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Yep, it’s this album’s turn this week on my prog metal review blog. Pretty damn solid album.

All this information (and way more) comes from this Ultimate Metal forum post from 2007, where a forum member managed to get in touch with Johan DeFarfalla himself via Email and hosted an "AMA" of sorts on the forum.
https://ultimatemetal.com/threads/what-ever-happened-to-johan-defarfalla.279650/post-5866162

I've never seen this forum post, or the vast majority of the info it contains, mentioned anywhere at any point, so I felt the need to share :>

• His fretless bass on Orchid was a 4-string, and was built by late Arne Arvidsson. I cannot find any info on Arvidsson building a bass besides Johan's; it seems he did guitars almost exclusively. I've seen some confusion on what the "Arvidsson" bass in the gear listing for Orchid was, and I was very curious myself. I'd thought I'd looked everywhere for info on this bass, but it was here the whole time. Never seen this info spread anywhere besides this forum post.

It is worth noting that the fretless bass on Morningrise could not have been the same bass, as that was a 6-string. I don't know what model it was, that information does not seem to exist anywhere on the internet whatsoever. The fretted bass on that album was supposedly a Yamaha.

• At least as of 2007, he had never listened to any Opeth beyond Morningrise.
• He was in a band called Crimson Cat before Opeth, which released 2 tapes in 1989 and 1990 (if anyone could possibly track these down, I would be eternally grateful and also extremely impressed; I cannot find even a lick of meaningful information on this band besides this one forum post, and not a single recording). It was described as "sleeze metal"
• He has exclusively played non-commercially since 1997
• It is common knowledge that he was fired from the band due to creative differences, however to be more specific, he's said he would have, quote, "created a much tighter band with a better production and less growl song", if he'd had the authority.

As a bonus, Mikael Åkerfeldt himself even commented in this thread to give his own input: https://ultimatemetal.com/threads/what-ever-happened-to-johan-defarfalla.279650/post-5869538

I cannot find any info on Johan post-2007 that has anything to do with music (only career and personal life stuff, which is on his Wikipedia article). I have no idea if he's even still playing. I hope he is, but there's no way to know without hearing it for myself.

The only band I’ve found who comes kind of close is Gojira.

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Welcome to my belated 30th anniversary celebrations for Opeth's Morningrise album.

There are a lot of incredible live performances of Morningrise tracks. With that in mind, this seem like kind of an odd choice - but I decided to highlight a performance of Advent by the "mid-era" lineup. Watch, and you'll see why.

Taken from Opeth's first concert in 2002, the band was playing to a small crowd of 100-200 fans at the Decibel festival in Bengtsfors, Sweden. Fresh from a 6-month break but before the trials of the Deliverance / Damnation recording, Opeth was explosive. Blackwater Park had finally provided them the start of the attention they deserved. Martin Lopez was having a great day. Even Anders Nordin was in the crowd, catching his ex-band for the first time since 1997. To top it all off, this may have been one of Mikael's best ever performances.

All credit goes to Fixxxer_SW for taping, to Stefan_M for the transfer, to me for the remix & master, and of course to Opeth for creating one of the most incredible albums of all time.

Mikael Åkerfeldt - vocals and guitar

Peter Lindgren - guitar

Martin Mendez - bass

Martin Lopez - drums

Support the band by picking up records and official merch from their online shop (https://opeth.omerch.com/), or catch them live at one of this summer's special shows. Enjoy.

Hello, guys. As I won't be able to attend the concert due to a last minute change of plans I have two tickets available for the Pompei show. Not looking to profit off of them. They're listed on Ticket Swap for slightly below what I paid for them. Row 31 seats 22 and 24

I saw posts asking about the saddest songs, but there are sad lyrics that are not in sad songs like Deliverance "Your memory is nothing but the scars on me"

I have been living in darkness for 10+ years and the guilt is unbearable. Today, I will "clear the fog that was veiled around me". (In reality, I completely forgot about this non-event until the other week and figured I'd make this post in case either of the people involved happens to see it.)

I was at the Beacon Theater Opeth show on October 22nd 2015. Ground floor, stage left, 30ish rows back. They played all of Ghost Reveries and then a healthy smattering of other songs. In the row behind me was a young couple, prospective couple, first date, or something going on. They were young, happy, full of wonder, but - to put it kindly - their conversation was a bit too loud. I tried to ignore it but it was at just the perfect level where it's impossible to not have it bother you.

I let it go for a loooooong time. But the second set came around, Opeth starts playing some older stuff, and then they start playing To Rid the Disease. This is where I dropped the ball. I NEEDED to experience this song but the word bullets from those youthful meatsacks kept piercing my soul. Partway into the song I turned around, tried to keep it tame but the best that came out of my mouth was something like, "I'm not trying to be a dick but could you be quiet?" Immediately, their vibe dropped and I felt like a turd. The dude had a sorry-bro kind of look and the young woman looked like I ripped out her soul. Young love dashed to the ground by a metal snob prick. I couldn't even enjoy the song after that.

I don't totally regret it - I think some form of words was warranted because the conversation was a bit distracting. But the execution of the words was not the best. I'm posting this here now so that, in case either of those loud-mouthed lovers sees it, they might find some solace in knowing that I felt awful about it.

There it is - my atonement. Now I may rest...I'll know if I made it to heaven because the pearly gates will be accompanied by the best Opeth album...Morningrise...not the most overrated album...Ghost Reveries...farewell, my corporal form...