Opeth Involved in Car Crash

2009-10-16 by Prophet178 | 69 Comments
Martin Mendez and Per Wiberg of Opeth were involved in a car crash earlier this week that killed one person.

A car made a u-turn in the middle of a highway, hitting Opeth's tour bus head on.
Nobody was injured from the Opeth camp, however the driver of the car was killed upon impact.

A recent discovery has unveiled that the driver of the other car had done this with a motive of taking his own life, for a suicide letter was found inside the wreckage of the car.

[a]http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?
mode=Article&newsitemID=128823[/a]

Tagged: Opeth

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Daedus
October 16th 2009
234 Comments


Holy Shit. Someone used Opeth's tour bus to kill himself?

Pretty rad way to go.

fireaboveicebelow
October 16th 2009
6835 Comments


the next cd should be great and dark now

accompliceofmydeath
October 16th 2009
4921 Comments


I suppose I could have put this in the news deal. Oh well.

TRMshadow
October 16th 2009
5119 Comments


Wow, I'm happy the majority of the people involved are all right, I'm against suicide though. Couldn't he have called the hotline or something?

elephantREVOLUTION
October 16th 2009
3052 Comments


that's a fucking metal way to kill yourself

XulOnerom
October 16th 2009
1818 Comments


They are going to become Christians, now that they have faced death

Greggers
October 16th 2009
2375 Comments


I'm glad the band is fine but it sucks that the other driver was killed

WhiteWallStargazers
October 16th 2009
2647 Comments


Isn't that kind of a selfish way to kill yourself? I mean why not just do it somewhere where you can't harm anyone else?

jagride
October 16th 2009
2975 Comments


What a shitty thing to do. If you're going to kill yourself don't try to forcibly take other people with you

Yazz_Flute
October 16th 2009
19174 Comments


When I saw the title of the news article I kinda expected it to be fake like those other ones we got proclaiming Akefeldt died etc.

XulOnerom
October 16th 2009
1818 Comments


Invovled

bloc
October 16th 2009
70025 Comments


Invovled

good eye

Demonicgman
October 16th 2009
417 Comments


guy had issues.

PanasonicYouth
October 16th 2009
7413 Comments


invovled
lol
but yeah, next album is gonna rule now

Epilogue
October 16th 2009
1817 Comments


"Holy Shit. Someone used Opeth's tour bus to kill himself?

Pretty rad way to go."

i'd do it

iranscam
October 16th 2009
469 Comments


What a shitty thing to do. If you're going to kill yourself don't try to forcibly take other people with you

probably no use in arguing that point with someone who's going to kill himself

Bullitt
October 16th 2009
1666 Comments


I was scared there for a second.

zaruyache
October 17th 2009
27370 Comments


That's pretty fucked up. The fact that some dude ran his own car into another vehicle to kill himself, not that Opeth was involved. Wtf dude, you couldn't drive off a bridge? Don't take musicians with you :-(

iamthenightmare
October 17th 2009
755 Comments


ITS NOT OPETH IF AKERFELDT WASNT THERE

CrazyFool84
October 17th 2009
1083 Comments


Woah, that's pretty metal

Glad the Opeth camp is fine, shame someone died tho

Klekticist
October 17th 2009
1393 Comments


cool way to go.
hope all their equipment's ok

RIP crazy driverman.

RedSky
October 17th 2009
309 Comments


Maybe now Watershed will remain in the top 8 popular albums for another 3 years?

ratedrsuperstar
October 17th 2009
186 Comments


wonder if this will make onto "the incident-BONUS DISC" featuring mikael :P

toolguitarkid
October 17th 2009
289 Comments


this sounds like something straight out of metalocolypse.

BenX02
October 17th 2009
427 Comments


Speaking of Metalocolypse, I heard that one of the characters in that show is based of Mikael.

Don't know how true that is, but it's pretty cool either way.

bodiesinflight57
October 17th 2009
870 Comments


The selfishness of killing yourself in a way that may hurt other people is off the scale

Wizard
October 17th 2009
20510 Comments


So happy my lover wasn't involved in this accident.

ZeroTolerance
October 17th 2009
435 Comments


Well, Mikael is the Unhealer

Andross026
October 17th 2009
49 Comments


lol suicide man does not like Opeth

Shrapnel94
October 17th 2009
2213 Comments


That's metal

KebertXela
October 17th 2009
367 Comments


shrapnel...I was literally about to write "That's metal"...but you beat me to it. Damn.

