and Björn "Speed" Strid are also featured. Simone Simons returns to supply guest vocals on a few songs. A video was recorded for the song "The Great Pandemonium" and released on the band's official YouTube channel on September 6 (it's also included on the Special Edition DVD release of the album). The release sees the return of founding member Sean Tibbetts (who formerly used the stage name Sean Christians) on bass guitar. It was released on the earMUSIC label, a subdivision of Edel, on Septemin Europe, and four days later in North America by the band's own label, KMG Recordings. A video for the song The Human Stain was shot and released later.įollowing this was their ninth studio album, Poetry for the Poisoned. The first video from the album is for the track Ghost Opera, and can be seen on the band's official MySpace site. The album was recorded and mixed at Gate Studios and Pathway Studios in Wolfsburg, Germany with producers Sascha Paeth and Miro. It was released on June 1st, 2007 via SPV/Steamhammer Records, in Germany and then followed by releases on the fourth and fifth in Europe and the USA, respectively. Ghost Opera is the eighth studio album from Kamelot. The DVD (and live CD) called One cold winter's night was released in November 2006. The shoot was again handled by Patric Ullaeus. During this part of the tour the bands first live DVD was shot, with the main concert being shot on February 11th, 2006 at Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway. On the second leg of the "Black Halo World Tour" they visited North and South America (USA, Canada, Brazil) as well as Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway). Oliver will handle both keyboards and (additional) guitars. The 5th of October 2005 saw the addition of Oliver Palotai as the fifth official band member. Both videos were shot by acclaimed director Patric Ullaeus. In 2005 they shot their first music videos ever, for the songs The Haunting (Somewhere In Time) and March Of Mephisto from the album The Black Halo. They also played on the Bang Your Head!!! Festival in Germany and the Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium. To support the new album the band went on tour through Europe and Japan during the first leg of the "Black Halo World Tour 2005", they played a head liner show with Epica and Kotipelto. Both Epica and the band's seventh effort, The Black Halo, which was released in 2005, are based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's version of the legend of Faust, a man who sells his soul to the devil. Their sixth album, Epica was released in 2003. Only a few months later the band presented their fifth album entitled Karma, to the greatest critical success yet. The summer of 2000 brought the "New Allegiance Tour" through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Spain during which the recordings for Kamelot's first live album The Expedition were made. The new line-up undertook an extensive tour through Europe during the fall of the same year only to return to the Gate Studio in Wolfsburg twelve months later to produce the fourth studio effort The Fourth Legacy.
With the two new members, Kamelot released their third studio album, Siege Perilous. Respectively, their replacements were Casey Grillo and Roy Khan (Roy Sætre «Khan» Khantatat from Elverum in Norway - formerly of Conception). Later that year, two of the band's members were replaced drummer and founder Richard Warner and lead vocalist Mark Vanderbilt. The next album, Dominion, was released in 1997. In 1994 the band signed a deal with Noise Records the release of their debut album Eternity followed in 1995. The band was founded by guitarist Thomas Youngblood and drummer Richard Warner in 1991. While the Kamelot from Tampa is the most prominent band of this name, there are more bands using it in the world:ġ) Kamelot is a power metal band from Tampa, Florida that incorporates progressive and symphonic elements into their music. She lay on the bank, the wind light as a thiefĪnd I kissed her goodbye, said "All beauty must die"Īnd I knelt down and planted a rose between her teeth On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow If I show you the roses will you follow aloneĪnd the last thing I heard was a muttered wordĪs he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
He said "Give me your loss and your sorrow?" On the second day he came with a single red rose I said, "Do you know, where the wild roses grow She was more beautiful than any woman I've seen He wiped at the tears that ran down my face He would be my first man, and with a careful hand My trembling subsided in his sure embrace When he knocked on my door and entered the room That grew down the river, all bloody and wild From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one