![]() We were laughing our brains out, like sneezing pizza out of our noses we were laughing so hard. You would probably get shot if you played that style at the time. What is the most out style of music at the time? We started throwing stuff around and came to the conclusion that a heavy metal band that sounds a bit like a cross between “Fast as a Shark” and “Freewheel Burning” – that is the most out style of music ever. ![]() What should we do? I thought about this style of music that at the time of recording, which was 1996 in March or April. We discussed trying pieces of songs atop them, which would have made sense to record an actual Opeth song, but we were not sensible at the time, so we came up with the idea of recording something else for fun since we had the time. We just finished what I thought might be the drum sounds for Morningrise and I just threw an idea that since we had four weeks, maybe we could take the time to record a bunch of rhythm guitars and bass on top of the drums to hear if they survive when there is a wall of sound thrown at them. The whole idea was born when me and the drummer from Opeth at the time and Mikael, we were in a pizzeria in Örebro where the album was recorded. We had Swanö sit down with us to tell the full Steel story. ![]() Featuring an unprecedented falsetto vocal performance by Dan Swanö and lighter-raising guitar wizardry by Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt (as well as stellar performances from rhythm section Peter Lindgren and Anders Nordin), Steel’s 1996 demo cassette was an underground rarity until it was finally released by Near Dark Productions as a picture disc 7-inch in 1998 under the name Heavy Metal Machine. Eschewing both sides’ penchants for progressive death metal, Steel was an exercise in both traditional metal rippers and cock rock balladry. Steel was a short-lived supergroup formed by members of Opeth and Edge of Sanity during the Morningrise sessions in early 1996. ![]()
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