{"id":74951,"date":"2019-05-08T17:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=74951"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:50:50","slug":"opeth-australian-headlining-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=74951","title":{"rendered":"OPETH &#8211; Australian Headlining Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/opethlogo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74952\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/opethlogo-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/opethlogo-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/opethlogo-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/opethlogo-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>OPETH<\/strong> will headline an Australian tour in December with the below dates announced. The group are tentatively expected to have a new album in stores by the time the tour takes place, having previously teased a release sometime later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">12\/10 Adelaide, AUS \u2013 Thebarton Theatre<br \/>\n12\/11 Perth, AUS \u2013 Astor Theatre<br \/>\n12\/13 Melbourne, AUS \u2013 Palais Theatre<br \/>\n12\/14 Sydney, AUS \u2013 State Theatre<br \/>\n12\/15 Brisbane, AUS \u2013 Tivoli Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Potential support acts for the tour have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">The name <strong>Opeth<\/strong> was taken from the novel Sunbird by author Wilbur Smith and was originally spelled &#8220;Opet&#8221;. In the book, Opet is the name of the location for an ancient empire which translates to &#8220;City of the Moon&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>\nOpeth started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metal-archives.com\/artists\/Mikael_%C3%85kerfeldt\/144\">Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metal-archives.com\/artists\/Anders_Nordin\/212\">Anders Nordin<\/a>, long-time friends, forming Eruption in 1987. They practiced in a cellar in S\u00f6rskogen, playing mostly death metal covers. In 1988, the band became complete, and they started writing their own material. The band never amounted to anything though, except for a few rehearsal tapes. They disbanded in 1990.<br \/><br \/>\nAfter the break-up of Eruption, \u00c5kerfeldt met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metal-archives.com\/artists\/David_Isberg\/172\">David Isberg<\/a>, who had a band called Opeth. Isberg wanted \u00c5kerfeldt to join as a bass player, which led to an argument with the other band members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPETH will headline an Australian tour in December with the below dates announced. The group&#8230;<\/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-74951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74951","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=74951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74954,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74951\/revisions\/74954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}