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Opeth cancel Colombia concert after Mikael Åkerfeldt falls ill: “Impossible to get through even a single song”

11.09

Opeth were forced to pull the plug on a concert in Colombia just hours before showtime after Mikael Åkerfeldt became so ill that he couldn’t make it through a single song at soundcheck.

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