| CD REVIEW Opeth |
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Band: Opeth A metal band playing in a real opera house, a combination which doesn’t frequently happen. The Swedish progressive metal band Opeth came up with this idea while having some beers in a local pub in Sweden. In April, they decided to play six shows in Europe. Every venue needed to have some history attached to it. It was quite hard to find venues who were willing to welcome loud guitars and long-haired people, but they managed to do so. The DVD consists of two discs. On both discs, you can find the entire show the band played in the Royal Albert Hall, in London. The production of this live set is great, but the charismatic venue is even better and very beautiful. A venue where bands such as Deep Purple once rocked the place.
On the first disc, next to the live show, you can also find a very long interview of 45 minutes. There wasn’t a real interviewer for this interview, as people could enter a competition to ask the band some questions and the best ones were put in front of Mikael’s nose. The questions deal with the six different historic venues for the 20th anniversary tour, the fans, the crew, family matters, … A very cool interview to listen to and watch, especially because Mikael has a very pleasant voice.
On the second disc, one camera follows the band from the show in Stockholm, to Essen and to end later on in London. In these venues, the fans can see the same ritual the band went through on tour: arriving, setting up, sound checking, the meet and greet, a small part of the set, some rituals before going on stage, selling merch, cleaning up, driving to the next venue, kebab visits and the fans were almost given a shower scene with Opeth. Opeth fans will be very pleased with this DVD, because you really learn to know the band better. Let’s hope for 20 more years of Opeth. 87/100 Nick Tronckoe. |