"Don't know how I've never heard them or seen them before." Man, I don't think a single line has more perfectly summed up what being a Kamelot fan is like.
One Cold Winter’s Night is probably one of the most well produced and mixed live albums ever. The audio engineers cannot be given enough credit for their work on it
@@TankTheTech the founder of epica mark is a kamelot fan thats the reason, if i am not mistaken amarath took theyre name from Nightwish song With the same name :)
That's the mighty Khan. No one can match his emotion, his emphasis on phrasing and that one-of-a-kind hypnotic voice. You can no more replace Roy Khan then you can replace Peter Steele in Type O Negative... one-of-a-kind just can't be matched. When Roy left kamelot I don't even listen to them anymore. Tommy is an awesome singer but just don't have the soul or the feeling in his singing like Roy, not many can at that level... Roy Khan, one of the best frontmen ever on the planet. So thanks to Roy for coming back and Reviving conception. Conceptions new stuff is awesome as well
To this day, I don't think I've ever come across another singer in metal with a voice like Khan's. There's just such a distinct style, like he's somehow putting direct speaking emotion into his singing. I've never heard it replicated.
Elize Ryd (Amaranthe) and Alissa White-Gluz (the Agonist / Arch Enemy) used to be regular backing vocalists for Kamelot's North American tours. Elize auditioned for Nightwish before Annette joined, and Kamelot opened for Nightwish on their North American tour in 2012, which is why Elize and Alissa were there to cover for Annette in Denver when she got sick.
*Because* you like Dimmu, I would suggest "March of Mephisto" as it features Shagrath. It's a kickass song, with Roy on vocals. (It's already posted on the discord. :) )
If you do, I highly recommend a dual reaction with the album version instead of the video version because just like The Haunting's music video they decided to cut the song down for release as a single and removed an awesome keyboard solo from it and the live version. But that's just my opinion.
This 'american' band was already 40% european in the days of this video, with a norwegean singer and a german keyboard player (Oliver Palotay - husband of Simone Simons btw.). Meanwhile, after Casey Grillo left for joining Queensryche, another german, Alex Landenburg on drums, raised it to 60%. Tommy Karevik, who replaced Roy Khan on vocal is swedish... Tank saw Tommy on AYREONS 'The day that the world breaks down'
The album version is a bit longer. Kamelot is one of my favorite bands of all time. This entire concert is one of my favorites ever. You need to check out more from this concert. I personally recommend Forever, When The Lights Are Down, Abandoned, Center Of The Universe, & Elizabeth.
Not to take away from the other performances from One Cold Winter's Night but Elizabeth, Forever AND Karma from this gig are so much better than the respective album versions it's not even fair. It's actually insane how well put together this DVD is considering it's from like 2005 or 2006, in addition to the obvious fact that they were amazing live at the time (still are, but you know).
I love this performance to bits. Roy and Simone just sound incredible together! If you want to check out some more Kamelot, the track "Liar Liar" with their current singer (Tommy Karevik, who you heard in the Ayreon epic) and Alissa from Arch Enemy is an absolutely crushing slab of prog-power-metal.
The lighting designer for this show, Ed 'Taz' Gardner, is a friend of mine whom I met when he was working the sound for a Symphony X show in Portland. He's a super nice guy and has worked with MANY artists...mostly in the rock/hard rock genre but has even done a tour with Cher and Cyndi Lauper. You may have met him during your times on the road. Thanks for the reaction to this song and highly recommend "Elizabeth" and/or "Forever" from this same show or "March Of Mephisto" from Sweden Rock 2006.
Roy is currently making music again with his old band Conception, it's definitely worth a listen if you love him and his voice. They released the album State of Deception this year, and there is a song with Elize Ryd on it for those who'd enjoy their voices together, like me.
Try the song " Roll the Fire" with Roy and Conception. There is an older version from 1993 and also a second edition from 2019 after the band has come together again. I love his voice and as others have said, March of Mephisto with Shaggat from Dimmu Borgir in the intro is a great Kamelot song and defenitly one of my Kamelot favorites.
Thank you for reacting to Kamelot - there is plenty more! Oliver Palotai on keyboards is Simone Simons' husband! Metal is Family! Thomas Youngblood on guitar - his wife Mari (or Mary in places) also sings. Their daughter, Annelise, also sings - features in a couple of songs, "Soul Society" and "Sacrimony", and in the childs' choir in the live DVD " Live From the 013"!
Kamelot Monday today, and it's a great thing. If you want a longer song, try the live version of "Elizabeth". It's a masterpiece! It would be cool to see your and Chase's reaction to this. If you could do it on the same day, making another Kamelot Monday, you will make a lot of people happy:)
TankTheTech duuude when i saw Kamelot back in like 2012, in Oslo, they played this song but the vocalist of Blackguard did the guest spot instead of shagrath. I was hyped and disappointed at the same time. Paul did an amazing job though, he gained a new fan that night
@@Marius_ae thought tommy had started as singer in 2012 i thought it was in 2012, i was also at a kamelot konsert 24.11.2012 in oslo. but i cant remember march of memphisto. promoted silverthorn album.
