“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a follow-up to the hugely successful Blackwater Park, Opeth had planned a double album split into two distinct halves. Deliverance focused on the Swedes’ death metal elements and contained some of ...

Just when it seemed like Opeth had settled into a comfy groove as the kings of tasteful, leather elbow-patched prog-metal that goes heavier on the ‘prog’ part of the equation than the ‘metal’, the ...

After five albums of progressive metal culminating with Blackwater Park in 2001, Opeth took a hard turn with Deliverance and Damnation. Deliverance was released in 2002 and took on a bleaker, more ...

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 ...

Live performance of Opeth's "Damnation" album in full, interspersed with songs from the band's albums "Blackwater Park" and "Deliverance", recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, UK.