Per Wiberg
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Per Jonas Wiberg is the former keyboardist
of Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth
, and a member of Michael Amott
's stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars
. Wiberg toured with Opeth from the 2003 Deliverance/Damnation
tour onward, and joined Opeth officially in 2005. Wiberg provided backing vocals
for Opeth in addition to his keyboard duties. Before joining Spiritual Beggars he was a member of Death Organ
, a band based in Borlänge. He has also fronted the band Boom Club, of the same area.
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
.
In 2007, Per Wiberg collaborated on a project called King Hobo
with Clutch
drummer Jean-Paul Gaster
and Kamchatka
guitarist Thomas Andersson.
It was announced on April 6, 2011 that Per was leaving Opeth as part of a mutual decision between him and the other band members.
His girlfriend is Anna Sofi Dahlberg, the keyboard and cello player in Anekdoten.
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
of Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth
Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years...
, and a member of Michael Amott
Michael Amott
Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott...
's stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars
Spiritual Beggars
Spiritual Beggars is a hard rock/stoner metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed by Michael Amott, who is known from Arch Enemy, Carcass and Carnage.- Biography :...
. Wiberg toured with Opeth from the 2003 Deliverance/Damnation
Damnation (album)
-Notes:# The vocal melody in the chorus of "To Rid the Disease" is borrowed from a track recorded by Mikael Åkerfeldt's sideproject Sörskogen, "Mordet i Grottan".-Opeth:* Mikael Åkerfeldt – vocals, guitar; producing and engineering...
tour onward, and joined Opeth officially in 2005. Wiberg provided backing vocals
Backing vocalist
A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
for Opeth in addition to his keyboard duties. Before joining Spiritual Beggars he was a member of Death Organ
Death Organ
Death Organ is a Swedish progressive rock/death metal band led by keyboardist Per Wiberg, who also played keyboards for the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth and for Michael Amott's stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars...
, a band based in Borlänge. He has also fronted the band Boom Club, of the same area.
He played the keyboard in the intro to "Enemy Within" by the melodic death metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...
band Arch Enemy. He has also played piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
on Swedish progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
band Anekdoten
Anekdoten
Anekdoten is a Swedish progressive rock band, composed of guitarist/vocalist Nicklas Barker, cellist/keyboardist Anna Sofi Dahlberg, bassist/vocalist Jan Erik Liljeström and drummer Peter Nordins. They are notable for the use of the mellotron and their heavy sound dominated by a pounding bass guitar...
's 1993 release Vemod
Vemod
Vemod is the title of the first studio album released by the Swedish art rock band Anekdoten. According to the Trivia page of the Anektdoten website, the word "vemod" means in Swedish "[tender] sadness / [pensive] melancholy."-Track listing:...
.
In 2007, Per Wiberg collaborated on a project called King Hobo
King Hobo
King Hobo is a rock band from Sweden, formed in 2005. Jean-Paul Gaster from Clutch met Opeth keyboardist Per Wiberg at the Sounds of the Underground Tour. They jammed together, and allowed other musicians to join them, with the motto of "get funky or get out"...
with Clutch
Clutch (band)
Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland, formed in 1990. The band's first release was an EP entitled Pitchfork, which debuted in October 1990. Their first studio album, Transnational Speedway League, was released three years later in 1993. To date, Clutch has released nine studio...
drummer Jean-Paul Gaster
Jean-Paul Gaster
Jean-Paul Gaster is the American drummer for rock band Clutch.-Style and influences:Jean-Paul Gaster has learned to play drums growing up on 1960s and 1970 heavy rock bands like Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Black Sabbath. Favorite drummers of Gaster are artists such as legendary jazz drummers Elvin...
and Kamchatka
Kamchatka (band)
Kamchatka are a Swedish power trio highly influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s blues-rock bands. Their sound combines elements of blues-rock, stoner rock and psychedelic rock....
guitarist Thomas Andersson.
It was announced on April 6, 2011 that Per was leaving Opeth as part of a mutual decision between him and the other band members.
His girlfriend is Anna Sofi Dahlberg, the keyboard and cello player in Anekdoten.
With Opeth
- LamentationsLamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003)Lamentations is Opeth's first live DVD, released under the Music For Nations label in 2004. This live recording at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Thursday 25 September 2003, features Opeth playing the album Damnation in its entirety, followed by some of the band's songs from Blackwater Park and...
