OPETH's next album has a guest appearance of JETHRO TULL's IAN ANDERSON
19-02-2024
JETHRO TULL founder Ian Anderson will make a guest appearance on the next album from the Swedish progressive metal band OPETH.
The veteran flutist, singer, songwriter and guitarist, who will turn 77 in August, revealed his contribution to the OPETH LP while talking to Italy’s “Mystery Tour” radio show. Asked about his non-JETHRO TULL musical activities, Ian said: “Well, from time to time I play on other people’s records, if they’re interesting to me. I just did — last week I played on three or four tracks from a prog metal band called OPETH. They’re Swedish.”
Back in 2021, OPETH leader Mikael Åkerfeldt told Prog that he originally approached the JETHRO TULL leader about playing the flute on the band’s 2011 album “Heritage”. “I did e-mail Ian Anderson but I never heard back from him,” he told the magazine. “Funnily enough, when I went down to Steven‘s [Wilson] place to mix the album, we’re sitting on his couch and he says, ‘Oh, I just got an e-mail from Ian Anderson,’ and I was, like, ‘What?!’ And he just said, ‘He just wants me to look into mixing [JETHRO TULL‘s 1971 album] ‘Aqualung’. I’m really happy in retrospect that we have Björn [J:son Lindh playing on ‘Heritage’ instead] because it fits with the vibe of the record.”
OPETH‘s latest album, “In Cauda Venenum”, was released in September 2019 via Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Recorded in 2018 at Stockholm’s Park Studios, the effort was made available in two versions, in both Swedish and English languages.
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