MILAN/SONY
Opeth’s mainman is freed for a multi-genre odyssey
GIVEN HIS PENCHANT for dry humour, it’s apt that Mikael Åkerfeldt found the ultimate artistic freedom while telling the story of a Swedish bank robber. When director – and former Bathory sticksman – Jonas Åkerlund recruited Opeth’s mainman to write the soundtrack to his Netflix series, Clark, he wasn’t just looking for the man who wrote The Grand Conjuration, or any other number of prog-death masterpieces you might want to name. Instead, he was enlisting the talents of a musician whose musical knowledge verges on the encyclopaedic – amultigenre connoisseur who could imbue the series with a sense of sonic authenticity.
Though inspired by Swedish popular music from the 50s to the 80s, the soundtrack also betrays Mikael’s own influences. bears a riff remarkably similar to The Edgarwhile
