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‘Slacker’ is probably not a word anyone would associate with Mikael Åkerfeldt these days. In the rare moments Opeth have enjoyed some time off, he has worked on the Storm Corrosion side ...
A sprawling story of dark familial secrets, freewheeling prog and Åkerfeldt death growls, solos inspired by Peter Green and Ritchie Blackmore, Opeth bequeath everything a prog-metal fan could ...
Storm Corrosion, Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt's 2012 side-project ... conjured up in Storm Corrosion and while both Wilson and Akerfeldt remain fond of the album, with a new Opeth album ...
Opeth Frontman Mikael ... Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt. Although Akerfeldt is most-renowned for his work in Opeth, the Swedish metal legend has also scrambled brains with death metal side project ...
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 ...
Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt is a hero to ... We could do solo projects or side projects and even sign other bands. It’s so brand new though that ...
Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt seems like he's a really ... He recently spoke to Music Business Facts about the business side of the band and had a few interesting tidbits of information to spill ...
Some weeks ago, I got to interview Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt for Revolver ... All we did was smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and record these stupid fucking side projects. We had a country band, ...
With frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt at the helm ... We’ve always had the soft side, we’ve had the ballads and the acoustic interludes always, but never had we done anything like that. It was met with a ...