Kamelot - Ready To Release Next Record 'The Awakening'
Kamelot are thrilled to announce the release of their thirteenth full length effort, their first one in five years. Entitled The Awakening, it will hit the streets on March 17th 2023 via Napalm Records. The 13-piece music output was produced by Sascha Paeth and mixed by Jacob Hansen. Below you can check out the first streaming single, "One More Flag In The Ground", with accompanying official video.
Vocalist Tommy Karevik comments: "The main focus on this video and song was to have a metaphor for the struggles of fighting disease or illness, whether it being physical or mental. Each step of healing and recovery is another Flag in the Ground. With every little step, one more victory won…"
Guitarist Thomas Youngblood says: "With The Awakening, we have one of our most diverse albums in years. We've fused elements from progressive, power and gothic metal to symphonic and melodic metal on this one. Working with incredible guest artists from around the music industry and having producer Sascha Paeth and Jacob Hansen mixing gave us another step up on overall sound. This album offers everything to Kamelot fans and also reaches beyond borders to new metal and hard rock legions."
Vocalist Tommy Karevik comments: "The main focus on this video and song was to have a metaphor for the struggles of fighting disease or illness, whether it being physical or mental. Each step of healing and recovery is another Flag in the Ground. With every little step, one more victory won…"
Guitarist Thomas Youngblood says: "With The Awakening, we have one of our most diverse albums in years. We've fused elements from progressive, power and gothic metal to symphonic and melodic metal on this one. Working with incredible guest artists from around the music industry and having producer Sascha Paeth and Jacob Hansen mixing gave us another step up on overall sound. This album offers everything to Kamelot fans and also reaches beyond borders to new metal and hard rock legions."
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| majormalfunction Posts: 1453  |
Not gonna lie, that was pretty horrible
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| Ellinor Posts: 74 From: Bosnia and Herzegovina  |
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| Illusion's_Void Posts: 71 From: Portugal  |
Dogshit. Showcasing itself as a true-sucessor for a pretty crappy record.
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4873  |
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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| skelator Posts: 351 From: Faroe Islands  |
Written by Ellinor on 12.01.2023 at 22:30 Meeeh, typical Karevik music
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4873 |
Written by skelator on 13.01.2023 at 00:24 not quite, I think Seventh Wonder is quite good.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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| Aries Rising Posts: 560 From: USA  |
They need to change producers, this bad has been on a slow decline since The Ghost Opera. That was their last great record.
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| The Melting Snow Posts: 615 From: Pakistan  |
Within Temptation with Male vocals
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60959 From: Sweden  |
I hope this will be year when this band will stop playing music. Horrible
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4873 |
Written by Bad English on 13.01.2023 at 11:15 I doubt that, this band is quite popular. It's gonna be around for a long while.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60959 From: Sweden |
Written by JoHn Doe on 13.01.2023 at 11:30 I know, and they still can earn from shows, life performances, but last few albums are horrible
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Night Theater Posts: 87 From: Australia  |
Written by JoHn Doe on 13.01.2023 at 00:15 Although it took a different direction, Ghost Opera was still good. PFTP was horrible. As for this new video, I think the music in itself is good, but alas, it's not as good as Kamelot's old stuff.
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4873 |
Written by Night Theater on 13.01.2023 at 14:11 oh, maybe i did not express myself correctly. 2005 as in what they did after does not do much for me, starting with PFTP. Ghost Opera is a solid album.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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| MeatWolf Posts: 234  |
Silverthorn and Haven are both awesome albums. This new single doesn't sound like Kamelot though. Visions of Atlantis sound more like Kamelot on their 'Wild Elysium' track from the recent album for that matter.
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| unswabbed Posts: 25 From: France  |
I like Kamelot and I hope this title doesn't reflect the album. This song is really a disaster, even the last track of Within Temptation is better
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| Oracles Posts: 130 From: Poland  |
Written by MeatWolf on 13.01.2023 at 16:16 Every album with Tommy has been really bad and I am not writing this as a Khan fanboy or hating Tommy. Tommy sounds great in Seventh Wonder, not that they are my cup of tea, but they have at least a respectable sound I can get behind. The problem is that Youngblood wants him to sing and sound just like Roy Khan and it simply doesn't work. Take "Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife)" for example, that song was specifically styled for Roy Khan at heart and it's one of the few songs that sound good with Tommy. However, there is not a lot, the band is unforunately dead.
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| MeatWolf Posts: 234 |
I've known Kamelot since around Black Halo, checked every album when it was released ever since and well, I never liked Khan, honestly, Karevik is better at it. Khan really used to overdo it with the emotional intoning while Karevik sounds way smoother. Songwriting on Silverthorn and Haven is also really good. The Shadow Theory was a letdown however, that I agree with. Of course the duck syndrome and all in this case and that's fine but these are my 2 cents.
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| 24emd Theory Snob Posts: 922 From: Australia  |
Definitely nothing special, and Kamelot's music never has really impressed me that much. But not as awful as the comments make it out to be.
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| Kais Posts: 610 From: Latvia  |
This single is not 'awful' by any means as some of the above mention, IMO. If compared to nothing else, I'd give it a solid 7. That said - they've been dragging this overplayed neo-gothic shit for way too long. It got to the point it just sounds like anything else they released since Silverthorn. Karevik is an amazing vocalist, but so under-used in Thomas' "what Roy would probably sound like had he been younger" vocal line randomizer machine.
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| Enissa Posts: 815 From: Greece  |
Eeeeh.. Nothing great here. As an absolute fan of what Kamelot used to be, I can say the same about changing producers - Maybe leave Paeth alone and get a new one, and don't let Thomas control everything in the band while you're at it.
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| zakapior Posts: 27 From: Poland  |
Sounds like a good song for Amaranthe, but where is the Kamelot in that?
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| The Evergreen Posts: 241 From: USA  |
Karma, Epica, Black Halo... those are what hooked me. Everything else has been lesser, and past PTFP, downright forgetable.
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| CWA Posts: 285 From: Canada  |
The song is definitely good and enjoyable. The problem with this band is that they created masterpieces like The Black Halo in the past and now they are forever plagued with living in the shadows of their own greatness.
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| marco Posts: 1977 From: Estonia  |
God dammit, just had to log in after several years just to say that you guys are the worst freaking gatekeepers. Sheesh, you don't have to like it. Move on and find something else to whine about.
---- the proggy bubblefucker
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| nikarg Posts: 7039 From: Greece  |
- I love X band's new song!! - You're just a silly fanboy/fangirl! - The new song by X band is really awful! - You are an elitist gatekeeper!
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| metalbangwaver Posts: 70  |
Hope it's not a Silver Thorn 4.0. All their albums with Tommy have sounded as if they're trying to continue Roy's legacy with a different singer by just adapting the same old formula with Tommy.
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4873 |
Written by JoHn Doe on 13.01.2023 at 15:19 I got a couple of years wrong here, I thought PFTP was released in 2007, but it was Ghost Opera, i think I confused a few people. Shame on me, i apologise. 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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