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The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rock
Six months before Black Sabbath released their landmark debut album, another band were praising Satan
"After shaking her hand, I went out and had like five cigarettes in a row just to calm myself down. I get starstruck easily": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on the time he met ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog and had dinner with her
Mikael Åkerfeldt looks back on the time he was starstruck after meeting fellow Swedish legend, Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA
The 50 best metal songs of 2024
Ghost, Judas Priest, Babymetal, Gojira, Knocked Loose... 2024 was a massive year for metal songs. But which song did you vote as the very best?
These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025
Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be
The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop and Opeth's awesome 14th album
When ABBA-mad Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt met one of their singers, he “lost it”. She didn’t sing on their new concept album, but some other, perhaps unlikely, big names did
‘He said, ‘You can’t afford me!’” Steven Wilson isn’t on Opeth’s album. Ian Anderson is
Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Fredrik Åkesson regret that people focus so much on one element of their sound, when there’s so much more to The Last Will And Testament