Hey, is your name from the shred record label? If so, pretty tight.

lauriej
October 17th 2009
1713 Comments


opeth - eliminating suicidal emos since 2009

Popabubb
October 17th 2009
63 Comments


I don't know why but this seems like something from Metalocalypse. Damn that is both metal and BROOTAL.

tinathefatlard
October 17th 2009
2050 Comments


Death Metal's Brush With Death.

jagride
October 17th 2009
2975 Comments


when i'm an old man with nothing left to live for i'll drive my car into the ocean, walk the sand with the crustaceans

Wizard
October 17th 2009
20510 Comments


opeth - eliminating suicidal emos since 2009

Best line of 2009 on this site! Props.

Fuff24
October 17th 2009
1120 Comments


It'd be funny if the world got Opeth made christian
out of this

Zip
October 17th 2009
5312 Comments


Best line of 2009 on this site! Props.
Nope, that slot got taken by Redd when he said "I guess you can't auto-tune driving" after T-pain crashed a golf cart and broke out his front teeth.


bloc
October 17th 2009
70025 Comments


I guess you can't auto-tune driving

nice

Ewednesday
October 17th 2009
120 Comments


pretty crazy way to do yourself in, quite selfish, quite stupid.

witchxrapist
October 17th 2009
11117 Comments


opeth - eliminating suicidal emos since 2009

i didnt find this very funny, idk

Prophet178
October 17th 2009
6397 Comments


I'd give it a 6/10 on the rofl scale.

Nagrarok
October 17th 2009
8656 Comments


I somehow cannot help but wonder how this is music news.

witchxrapist
October 17th 2009
11117 Comments


A guy crashed into a band's tour bus.

Prophet178
October 17th 2009
6397 Comments


Well it never made the front page, so it really isn't. But its Opeth so omgomgomgomg.

witchxrapist
October 17th 2009
11117 Comments


It didn't make the front page, so it isn't news?

That makes sense!

Prophet178
October 17th 2009
6397 Comments


Actual news makes the front page. This would've been deleted if it wasn't about Opeth.

Wizard
October 17th 2009
20510 Comments


Nope, that slot got taken by Redd when he said "I guess you can't auto-tune driving" after T-pain crashed a golf cart and broke out his front teeth.

Isn't that tribetros?

MentalityOfA
October 17th 2009
1217 Comments


This is completely random.

bodiesinflight57
October 17th 2009
870 Comments


Tbh I think some of the jokes people are posting about a guy who's just killed himself are in pretty bad taste

witchxrapist
October 17th 2009
11117 Comments


It's not so much a matter of bad taste, as it is a matter of bad jokes.

CelestialDust
October 18th 2009
3170 Comments


Tbh I think some of the jokes people are posting about a guy who's just killed himself are in pretty bad taste


i dunno, hes pretty dead, dont think he cares


CompanionCube
October 18th 2009
977 Comments


if only people would make internet jokes about my death...

BrandNewBoognish
October 18th 2009
1021 Comments


RIP suicide guy, even though i disagree with your method

jcfiasco
October 18th 2009
465 Comments


that is more metal than ball bearings.

|m| -_- |m|


BSX
October 19th 2009
1650 Comments


Mikael = Toki

I was really hoping the article wouldn't say someone got killed, but was proven wrong. =/

AtomicWaste
Moderator
October 19th 2009
2888 Comments


Stupid motherfucker. At least no one unintended died.

xkeyboardmoshx
October 19th 2009
64 Comments


reverse cliff burton

Thor
October 19th 2009
10354 Comments


Nope, that slot got taken by Redd when he said "I guess you can't auto-tune driving" after T-pain crashed a golf cart and broke out his front teeth.

this

reverse cliff burton

and this

BallsToTheWall
October 19th 2009
51216 Comments


That's a hell of a way to go out tbh. I wonder if the guy knew it was Opeth's tour bus.

alachlahol
October 19th 2009
7593 Comments


i don't think there's anyway you could miss Opeth's bus

[IMG]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7456/awesometourbus.jpg[/IMG]

bloc
October 19th 2009
70025 Comments


lol

bloc
October 19th 2009
70025 Comments


Opeth Involved in Car Crash by alachlahol

haha, two funnies in a row.

alachlahol
October 19th 2009
7593 Comments


wrong

Emim
October 19th 2009
35251 Comments


Apparently, the only thing more metal than Opeth, is the front end of their tour bus.

Emim
October 20th 2009
35251 Comments


Double posts however, do not = metal...

hybridstigmata
October 20th 2009
170 Comments


Well, I'm glad Opeth is ok.

Awaken
November 1st 2009
2 Comments


I hope they do some referencing.

Slimjim367
November 2nd 2009
512 Comments


haha
i want to see them in a tour bus commercial
cant you picture akerfeldt singign about the safety qualities of their tour bus brand?



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