{"id":311012,"date":"2026-02-22T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311012\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:09:10","slug":"opeths-mikael-akerfeldt-reveals-he-has-studio-time-booked-for-an-upcoming-new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311012\/","title":{"rendered":"Opeth&#8217;s Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt Reveals He Has Studio Time Booked For An Upcoming New Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opeth vocalist\/guitarist Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt 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<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 Mikael, not band Mikael.\u201d<\/p>\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":311013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,145768,278,5817],"class_list":{"0":"post-311012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mikael-akerfeldt","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-opeth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}