When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Reigning Phoenix Records It’s been a long wait for new Opeth music. In the five-year ...

Opeth's heady brand of progressive metal / rock requires repeated listens to fully understand the complexity and nuances laid out within an album. Sorceress, the band's latest album, is no exception ...

Opeth doesn't really blab to the media about where they're at with new music or what it'll sound like. Last we heard back in November 2018, frontman and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt said he had about 90 ...

Opeth have finally returned with 17 minutes of new music. Two versions of a fresh song have been released — one in English (“Heart in Hand”) and another in Opeth’s native Swedish ("Hjärtat Vet Vad ...

“I painted a pickguard on that guitar so it looked like an electric,” he laughs. For those familiar with Opeth’s music, however, Åkerfeldt’s reaction may seem surprising, considering how prominently ...

A trinket of days gone by was recently unearthed by progressive metal outfit Opeth in light of the 20th anniversary of Damnation, as they just dropped a video for the song “Windowpane.” The video was ...

“I knew I wanted to have a different record ” – a decade after its release, we revisit this 2011 interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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, ...

Not your milkman’s heavy metal band, Sweden’s Opeth stands out among a crop of identical, young wanna-be demonic metal acts. In the space of one eight-minute-long opus, they combine death metal’s ...

Mikael Akerfeldt is enjoying several beers during a conversation with Billboard about "In Cauda Venenum," the 13th studio album in his band Opeth's catalog, which arrived Sept. 27… By Christa Titus ...