It’s Saturday June 14 and One Direction are halfway through the encore of their second night headlining the 65k capacity Friends Arena in Solna, Sweden. Somewhere in the crowd, there is a 40-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So an Opeth headline set based on a fan vote, drawing almost entirely on old school classics must surely be a slam dunk, right?

Of course, they returned to their roots with 2024’s impressive The Last Will and Testament, further validating why Opeth are rightly regarded not only as one of the best progressive death metal bands ...

True progression in modern metal has been embraced by the fans of these two acts like almost no others. One hails from Sweden while the other comes straight from the U.S., but both have composed some ...

We’ve all known this album was a banger since its release, but Opeth‘s most recent full-length effort The Last Will & Testament received some pretty high honors last night by taking home the “Best ...

Opeth released their tenth studio album, "Heritage," last month on the legendary Roadrunner Records, and last night brought their highly anticipated Heritage Tour to The Rave. The Swedish progressive ...

Do you remember where you were when you first heard Metallica's Enter Sandman, or the self-titled 1991 LP (a.k.a. The Black Album) that produced it? Âkerfeldt's reaction to Metallica's surprising ...

“I think we are definitely still a death metal band,” says Mikael Åkerfeldt in Choosing Death, the definitive treatise on the origins and development of death and grind by Decibel EIC Albert Mudrian.

Opeth has always painted a picture far broader in scope and depth than just "metal." Akerfeldt is a composer, as is evident from the length of most of Opeth's songs, which are usually at least seven ...

As one of the most dynamic contemporary progressive metal acts, Swedish group Opeth has deftly bridged genres, melded influences and defied categorization for almost 30 years. The group continued this ...