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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Reigning Phoenix Records It’s been a long wait for new Opeth music. In the five-year ...

Right now, there’s a tour going on that you might not want to miss. Of course, we’re talkin’ about Opeth and Katatonia cutting through the U.S. (and one stop in Canada). Both bands are titans in their ...

Brandi Carlile brings “The Human Tour” to town next week, celebrating her October LP “Returning to Myself,” her eighth studio ...

Opeth recently announced their new record The Last Will And Testament with the unveiling of the single "§1" – which had growls. And yes, everyone lost their mind. Now in an interview with Coffee With ...

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 ...

Ahead of the reissue to mark its 20th anniversary, the Swedish band's 'mellow' album is rightly remembered as a brave and successful step forwards: “It was like starting from scratch with lots of ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. Heritage. For Opeth and the title of the band's 10th album, that's a loaded word. Heritage speaks to ancestry, often an honored one. In the album's own ...

After sixteen years, Opeth have parted ways with drummer Martin “Axe” Axenrot, the band announced today. The reason behind the split was an unspecified “conflict of interest.” Therion’s Sami Karppinen ...

Last year, Swedish metal guitar hero Mikael Åkerfeldt – along with his Opeth bandmate, Fredrik Åkesson – visited the Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Much to their delight – Åkerfeldt went so ...