“The first songs we did, it was just amazing to me that you could play together with other people,” says Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt. “You could play along with a drumbeat and someone else ...

Opeth singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt has explained why the band returned to making progressive death metal. The Swedish prog metal sextet’s new single, §1 (pronounced “paragraph one ...

Opeth are returning to their death metal roots - vocally, at least - on new album The Last Will And Testament. Naturally, when the band revealed this with lead single §1, fan response was ...

30. “Sorceress” sees Opeth continue the drift from their death metal roots in favor of folk, jazz and classical influences. The driving force behind Opeth’s sonic dynamism and continued innovation is ...

Especially considering Opeth took a hard left turn with their 2011 record Heritage, going from the disjointed death metal of the former into extremely 1970s progressive rock territory. In a new ...

Death metal has come a long way since Opeth first formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1990. Actually, Opeth, which plays the Fox Theatre on Saturday, is likely responsible for death metal going from ...

Which album will move on to the Semifinals of the 2016 Extreme Metal Olympics? Vote for either Death's Human or Opeth's Blackwater Park in the poll below and check out a song from each album ...

In the album's own artwork, Travis Smith literally depicts the death-metal roots of the Swedish band with red devils and (presumably) blood as the skulls of Opeth members past fertilize the ground.

For Mendéz, White Stones is a return to his roots, both musically and personally, as the groove-oriented death metal band was named after his birthplace in Uruguay. "I feel strongly connected ...

The words "death metal" and "blastbeats" are thrown around in here. Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt is on the cover of this month's Metal Hammer magazine, where he talks mainly about the band's ...

He began his role with CBS Bay Area in 2015. Death-metal mavericks turned prog-rock heroes Opeth bring the epic sounds of the band's forthcoming new album The Last Will and Testament to the ...