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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
Vote for the best metal album of 2024
Whether you've loved Judas Priest or Linkin Park, Poppy or Kerry King, we want to know what albums have excited you most in 2024
The 10 best prog metal albums of 2024
Leprous, Opeth, Slift and others have presented some truly forward-thinking excellence this year
Every Opeth album ranked from worst to best
From 1995's Orchid through to 2024's The Last Will And Testament, we ranked every Opeth album in order of greatness
Opeth have made a concept album like no other with The Last Will And Testament
Family drama, a pair of prog legends and even the bloke who sang The Final Countdown… Swedish prog metal kings have made a concept album like no other
Why Opeth’s new concept album is no return to their death metal past
Mikael Åkerfeldt insists his band’s new concept album, featuring Jethro Tull and Europe men, is no return to their death metal past – and won’t keep prog fans away
