OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has checked in with the following update:

"Just got back from the two shows we did with BLOODBATH! Great fun! We played at the Party.San festival in Germany and at the Pellavarock fest in Finland. I was really sick with the flu/sore throat and so was Axe so the two rehearsals we did for the shows was a drag, really! During the shows I had to blow my nose all the time, which probably isn't the best for death metal cred, but what the hell?

The first show was pretty disastrous. The sound on stage was out of control and none of us could hear anything at all. Not a great show but fun nevertheless. They only gave us a 15 minute changeover so we didn't have time to do a proper line check. Loads of people there and I guess most seemed to enjoy themselves, but we really though it was horrendous, haha!

The second one was way better...both me and Axe we're doing slightly better yet I still had to blow my nose all the time. It was a tight show with much better stage-sound yet a lot less people being a smaller festival in the woods.

Our dress-code? Blood infested, mud caked, worn, torn shitty old t-shirts, black pants and some blood all over...the usual stuff.

It was great times overall, I thought I'd be miserable being sick and being so busy with Opeth, I was on the verge of calling it off, but truly ended up having a great time.

So, we'll go under the surface again now, but do check out the album once it's out....it's cool as....hell!