“Metal’s answer to 70s King Crimson.” These were some of the phrases thrown around in the music press when Opeth released Blackwater Park in 2001. The fifth, breakthrough album by Sweden’s ...

Forget Watershed; this is Opeth’s best since the career-making heights of Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries. The Last Will And Testament is out November 22 via Reigning Phoenix.

Elsewhere in the interview, Åkerfeldt is asked which Opeth song he feels is overrated. He points to two tracks on the band’s 2001 breakthrough album Blackwater Park: the title track and Bleak.