It’s Saturday June 14 and One Direction are halfway through the encore of their second night headlining the 65k capacity Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. Somewhere in the crowd, there is a 40-year-old ...

Mikael Åkerfeldt argues progressive music has become formulaic, saying modern prog is more about shredding than true ...

The post In Photos: Mastodon, Opeth, and Zeal & Ardor Bring the Metal Thunder to New York City appeared first on Consequence. Supporting their brand new album Hushed and Grim, Mastodon played a slew ...

The words "death metal" and "blastbeats" are thrown around in here. Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt is on the cover of this month's Metal Hammer magazine, where he talks mainly about the band's ...

There's a new death metal band formed by a member of Opeth and, no, it isn't from Mikael Åkerfeldt. It's bassist Martín Mendéz who has started up White Stones, an evolution of what began as a solo ...

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 ...

Metal vocalists might not show up very often on The Voice, but that’s not to say that metal vocalists can’t have singing voices on par with the best blues, R&B, or soul singers. Sure, there are metal ...

Opeth released their tenth studio album, "Heritage," last month on the legendary Roadrunner Records, and last night brought their highly anticipated Heritage Tour to The Rave. The Swedish progressive ...

Opeth has always painted a picture far broader in scope and depth than just "metal." Akerfeldt is a composer, as is evident from the length of most of Opeth's songs, which are usually at least seven ...

Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt is a hero to the metal community for many different reasons, depending on who you talk to. As vocalist, he mastered the powerful ...

As one of the most dynamic contemporary progressive metal acts, Swedish group Opeth has deftly bridged genres, melded influences and defied categorization for almost 30 years. The group continued this ...