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Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt declined to join an Abba tribute band at Eurovision this year
Opeth’s leader was approached to help celebrate 50 years of Abba’s 1974 Eurovision win, but turned the chance down
Mikael Åkerfeldt explains how Opeth rediscovered death metal on new single §1
Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt has growled on a new song for the first time since 2008. This is his explanation why.
"It feels like a dream." Opeth reveal new concept album The Last Will And Testament will be released in October
Opeth's The Last Will And Testament features guest appearances from Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and Europe's Joey Tempest
10 awesome independent UK festivals still to come in summer 2024
Think festival season is nearing its end? Pfft, it's just beginning
Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt is unable to tell you what he'd like to tell you
Swedish proggers Opeth have European festival dates throughout the summer before heading to the US, and have a new album in the can
How Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt made Storm Corrosion a different kind of aggressive
Porcupine Tree and Opeth leaders’ 2012 collaboration wasn't what many people thought it would be – instead it was something more experimental which they described as “organic pagan minimalism”
“I was a wreck, physically and mentally. I wanted to cancel shows, split up the band, all these kind of things”: Aiming to make a “super-heavy record,” Opeth embraced the Mellotron and made Damnation instead
Mikael Åkerfeldt – who’d become band leader because no one else would do it – recalls the misery of making the landmark 2003 album which made him feel he could hold his own with the likes of Porcupine Tree
"Blackwater Park has been hyped as this big breakthrough for us. It really wasn't": How stress, isolation and Grand Theft Auto III inspired Opeth to write Windowpane
After 2001's Blackwater Park, Opeth knew they needed something special. But when Mikael Åkerfeldt suggested recording two albums at once, the band were almost pushed to breaking point
"I guess I didn’t expect them to look like that." We've found the reactions Gojira, Opeth, Obituary, Children Of Bodom and more had to hearing Bring Me The Horizon for the first time - and they might surprise you
In 2010, we secretly played Bring Me The Horizon to some of metal's most respected names. Here's what they thought
