Mikael Åkerfeldt galore

After putting Opeth at the top of my list of the 30 best albums of the 00s and having sat through the seemingly endless Opeth dvd In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall, my love for the band grew stronger than ever. So I thought I'd put together a little compilation of stuff frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has done outside of Opeth over the years.

He sings lead vocals on the tracks by Katatonia, Roadrunner United, Candlemass, O.S.I. and Ihsahn, he does backing vocals on the tracks by Porcupine Tree (on which he also does a guitar solo) and Soilwork. He sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar on the Sörskogen track, and a spoken word part on the Dream Theater one.

This post is the first and last time you'll ever have to see a Dream Theater song on this blog.

I considered including a Bloodbath song, but there's been so much Bloodbath around here over the years anyway so I didn't bother.

Mike of course had nothing to do with Popol Vuh's Through Pain To Heaven, but that's been Opeth entrance music for ages so I just thought I'd include it.

(zip) Mikael Åkerfeldt's extracurricular activities (92 mb)

1. Popul Voh - Through pain to heaven (1978)
2. Katatonia - Rainroom (1996)
3. Soilwork - A predator's portrait (2001)
4. Porcupine Tree - Arriving somewhere, but not here (2005)
5. Roadrunner United - Roads (2005)
6. Dream Theather - Repentance (2007)
7. Candlemass - At the gallows end (live, 2007)
8. Sörskogen - Mordet i grottan (????)
9. O.S.I. - Stockholm (2009)

Pay for your music, muchacho.