Per Wiberg

Per Wiberg
Wiberg performing with Opeth at the Ilosaarirock festival in Joensuu, Finland, on 15 July 2007
Background information
Born	(1968-06-08) 8 June 1968
Origin	Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Death metal, progressive metal, progressive rock, stoner rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Keyboards, piano, organ, mellotron, vocals, guitar, bass
Associated acts	Opeth, Death Organ, Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars

Per Jonas Wiberg^[1] (born June 8, 1968) is the former keyboardist of Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth, and a member of Michael Amott's stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars. Wiberg toured with Opeth from the 2003 Deliverance/Damnation tour onward, and joined Opeth officially in 2005. Wiberg provided backing vocals for Opeth in addition to his keyboard duties. Before joining Spiritual Beggars he was a member of Death Organ, a band based in Borlänge. He has also fronted the band Boom Club, of the same area.

He played the keyboard in the intro to "Enemy Within" by the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. He has also played piano on Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten's 1993 release Vemod.

In 2007, Per Wiberg collaborated on a project called King Hobo with Clutch drummer Jean-Paul Gaster and Kamchatka guitarist Thomas Andersson.^[2]

It was announced on April 6, 2011 that Per was leaving Opeth as part of a mutual decision between him and the other band members.^[3]

Equipment

Per Wiberg uses Nord Electro and Nord Wave keyboards, Fender & Gibson guitars and basses

Discography

With Opeth

• Lamentations DVD (2003)
• Ghost Reveries (2005)
• The Roundhouse Tapes (2007)
• Watershed (2008)
• In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (2010)
• Heritage (2011)

With Spiritual Beggars

• Mantra III (1998)
• Ad Astra (2000)
• On Fire (2002)
• Demons (2005)
• Live Fire DVD (2005)
• Return to Zero (2010)
• Earth Blues (2013)

With Mojobone

• Tales From The Bone (1999)
• Crossroad Message (2002)
• Cowboy Mode (2010)
• Crossroad Message & Tales From The Bone - Reissue (2010)

With King Hobo

• King Hobo - S/T (album) (2008)

With Conny Bloom

• Been There, Done What Live! (2003)

With Death Organ

• 9 to 5 (1995)
• Universal Stripsearch (1997)

With Boom Club

• Buy One Or Be One (1994)

Guest appearances

• Anekdoten - Vemod (1993)
• Anekdoten - Chapters (2009)
• Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges (1999)
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin (2001)
• Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion (2003)
• Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant (2007) (uncredited on the album)
• Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions (2011)
• Sky High - Highlights 1978-1998 (1998)
• Sky High - Bluester (1999)
• Sky High - On The Cover: 25 Years Of Madness (2002)
• Sky High - Soul Survivor (2004)
• Sky High - Have Guitar Will Travel - Reissue ( 2005)
• Sky High - Safe Sex Live - Reissue ( 2005)
• Sky High - 28 Years Of Madness DVD (2006)
• The Mushroom River Band - Music For The World Beyond (2000)
• Little Chris - At Last (2002)
• Watertouch - We Never Went To The Moon (2004)
• Beat Under Control - The Introduction (2004)
• Bacon Brothers - Pit Stop (2000)
• Bacon - Like It Black (2010)
• Dotty Blue - Perfect Free Choice (2009)
• Renaissance Of Fools - Fear, Hope & Frustration (2011)
• Kamchatka - Volume III (2009)
• Kamchatka - Bury Your Roots (2011)
• The Bakerton Group - El Rojo (2009)
• Candlemass - Siren Song (2012)
• Candlemass - Candlemass Vs Entombed (2013)
• Switchblade - "S/T 2012" (album) (2012)
• Greenleaf - "Nest Of Vipers" (2012)
• Oaf - "Birth School Oaf Death" (2013)

References