OPETH Frontman Talks Record Collecting In New Video Interview

April 25, 2012

Roadrunner Records has uploaded a new video interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt in which the OPETH guitarist/vocalist talks about his record collecting (including the most money he’s ever paid for a record, and whether his wife ever gives him "the look" when he brings something home); answers questions about '70s prog and hard rock, including whether he owns any GENESIS albums that Peter Gabriel doesn't sing on; and offers his opinion on who's better — GRAND FUNK RAILROAD or SIR LORD BALTIMORE. Check out the chat geek below.

OPETH has teamed up with MASTODON for a spring North American co-headlining tour. The trek kicked off on April 4 in Portland, Maine, and will visit more than 30 cities in the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up at Atlanta's Masquerade Music Park on May 12.

OPETH's new album, "Heritage", sold 19,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 19 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous studio CD, 2008's "Watershed", opened with more than 19,000 units to land at No. 23.

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