KAMELOT - Ghost Opera (Full Album with Music Videos and Timestamps). 2007.
Label: Steamhammer
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: Jun 1, 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal, Power Metal
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 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“. On Billboard 200, the album peaked at number 18 on Top Heatseekers and number 48 on Independent Albums.
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“.
The title track of Kamelot’s eighth album, “Ghost Opera“ was also their first single. The song is about a woman who is haunted by her dreams of being an opera star. She dreams of the crowd adoring her and chanting her name, but it is just that - a dream.
In an interview with Thomas Youngblood of Kamelot, he explained that he came up with the story that inspired the song. In his story, the woman works hard and gets her chance to star in an opera, but on her way to the theater she is attacked, and is unable to perform.
This storyline is played out in the video, which shows her as an old woman looking back and thinking about what might have been.
Amanda Somerville provided the female vocals on this track. She has also performed on tracks for Avantasia, Serenity and MaYaN.
Japan’s Yukiko Inui and Risako Mitsui used a medley of this song and two other Kamelot tracks, “Karma,“ and “The Spell“ for their synchronized swimming duet routine at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
According to Kamelot guitarist Thomas Youngblood, the song is about a pair of teenage lovers; when she gets a terminal disease, they vow to love each other into the afterlife.
That’s Amanda Somerville doing the female vocals; she sang on three other songs on the album as well, including the title track.
SONGS
1 Solitaire 00:00
2 Rule the World 00:59
3 Ghost Opera 04:47
4 The Human Stain 08:58
5 Blücher 12:59
6 Love You to Death 16:55
7 Up Through the Ashes 21:43
8 Mourning Star 26:35
9 Silence of the Darkness 31:08
10 Anthem 34:47
11 Eden Echo 39:03
12 The Pendulous Fall 43:12
13 Season’s End 47:08
CREDITS
Kamelot
Roy Khan – vocals, keyboards
Thomas Youngblood – guitars
Glenn Barry – bass guitar
Casey Grillo – drums
Oliver Palotai – keyboards
Additional personnel
Miro – orchestrations, keyboards, engineering
Simone Simons – female vocals on “Blücher“
Amanda Somerville – female vocals on “Mourning Star“, “Love You to Death“, “Season’s End“ and “Ghost Opera“
Sascha Paeth – additional guitars, engineering
Ghost Opera Choir
Cinzia Rizzo, Robert Hunecke-Rizzo, Thomas Rettke
Personnel
Olaf Reitmeier – engineering
Simon Oberender – engineering
Bredo Myrvang – recording
Mattias Norén – artwork, layout
Elin Strigå – photo editing
Alexandra V Bach – artwork
Liliana Sanches – photography
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