Opethin Mikael Åkerfeldt: ”En ole kiinnostunut kirjoittamaan musiikkia muille kuin itselleni”

Ruotsalainen nykyisin progressiivista rockia soittava Opeth julkaisi syyskuun 30. päivä uuden ”Sorceress” -nimisen albuminsa Nuclear Blast Recordsin kautta. Yhtyeen laulaja-kitaristi Mikael Åkerfeldt on nyt kommentoinut tuoreessa Rock Sinsin haastattelussa, että kirjoittaa musiikkia vain itseään varten eikä tyydyttääkseen fanien tarpeita. Voit lukea Mikaelin ajatuksia aiheen tiimoilta tästä:

”I’m not interested in writing music for anyone else than myself. Myself first and foremost and the rest of the band secondly, and sometimes they may not understand what I’m after, but, y’know, you kinda massage them a little bit and they get into it. As far as that goes, once I’m happy and the rest of the other guys in the band are happy, we’re gold as far as I’m concerned.”

”I don’t think I’ve ever tried to write a song for the fanbase; I don’t think it works like that. If you take an example like AC/DC, for instance, they’re a bit of a cheap shot to go for AC/DC who’ve virtually been sounding the same their whole career, so I wonder why people don’t like ’Flick Of The Switch’ or ’Fly On The Wall’. Those records are amazing because they’re quite similar to ’Back In Black’ or ’Highway To Hell’ and those kinds of records, so I don’t think it works like that. You can’t adjust your style of writing in order to gain popularity and stuff like that. I think the only right way to do it, as far as I see it, is to write for yourself. If you like it, perhaps someone else will like it, and that’s how we’ve been doing it since the beginning.”