Yeah, I just came.

Garm and Dan Swano better make an apperance. Who cares about Ihsahn though..

Add Steven Wilson to that list.

wOw

he's been trying to do this for years, finally

it will be boring.

You wont be jizzing in your pants I take it?

I love his clean voice and acoustic guitar work with Opeth. Should be amazing.

He needs to add some Chente Fernandez and Los Tigres del Norte influence there. Then it'll be easily one of the most awesome albums ever made.

It's about fucking time he grew the balls to make a solo album. And Wilson will be on this guaranteed, they're too gay for each other for that not to happen.

i want to say this will be good but i just cant help not being wrong

This has the potential to be great.

Wilson will probably want to produce it.

this is gonna be awesome i don't know what half you niggas is talkin bout

Thought was a news joke at first. Good lord, this is awesome.

this is relevant to my interests..

this will be good

so it'll be like damnation, which i love

i want to say this will be good but i just cant help not being wrong

Because he's been listening to Nick Drake; yet another over-hyped solo artist on this site. At least Akerfeldt will make this look good.

Pretty awesome. Opeth's acoustic work has always been my favorite mood music.

Mine too!

There was a youtube battle proclaiming Akerfeldt to be a shitty blues and folk musician who made poor arrangements and played only chords. n embrrasment to the genre. Lol.

I need to see those.

I dont have time to read the interview, does he say he plans to put the new Opeth album on hiatus?

Opeth is already on a 2 year break.

WHOA ! Didnt expect this at all but still, best news ever...

Also, where did you read that Opeth are on a 2 yr. break ?

Could be fucking incredible, but I'll not make any conclusions just yet.

awesome! wont come out for a few years probably but still psyched

Mike said after the last European tour is over Opeth will be taking a break. I don't think he "officially" announced it yet, but he's been saying it on tour.

could either reallllllly suck or be realllly good

probably would be really cool, bro did you get banned?

after being jerked off by opeth for so long, Sputnik will finally cum with this solo album. Akerfeldt promises this.

lmao @ zooyorker

He needs to add some Chente Fernandez and Los Tigres del Norte influence there. Then it'll be easily one of the most awesome albums ever made.

zipper i did indeed get banned. i made a news article about Akerfeldt sneezing. thought the denizens of sputnik needed to know. the mods apparently, didnt

Sounds like serious business.

indeed it was, indeed it was.

What?? He sneezed and I wasn't told??

This could be awesome! I just hope he makes it as a folky type album otherwise it'll just sound like Damnation. Steven Wilson will hopefully get a spot on there.

Maybe he'll make a country album or something with some death growls. :DDDD

And this bitch needs to sing lead vocals in at least half the album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GF2_6ujPk

This should be great, and if it isn't it certainly won't suck. He clearly knows what makes good music.

Even though he can't read it, da dum tsh.

the first track on watershed was my favorite, here's to more in the same vein!

the first track on blackwater park was my favorite, here's to more in the same vein!

Should be pretty great.

Nice.

This will be boring as fuck.

lulz IT WILL BE AN ACOUSTIC SUPERGROUP much in the way of chickenfoot

Average song legth will be 9 minutes, with a 1:30 opener. Album will be entitled "Sorrow."

^

We can only hope.

This could go either way. We'll see when it happens

It's gonna be so good

Just got a massive boner from this news.

Just got a massive boner from this news.

A boner so nice you just had to post twice.

Opeth cannae be on a 2 year brake seeing as I've got tickets to go and see them next month!

this sounds interesting, always liked his voice so im stoked for this

yeah, I would probably dig this more then a new Opeth album.

Opeth never tickled my fancy, maybe this will

It's gonna be all acoustic ballads and whatever

Yeah I know, but I figure I'll give it a shot anyway.

admittedly, this could turn out to be awesome or a complete borefest, either way im very interested.

I'm also interested to see how his " simplistic songwriting " is gonna turn out to be...

The collective mind of Sputnik just cam-o wait

Can't wait

Well, this took me by suprise. Hopefully it will be something like Damnation.

Interested in this, but id rather a new Opeth album.

dam i would listen to that

B to the oner.

That is some damn good news for once.