Tobias Forge has revealed that OPETH‘s Fredrik Åkesson is playing guitar on GHOST‘s upcoming studio album, Impera, which will be released on March 11 via Loma Vista/Concord.
Forge said about creative process in an interview with Loudwire: “…I’m a little bit of a jack of all trades when it comes to actual playing. I’m an able drummer, a bass player, an able guitar player, but I’m not a virtuoso.
“This time around, I actually had another guitar player coming in, mounting the massive work of actually redoing everything. I’ve played guitar all my life, but, unlike most guitar players who are in successful bands, they play as they tour. I am doing a whole slew of other things, so, it almost feels like every time I saw start writing again, and demoing and doing pre-production, I quickly have to go up to par again.
“On, tour for example, I mostly play drums, actually, in a rehearsal room in the back that we usually do as a warm up,” he continued. “Part of my daily exercises, I play drums for an hour, but I tend to forget to play guitar. When making this record, the demos dictates what to play — you can always figure that out and there’s always ways to redo, undo and piece things together.
“But when it came to actually performing, I had a friend of mine, Fredrik Åkesson, the guitar player from OPETH. He’s the sort of person who plays five hours every day. He’s so amazingly talented. He can play circles around anything that I put on tape and he can do it with flair.”
