News items for: 15 January 2010

OPETH to Sweden Rock Festival 2010

With a groundbreaking hybrid of death metal and progressive rock with a 70s flavour, Opeth from Stockholm rank among the most influential and exciting metal bands of our time - and not only the Swedish ones. The band debuted with "Orchid" in 1995, but it wasn't until their fifth album "Blackwater Park" (2001) was released that they got their true break. Since then they have released another four studio albums, each more successful than its predecessor - with the latest one, "Watershed" (2008), even the American audience started to take serious notice of Opeth. In their home-country, and among progressive listeners in general, Mikael Åkerfeldt & Co are without a doubt one of the hottest bands around at the moment, and it's more than just a guess that their appearance at SRF will draw a very, very large crowd.

Confirmed bands so far (out of a total of 60):

Bachman & Turner (Can)
Only show in Scandinavia
W.A.S.P. (Us)
Rick Springfield (Aus/Us)
Danzig (Us)
Opeth (S)
Ratt (Us)
Y&T (Us)
Nazareth (Uk)
Magnum (Uk)
Saga (Can)
Sabaton (S)
D-A-D (DK)
Mother's Finest (Us)
Stratovarius (Fin)
Behemoth (Pl)
Unisonic (D)
Steel Panther (Us)
Watain (S)
Aldo Nova (Can)
Alestorm (Uk)
Anvil (Can)
Raven (Uk)
Bigelf (Us)
Jorn (N)

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