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\nSwedish metal act OPETH will be celebrating their 20th anniversary in the spring of 2010 with a series of six exclusive shows around the globe. Band frontman Mikael Akerfeldt had the following to off on what the expect from the shows:<\/p>\n
\u201dI can\u2019t believe it, but\u2026fuck\u2026 we\u2019re celebrating 20 years!! 20 years I\u2019ve been in this band, ever since I was 16! It\u2019s insane! As far as I remember, we\u2019ve never had a release party, never celebrated anything officially. Well, now is the time, you hear?<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve set up a string of shows, 6 of them actually, around the world. To say that they will be super-exclusive is beyond an understatement!
\n We\u2019ve discussed the set list already and it seems like we\u2019ll pull out a few songs we\u2019ve never played before, some of which fans all over the world have been demanding to hear for years and years.<\/p>\n
Our main agenda for these shows is to have \u201cfun\u201d whilst trying to blow your fucking minds, you could say business as usual, but really\u2026it\u2019ll be special, trust me! I can\u2019t stress enough how exclusive this will be!<\/p>\n
We will not add any more shows on top of the 6 that we\u2019ve confirmed already, so please make up your mind early on whether you wanna go or not (of course you fucking do!) as I would assume there\u2019s quite a few of our fans that might be interested in seeing a thing like this.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll spend the better part of January-March rehearsing for this. All to make YOU fucking happy! OK, we\u2019ll be tight, very tight indeed\u2026come see us!
\n It\u2019s a celebration!!!!<\/p>\n
The official press release offered the following additional details:<\/p>\n
At each show, the band will perform two sets. The first set will feature the band playing its breakthrough epic Blackwater Park in its entirety. The second set will consist of mixed material from the band\u2019s extensive catalog. The band will be playing for over two hours at carefully selected venues in order to achieve an element of intimacy and exclusivity, and an overall \u201cYou had to be there\u201d vibe!\u201d<\/p>\n
The dates for the anniversary celebration shows run as follows:<\/p>\n
March 30th Stockholm, SWE \u2013 Cirkus Swedish metal act OPETH will be celebrating their 20th anniversary in the spring of 2010…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApril 01st Essen, GER \u2013 Lichtburg
\nApril 03rd Paris, FRA \u2013 Bataclan
\nApril 05th London, UK \u2013 Royal Albert Hall
\nApril 07th New York, NY \u2013 Terminal 5
\nApril 09th Los Angeles, CA \u2013 The Wiltern
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\nhttp:\/\/www.myspace.com\/opeth<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"