Ghost Opera

Ghost Opera
Studio album by Kamelot
Released June 5, 2007
Recorded Gate Studios and Pathway Studios, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2007
Genre Symphonic metal
Progressive metal
Length 43:59 (Original Album)
47:59 (Limited Edition)
47:31 (Japanese Release)
Label SPV/Steamhammer
Producer Sascha Paeth and Miro[1]
Kamelot chronology
The Black Halo
(2005)		 Ghost Opera
(2007)		 Poetry for the Poisoned
(2010)
Reissue cover
The Second Coming reissue cover (2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com [2]
Allmusic [3]

Ghost Opera is the eighth studio album from metal band Kamelot. It was released in 2007 by SPV GmbH/Steamhammer Records, on June 1 in Germany and followed by releases on June 4 in Europe and June 5 in the United States. It is the first studio album by Kamelot to feature keyboardist Oliver Palotai, and the last with former bassist Glenn Barry. The album spawned four music videos for the songs "Ghost Opera", "The Human Stain", "Rule the World" and "Love You to Death".[4]

On Billboard 200, the album peaked at number 18 on Top Heatseekers and number 48 on Independent Albums.[5]

Prior to the release of the album, SPV Records distributed a strictly limited CD single of "Ghost Opera", handed out to fans attending the European Tour in March, April and May 2007.[6] The album was released on vinyl in the spring of 2009, along with The Black Halo.[7][8][9]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Kamelot.

  1. "Solitaire" – 1:00
  2. "Rule the World" – 3:40
  3. "Ghost Opera" – 4:06
  4. "The Human Stain" – 4:01
  5. "Blücher" – 4:03
  6. "Love You to Death" – 5:13
  7. "Up Through the Ashes" – 4:59
  8. "Mourning Star" – 4:37
  9. "Silence of the Darkness" – 3:43
  10. "Anthem" – 4:24
  11. "EdenEcho" – 4:13

Limited edition version contains a bonus track:

Japanese version contains a bonus track:

Limited Edition CD + DVD

The limited edition version of the album contains a twelfth, bonus track entitled "The Pendulous Fall" (4:00). Album art remains the same except for two lines of text, "Limited Edition" and "CD + DVD," which are located in the lower corners of the cover. The DVD features the making of and the video for "Ghost Opera" (4:11). There is also a Japanese edition containing the bonus track "Season's End" (3:32).

The Second Coming

In 2008, a reissue of Ghost Opera entitled Ghost Opera: The Second Coming was released on March 28 in Germany, March 31 for the rest of Europe and April 8 in the United States and Canada. The album was released as a double-disc set, with the first disc featuring Ghost Opera as previously released, and the videos for "The Human Stain" and "Memento Mori", filmed in Belgrade, Serbia. The second disc contained 10 live tracks from the same show, as well as three bonus tracks from Ghost Opera and The Black Halo and a remix of "Rule the World".

Track listing

All songs written by Kamelot.

Disc 1:

  1. "Solitaire" – 1:00
  2. "Rule the World" – 3:40
  3. "Ghost Opera" – 4:06
  4. "The Human Stain" – 4:01
  5. "Blücher" – 4:03
  6. "Love You to Death" – 5:13
  7. "Up Through the Ashes" – 4:59
  8. "Mourning Star" – 4:37
  9. "Silence of the Darkness" – 3:43
  10. "Anthem" – 4:24
  11. "EdenEcho" – 4:13

Disc 2:

  1. "Solitaire [Live]" – 1:10
  2. "Ghost Opera [Live]" – 4:06
  3. "The Human Stain [Live]" – 4:15
  4. "Mourning Star [Live]" – 4:30
  5. "When the Lights Are Down [Live]" – 4:03
  6. "Abandoned [Live]" – 4:15
  7. "The Haunting (Somewhere in Time) (feat. Simone Simons) [Live]" – 4:33
  8. "Memento Mori [Live]" – 9:08
  9. "Epilogue [Live]" – 2:27
  10. "March of Mephisto [Live]" – 4:49
  11. "Season's End" – 3:32
  12. "The Pendulous Fall" – 3:57
  13. "Epilogue" – 2:46
  14. "Rule the World [Remix]" – 4:22

Personnel

Band members

Guest musicians

References

  1. ^ a b c d Roy Khan (June 2007). Interview with Patrick Verhoeven. Lords of Metal, issue 71. http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showinterview.php?id=1767&lang=en. 
  2. ^ "About.com review". Heavymetal.about.com. 2011-09-30. http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/kamelotghost.htm. Retrieved 2011-12-03. 
  3. ^ Allmusic review
  4. ^ Kamelot.com From a quick update with Thomas Youngblood, 14th March 2008
  5. ^ Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Kamelot
  6. ^ Roy Khan and Thomas Youngblood (May 2007). Interview with Silvia Deurwaarder. Reflections of Darkness. http://www.reflectionsofdarkness.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2008&Itemid=46. 
  7. ^ - Official site news article dated December 13, 2008.
  8. ^ "Blabbermouth.net article dated December 13, 2008". Roadrunnerrecords.com. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110771. Retrieved 2011-12-03. 
  9. ^ bravewords.com. "article dated December 13, 2008". Bravewords.com. http://www.bravewords.com/news/102800. Retrieved 2011-12-03. 
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