Opeth’s sole UK performance of 2026, held at Halifax’s Piece Hall on Yorkshire Day, was hailed as a major success, with the venue and the band’s grand progressive-metal sound creating an especially dramatic atmosphere. The review presents the concert as a celebration of heavy music’s enduring regional and artistic connections, with Opeth joined by Swedish contemporaries Katatonia and local heroes Paradise Lost.

Katatonia opened with a majestic, melancholic set suited to the 18th-century market hall, while Paradise Lost drew a particularly warm response from their hometown audience. Paradise Lost’s career-spanning performance included 1990s songs such as One Second and The Last Time, their cover of Smalltown Boy, and newer material including The Enemy, Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us and Ghosts, which featured former drummer Waltteri Väyrynen, now a member of Opeth.