Bands similar to Opeth?

[jrgen]

Progressive death metal is a great genre with loads of good bands.

My first recommendation would be Edge of Sanity's albums Crimson (Mikael Åkerfeldt even sings on this one) and Crimson II. Dan Swanö (the man behind EoS and some 30 other bands) is one of the most innovative musicians of our time and both Crimsons are really great pieces of progressive death. They're two single tracks that are both over 40 minutes long and a lot better than anything Opeth have ever produced. Dan Swanö also used to produce Opeth's albums, so they have some close ties. (Mikael Åkerfeldt and Dan Swanö also have a few other projects together.)

Some other bands worth looking up are: Unmoored (particulary the album Indefinite Soul-Extension), Cynic, Persefone, Dark Suns and Pan.Thy.Monium. (Another of Dan Swanö's projects. It's mainly really experimental death metal, but there are some progressive death influences every here and there.) Some of Vintersorg's projects, such as Cronian, Borknagar and Vintersorg might be of interest aswell, although they are more progressive black metal or just progressive metal. The one-man "band" Dan Swanö is also worth mentioning.

There are most likely lots of bands worth mentioning that I forgot, but I'll leave it at this right now.