Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt

Mikael Akerfeldt ( a genius, amazing, true Metal-head; a great guitarist;a dynamic and great vocalist; a funny and simply the best and Opethian) even these much of modifiers  may  not be good enough to introduce this guy  He was born on 17 April 1974.  This date is always in my mind since my school days.. 

Mikael simply is one of the best singers and guitarists, importantly a  unique.This is the man of most creative power I ever have found in my life.if you are an pure Opeth fan, this man can be your ideal. Since the age of 14 he started his musical journey- as an vocalist in band called eruption.He joined Opeth as a bassist which is pretty weird. Again some changes happened and he became vocalist and guitarist of the band.  Åkerfeldt performed the death vocals on Katatonia's album Brave Murder Day and Sounds of Decay. 

Mikael is a very big collector of old record too. He has huge collection of some of the masterpieces in the world. He has owned more then 4500 masterpieces, and he is still not done, every day he is hungry for more to do to get it done. 

Well, every one is crazy for Mikael. Many girls and even some boys, HAHAHA, but he has his own little family. He is married with his long-time girlfriend, Anna Sandberg, in September 2004. Anna gave birth to her second child. in 2007. Both of them are girls. 

 This masterminded man's life did not always remained great. At the beginning of the band he faced  lots of criticisms, and financial problems while he used to work at a guitar shop. Even after making their 4 records he said, "We could even think of making any money. I had to ask  my mum to support me". Finally, in 2001, the band got beam of light of success from Black-Water Park, which was produced by another great musician from England Steven Wilson. Blackwater was like a bit of a major hit. It got great review from every where. And Mikael said "I think,after Black-Water Park we started to make some money". After Black-Water park they knew  the metal world; they started  touring around the world, and again in 2002 they enter studio for another record for this campaign. Mikael said, " Well, for the new record I had lots of idea in my head but they were not getting together and I was really confused, and one of my friends suggested why did not I   do two album at the same time: one mellow and another heavy. I thought, well, good idea and we did damnation which was mellow, it came out in 2002. I thought of  deliverance heavy one in 2003, damnation got kind a mixed reaction and  deliverance, I think. was  one of the heaviest album of our career".  

Mikael is not just the part of Opeth, he has been working in  other projects as well. Katatonia , Bloodbath ,Steve Hackett and recently with Steven Wilson, which is known as storm corrosion, are the projects where he has proven his perfection. If you haven't tried yet, I would highly recommend to have a try. You may like it.. 

Mikael mostly used three types of tuning in his guitar:
-E standard 
-Drop D (Mikeal said in drop d tuning even a shit riff will sound great lol and that's true because I tried it myself)
-Open D minor 9 (D-A-D-F-A-E).

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