥁
YES! "The Baying Of The Hounds"! Finally someone else than me who has that song as a favourite Opeth tune! I thought I was the only one.
for a deathmetal singer he seems like a wholesome and chill guy.
He can sing, he can growl, he can play guitar, he's hilarious, is there anything Åkerfeldt can't do?
disappoint
Steven Wilson xD
Make a good metal album again
Opeth isn't a metal band anymore, though. They've expanded their sound further into Prog Rock, which has been there since the beginning. They still play their Death Metal stuff at live shows, it's just not the material they want to produce anymore. Hearts change.
@@Guitar994this is correct
His voice is so soothing
When I saw them in Phoenix, he made comments about the green room having bo toilet paper, played the YMCA, and introduced the drummer with every individual piece of his kit.
Dani Filth reference from Mikael, nice. I'm as happy as when I heard him say "hey guys, we like solos too... but we're no Jeff Loomis.
that headbanging to nothing killed me lmao
check out them covering You Suffer by Napalm Death.
not often do you see a band play a cover of another band twice in a row
they did it 3 times in a row last month in são paulo xD
Omg he is funny AF!!! The headbanging, I was so thinking that very thing; that looks stupid without music!! lol I could watch video's of him doing all day he's great!! Thanks Loudwire!!! \m/
Just the other night in Montreal, in between songs, Mikael says, "I love Canada, the second bast hockey nation in the world." (the Crowd playfully boos him). Then he says, "Who fooking cares about hockey? Hockey sucks. My favourite sport is badminton!" Later on he mentions it was his birthday a couple days prior. He says he only got socks for his birthday. Socks. Then he launches into a vicious rendition of Ghost of Perdition. Priceless.
If Netflix makes a live action Castlevania, I want Mikael to play Dracula.
You missed the "I am Miguelito" at Costa Rica's concert
Liked this video before it even started
He's simply one of the coolest frontman actually
I remember , when he was once introducing the band at the end he said : "and my name is Mikael...and I don''t play guitar.. actually it is all a big scam..."
Best Metal frontman.
I love this band and Mikael Akerfeldt,(he's awesome) and my favorite Opeth album is Morningrise and I just got a shirt of it \m/
A couple of days ago, in Romania, he made fun of Dream Theater. You gotta search it on YT, it's hilarious.
I want to meet him. He seems like an awesome guy.
You know, in a way and on the right microphone, he sounds like a Swedish Darth Vader.
hes both the most sophisticated artistic person ever and also just some funny guy
So pissed off, I smoked a joint when I saw Opeth and I forgot all the shit this man said. He’s hilarious
I love him so much!
Wow he’s funny
At Download 2019 in the UK, he mentioned how he "danced with the blonde chick from ABBA" and that she "felt good". Class ahaha
He's _so_ pleased at the sea of discontentment before him as he gets them to do the hand gesture thing.
One of the best videos on this channel.
Great stuff! My favourite band (and frontman) since 2008.
I really like listening to Forest of October live at the Royal Albert Hall and the speach at the end. They fucking kick ass performing a classic Opeth song and then Mikael is starting this whole speach on being the first death metal band performing in the RAH.
"We are actually bringing death metal in the halls of fine culture" Love it :)
My overall favourite live performance (that was professionally recorded) of them, is the one at the Roundhouse, though. The freaking Demon of the Fall closer, God damn!
I'm getting the distinct impression that I need to see Opeth live - if only to see what Akerfeldt says during the show.
Absolutely.. i never miss them when they are in town.. One of the best live acts going and lots of laughs with his banter.
I saw them in a little place in Santa Cruz, Ca on the Sorceress tour. About mid show Martin Mendez whispers something in Mikael's ear and walks off stage. Mikael walks up to the mic and says " he just told me he has to pee, so now I guess I have to talk to you fu**ers for a couple of minutes". When Martin returned Mikael looked at him and asked " do you feel better" with that Martin gave a visible sigh of relief and the show continued.
Harvest and Isolation Years are my favorite Opeth songs because they are the calmest Opeth songs
Amazing
Love Mikael. We talked him into playing the start of Wanted Dead Or Alive in Columbus Ohio.
"Porcupine Tree wouldn't be around if it wasn't for Opeth".
Awesome.
He is the best
I LOVE THIS MAN SO MUCH!
One time I saw them at Download and he began every song with “We’re Whitesnake and this next song is called “(Opeth song)”
Very last song he said “We are Opeth and this next song is called Whitesnake”
I just love this man.
Ah but don't forget at the start as well he said "Hello Download. We're just the shit opening band for Motley Crue. Which means the name of this band is...Whitesnake" Lost my shit hahah
@@ConfydeMusic 😂
Well, today's this amazing man's birthday, so... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKAEL
Mikael to Corey: finally, a worthy opponent
Gig in Swedens second biggest town Gothenburg (translated)
"We are Opeth and we are from Stockholm"
* *crowd boos because of rivaly* *
"But now we are here in Gothenburg. Its like I always say. Its a lovley town. Too bad about the people"
Last night in Denver: "We are going to try to keep this short, which is hard because I love to talk shit."
Can't wait to watch them in Singapore next month!
Dude's hilarious!