“We played shows with all the black metal bands and I was wearing flares and had an old Gibson SG. I didn’t look right in those surroundings!” How Mikael Åkerfeldt fell in love with prog, even though his friends hated what he was doing

Making up for childhood poverty, the Opeth mastermind championed classic bands of the 70s when no one else cared – which made him a strange figure on the 90s Swedish metal scene (LouderSound)


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