Thinking man’s metal. What a tag to give any band – almost the kiss of death. Imagine being lumbered with the claim that you actually rely on that spongy stuff between your ears rather than what’s ...

“Godlike.” “As perfect as a metal album can get.” “Metal’s answer to 70s King Crimson.” These were some of the phrases thrown around in the music press when Opeth released Blackwater Park in 2001. The ...

Swedish progressive rockers Opeth have revealed that a deluxe vinyl and CD reissue of their 2001 album Blackwater Park, long revered as the Mikael Akerfeldt-led band's death metal masterpiece, will ...

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 ...

Just like Immortal did the week before, Swedish death metallers Opeth only booked two shows in the U.S. -- one in New York and the other in Los Angeles. Usually frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt asks the ...

From one of the many metal acts sprouting from the fertile musical ground of Sweden in the early '90s, to arguably the biggest progressive rock band of this generation (and the last), Opeth's storied ...

It's Italy vs. Sweden as Fleshgod Apocalypse's bludgeoning album Oracles faces off against progressive masters Opeth and their landmark disc Blackwater Park. It's brawn against, well, brawn and beauty ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Opeth are a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. The band incorporates folk, blues, classical, and jazz elements into its usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong ...

A more straight-forward traditional dark metal Opeth favorite, "Demon Of The Fall"—"A different type of 'Fall,'" said Akerfeldt—ended the main part of the gig. The band then returned to play many fans ...

Apparently, Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has swollen feet. So says the mainman himself in a new blog posting. In it, Åkerfeldt presents fans with a recap of the band's recent spate of six 20th ...