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American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT have cancelled their appearance at the Ragnarock Festival, set to take place August 17-19 at the Valle Hovin Sports Arena in Oslo, Norway. The group's manager, KMI Entertainment's Tim Norwood, states, "We have yet to receive a contract or deposits for this festival. It is unfortunate for the fans since the band was very excited about coming to Norway again. It is simply out of our hands at this point. It also means that we have to reschedule the Helsinki show that was booked in connection with Ragnarock. We are in the middle of planning the European tour for spring 2007 and we are planning a full run through Norway and Finland."

As previously reported, KAMELOT will be traveling to Wolfsburg, Germany this summer to lay down the tracks for the follow-up to 2005's "The Black Halo" with co-producers Sascha Paeth and Miro. Nine songs have already been compelted, according to guitarist Thomas Youngblood. An early 2007 release is expected.

KAMELOT recently completed work on their first DVD, "One Cold Winter's Night", which was shot in Oslo this past February. "We have 18 cameras on this shoot and the concert was nearly two hours long," stated vocalist Khan. The disc was edited by Patric Ulleaus (DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES) and will include special guest appearances by Simone Simons (EPICA), Sascha Paeth and Snowy Shaw (ex-KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL), plus many others.

Also on the KAMELOT-related front, the first-ever KAMELOT anthology, "Lunar Sanctum", will be released by Sanctuary Records. It will feature some classics as well as unreleased live cuts from the band's last concerts in Tokyo.

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Been Waiting for this DVD....
This band is nearly all American guys.....who are just huge in Europe
KAMELOT's first-ever DVD, entitled "One Cold Winter's Night" will be released via Steamhammer/SPV on October 30.

"One Cold Winter's Night" was recorded on February 11, 2006 at the historic Rockefeller Musichall in Oslo, Norway. KAMELOT enlisted renowned film and video director Patric Ullaeus (DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES) to chronicle the night's events. Bringing with him from Gothenberg, Sweden, Patric had a large crew of professionals and equipment, including 18 cameras, that would be used in and around the concert grounds.

The title for the band's first DVD to date (based on an earlier KAMELOT song title) was chosen long before the actual shoot. Ironically this winter turned out to be one of the longest and coldest in the country's history, with enormous amounts of snow and numerous chaos-causing blizzards.

"One Cold Winter's Night" will be available as a double DVD double CDor a 2DVD/2CD doublepack with poster. The track listing is as follows:



DVD 1

01. Intro: Un Assasino 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 (Part I, II & III)
14. March of Mephisto
15. Karma
16. Drum Solo
17. Farewell
18. Curtain call/Outro

DVD 2

* Behind the Scenes
* Band interviews
* Making of "The Haunting"
* Up-close interview with Thomas Youngblood at home
* Casey Grill at ddrum
* Interview with Simone Simons from EPICA
* Huge photo gallery
* Band Bio and Top 5
* Discography

Videos:

* "The Haunting"
* "March of Mephisto"
* "March of Mephist" (uncensored)
* Serenade"
* "March of Mephisto" live at Sweden Rock 2006




CD 1

01. Intro: Un Assasino 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

CD 2

01. When The Lights Are Down
02. Elizabeth (Part I, II & III)
03. March of Mephisto
04. Karma
05. Drum Solo
06. Farewell
07. Outro

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[DevinMacGregor]

I will give them a whirl HM.

What I find funny is how people still blame glam metal and not the nature of the industry itself. I also find it extremely ironic how some can say that image was gay. Is that gay with a capital G because the image that is often portrayed as the image of metal is that of Judas Priest and the leather wearing image Halford portray was nothing less than that of the gay community.

The nature of the industry is that it will do what is selling and every decade they switch to what is being projected as the next best thing. The fact of the matter remains is that glam metal put metal on the map here in the States. Without them record companies would not have took the risk of signing more non commercial sounding bands. There is a reason why Pop music is Popular Music. It is not because it sucks to many of our eyes. It is because it fills the bottom line and that is it SELLS. Glam Metal kept propelling metal overall here to keep going. Look at Ozzy. Tell me he did not change his music to match that of which was selling?

