'Pale Communion' is an Opeth album. Take in that sentence in for a second, because without frontman Mikael Akerfeldt's demonic gutturals and Opeth's death metal dynamic, slighted fans may give 'Pale ...

Opeth's first album in three years lacks the absolute willpower and prevailing ambition of the band’s best work. These eight songs run cold on new energies and ideas, a rarity for a catalogue ...

Swedish prog-metal overlords Opeth have been making vast and ambitious music for about three decades now. They've spent that entire time restlessly playing around on the borders of their own sound. It ...

Formed the same year that Sinead O'Connor stood in front of a camera crying and singing a Prince song, Sweden's Opeth began their journey in the typical old-fashioned way wherein a couple of people ...

Opeth formed more than 15 years ago, but didn't manage to release an album until five years later, when Candlelight issued their debut, Orchid, in 1994. Gradually building an ever-loyal following, the ...

Opeth's sound is varied and very addictive, and it may be that Akerfeldt's long- form songs are the way forward now for popular music. Opeth's music might be characterized as a kind of classical music ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. Heritage. For Opeth and the title of the band's 10th album, that's a loaded word. Heritage speaks to ancestry, often an honored one. In the album's own ...

Mikael Åkerfeldt, leader of celebrated Swedish prog-rock outfit Opeth, looks back on the moment he became a metal fan, the time he partied with Abba’s very own Dancing Queen, a song that made him cry, ...

September 30, 2016 • The smartest thing Mikael Åkerfeldt ever did was to stop writing extreme metal and focus on progressive rock. This creepy, occult-themed number keeps you guessing, but never ...

It was while he was doing the school run one morning that Mikael Åkerfeldt had an idea. And while Opeth fans may have come to expect the unexpected from the Swedish prog collective, the frontman’s ...