“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 ...

'Off the Record' is a video series where we ask artists questions about anything with one exception: No questions about music. This is your chance to peer behind the music and into the daily lives ...

With the release of Ghost Reveries, Swedish thrashers Opeth are finally ready to be catapulted into the realms of success – 17 years after forming. musicOMH collared guitarist Peter Lindgren in a ...

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 ...

We recently caught up with Swedish progressive metal master Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth. Hours before the band's recent New York City gig with Mastodon, Akerfeldt spoke with us about his decision to ...

Back in issue 329 (June 2010) we sat down with Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt to reflect on being 20 years into a successful career with the Swedish progressive metallers. Here in the full transcript he ...

A month or so ago Opeth came to New York’s Nokia Theater as part of an awesome (and diverse) package with High on Fire and Nachtmystium. It was one of those nights; a Monday or Tuesday, I was fucking ...

When I call Mikael Åkerfeldt to discuss Sorceress, the twelfth studio album by his band, Opeth, I don’t realise yet that I’m speaking to a dead man. A dead man doing housework: "I’m vacuuming up ...

A couple of weeks ago, Opeth announced their new album, The Last Will & Testament, out on October 11, with a new song, the awkwardly-titled §1. Much heavier than anything off 2019's In Cauda Venenum, ...

Who's stoked on the new Opeth album? It's crazy to think they're on their twelfth album and how much their style has changed since the blackened folksy death metal on Orchid. To find out a little more ...

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, ...