
The unbelievable rise of Opeth, the band who went from death metal no-hopers to prog royalty
When Opeth began as a death metal band in the early 1990s, no could have imagined their ascent to prog metal royalty – not least Mikael Åkerfeldt. In 2012, he looked back over the twists and turns of their career. “The first songs we did, it was just …