We're here to talk about the new album 'Pale Communion,' out now. Mikael, what is the biggest misconception people have about what makes music heavy and what makes 'Pale Communion' heavy to you? Well, ...

Praise the prog metal masters of Opeth! Fans of the Swedish band were crushed when 'Pale Communion' was pushed back from a June release to an August one, but we can all finally hear the full album now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I’ve always liked that,” the Opeth leader tells Prog down the line from his home on the Swedish archipelago. “What that says to ...

On 2011’s Heritage, the 10th full-length of a career dating back to 1990, Opeth stepped away from their metallic origins and strode into the prog-rock territory they had flirted with over their ...

Between the chainsaw buzz of Swedish death metal, church-burning notoriety of Norwegian black metal and the soon-to-explode school of Gothenburg melodeath, Scandinavia was already earning a reputation ...

It’s no surprise that the only remaining original member, Mikael Akerfeldt, is the driving force behind Opeth. In the beginning, Opeth’s music was a giant, immovable wall of death. Over the past few ...

Opeth have become an institution. Formed in Stockholm in 1990 as a death metal group, they have become one of the most influential and distinctive groups of the last twenty-five years. With frontman ...

The words "death metal" and "blastbeats" are thrown around in here. Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt is on the cover of this month's Metal Hammer magazine, where he talks mainly about the band's ...