In the latest episode of The Prog Report's "Wheel of Prog," legendary drummer Mike Portnoy helps the team tier rank every Opeth album and it's the most prog thing ever. "Wheel of Prog" is an engaging ...

The Opeth leader on being robbed as they made Blackwater Park, and what he hated about Kurt Cobain’s ’53 Martin D-18 (and ...

However, those who had followed Sweden’s unlikely rise to global death metal prominence over the decade’s first half knew constant change and evolution were needed to ensure its ongoing vitality, and ...

We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus ...

Ahead of the reissue to mark its 20th anniversary, the Swedish band's 'mellow' album is rightly remembered as a brave and successful step forwards: “It was like starting from scratch with lots of ...

Artists Robben Ford reveals the Joni Mitchell tone tricks that helped him nail his guitar sound in the studio Artists “It was fantastic to have Paul come in every day, and we hung out with him quite a ...

Opeth have never been bogged down by the expectations genre tags often limit bands to. This stunner from their latest album finds them tackling everything from spaced-out Hawkwind influenced segues, ...

Despite his superlative musical output with Opeth and beyond, Mikael Åkerfeldt doesn’t like receiving praise. But he’s happy ...

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 ...

It almost seems a shame that Opeth are routinely saddled with the divisive "progressive" tag, as the Swedes' music is so consistently refined, vivid and sincere that it's hard to fathom anyone ...

The death metal outfit Opeth, as first formed in 1989, is a band now long gone. A curious detail of the group’s biography is that no member present at the Swedish group first rehearsal now plays with ...

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 ...