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“John Petrucci inviting me to Guitar Universe was insane. I thought it was someone impersonating him”: Is Baxty the future of shred?

Joe Satriani is guesting on his album. Tosin Abasi and John Petrucci are fans. Meet the Chilean YouTube virtuoso who is fast becoming the king of alternate picking

Guitar World

“I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress

Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way

Metal Hammer

It’s a prog/metal pile on! Ghost and Opeth just blasted Bohemian Rhapsody back at Queen at the Polar Music Prize

The massive metallers were joined by Opeth’s Fredrik Åkesson and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir for a rousing Queen homage

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"Most of my favourite bands, their fourteenth album was shit": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop, and their awesome 14th album

When ABBA-mad Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt met one of their singers, he “lost it”. She didn’t sing on their new concept album, but some other, perhaps unlikely, big names did

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“We did ask him… he replied, ‘You can’t afford me!’” Steven Wilson didn’t work on Opeth’s new album, but Ian Anderson did – while fans are still processing the return of growl vocals after 16 years

Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Fredrik Åkesson regret that people focus so much on one element of their sound, when there’s so much more to The Last Will And Testament

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“I wouldn’t normally be caught dead with a Tele because I think they’re ugly, but that’s the only guitar I used”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson on their love of “stupid riffs,” and “recapturing that old death metal magic”

Opeth may have returned in a way to their sonic roots on their new album, The Last Will And Testament, but – with appearances from a Neal Schon signature model and a “not very metal” trick picked up from Eddie Van Halen – there are still plenty of quirks to…

Guitar World

"I’ve thought about writing a will, just to make sure my daughters don’t throw my records away." With guest appearances from Ian Anderson and Joey Tempest, plus the return of death metal, The Last Will And Testament is Opeth's biggest swing yet

Mikael Åkerfeldt spills the tea on Opeth's prog metal rock opera The Last Will And Testament

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“Had we not made this record the way it sounded, I’m not certain there would have been another album”: How Opeth ditched the death growls and fully embraced prog on Heritage

In 2011, Opeth released Heritage – and cut the the last cord with their death metal past

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"He's the king of death metal." Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Fredrik Akesson name the greatest death metal band of all time, and discuss their own journey through the genre

From inverted crosses in flowerbeds to failing to blow Morbid Angel off-stage and petty larceny, Opeth talk their journey through death metal

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"It was kind of like being in a Def Leppard production with Mutt Lange": Opeth's Fredrik Åkesson talks playing guitar for Ghost and avoiding a blood explosion in the studio

We caught up with the super Swede after Opeth's set at the Tons Of Rock festival in Oslo, Norway

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