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 ...

Opeth are returning to their death metal roots - vocally, at least - on new album The Last Will And Testament. Naturally, when the band revealed this with lead single §1, fan response was immediate - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Death metal has come a long way since Opeth first formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1990. Actually, Opeth, which plays the Fox Theatre on Saturday, is likely responsible for death metal going from an ...

Metal vocalists might not show up very often on The Voice, but that’s not to say that metal vocalists can’t have singing voices on par with the best blues, R&B, or soul singers. Sure, there are metal ...

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 ...

“I painted a pickguard on that guitar so it looked like an electric,” he laughs. For those familiar with Opeth’s music, however, Åkerfeldt’s reaction may seem surprising, considering how prominently ...

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 frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt is pretty overt in his love of non-metal genres, to the point where it's become a prominent sound the band's current music. Åkerfeldt even readily admits the next Opeth ...

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