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Jonathan Horsley

“What we are after is not perfection. You’re looking for the flaws… the noise… earth hum. You’re looking for the arm-tight playing… the human aspect”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on inspirations, intuition, shred, and the problem with modern metal

Mikael Åkerfeldt pulls a face while playing his green PRS Custom 24 live onstage at Tons of Rock 2024 with Opeth. He wears gold aviators and a black shirt. .

The Last Will And Testament is a work of weight and scope, and a rejoinder for anyone who feared that Opeth’s prog-rock expansionism had spoiled their appetite for heavyweight metal.

The Swedish prog-metal institution’s 14 studio album finds frontman/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt in storytelling mode, constructing audacious and at times monstrously heavy arrangements in service to this dark narrative.

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