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 ...

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 ...

It’s been a long wait for new Opeth music. In the five-year interim between releases, the band have switched record labels, leaving Nuclear Blast for Reigning Phoenix Music, and there’s a ...

Åkerfeldt doesn’t mention it by name but it is most definitely “Grandpa” that he is talking about – a 1953 Martin D-18 that Cobain was given before the touring cycle for Nevermind, which is now one of ...

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

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