David Isberg is a Swedish musician, most famous for having founded seminal Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. David Isberg is also known as DJ Dake, having a successful DJ career with independent and electronic music, often influenced by the Madchester & obscure 70srock and psychedelic music. He also DJs old school heavy, thrash, speed and death metal.
Before Opeth
Starting early with a band he called Satanic Slaughter, which he renamed as soon as he heard about another band from Sweden with the same name and demos out to Casket. Casket played two live shows. David appeared in the grindcoreband Dr Deaths Armageddon playing a few shows and releasing 1 live cassette and one rehearsal demo. David was in the Swedish deat/black metal bandProcreation. In Procreation, he used the alias of The Unholy Emperor. Alongside David was Christofer Johnsson, the man most known for being the frontman of the bandTherion, using the name Necro. Procreation made two demo tapes and the second show being held on 23 February 1991 with various Therion members filling in on the empty slots.
Opeth
David formed Opeth with some friends from Täby in the Spring of 1990. Long-time friend Mikael Åkerfeldt was in a band called Eruption, but was considering a departure from this group. David invited him to play bass for Opeth and Åkerfeldt accepted the offer. When he came to the rehearsal, however, none of the other members of the band knew Mikael was coming and they did not want to kick out the bass player they already had. The ensuing argument played out with all the members of Opeth leaving. They renamed themselves Crowley and released a demo tape called "The Gate" in 1991. David remained with Opeth until 1992, when he left citing creative differences. His duties as lead singer were taken up by Åkerfeldt.
After Opeth
David Isberg continued his musical career with electronic project Grooveza, death metal band Mynjun and later to be found in experimental death metal band David Isberg & The Stockholm War Ensemble as well as Stockholm Death Metal band Tutorial together with Adam Skogvards of Mynjun. David was also active in extreme blues maniacs Dubplate Connection, which released their debut album Plays and Sings the Blues in 2009. They performed shows in Sweden and U.S.A. to support the album. The other three members of Dubplate Connection are Mårten Tiljander, Linus Dielemans and the mysterious Southside Slim. David left the band ahead of the North American tour and once again started to play with his old colleagues from Mynjun under the monicker of Tutorial. By 2009, David was active in at least two extreme metal bands Braathum and the restarted version of Mynjun named Tutorial. There are also rumours that he is about to finish lyrical works that for around seven to eight years he has been working on writing.. In the year 2009 David graduated as a professional Sommelier at Vinkällan Wine School in Stockholm. Since 2015 he has worked with wine imports and presents lectures and tastings professionally. The summer of 2018 he was hired as a resident taste-leader at a local craft brewery named Fjäderholmarnas Bryggeri. Since 2011 David renamed his band bloodofjupiter after his interest in astronomy and wine. The band released various rehearsal demos and a live recording on the internet. He runs a podcast with metal musicians, being beer geeks and other interesting persons named "The Death Metal Sommelier & the nerds of the beast" and performs his special spoken word performances "death metal poetry" reading from his debut book "Ornament of the Omnious Demoniac - the coagulated blood of David" released in 325 copies in July 2017 and his up and coming works as well as work in the Swedish wine industry and occasionally still deejays at mostly metal shows and bars. He also runs his blogsite, http://thunderdoomsociety.com It is rarely updated, but is still active as of April 2018.
