Band:	Kamelot
Album:	One Cold Winter's Night
Style:	Symphonic power metal
Release date:	November 21, 2006
A review by:	Jeff

Disc I
01. Intro: Un Assassinio Molto Silenzioso
02. The Black Halo
03. Soul Society
04. The Edge Of Paradise
05. Center Of The Universe
06. Nights Of Arabia
07. Abandoned
08. Forever
09. Keyboard Solo
10. The Haunting
11. Moonlight
12. When The Lights Are Down
13. Elizabeth
14. March Of Mephisto
15. Karma
16. Drum Solo
17. Farewell
18. Curtain Call/Outro

Disc II
01. Journey Within
    1 - HaloVision With Khan
    2 - Up Close with Thomas Youngblood at home
    3 - Casey Grillo at ddrum
    4 - Up Close Interview with Casey Grillo at home
    5 - Up Close with Oliver Palotai
    6 - Interview with Simone Simons
02. Videos
    1 - The Haunting
    2 - March Of Mephisto
    3 - March Of Mephisto [uncensored version]
    4 - Serenade
    5 - March Of Mephisto [Live at Sweden Rock 2006]
    6 - Making of "The Haunting"
03. Miscellaneous
    1 - Photo Gallery
    2 - Band Member Biographies and Top 5's
    3 - Discography

After a lot of successful albums, especially the last three ones, and a big long tour, the US combo Kamelot releases finally its first official DVD. With two discs, this DVD is composed of a concert recorded in Oslo Norway (the land of Kamelot's singer) plus a second disc with bonus like video clips, diary, gallery etc? (Note also that you can find this DVD with two CDs which are actually the live recording of the concert). No need to wait a bit more to say that this DVD is a must for the fans of the band even if I have to regret some little things? We will talk about it later?

"One Cold Winter's Night" is a great DVD. First, the concert was recorded in a really nice venue of Oslo, which was evidently full to welcome this popular US combo. The set list is composed of all the great songs of the band, "Forever" of course, but also songs like "Centre Of The Universe" or "The March Of Mephysto" to give some few names. As always with Kamelot, some guest singers and musicians (Simone Simons, Sacha Paeth, but no Shagrath?) were there to add some interactivity to the concert and well I must admit that the performance of the band was extremely convincing this night.

With a great quality of recording, the video is perfect, the show is not boring at all and the different angles that the producers chose to use are all really good. This is a good concert which is never long and since that the band chose to put all its "artillery" for this night (theatrical stuff, a lot of guest, great stage etc) it's really pleasant to watch this DVD, but a bit too perfect?

The "perfection" of this DVD is my main problem. Of course, I will not blame the fact that the video is perfect, of course not, but what about the sound? It's perfect too, without anything bad? And it's a bit strange? First we don't really hear the crow and that's a bit sad for a live recording plus, I didn't have the feeling that it was a "hot" ambiance when the images tend to show that it was really big? Also, the sound of the instruments, like the voice of Khan is perfect and it doesn't look so "real"? I'm maybe wrong but it seems that we had a big production work after the show and sadly that's a bit "too much" for me.

"One Cold Winter's Night" is a great DVD despite the little problem that you know now. The fact that the DVD is perfect is not really problematic of course but well, it doesn't give the feeling of a real live performance, that's weird. On the other hand it was a great show and the bonus are good so if you like Power Metal or just like Kamelot, this is a must. Don't miss it, Christmas is coming it could be a nice present for you?