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 ...

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 ...