When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Provided/PR Mikael Åkerfeldt has been called many things over the years. At best, the ...

Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his ...

Opeth have just announced their new concept album, The Last Will and Testament and it's the band's first record since 2008's Watershed to feature the legendary death growls of Mikael Akerfeldt. The ...

""For us, at this stage with In Cauda Venenum, heaviness isn't guitars tuned down with screaming vocals over the top." ""For us, at this stage with In Cauda Venenum, heaviness isn't guitars tuned down ...

Coming off the back of a successful Scandinavian/European/UK tour with Opeth, guitarist Fredrik Åkesson is determined to stay busy this 2025, as he’s revealed that ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...