He is also influenced extensively by jazz, the musician Ritchie Blackmore, Magma and its founder Christian Vander, and Hideki Ishima. He also tends to show his influence from these obscure bands, making reference to them in Opeth album titles such as Blackwater Park, Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse, as well as songs such as "Master's Apprentices" and "Goblin". Åkerfeldt is a collector of obscure 1970s rock and heavy metal albums. In 2020, Åkerfeldt was approached by director Jonas Åkerlund to compose the soundtrack for the swedish six-part Netflix series Clark, released in May 2022. In an interview on STIM magazine, he revealed that one of the highlights of his career was Opeth's performance at the Royal Albert Hall.
However, in 2014 he expressed the view that he didn't have the need for a special solo project and that he can put pretty much anything into Opeth. Åkerfeldt revealed in September 2009 that he is contemplating recording a singer-songwriter acoustic solo album.
Åkerfeldt performed the death vocals on Katatonia's album Brave Murder Day and their EP Sounds of Decay. When Isberg left Opeth three years later, Åkerfeldt replaced him as the vocalist. When their original bassist left Opeth two years later, Åkerfeldt replaced him as bassist Isberg then assumed guitar duties. After Eruption came to an end in 1989, he joined Opeth, ostensibly as a keyboardist. Åkerfeldt with Opeth at Wacken Open Air in 2006.Ī native of Stockholm, Mikael Åkerfeldt was the vocalist for Eruption, a death metal band that he formed in 1987 at 13 years old.
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