DVD (2003) - Ghost ReveriesGhost Reveries-Notes:# "Ghost of Perdition" is included in the soundtrack for the video game Saint's Row 2 on the radio station Krunch 106.66.# "The Baying of the Hounds" is partially inspired by lyrics from the song "Diana" from Comus's album First Utterance. The lyrics are "And she knows by the sound of the...
(2005) - The Roundhouse TapesThe Roundhouse Tapes-Disc Two:-DVD:# "When" − 10:28# "Ghost of Perdition" − 10:57# "Under the Weeping Moon" − 10:28# "Bleak" − 8:39# "Face of Melinda" − 9:58# "The Night and the Silent Water" − 10:29# "Windowpane" − 8:01# "Blackwater Park" − 18:59# "Demon of the Fall" − 8:13...
(2007) - WatershedWatershed (Opeth album)Watershed is the ninth full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. Published by Roadrunner Records, the album's special edition was released first as a music download on the Italian iTunes Stores on May 19, 2008.Watershed is the first studio album by Opeth to...
(2008) - In Live Concert at the Royal Albert HallIn Live Concert at the Royal Albert HallIn Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall is a live double album by the Swedish progressive death metal band, Opeth. The DVD was recorded on April 5, 2010 and was released on September 20, 2010 in Europe and on September 21, 2010 in the rest of the world...
(2010) - HeritageHeritage (Opeth album)Heritage is the tenth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released on 13 September 2011 by Roadrunner Records.The album was recorded in early 2011 at Atlantis studios in Stockholm, Sweden. It was produced by Mikael Åkerfeldt, engineered by Janne Hansson and mixed by Steven Wilson...
(2011)
With Spiritual Beggars
- Mantra III (1998)
- Ad Astra (2000)
- On Fire (2002)
- Demons (2005)
- Return to ZeroReturn to Zero (Spiritual Beggars album)Return To Zero is the 7th album by the Swedish stoner rock band Spiritual Beggars.It was released in Europe on August 30, 2010. It is their first album to feature Apollo Papathanasio of Firewind on vocals.-Track listing:...
(2010)
With Death Organ
- 9 to 5 (1995)
- Universal Stripsearch (1997)
Guest appearances
- AnekdotenAnekdotenAnekdoten is a Swedish progressive rock band, composed of guitarist/vocalist Nicklas Barker, cellist/keyboardist Anna Sofi Dahlberg, bassist/vocalist Jan Erik Liljeström and drummer Peter Nordins. They are notable for the use of the mellotron and their heavy sound dominated by a pounding bass guitar...
- VemodVemodVemod is the title of the first studio album released by the Swedish art rock band Anekdoten. According to the Trivia page of the Anektdoten website, the word "vemod" means in Swedish "[tender] sadness / [pensive] melancholy."-Track listing:...
(1993) - Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges (1999)
- Arch Enemy - Wages of SinWages of SinWages of Sin is the fourth studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. It is the first Arch Enemy album to feature the vocals of Angela Gossow...
(2001) - Arch Enemy - Anthems of RebellionAnthems of Rebellion-Release:At its time of release, Anthems of Rebellion gave Century Media its then highest first-week Soundscan sales in the United States, and later became one of the top ten best-selling albums under the record label. -Bonus disc:...
(2003) - KamchatkaKamchatka (band)Kamchatka are a Swedish power trio highly influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s blues-rock bands. Their sound combines elements of blues-rock, stoner rock and psychedelic rock....
- Volume IIIVolume III (Kamchatka album)Volume III is the third album of Kamchatka, an eleven track effort, containing the cover version "Whipping Post", originally recorded by The Allman Brothers Band...
(2009) - The Bakerton GroupThe Bakerton GroupThe Bakerton Group is an instrumental blues jam band and the side project of the blues rock outfit Clutch. They incorporate elements of blues-rock, psychedelic rock, jazz and stoner rock.-Biography:...
- El RojoEl RojoEl Rojo is the second full-length studio album by instrumental psychedelic rock band The Bakerton Group. The album was released in 2009 and contains 10 tracks. Mick Schauer, who played keyboards on the first album, left the group and was replaced by Per Wiberg of Opeth.The title of the album began...
(2009) - Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions (2011)