{"id":350129,"date":"2026-02-22T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/350129\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:23:10","slug":"opeths-mikael-akerfeldt-reveals-he-has-studio-time-booked-for-an-upcoming-new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/350129\/","title":{"rendered":"Opeth&#8217;s Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt Reveals He Has Studio Time Booked For An Upcoming New Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opeth<\/strong> vocalist\/guitarist <strong>Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt<\/strong> has studio time mapped out for May, but not with his aforementioned progressive metal outfit. Instead the esteemed Swedish musician has some undisclosed projects in the works, recently telling <a href=\"https:\/\/blabbermouth.net\/features\/mikael-akerfeldt-battles-dislike-of-touring-as-opeth-remains-at-height-of-bands-popularity#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blabbermouth.net<\/a> of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI cannot say much, but I have a project that I\u2019m doing in May. Hopefully, it will materialize, but I am doing something in May. That\u2019s going to be fun. Then, I might have some projects as well, like, for me, not for the band. I\u2019m a bit burned out, as you can probably tell. I would really need a break from the band and be regular <strong>Mikael<\/strong>, not band <strong>Mikael<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opeth vocalist\/guitarist Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt has studio time mapped out for May, but not with his aforementioned progressive metal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,164556,337,15284],"class_list":["post-350129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mikael-akerfeldt","tag-music","tag-opeth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116112851795434327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}