From the instant Mikael Åkerfeldt gets a touch of the growlies, precisely 78 seconds into album opener §1 (‘Paragraph 1’), a certain, especially vocal subsect of Opeth’s fanbase will be ...

Coming off the back of a successful Scandinavian/European/UK tour with Opeth, guitarist Fredrik Åkesson is determined to stay busy this 2025, as he’s revealed that ...

In a recent interview with GuitarGuitar, Fredrik Åkesson, the renowned guitarist of Swedish progressive metal giants Opeth, opened up about his plans for a solo album. Known for his technical ...

The Swedish progressive metal luminaries covered the 1980 track for 1998 Maiden tribute album A Call To Irons. Although it was later added to re-releases of Opeth’s third album My Arm ...

“The first songs we did, it was just amazing to me that you could play together with other people,” says Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt. “You could play along with a drumbeat and someone else ...