Mikael Akerfeldt
Birthname Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt Birthdate April 17, 1974 Birthplace Stockholm, Sweden Height 1.83 m (6' 0") Profession Musician Net worth $6,000,000 Source of Wealth Music Nationality Swedish Marital Status Married (Anna Sandberg) Children 2 (Melinda and Mirjam)Quick Links
Lars Mikael Akerfeldt, who has an estimated net worth of $6 million, is a musician from Sweden who has rocked audiences with several death metal bands. Born on the 17th of April 1974 in Stockholm, he took to music as fish does to water. He shot to fame with Opeth, which is a progressive death metal band as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and song writer.
He started his musical career as the vocalist of Eruption – a death metal band he had formed by himself in 1988 at the age of 14. After this band ended in 1990, he went on to join Opeth in the capacity of a bassist, at the insistence of David Isberg. Not only that, he has worked with several bands as vocalist and lead guitarist. The list of bands include several death metal bands like Blood Bath (former lead vocalist), Sorskogen (vocalist, guitarist), Steel (guitarist). He also collaborates with Steve Wilson for Storm Corrosion.
He collects old 1970's rock and heavy metal albums from which his music is influenced. His style of song writing is progressive Rock influenced. Guitar World has ranked him Number 42 out of 100 top greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time. He ranks 9th in the book 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date | Category | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
2018 | Record Sales | First week record sales of the album Prequelle with the Swedish rock band Ghost (approximately 66 thousand copies sold) | $85,800 |
2014 | Record Sales | First week record sales of the album Pale Communion with the Swedish progressive rock band Opeth (approximately 19,090 copies sold) | $24,820 |
2011 | Record Sales | First week record sales of the album Heritage with the Swedish progressive rock band Opeth (approximately 19 thousand copies sold) | $24,700 |
2007 | Record Sales | First week record sales of the album Systematic Chaos with the American progressive metal band Dream Theater *approximately 35,689 copies sold) | $46,400 |
1998 | Record Sales | Record sales of the album Discouraged Ones (stylized discøuraged ønes) with the Swedish metal band Katatonia (approximately 20 thousand copies sold) | $26,000 |
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