Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few bands - if any - could match the sheer ambition and songwriting craft of Opeth. The Stockholm based band formed in 1990 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Frontman Mikael Akerfeldt had a goal when writing the songs for the album: “The only thing I was thinking about with this record was to write that songs didn’t musically connect. I made sure if I had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The first songs we did, it was just amazing to me that you could play together with other people," says Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt.

The Opeth leader on being robbed as they made Blackwater Park, and what he hated about Kurt Cobain’s ’53 Martin D-18 (and ...

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 ...

Summer’s unofficially over, kids (or you if you’re young) are back to school, and the weather’s going to be getting chillier and darker very soon. Perfect for us metalheads that look forward to ...

Opeth has been around for 35 years at this point. They've got 14 albums under their belt alongside a slew of bonus tracks, non-album singles, and all that. Which means that Opeth mastermind Mikael ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There upon the turbulent rapids where the mighty confluences of prog rock and death metal meet, we find Opeth.

Opeth have detailed their 14th album. The Swedish metal outfit will share The Last Will and Testament on October 11 via Reigning Phoenix Music. UPDATE (9/19, 10:03 a.m. ET): The album will now be ...

Opeth have shared a new single, §3, from next month’s album The Last Will & Testament – but Mikael Åkerfeldt has no idea what to say about it… “So put yourself in my position for a minute,” the ...