OPETH mainman Mikael Akerfeldt says he has no plans to record a solo album – despite having been offered a record deal.

He says stories about a one-man project began circulating because he discussed his desire to learn more about studio production by experimenting on himself.

Akerfeldt tells Rocksverige: “I got an offer from a record label to do a solo record not long ago. Those rumours come from me saying that I would like to do a thing like that to learn more about the technical aspect of recording. I was going to start in an easy way with just an acoustic guitar and vocals – a singer/songwriter record."

But he continues: "It hasn’t materialised. It was never decided. It was just something I said.”

Akerfeldt last year said he and Steven Wilson were open to the idea of recording another Storm Corrosion album. – but now he reports it could be too soon to follow their 2012 release. “I think there’s a possibility," he says. "We don’t really know what to do with another record. What would it be?

"The good thing with Storm Corrosion was that there was no references, so when it came out nobody knew what to expect. But now there's a reference, which makes it a bit dull.

“We said if we feel like it, we'll do another one. But we prefer to do so when people forget about the first one.”

OPETH are on the road until October, including a very special set with an orchestra at Plovdiv's Roman Theater on 19 September.