Opeth - To Release Live Album
Official press release:
Peaceville Records is proud to announce the forthcoming release by one of the metal world's greatest acts.
"The Roundhouse concert will always be a very memorable gig for us for many reasons, but most importantly it caught the band at the peak of the "Ghost Reveries" tour. I must say we're quite tight after 18 odd months on the road supporting the record. I'm extremely pleased we got it documented and I hope it will please our beloved fans as well. As an extra bonus we've decided to collaborate with one of our past labels for this release, the legendary Peaceville Records. Here's a toast to Hammy and Lisa for helping us back in the day as well as to the new team for preserving this pleasurable memory for today's music lovers as well as for generations to come." - Mikael Åkerfeldt
'The Roundhouse Tapes' contains a captivating Opeth performance from the Camden Roundhouse, London, UK, on November 9th, 2006 (a gig which also featured Goth metal legends Paradise Lost), and sees the band in scintillating form churning out a selection of classics from their illustrious career. You know what to expect from Opeth: unrivalled composition; seamless progressive dynamics and boundless atmosphere from the mellow to the incredibly heavy, all sealed with the unmistakable vocal presence of mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt.
Since their formation in 1990 in Sweden, Opeth has risen to the forefront of the metal world over the years; bringing many aspects of progressive rock/metal to a whole new audience by combining soft acoustic ambience with complex, melodic & heavy guitar often familiar to forms of death/black metal, perfectly concocted into a completely peerless sound. A constant factor of their success is that the band have never been afraid to experiment with their song-writing ever since their debut album, 'Orchid', in 1994, all the while taking us through some truly magical & hypnotic soundscapes over the years.
Available October 22nd 2007
CD1
01. When
02. Ghost Of Perdition
03. Under The Weeping Moon
04. Bleak
05. Face Of Melinda
06. The Night And The Silent Water
CD2
01. Windowpane
02. Blackwater Park
03. Demon Of The Fall
A picture of the cover art can be found at this location.
Peaceville Records is proud to announce the forthcoming release by one of the metal world's greatest acts.
"The Roundhouse concert will always be a very memorable gig for us for many reasons, but most importantly it caught the band at the peak of the "Ghost Reveries" tour. I must say we're quite tight after 18 odd months on the road supporting the record. I'm extremely pleased we got it documented and I hope it will please our beloved fans as well. As an extra bonus we've decided to collaborate with one of our past labels for this release, the legendary Peaceville Records. Here's a toast to Hammy and Lisa for helping us back in the day as well as to the new team for preserving this pleasurable memory for today's music lovers as well as for generations to come." - Mikael Åkerfeldt
'The Roundhouse Tapes' contains a captivating Opeth performance from the Camden Roundhouse, London, UK, on November 9th, 2006 (a gig which also featured Goth metal legends Paradise Lost), and sees the band in scintillating form churning out a selection of classics from their illustrious career. You know what to expect from Opeth: unrivalled composition; seamless progressive dynamics and boundless atmosphere from the mellow to the incredibly heavy, all sealed with the unmistakable vocal presence of mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt.
Since their formation in 1990 in Sweden, Opeth has risen to the forefront of the metal world over the years; bringing many aspects of progressive rock/metal to a whole new audience by combining soft acoustic ambience with complex, melodic & heavy guitar often familiar to forms of death/black metal, perfectly concocted into a completely peerless sound. A constant factor of their success is that the band have never been afraid to experiment with their song-writing ever since their debut album, 'Orchid', in 1994, all the while taking us through some truly magical & hypnotic soundscapes over the years.
Available October 22nd 2007
CD1
01. When
02. Ghost Of Perdition
03. Under The Weeping Moon
04. Bleak
05. Face Of Melinda
06. The Night And The Silent Water
CD2
01. Windowpane
02. Blackwater Park
03. Demon Of The Fall
A picture of the cover art can be found at this location.
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
YES! I've waited for a live ALBUM from Opeth ever since I first heard them! 
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
This is great! Look at at the setlist! They havee "under the weeping moon" and "the night and the silent water" wow I want this 
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| Tron Posts: 102 |
Yippee, finally some live material from Opeth since "Lamentations", and this time on CD format! The cover art is a bit reminiscent of "Ghost Reveries", which is one of the best albums of this millennia to date! Looking forward to this 
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| Duality Posts: 150  |
But wasn't there supposed to be a DVD of this gig? What happened to that plan? Anybody know anything even mildly solid news about this?
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| Katatronik Angel of Lust Posts: 1018  |
Awesome cover and very good setlist, can't wait for this live album, finally!
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| Thryce Retired Staff Elite Posts: 4346  |
Written by Duality on 22.08.2007 at 14:21 Maybe there is also a DVD of this gig, next to that live album. Anyway, if you go to Opeth's news archive and search for the news article of 2 April, you can read the following: Quote: (no further details have surfaced as of that day) So I guess, you have to wait for info about that possible DVD a bit longer...
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| WarriorOfMetal Posts: 873  |
hmmm.....title = iron maiden reference?
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by WarriorOfMetal on 23.08.2007 at 19:05 no, not really, but then again it most probably will be as well the concert took place in a place called Roundhouse
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| WarriorOfMetal Posts: 873 |
i know that, but it's extremely unlikely that they actually recorded to tape (unless it was DAT), and Iron Maiden recorded some early demos that are known as "The Soundhouse Tapes" it's a difference of one letter, and considering the fact that Opeth have appeared on at least one Iron Maiden tribute album (so, obviously, they're Maiden fans), i'm thinking it's pretty likely that it's an intentional reference.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by WarriorOfMetal on 24.08.2007 at 09:21 Usually concerts are recorded to DAT tape nowadays. But considering the guys in Opeth I think it is a nudge towards Iron Maiden's demo as well.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Deadsoulman Elite Posts: 8004  |
Written by molveno2 on 22.08.2007 at 11:34 Well, you know, this is more or less the exact same tracklist of the show they played in Toulouse in December 2005 during the Ghost Reveries Tour. So it is likely this was their typical setlist during this tour 
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| Daru Jericho Posts: 2098  |
Everyone should buy the DVD because I'm on it. Yup, front row. Bit disappointed about the cover art. I've had a signed poster of it since the gig and always thought the image wasn't Opeth. And the '70s psychedelic font doesn't suit it.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
frig, I dont like that setlist very much to be honest...no drapery falls? no moor? no deliverance? Theres no way im paying money for this.
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