When you think of Opeth – a band who’ve dealt in grand, 10-minute-plus songs for three decades now – ‘immediacy’ isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But that’s exactly what the Stockholm ...

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Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt possesses one of the most brutal gutturals in metal history, so much that it became legitimately controversial when he decided to drop his harsh vocals from Heritage onward.

Fans have already gotten their new Opeth fix with “Heart in Hand,” but do you know where those mysterious samples come from? “It’s taken from a children’s show that was on in the 1970s,” Akerfeldt ...

Opeth have released a new animated video for §3 to celebrate the first anniversary of The Last Will And Testament, expanding the album’s conceptual narrative.

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 become an institution. Formed in Stockholm in 1990 as a death metal group, they have become one of the most influential and distinctive groups of the last twenty-five years. With frontman ...

Like Dave Mustaine’s tenure in Metallica and when System of a Down will finally release new music, Opeth’s move away from death metal and into classic progressive rock is a topic that will never die, ...