Opeth

Mikael Åkerfleldt still doesn’t know what Storm Corrosion is about, and won’t ask Steven Wilson

By Dom Lawson published 7 May 26

When the Porcupine Tree and Opeth leaders got together in 2012, they were prepared to defy fans. And Åkerfleldt only wanted one thing out of the collaboration: a copy of their record

Opeth gave their label two albums for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career

By Dave Everley published 22 April 26

Beset by overwork, listless colleagues and a family tragedy, Mikael Åkerfeldt felt like splitting the Swedish group apart as they worked through 2002’s Deliverance to get to 2003’s Damnation

What its like being in a major metal band before they blow up

By Dave Everley, Paul Travers published 17 April 26

It's a long way to the top, if you play rock'n'roll

How Mikael Åkerfeldt fell in love with prog, even though his friends hated what he was doing

By Dom Lawson published 17 April 26

Making up for childhood poverty, the Opeth mastermind championed classic bands of the 70s when no one else cared – which made him a strange figure on the 90s Swedish metal scene

Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park and why he might stop growling again

By Matt Mills published 19 March 26

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

The legendary album Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt wishes he had made – and the rock band he thinks are a “joke”

By Ali Cooper published 22 February 26

Metal classics, slasher movie soundtracks and Satanic rituals – this is the soundtrack to Mikael Akerfeldt’s life

Prog's Tracks Of The Week! Awesome new proggy sounds from Opeth, NMB, Myrkur and more...

By Jerry Ewing published 23 January 26

There's cool new proggy sounds from Esthesis, worriedaboutsatan, Holosoil, JeGong and more in this week's Tracks Of The week