In the latest episode of The Prog Report's "Wheel of Prog," legendary drummer Mike Portnoy helps the team tier rank every Opeth album and it's the most prog thing ever. "Wheel of Prog" is an engaging ...

However, those who had followed Sweden’s unlikely rise to global death metal prominence over the decade’s first half knew constant change and evolution were needed to ensure its ongoing vitality, and ...

Ahead of the reissue to mark its 20th anniversary, the Swedish band's 'mellow' album is rightly remembered as a brave and successful step forwards: “It was like starting from scratch with lots of ...

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 ...

“I knew I wanted to have a different record ” – a decade after its release, we revisit this 2011 interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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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 ...

It almost seems a shame that Opeth are routinely saddled with the divisive "progressive" tag, as the Swedes' music is so consistently refined, vivid and sincere that it's hard to fathom anyone ...

With the release of Ghost Reveries, Swedish thrashers Opeth are finally ready to be catapulted into the realms of success – 17 years after forming. musicOMH collared guitarist Peter Lindgren in a ...

The death metal outfit Opeth, as first formed in 1989, is a band now long gone. A curious detail of the group’s biography is that no member present at the Swedish group first rehearsal now plays with ...

Opeth have never been bogged down by the expectations genre tags often limit bands to. This stunner from their latest album finds them tackling everything from spaced-out Hawkwind influenced segues, ...

When it comes to his musical tastes, Mikael Åkerfeldt has no problem labeling himself an “old fart.” It’s not too surprising to hear that the Opeth leader’s listening preferences tend toward the retro ...