“There’ve been times where I’ve come back from a tour and my kids don’t know who I am”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park, another Steven Wilson team-up, hating the road and why he might stop growling again

Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] March 19, 2026

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We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus