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“When I was young I was obsessed with Tool, and I was a huge fan of really heavy death metal. I remember getting into Opeth around the time of Blackwater Park, and reading interviews with Mikael ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Opeth has a wonderfully smooth guitar sound; on recordings Akerfeldt uses an "ebow" device (a prog-rock guitar effect from the 1970s and now rare). On tour he replicates the sound with various effects ...

Modern prog rock/metal legend Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Opeth) is currently doing press for his recently released eight studio LP, The Overview, and in a recent chat with online music ...

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 ...