Lollipop Magazine

Gigantour Chicago, IL September 2006

September 30, 2006

Opeth at Gigantour Chicago, IL September 2006 | Photos by Adam Bielawski

Opeth – Ghost Reveries – Review

November 18, 2005

Ghost Reveries might be the most complicated of a formidable lot, the album marking the best integration of the Damnation and Deliverance polarities.

Tsongas Arena Lowell, MA June 2005

June 30, 2005

Opeth at Tsongas Arena Lowell, MA June 2005 | Photos by Carina Mastrocola

Opeth – Lamentations – Review

May 23, 2004

You see the band creating, thinking real hard, in the studio, emulating the old ways, which, unfortunately for the band’s health, included recording in a “classic prog” studio, a process which almost killed the band.

Opeth – Damnation – Review

July 23, 2003

Friends have tried to convince me of sinister undertones, and sure, I hear some, but I mainly hear folky hippie sap rock. Full on Simon & Garfunkle’n’shit.

Opeth – Deliverance – Interview

January 2, 2003

An interview with vocalist/guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt and guitarist Peter Lindgren

The Metal Years – Progressive Metal – Review

November 11, 2002

If you follow these genres, most of these bands are familiar. They’re mostly the big names, with little “filler,” and omissions were probably licensing issues.

A Tribute to The Beast – Review

August 2, 2002

Covering Iron Maiden is tricky. Two decades of shitty metal bands have paved the way for this thing all the way up my ass. But that’s not always the case here.

Metal Dreams – Vol. 3 – Review

February 22, 2002

I’m an admitted speed freak (the verb, not necessarily the drug), and while Goth metal tickles my brooding dark side, I’m just not a fan of ballads.

Opeth – Blackwater Park – Review

June 3, 2001

Panoramic, ten-minute labyrinths such as “Bleak” and “The Leper Affinity” might soon have musicologists calling them the Led Zeppelin of extreme mus