Opethin Mikael Åkerfeldt suunnittelee yhteistä projektia Devin Townsendin kanssa

Ruotsalaisen nykyisin progressiivista rockia soittavan Opethin laujala-kitaristi Mikael Åkerfeldt on paljastanut tuoreessa Roch Hardille antamassaaan videohaastattelussa aloittaneensa yhteisen projektin yhdessä Devin Townsendin kanssa. Projektilla ei ole vielä olemassa nimeä eikä Mikael tiedä päätyykö projekti koskaan maaliin mutta aiheesta hän kertoi seuraavaa:

”Well, actually, if I say anything about it, people are gonna be expecting something to be released. Some of these… I don’t know how many projects I’ve been in, and all of them have been talked about when you’re drunk. I had a band with Jeff Loomis [ex-NEVERMORE], from now ARCH ENEMY. [We were] like, ’We’re gonna have a band.’ And a band with Brent [Hinds] from MASTODON. And I was gonna have a band with Yngwie Malmsteen, even if I never met him. But [there was] talk [of] a lot of shit — a lot of shit. But this one, and since [Devin] already mentioned it, yeah, I talked to him about doing something. Not [just] me and him… If it happens, which it may well not do, it will be like a band of musicians.”

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”I came up with the idea, talked to one guy from Sweden that I love his voice. I talked to him, and he’s, like, ’If you’re doing it, if you’re in, I’m in.’ And then I met a keyboard player, asked him and he said, ’Yeah, I’m in.’ I talked to a drummer, [and he said], ’I’m in.’ I talked to Devin, [and he said], ’I’m in.'”

”The idea for this — again, if this happens — is to have a band consisting of lead singers. So the vocals first and instruments second, because that’s been gone missing in music, I think, now. So people that are comfortable singing lead vocals. And then if they are a bass player or a drummer, that’s great. But the singer is the most important thing, that they have a lead-vocal-type voice, if you know what I mean. So the band, if it happens, it’s not gonna be anything big — [we’ll] just do a record for the fun, if we get there, and, like I said, focus on singing and harmony vocals. Like, one takes the lead and the other guys are singing harmonies. Because I love vocals and I’ve been missing that in the rock scene.”