Opeth – Pale Communion album artwork Source The Swedish progressive metal band, Opeth, just released their newest single, Cusp Of Eternity, which is also one of the tracks from their upcoming album, Pale Communion. The album is set to be released on August 26 via Roadrunner Records and it contains eight tracks. Find more about it here. It seems that this album is going to be more melodic than the band’s album…
Opeth Source The progressive metal band, Opeth, finally decided to share some new information about their upcoming eleventh album. It seems that the album’s name will be Pale Communion and it is set to be released on June 17 via Roadrunner Records. The album will contain 8 new tracks and about the sound, the band’s frontman, Mikael Åkerfeldt, said that this one is going to be a lot more melodic than the previous ones:…
The organizers of Download Festival 2014 mean business – they’ve just announced a lot more participants, confirming artists such as Opeth, Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Black Label Society, Bowling For Soup, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, the BossHoss, Skid Row, Tesla, Bury Tomorrow, Danger Danger, Powerman 5000, Huntress, the Graveltones and Anti-Mortem. The headliners had been previously announced: Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park and Aerosmith. Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy and Alter Bridge were announced as…
As we were telling you a while ago, Opeth are in the studio, heavily working on a ‘more sinister’ album – frontman Mikael Akerfeldt shared some fresh details regarding their new work, explaining that it is “all over the place”. “I have eight songs written and the direction is going straight into the territory of ‘all over the place!'” he kicked off with a laugh. Versatility and raw skill have always been a significant part…
The progressive metal gods are in the studio, working on another studio piece which will thrill our ears and scare off kids on a radius of 3 blocks. According to Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, they’ve already written 4 songs entirely for the new CD, and three others are in various states of completion. “We’ve been looking at [tracking the next album at] Rockfield Studios in Wales where QUEEN recorded ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, but we haven’t made…
Apothesary in the middle of their set at 924 Gilman.
There’s a site called anus.com. It’s not what you think. It’s an acronym for American Nihilist Underground Society. I shit you not. It’s an incredibly self-indulgent and even more ridiculous take on the “philosophy” of nihilism. Anyhow, according to the site one of the main cultures of nihilism is heavy metal. There are reviews of albums from just about every sub-genre under its umbrella. Hell, some of them might actually mean something if the prose…
Opeth, live @ The Monarch, Austin, Texas – 16.10.08. Photo by HeadovMetal. Opeth, and their future tour mates Enslaved, have both delivered same of the best new metal material of the past year, in the form of “Watershed” and “Vertebrae”, respectively. Fans of the bands, and good metal alike, should be happy to know the two will be playing together on the same stage, as they just recently mapped a pretty extensive tour. The tour…
Opeth are often credited to be among the masterminds behind progressive metal, and despite the fact that they haven’t achieved commercial success, the Swedish metalers are still among the titans of the genre. Now, they are proud to announce Watershed as the title of their forthcoming album, which is set for June 3rd, 2008.The band was recorded in Swedish homelands and was produced by frontman/guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt and Jens Bogren; it promises to be a…
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