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.

The rest is history!” A pivotal record in Opeth’s career, 2001’s Blackwater Park was the first fruits of a creative partnership between Mikael and Steven, as the latter assumed the mantle of ...

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.