“I was so sick. I had tunnel vision and couldn’t walk. I was crawling to the toilet and I thought I was going to die”: The unbelievable rise of Opeth, the band who went from death metal no-hopers to prog royalty

Opeth posing for a photograph in 2012.

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.