JETHRO TULL’s IAN ANDERSON To Guest On OPETH’s Next Album

Opeth appears to be going additional down the progressive rock rabbit gap, as Jethro Tull founder Ian Anderson has revealed he performed flute on “three or 4 tracks” on their subsequent report. Effectively, that or we’re about to get some significantly dying metallic flute.

In keeping with Anderson in an interview with the Thriller Tour radio present: “Effectively, infrequently I play on different folks’s data, in the event that they’re attention-grabbing to me. I simply did — final week I performed on three or 4 tracks from a prog metallic band referred to as [Opeth].”

And should you’re considering that is likely to be a stretch, it is clearly been on Opeth mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt‘s to-do listing for some time. Blabbermouth factors out that Åkerfeldt talked about in a Prog interview that he initially requested Anderson to play on Heritage means again in 2011, however the two by no means acquired collectively.

“I did e-mail Ian Anderson however I by no means heard again from him,” he mentioned on the time. “Funnily sufficient, once I went all the way down to Steven‘s [Wilson] place to combine the album, we’re sitting on his sofa and he says, ‘Oh, I simply acquired an e-mail from Ian Anderson,’ and I used to be, like, ‘What?!’ And he simply mentioned, ‘He simply needs me to look into [remixing Jethro Tull‘s 1971 record] Aqualung. I am actually pleased on reflection that we’ve got [Björn J:son Lindh] as a result of it matches with the vibe of the report.”

No phrase on once we can anticipate the brand new Opeth report. Exterior of Anderson‘s look, it’s going to even be Opeth‘s first with drummer Waltteri Väyrynen, who changed longtime drummer Martin Axenrot in 2022.