Despite his superlative musical output with Opeth and beyond, Mikael Åkerfeldt doesn’t like receiving praise. But he’s happy to dish it out – and there’s one player that ...

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We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus ...

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, ...

Opeth have just announced their new concept album, The Last Will and Testament and it's the band's first record since 2008's Watershed to feature the legendary death growls of Mikael Akerfeldt. The ...

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Interview with Opeth's guitarist since 2007... Åkesson discusses some details regarding the new LP before remembering the first time he heard Opeth and his early prog influences. The full interview is ...

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Dream Theater’s drummer has said multiple times that he wants to make music with Opeth’s frontman. So, we asked Åkerfeldt what’s taking so long.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...