Download Festival have added 22 more artists to their 2025 line-up, including Rise Against, Shinedown, Opeth, Palaye Royale, ...

Opeth singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt once got to play a guitar owned by late Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain – and wasn’t at ...

That song, and the album from which it was taken, are rightly credited as helping lay the foundations for heavy metal – not just sonically but aesthetically too. Sabbath were bleaker and more ...

A few months ago, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, guitarists for Swedish metal perennials Opeth, stopped by the Martin Museum, and were given, much to their delight (the former called it “the ...

Opeth leader Mikael Akerfeldt has named what he views as the band's worst song, as well as which one of their 14 albums is the most underrated. In a recent interview with Revolver, the prog ...

However, Mikael Åkerfeldt, frontman of Swedish renowned prog metallers Opeth, isn't convinced that is really the case.

Of the 20 more acts that have been revealed earlier this afternoon, they include the return of Rise Against: a formidable ...

Opeth has been around for 35 years at this point. They've got 14 albums under their belt alongside a slew of bonus tracks, non-album singles, and all that. Which means that Opeth mastermind Mikael ...

Opeth singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt once got to play a guitar owned by late Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain – and wasn’t at all taken with it. Talking to Revolver, the frontman says that ...