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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But few bands - if any - could match the sheer ambition and songwriting craft of Opeth. The Stockholm based band formed in 1990 ...

'Pale Communion' is an Opeth album. Take in that sentence in for a second, because without frontman Mikael Akerfeldt's demonic gutturals and Opeth's death metal dynamic, slighted fans may give 'Pale ...

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 ...

Opeth headline tour 2025 is scheduled to be held from February 9 to March 2, 2025 in venues across Europe. The tour will be in support of the band's The Last Will & Testament, which will be released ...

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 ...

With the release of Ghost Reveries, Swedish thrashers Opeth are finally ready to be catapulted into the realms of success – 17 years after forming. musicOMH collared guitarist Peter Lindgren in a ...

The Opeth mastermind is on a video call with Metal Hammer and – after a five-minute preamble where we’ve spoken about Godflesh, Killing Joke and Led Zeppelin – we’ve informed him that we need to talk ...

Has it really been 20 years? Unbelievable, Opeth have been around for this long, since Mikael Åkerfeldt was 16 years old. I remember the day when I first heard Orchid and I just fell in love with ...

Opeth isn't exactly the kind of band best taken in short spurts. The long-running Swedish outfit specializes in the kind of multi-layered, nuanced songwriting that requires the duration of an album ...

In an effort to appeal to both fans worldwide as well as in his homeland, Mikael Åkerfeldt has recorded two versions of vocals for the upcoming Opeth album in English and Swedish. Probably a good move ...