Per Wiberg is the keyboardist and mellotron player for the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth, and a member of Michael Amott's stoner rock band Spiritual Beggars. Wiberg had toured with Opeth since the 2003 Deliverance/Damnation tour, and officially joined Opeth in 2005. Wiberg provides backing vocals for Opeth in addition to his keyboard duties. Before joining Spiritual Beggars he was a member of Death Organ, a Borlänge-based band. He has also fronted the Borlänge band Boom Club. A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. ... The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... Opeth are a heavy metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. ... Michael Amott (born July 28, 1970 in England, Britain; raised in Halmstad, Sweden) is a British/Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the legendary death metal band Carcass. ... Stoner rock and stoner metal are interchangeable terms describing sub-genres of rock and metal music. ... Spiritual Beggars is a stoner rock band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed by Michael Amott (Arch Enemy, Carcass, Carnage). ... Opeth are a heavy metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deliverance is Opeths sixth studio album, following the bands highly successful 2001 album, Blackwater Park. ... Damnation is Opeths seventh full-length studio album, released in April 2003, following the bands previous album Deliverance the year before. ... Opeth are a heavy metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He played the keyboard in the intro to "Enemy Within" by the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. He has also played piano on Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten's 1993 release Vemod. Melodic death metal, (also referred to as Gothenburg metal, melodeath, and post-death) is a subgenre of death metal. ... Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, formed in 1995 by ex Carcass guitarist Michael Amott. ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... Anekdoten are a Swedish progressive rock band, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Nicklas Berg, cellist Anna Sofi Dahlberg, bassist/vocalist Jan Erik Liljestrom and drummer Peter Nordin. ...

In 2007, Per Wiberg collaborated on a project with Clutch drummer Jean-Paul Gaster and Kamchatka guitarist Thomas Andersson.^[1] Clutch is a musical group from Germantown, Maryland in the United States. ... Jean-Paul Gaster is an American drummer best known for his work as member of stoner rock band Clutch. ... Kamchatka are a Swedish power trio highly influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s blues-rock bands. ...

Equipment

Per Wiberg uses Nord Electro 2 and Korg Triton keyboards. Clavia Nord Electro 2 is an electronic keyboard developed in Sweden, by Clavia. ... Korg Triton Classic Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital sampling and sequencing created by Korg. ...

Discography

With Opeth

• Lamentations DVD (2003)
• Ghost Reveries (2005)
• The Roundhouse Tapes (2007)
• Watershed (2008)

Lamentations is Opeths first live DVD, released under the Music For Nations label in 2004. ... Ghost Reveries is the eighth studio album release from the progressive death metal band Opeth. ... The Roundhouse Tapes is a live double album by the Swedish progressive death metal band, Opeth. ...

With Spiritual Beggars

• Mantra III (1998)
• Ad Astra (2000)
• On Fire (2002)
• Demons (2005)

Demons is an album by the swedish stoner rock band Spiritual Beggars. ...

With Death Organ

• 9 To 5 (1995)
• Universal Stripsearch (1997)

Guest Appearances

• Anekdoten - Vemod (1993)
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin (2001)

Anekdoten are a Swedish progressive rock band, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Nicklas Berg, cellist Anna Sofi Dahlberg, bassist/vocalist Jan Erik Liljestrom and drummer Peter Nordin. ... Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, formed in 1995 by ex Carcass guitarist Michael Amott. ... Wages of Sin is the fourth studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. ...

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