Peter Lindgren has stepped down from his guitar wielding duties after 16 years in Opeth. Below is an open letter from Peter addressing the issue:
"It is with sadness I announce that Opeth and I are going separate ways after almost 16 years. The decision has been the toughest I've ever made but it is the right one to make at this point in my life.
The reason behind this is that I feel that I simply have lost some of the enthusiasm and inspiration needed to participate in a band that has grown from a few guys playing the music we love to a world-wide industry. The love of music has always been, and still is, our motive, but I personally have lost something along the way. The massive amount of touring has taken its toll. Opeth has worked extremely hard to get where we are right now and in order to persist and maintain the quality of the music, it is necessary that we continue to work hard and always stay focused. But in doing so, it means that we nowadays spend 18 or 19 months on the road and I don't feel the same enthusiasm for the upcoming world tour that I have felt earlier. I have come to a point where I realize I won't be able to give the band 100%, and from both sides this will not be good enough for what Opeth stands for. I will always love playing, listening to, and living music, but I will do it differently from now on.
These years has easily been the best of my life and I will always cherish the memory of what we have experienced together. I would like to thank the band, our management, record label people, all the bands I've made friends with for everything. Most of all, I would like to thank the fans from the depth of my heart for the support throughout the years.
I wish Mikael, Martin, Per and Axe all the best and I am confident they will continue doing the greatest music in the world!!
they are replacing him with FREDRIK ÅKESSON I DOnt really care for him very much.

Fredrik Åkesson.. What band?

QUOTE(Bleeding Skies @ May 18 2007, 05:57 PM) [snapback]377726[/snapback]Fredrik Åkesson.. What band?
Arch Enemy I think.

Wasnt he in Jag Panzer?

*cries* NOOOOOOOOOOOO....im very upset now. Damn, damn damn damn damn damn damn damn.
I don't want him to leave, he was great.

QUOTE(ScnJ @ May 18 2007, 11:08 PM) [snapback]377727[/snapback]Arch Enemy I think.
Correct.

Arch Enemy only just recently got him tho :S

he was also in KRUX

fredrik...seems an odd choice. im sad peter is gone though :'(

QUOTE(Insanity @ May 19 2007, 09:09 AM) [snapback]377813[/snapback]Arch Enemy only just recently got him tho :S
Yea they did, but didn't Chris Amott join again?

^^ Yeah Chris left the band and Fredrick replaced him for the Doomsday Machine album, then Chris came back after that and then yeah Fredrick joined Opeth I suppose.