Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up”

Steven Wilson and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt standing side-by-side in 2010.

Opeth mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt has revealed why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums.

Talking exclusively in the new issue of Metal Hammer, the singer/guitarist, who’s been their de facto leader and chief songwriter since the early 90s, looks back on the Swedish progressive death metal band’s 2005 album Ghost Reveries.