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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
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson to guest on upcoming Opeth album
Swedish prog rockers Opeth are believed to have been working on a new studio album for the past year
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From James Hetfield to Randy Blythe, we’d love to see what these heavy metal heroes can do by themselves
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