Opeth may have returned in a way to their sonic roots on their new album, The Last Will And Testament, but – with appearances from a Neal Schon signature model and a “not very metal” trick ...

Opeth released their classic 11th album Pale Communion on this day in 2014 –and Mikael Åkerfeldt didn’t care whether the gatekeepers liked it or not ...

Although Akerfeldt is most-renowned for his work in Opeth, the Swedish metal legend has also scrambled brains with death metal side project Bloodbath.

Storm Corrosion, Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt's 2012 side-project, is to have their sole 2012 release reissued on vinyl through Kscope Records on September 27. You can watch a video trailer ...

Opeth mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt really doesn’t like his band’s rendition of Remember Tomorrow by Iron Maiden. The Swedish progressive metal luminaries covered the 1980 track for 1998 Maiden ...

Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt names the band's worst song and their most underrated album.

Latest News Did BLACK SABBATH Really Invent Occult Rock? OPETH’s MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Says This Obscure Band Beat Them To It "They had a 13-minute spoken-word black mass on the B-side of their album." ...

When Opeth released the first single off their forthcoming album The Last Will and Testament titled “§1”, people were instantly stoked about the fact that frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt was back to using ...