{"id":230204,"date":"2024-08-22T19:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/nobody-else-wanted-to-do-it\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T19:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:26:39","slug":"nobody-else-wanted-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/nobody-else-wanted-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Else Wanted To Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"


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You know how nobody in the band actually wants to be the bassist, but someone ends up doing it because you need a bassist? That’s what happened with Opeth<\/a><\/strong>, except it was the vocalist position.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Chaoszine<\/em>, Opeth<\/a><\/strong> guitarist and vocalist Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt<\/strong> said he only became the band’s vocalist because they couldn’t find someone else, and later noted “I’m just like a bum who got lucky.” Which is definitely not true \u2013 self deprecating jokes aside, \u00c5kerfeldt<\/strong> can absolutely sing.<\/p>\n

“I don’t really see myself as a singer \u2014 or a guitar player for that matter. I see myself as a \u2014 I am a musician. I like to come to write music. I think that’s fun. The singer thing, it’s, like, nobody else wanted to do it. I guess it has to be me. And I don’t compare myself to my peers or my idols, especially my idols. I don’t go, like, ‘Hey, Ronnie Dio<\/strong>, what’s your trick? Mine’s this and that. I’m gonna teach you something.’ Those guys up there. I’m just like a bum who got lucky, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

“With our own albums, I wanna listen to the record and not really hear that it’s me, so to speak. So I like to distance myself from the person singing on the record. And with death metal vocals, that’s quite easy, because, of course, I don’t sound like that when I’m talking to you now. And with the clean vocals, I’m just kind of trying to get as close to my idols as I can.<\/p>\n

“But everybody’s given this particular voice. I don’t have any training. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing most of the time. The last album that we recorded, I think I tried to sing more clean vocals with a bit more grovelly type of thing.”<\/p>\n

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