Fredrik Åkesson

If the best bands are the ones that continue to keep surprising us, then Opeth are in a league of their own. "I started out with a couple of songs just to see if I was able to pull it off.

Guitar classics aplenty as the Swedish supremo names his essential albums. He was very innovative, taking that Hendrix influence and making it more classical. There are a couple of tracks like that on their 1984 album too, like House Of Pain. Bath You could never accuse him of stagnating. The Scottish guitar-slinger sits down with Guitar.com to talk second dates, waking up, scaling back his guitar set-up and why he will “never apologise for being a three-piece fuckin’ heavy rock band”. ""It was before his instrumental solo albums and before he was in ['70s prog-rock band] U.K. We mainly used our PRS guitars, plus an old 1972 Gibson SG which sounds great, and the same 1955 Les Paul Junior we used on [last album] Pale Communion. Disciples Of Hell Love's Gone "I tend to use more strict alternate picking at home and blend all the techniques with picking and legato for live or whenever I want to feel more comfortable. It demands your attention whenever you hear it, which is definitely rare! Fredrik Åkesson Paul Reed Smith Guitars is proud to welcome Fredrik Åkesson – guitarist and backing vocalist for the landmark prog metal band Opeth – to the PRS family of SE signature artists. Earlier on, I studied Paul Gilbert's first few instructional videos and they were really useful for playing that way. ""And it took me some time to get into his lead playing. There's a lot of Schenker-inspired stuff on this album, and Wolf Hoffman is hugely influential himself, of course..."When I was nine years old, I remember there was a 'Happy Hour' at my school where you got to play a song to the class. During this break the band will focus on writing songs for the new album. Born July 18th, 1972. Since joining Opeth, Åkesson switched to PRS Guitars with Marshall JVM 410 amps and cabs. Explore releases from Fredrik Åkesson at Discogs.

Endorsements. It felt really rebellious for its time. "They were and still are incredibly important to the scene of heavy metal.

Interview by Jordan Sibberas . ""I was starting to get into practicing more and I was really into Yngwie's influences - the guys like Uli John Roth, Ritchie Blackmore, even Al Di Meola. Spiral Architect, Killing Yourself To Live... there are so many brilliant tracks on this one.

The lower cutaway is significantly deeper than the standard SE 245, granting easier access to the upper reaches of the neck during solo flights.
"I feel that song came out very different compared to earlier Opeth stuff - it's almost more muscle-rock! ""We got to support them in Sweden this summer, which was kinda shocking as it was our first gig in nine months... and there was only about 56,000 people there, haha! You will receive a verification email shortly.There was a problem. It's a classic album. Yngwie is such an aggressive player, a proper take-no-prisoners kinda guy.

""Randy Rhoads was a hugely groundbreaking guitarist when you look at his approach to riffs and melodies. Shares (Image credit: IBL/REX/Shutterstock) Sorceress. He also had his own signature model. "There are some unbelievable solos on this record, so it's one people really need to check out.

I find it can help me play ridiculously fast compared to, say, alternate picking... You just need to relax your wrist. We got to play for an hour, and it was a tough crowd to please - they were there to see Maiden of course - but they seemed interested. Fredrik creates some interesting harmonic movement by outlining an Emin7 arpeggio, followed by a combination of Eaug(maj7) and Emaj7 arpeggios.

""Restless And Wild, the album with Fast As A Shark on it, was a big one for me. It's basically a classic Marshall sound with a bit more gain to it, based on the original Plexis.



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