Guardian Music — The strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter's on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company's bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen operaIt's a Thursday afternoon and, outside the ... more info

Guardian Music — (Roadrunner)Widely lauded prog prime movers Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt have produced remarkable bodies of work with their respective bands, Porcupine Tree and Opeth, but Storm Corrosion marks their first true musical collaboration. Far from c... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers Opeth were forced to axe a gig in Minnesota on Monday night 07May12 after frontman Mikael Akerfeldt was hospitalised with a severe head injury The Swedish group was due to open for Mastodon at The Myth in Maplewood but it pulled out at the la... more info

Metal Injection — Opeth did not perform as scheduled last night, May 7th, in Minnesota. The band have been on the road, touring with Mastodon and Ghost. Audience members were told after Ghost played that Opeth were unable to perform, as Mikael was unable to get to the... more info

Metalsucks — Well, this is scary. Two separate MetalSucks readers, Brent Ericson and Steve Bergquist, e-mailed MetalSucks in the wee hours this morning to report that Opeth did not perform at last night’s stop of their current tour with Mastodon and Ghost ... more info

Metalsucks — Storm Corrosion, the new project from Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, have released their first single and video in the form of “Drag Ropes.” As advertised, the music is not at all metal — b... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Rebecca Reed Mastodon @ Roseland Ballroom From the opening wails of "Black Tongue" (accompanied by some adorable tongue-wagging by guitarist Brent Hinds) to the soaring peaks of "Octopus Has No Friends," [Mastodon] deftly wove its way throu... more info

Metalsucks — Vince has written about Swedish melodic death-doomers In Mourning before, declaring them to be “the shit” and comparing them to Opeth, Insomnium, and Daylight Dies. I back those assertions wholeheartedly, and based on the plethora of e-m... more info

Metalsucks — Martin Lopez is a musician I have always held in high regard. As a drummer myself, it’s difficult not to admire the soft-spoken Swede and his understated approach to metal percussion. During his tenure in Opeth, he helped craft what many consi... more info

Metalsucks — Someone has rather cleverly figured out that Opeth’s “I Feel the Dark,” from last year’s Heritage, syncs up perfectly with Destino, a short film Salvador Dali made for Disney. (Brief digression: Salvador Dali made something f... more info