Mikael Åkerfeldt argues progressive music has become formulaic, saying modern prog is more about shredding than true ...
Opeth have finally returned with 17 minutes of new music. Two versions of a fresh song have been released — one in English (“Heart in Hand”) and another in Opeth’s native Swedish ("Hjärtat Vet Vad ...
'Pale Communion' is an Opeth album. Take in that sentence in for a second, because without frontman Mikael Akerfeldt's demonic gutturals and Opeth's death metal dynamic, slighted fans may give 'Pale ...
Opeth's first album in three years lacks the absolute willpower and prevailing ambition of the band’s best work. These eight songs run cold on new energies and ideas, a rarity for a catalogue ...
Formed the same year that Sinead O'Connor stood in front of a camera crying and singing a Prince song, Sweden's Opeth began their journey in the typical old-fashioned way wherein a couple of people ...
For any performer or band, hardcore fans can be both a blessing and a curse – something Opeth, the Swedish progressive-metal band formed in 1990, discovered in 2011, when it shifted from an early, ...
There are worse yokes to bear than "thinking man's metal." If anything, Sweden's Opeth is surely proud their efforts at combining the intensity of death metal and the pastoral qualities of prog have ...
Back in issue 329 (June 2010) we sat down with Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt to reflect on being 20 years into a successful career with the Swedish progressive metallers. Here in the full transcript he ...
Audio for this feature is no longer available. Heritage. For Opeth and the title of the band's 10th album, that's a loaded word. Heritage speaks to ancestry, often an honored one. In the album's own ...
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