That song, and the album from which it was taken, are rightly credited as helping lay the foundations for heavy metal – not ...

Mikael Åkerfeldt and his bandmates have crafted a full-blown, unabashed concept album – a format they haven’t explored since Still Life way back in 1999. Twenty-five years on, Opeth’s sound ...

Opeth leader Mikael Akerfeldt has named what he views as the band's worst song, as well as which one of their 14 albums is the most underrated. In a recent interview with Revolver, the prog ...

If you’re like most metalheads, you hated Opeth’s 2011 progsterpiece Heritage. My prediction: you are also going to hate whatever Mikael Åkerfeldt puts out next. Why is this coming up now, you ask?

Opeth, one of our all-time collective favorite progressive metal bands, have been causing quite a stir in the metal media lately with news about their forthcoming album which now has a name and a ...

Opeth has been around for 35 years at this point. They've got 14 albums under their belt alongside a slew of bonus tracks, non-album singles, and all that. Which means that Opeth mastermind Mikael ...

The Opeth mainman admits he wasn’t that wowed when he recently got his hands on Kurt Cobain’s “haunted” guitar ...

Not according to Mikael Åkerfeldt, frontman wiuth Swedish prog metallers Opeth and noted connoisseur of obscure music. Speaking to Metal Hammer in 2019, Åkerfeldt pointed to another album danced ...