I have always objected to those stupid subgenres because the suits will simply use it to say we only want this and then the rest conform to that or they simply remain in the Underground.

Metal in the US is dormant compared to the 80s because it lacks airplay, it lacks video time, and thusly it lacks exposure to a wider audience to get promoters to want to take the risk of larger venues.

People seem to forget that those glam bands by the 90s were changing their images. People seem to forget that by the 90s many of the big bands of the 80s were on hiatus or disintegrating. An image of non corporate metal was supposed to be the wave of the 90s but those bands did not deliver. They disintegrated as well and rather fast. We call them Grunge. Kobain was made into some form of gawd and compared to Lennon. At the time though metal of the 80s and early 90s was not getting the airplay it once had. It was not getting video play that it once had. Guns N Roises and Metallica were both seen as supposedly carrying the Torch as Defenders of the Faith but look what happened to both of them. The Record Industry is Corporate and as the 80s progressed and into the 90s it became more so. It is not into nurturing a band for years before it can sell something. It wants black right now. It does not want to see Red. In todays world that will get instant layoffs just to put Corporate back in the Black. It wants Gold before the tour starts. It wants double platinum before the tour ends. Rap/Urban music was the new shiznit. They got extensive airplay and video play. Not to mention they were getting movie contracts and TV shows as well. Was Metal? No. We then got the fusion of rap/metal etc.

Who killed Metal here in the States? The Music Industry did. It sacrificed it on the alter of the finanical spreadsheet because "grunge" and rap/metal did not produce the numbers as previous subgenres in the 80s. I bought two DVDs saturday, both 10 bucks. One Malmsteen playing to the Japanese Phil and Twisted Sister at Wacken 2003. That band formed in 1973. It broke up in 1987 after 15 years and something like 9000 shows. A band that was not speaking to each other or barely had members speaking to one another was asked to headline those festivals that year by European Promoters. I find that amazing in of itself. Yet over here we have people blasting that they are of the group that killed metal and are gay. Maybe Europeans don't have this false sense of machoism. Dee was talking about how odd it was to be headlining all these festivals and that when they were there in the 80s playing the same festivals they were 6th on the billing. We also saw very successful recent tours of bands that fell into the same category as TS. The money is there but here in the States we do no get those festivals. I remember the US Festival here. I remember Metal day being the largest crowd. It is still out in Devore, CA I believe but dormant.

Now here in the States festivals like WoodStock were reattempted and initially although not a financial success was a musical success. Subsequent ones ended in violence as fans became destructive. We can bitch about the price of water and the stands selling things but in the end of the day Promoters do this stuff to turn a profit as well. They have to get financial backing and if the stuff is just going to be lit on fire by a mob then why are they going to invest money in it. So Europe gets its festivals while we do not.

Ok this plane is about to land in Damascus. I will check out Kamelot HM and for the rest of you try http://cdbaby.com/style/metal. CD Baby was started back in 1997 and is run out of Oregon, USA. It was started by a band to sell his CDs and now sells CDs of other Independent Artists. The link is to the metal section and you can listen to parts of their CDs. Many are from all over the States.
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Devin
I just think its a shame....Khan is great singer/writer for Kamelot..his vocals will not be everyones cup of tea...but this band does have lots of talent...with amazing guitar riffs,solos as well and the orchestral arrangements give it a bit of class in my opinion....don't worry its just small arrangements.
Music festivals in Europe mean its summer time for us also a great time to meet up with fellow fans from music forums as well..Holland is really good place to start....sometimes there is a festival nearly every weekend it seems.
I am the same as you Devin...regarding sub-genres of music...hell if I like it ....I will buy it...no matter what the genre...even if I do see myself buying mostly Gothic....but I ain't a Goth I just like the female vocals in some of these bands and there opera training brings something different to the sound.
Who knows Devin....you could be going to a Kamelot gig in OCT!
I am sure you must be near one of these places..
Oct. 08 - San Francisco, CA (USA) - Pound SF
Oct. 10 - Santa Ana, CA (USA) - Galaxy Theatre
Oct. 11 - Los Angeles, CA (USA) - Key Club

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You tube is down...so here's a couple of Kamelot
Videos....

