Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. True revolutions, artistic or otherwise, generally evolve from humble beginnings. Despite the fact that they are now widely ...

Opeth's latest album 'Pale Communion' will be released Aug. 26, and as with the band's previous disc, 'Heritage,' it will not contain frontman Mikael Akerfeldt's epic gutteral vocals that powered 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 ...

There's a new death metal band formed by a member of Opeth and, no, it isn't from Mikael Åkerfeldt. It's bassist Martín Mendéz who has started up White Stones, an evolution of what began as a solo ...

“I think we are definitely still a death metal band,” says Mikael Åkerfeldt in Choosing Death, the definitive treatise on the origins and development of death and grind by Decibel EIC Albert Mudrian.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few bands - if any - could match the sheer ambition and songwriting craft of Opeth. The Stockholm based band formed in 1990 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 released their tenth studio album, "Heritage," last month on the legendary Roadrunner Records, and last night brought their highly anticipated Heritage Tour to The Rave. The Swedish progressive ...

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 ...

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