When Opeth began as a death metal band in the early 1990s, no could have imagined their ascent to prog metal royalty – not least Mikael Åkerfeldt. In 2012, he looked back over the twists and turns of ...

Mikal Gilmore writes about his dive into heavy metal music at age 73, following the 2024 election of Donald Trump ...

A change in my life. That exploration still hasn’t stopped ... (L-R) Mikael Akerfeldt, Fredrik Akesson and Martin Méndez from Opeth perform on stage at Sentrum Scene on February 12, 2025 ...

PIAS ★★★★½ “Empathy’s a dying trait,” sings Louis Parsons on Floodlights’ third album. Not so for this Melbourne five-piece, ...

Coming off the back of a successful Scandinavian/European/UK tour with Opeth, Fredrik Åkesson reveals that he’s working on a solo album.

Jaz Coleman’s choral work will brings to life Aleister Crowley’s Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), the foundation for ...

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

Ghost Reveries was a superb swan song for guitarist Peter Lindgren and drummer Martin López, too, as well as an excellent introduction for keyboardist Per Wiberg. It fused the illustriousness of Opeth ...