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-395907278006334651&q=kamelot


http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=15746497780041610&q=kamelot

The woman in the first video is from a band called Epica,
they are the support band for the usa tour....
Epica are a great band!

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Maybe thats the problem in USA,Devin...Tickets prices seem to be expensive in the States,I have never paid more than £50 for a ticket,and when I did pay that amount it was not for me or to see a Metal gig,truth be known it was a ticket for the wife to see Robbie Williams playing in a sold out stadium myself I think £35 has been the most...I have paid for a ticket...for music,but every year I will pay £250 for my ticket for the British round of F1,I think its worth it. I don't mind that little extra,but I will never pay £33 a ticket again to see Whitesnake...what a rip off that was,crap set list and David Coverdale singing like a parrot on helium or screaming was the worse gig of my life,and I had bought 3 tickets for that gig.If Dio does tour in UK next year...the price does not even come into...but I know for sure the tickets prices will be at the most £25....I think one time...I saw Alice Cooper and Dio for less than £20 for Magica's release.I don't even go near Ticketmaster,I found Ticketweb...to be really cheaper and quicker,maybe we are lucky in UK becoz we have many different kinds of venues...Dio seems to like playing in Glasgow Carling...I think its an old picture house,holds about 3500 always sold out...but we have many venues like this in UK,the modern ones hold more folk but they will charge more money,there does not seem to be a week,were there is not a band playing at the Carling.
I would love for Dio to play Edinburgh...but the biggest venue in Edinburgh likes to have musicals and shows on etc,and the demand for this venue is high so I understand trying to fit a one off gig ....is hard for them to do,with these shows running for months at a time,there is also the Corn Exchange a newish venue,which holds about the same as the Carling..but becoz its in Edinburgh the hire for a gig is expensive..so it will always be Glasgow most of the time,which I don't mind,its only a 45 min drive away,which is nothing when you think of the distance some of you guys would have to travel from State to State.
I never use cd shops now...in the city the 2 biggest Virgin and HMV are so different..I think its a local thing as well,lot of metal fans in Edinburgh,but Virgin's section is crap...HMV have a section just for Metal...which was huge last time,I looked...for me Amazon,Ebay and online shop in Germany are the places...I buy my cds/dvds now,I buy 90% of all our goods online now...only things I don't buy are meat and Veg! I can see those 2 giants closing one day in Edinburgh,but who knows the younger fans seem to like them.
Glad to hear you never wore make-up but I know a few of my friends who will get the black eye liner from their girl friends
No not for me!I don't want to look like a bloody panda for any band,but hey if they want to do it...who am I to stopped them,remember we wear a kilt sometimes when I was younger ...I was a long haired freak,but you have to change as you get older,who's gonna employ a guy with hair down his back, and oil stains on his jeans,its sad too say but people do judge you on first impressions...hell my bank manager would have called the cops if I went to see him like that.But I am glad the fashion has changed that ties are out now....becoz I hate them

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North America Tour has kicked off....I am so envious
I am trying to get a setlist....asap

Here's a fan Video of the song....Karma set to the movie King Arthur.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IwsT0NgiFfQ&mode=related&search=

[Rimax]

Anyone heard some of their earlier work? I have just recently gotten into listening to Kamelot, and the only album i've heard so far is Black Halo, which in my opinion is a fantastic good album.

But I would like to know how you like their earlier albums, is the music in the same style as the Black Halo??

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Asle_dale....I have the following Kamelot cds...
Karma,Epica, The Fourth Legacy and of course The Black Halo,
Now after listening to ''Karma'' you will want to own more Kamelot cds....

[Stratophony]

Love Kamelot.... a great power metal band, that has never gone into those generic, mediocrisy, waters typical of a lot of PM bands.

Kahn has a great voice.... Youngblood is a very good guitarist.

Although my favorite album is Dominion.... black halo is one hell of an album. Along with Epica, black halo is probably musically superior than Dominion...... but Dominion just has that kick to it.

Hope to see them this fall.... i probably won't be able to though. Sad to miss Epica too.
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What's Kamelot?

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