Swedish progressive metal masters OPETH have announced an extensive European tour for February 2025. Fans who pre-order the band’s new album, The Last Will And Testament, can take advantage of a special bundle offer.
Starting today, August 2 at 10:00 a.m. CEST, fans who pre-order the album will receive a special ticket pre-sale code for advanced tickets to the European tour. The offer will end on Tuesday, August 6 at 15:00 CEST, so don’t sleep on this limited opportunity.
General sales will start on Friday, August 9 at 10:00 a.m. local time.
Special guest on the tour will be GRAND MAGUS.
Tour dates are as follows:
Feb. 09 – Helsinki (FI) @ Ice Hall
Feb. 11 – Stockholm (SE) @ Cirkus
Feb. 12 – Oslo (NO) @ Sentrum Scene
Feb. 14 – Copenhagen (DK) @ DR Koncerthuset
Feb. 15 – Hamburg (DE) @ Docks
Feb. 17 – Cologne (DE) @ Palladium
Feb. 18 – Berlin (DE) @ Tempodrom
Feb. 19 – Munich (DE) @ Muffathalle
Feb. 21 – Paris (DR) @ L’Olympia
Feb. 22 – Amsterdam (NL) @ AFAS Live
Feb. 23 – Brussels (BE) @ Ancienne Belgique
OPETH are set to release their new concept album, The Last Will And Testament, on October 11 through Reigning Phoenix Music. The album’s first single, “§1,” is available for streaming below.
“I have become quite interested in family, and the idea that blood is not always thicker than water,” OPETH leader Mikael Åkerfeldt explained. “I became interested in how family members can turn on each other. I saw an interview with this guy whose family had all turned against him, over the inheritance, so I wrote a song about that on the last record. The idea stuck with me, and then along came the TV show ‘Succession’, and I loved that series. That was in the back of my head too. It felt like an interesting topic that you could twist and turn a little bit.”
Regarding the inspiration for the music on The Last Will And Testament, Mikael said: “‘The Last Will And Testament’ is a concept record of sorts. A restless musical journey in a way mirroring my own relationship with music as a consumer of it. I pick up something here, dismiss something there. I worship and I hate music at the same time. This ambivalence leads me down some type of creative path of my own and then, all of a sudden, a collection of songs has been written. Best-case scenario, these songs are good enough to impress the band. Good enough for the ‘powers that be’ in terms of the industry. Good enough for ‘you’?!”
“I love this record. I have to say it (write it). Maybe I’m proud, even? There are some familiar ingredients in there, I suppose. Most of our music has sprung from the same source, so I guess it’s not much of a shocker if it’s going to sound like ‘us’.
“I’m a bit in awe of what we did with The Last Will And Testament. It feels like a dream. There is some coherence and songwriting skills I hope, but what do I know? I tend to favor the strange over the obvious, but I feel like I’m in the minority, and that’s fine. So…fair warning! Don’t expect an instant rush (as per usual),but if you do get it (have you got it yet?) right away, that’s okay too!”
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