by Mark Zapata | Jan 26, 2022 | New Music, News, Releases, Video
Ghost’s driving force and creator, Tobias Forge, has enlisted the aid of Opeth guitarist Fredrik Åkesson for the recording of the band’s forthcoming album Impera coming March 11th. Tobias Forge had this to say: “…I’m a little bit of a jack of all...
by Zenae Zukowski | Feb 15, 2018 | News, Releases
Ihsahn’s seventh solo effort Ámr will arrive on May 4th via Candlelight/Spinefarm. It is the follow-up to 2016’s Arktis and, it will most likely provide another dose of progressive mixed with extreme metal at its finest. In fact, Opeth guitarist Fredrik Akesson guests...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 1, 2014 | New Music, News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/p0B26wv22ao[/youtube] After a delay that bummed out many of its fans, Opeth will finally release Pale Communion. And while you’ve already gotten a chance to hear “Cusp of Eternity,” today, the band released “Eternal...
by Matt Brown | Mar 21, 2014 | News, Updates
More details are starting to emerge on the next Opeth album. The band are currently hoping to release a new album in June, but what is it going to sound like? Frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt previously described some of the sounds fans can expect including strings, but...
by Metal Insider | Apr 22, 2013 | Interviews, My First Band
Phil Demmel of Machine Head The first band that I was in was called On Parole and we were… It was the early 80’s so there’s a lot of Iron Maiden influence and, kind of like, Van Halen, Riot. A lot of those rock – they were probably known as “metal” back...