Swedish progressive masters Opeth have officially announced their 13th full length album, In Cauda Venenum, which will be released at an undisclosed date later this year in the fall. "Recorded last ...

Arguably no modern metal band is more simultaneously cherished and contentious than Opeth. Led by the incomparable Mikael Åkerfeldt, the Swedish troupe’s first 15 years or so found them endlessly ...

Prog metal vets Opeth have announced their new album In Cauda Venenum, due September 27 via Nuclear Blast (in both English and Swedish language versions). The first single is the eight-and-a-half ...

OPETH guitarist Fredrik Åkesson recently spoke with Andrew McKaysmith of the "Scars And Guitars" podcast. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by ...

Opeth have finally returned with 17 minutes of new music. Two versions of a fresh song have been released — one in English (“Heart in Hand”) and another in Opeth’s native Swedish ("Hjärtat Vet Vad ...

Regarding the sonic direction of the new record, Åkerfeldt said: "For us, at this stage with 'In Cauda Venenum', heaviness isn't guitars tuned down with screaming vocals over the top. That's not ...

The death metal outfit Opeth, as first formed in 1989, is a band now long gone. A curious detail of the group’s biography is that no member present at the Swedish group first rehearsal now plays with ...

Mikael Akerfeldt is enjoying several beers during a conversation with Billboard about "In Cauda Venenum," the 13th studio album in his band Opeth's catalog, which arrived Sept. 27… By Christa Titus ...

It was while he was doing the school run one morning that Mikael Åkerfeldt had an idea. And while Opeth fans may have come to expect the unexpected from the Swedish prog collective, the frontman’s ...

The death metal outfit Opeth, as first formed in 1989, is a band now long gone. A curious detail of the group’s biography is that no member present at the Swedish group first rehearsal now plays with ...

Swedish prog-metal institution Opeth have announced a new album, In Cauda Venenum which translates to “Poison in the Tail.” Their follow-up to 2016’s Sorceress is due out this fall via Moderbolaget ...