French prog rockers Esthesis, who won Pro g's Best Unsigned Band category in the 2020 Readers' Poll, recently released their ...

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“When I was young I was obsessed with Tool, and I was a huge fan of really heavy death metal. I remember getting into Opeth around the time of Blackwater Park, and reading interviews with Mikael ...

For any performer or band, hardcore fans can be both a blessing and a curse – something Opeth, the Swedish progressive-metal band formed in 1990, discovered in 2011, when it shifted from an early, ...

Opeth have just announced their new concept album, The Last Will and Testament and it's the band's first record since 2008's Watershed to feature the legendary death growls of Mikael Akerfeldt. The ...

Opeth in NYC: Progressive Rock or Jazz Metal? article by AAJ Staff, published on October 25, 2008 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...

Interview with Opeth's guitarist since 2007... Åkesson discusses some details regarding the new LP before remembering the first time he heard Opeth and his early prog influences. The full interview is ...

Contributing to and collaborating with numerous bands of varying genres, including fantasy prog metal heads Dream Theatre, dark/folk metal band Opeth and controversial Israeli artist Aviv Geffen, ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The smartest thing Mikael Åkerfeldt ever did was to stop writing extreme metal and focus on progressive rock. This creepy, occult-themed number... Songs We Love: Opeth, 'Strange Brew' The smartest ...

Opeth were forced to cancel three tour dates this week due to a health issue affecting frontman Mikael Akerfeldt. On Monday (Feb. 17), the bandleader of the Swedish prog-metal mainstays revealed that ...

2016’s Fuck Everyone and Run (F.E.A.R.) is the best example of this, being a howl of frustration at an increasingly ...