The Soundtrack Of My Life
“Joni Mitchell is a genius. I don’t use that word a lot, but with her it’s easy.”
This feature could have been tailor-made for Mikael Åkerfeldt. The Opeth frontman, metalhead-turned-progressive rocker and sometime Steven Wilson collaborator has a record collection the size of Brazil, cultivated with love and a deep level of super-nerdom. At 45 the Stockholm native still drinks in music with the thirst and passion of a 21-year-old discovering it all for the first time.
THE FIRST MUSIC I REMEMBER HEARING
It’s probably ABBA. I was