MsStecarl www.setlist.fm/setlist/kamelot/2012/sentrum-scene-oslo-norway-3bdad0f4.html check out the setlist here! March of Mephisto was the last Encore
The Black Halo is great album! Memento Mori! Great Tank! This performance is in the heart of Black Metal! It's a light in the dark!! LOL! Simone is everywhere! Roy's great! March of Mephisto with Shagrath from Dimmu Borgir next!
I haven’t seen it yet but I’m so excited omg!!! Finally watching Kamelot!! Edit: yaaaay we got a headbang! Definitely look up Forever live!! So gooooood!
Thanks for finally getting to Kamelot they are a very impressive band, to me one of the best. I think they will impress you and others who are not familiar with them. I think "liar liar" would be a good one !
Yay, a Kamelot reaction!! I currently _live_ for seeing Kamelot reactions. I stand by my opinion that the performance of Elizabeth from this same concert is *peak* Kamelot, so you should give that a go. I don't know offhand if anything from their recent DVD/Bluray release "I Am The Empire - Live from the 013" is up on RUclips, but pretty much anything from that would be good to see what they're currently like with Tommy!
Proud to have attended a very special show these guys put in my hometown Elverum, which also is Roy's hometown. roughly a population of 20k people. They set it up at big spot near a beautiful museum, put up a stage and i can be certain half the town attended and enjoyed metal this special night. Peak of the night was when Roy brought he's grandpa up on stage for a duet.
This song was one of the singles from the album The Black Halo, IMO their best album. Simone was guest singing and were also in the video. Youngblood has a thing for writing duets with amazing female singers, and they even manage to bring them on tour. That’s also the reason Nightwish didn’t have to cancel their concert in Denver during the Imaginaerum tour, when Anette was rushed to hospital one hour before showtime.
Simone Simons did the Haunting with Kamelot on their album and Roy Khan did Trois vierges on the album of Epica. First Kamelot wouldn't do it, it was the wish of Epica (who named their band to a Kamelot album) but in the end Roy Kahn gave in. March of Mephisto, Forever, centre of the universe and Nights of Arabia are Kamelot tracks wich are great
Fun fact: in 2012 Kamelot was touring as a support for Nightwish. Kamelot was with guest-vocalists Elize Ryd (Amaranthe) and Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy). At one gig Nightwish found that their vocalist Anette was unable to perform so girls (Elize Ryd and Alissa White-Gluz) were on stage as her makeshift replacement (they had one hour to prepare). After that Floor was quickly invited and she took over on next gig. There is on RUclips a documentary about that tour, change etc. Worth watching, and might be extra interesting for you as a roadie. ruclips.net/video/vhExkmWKMEU/видео.html
@@erlikquadros5873 Not really, but when you start thinking that you are the real star instead of the band, that can happened at NW and I really understand these band decisions.
Fan fact: This album and the previous one (Epica) is a retelling of Goethe's Faust. I'd highly recommend a listen from start to finish for each album. A Feast for the Vain is a personal favourite. As for reaction suggestions, I'd put Edge of Paradise (live, One Cold Winter's Night) on the list, but not before Centre of the Universe and the other usuals that no doubt others will recommend :)
The back to back listen session to Epica and The Black Halo still gives me goosebumps. Also a Kamelot fun fact, if you have the cd of The Black Halo and you rewind it (like you would a cassette) it actually gives you some sounds and a welcome speech to a theatre.
I'm partial to the songs Sacrimony with Alissa White-Gluz and Elize Ryd, and Phantom Divine with Lauren Hart. Especially important to Nightwish fans is Sacrimony, as that's why Alissa and Elize were touring with Kamelot as guest vocalists in 2012 - when Kamelot was the support act for Nightwish on the American leg of their Imaginaerum world tour.....
Took my daughters to the second date after Anette was unavailable, to see Nightwish, Became instant Kamelot fans; "March of Mephisto" blew me away. went and bought every album they had made the next day
Kamelot, particularly from the Roy days, will always be special to me. So many important memories from around that time that my brain associates directly with their music.
Kamelot's one of my favorite bands in any of its forms. This particular song always gives me chills. Liar Liar is probably my favorite of them (for now).
Kamelot has a number of good live recordings with guest vocalists: Sacrimony (ft. Elize Ryd and Alissa White-Gluz) Phantom Divine (ft. Lauren Hart) Under Grey Skies (ft. Charlotte Wessels) March of Mephisto (ft. Snowy Shaw) [Shagrath did the studio recording, Snowy did live shows with Kamelot. Alissa has also done Shagrath's part with Tommy, but most of the recordings I've seen with her have poor sound quality] The best song for pure Roy vocals is Elizabeth (I, II, III) from the Oslo concert.
KAMELOT ft. Alissa White-Gluz and Elize Ryd - Sacrimony if you don´t know this you have to watch the live video. With the three on stage its just awesome
Huge Kamelot fan for 16 years now. Have seen them live 12 times now and they seem to amaze me every single concert. If you want more with Roy as the singer check out these songs. All live: Elizabeth (part 1, 2 and 3l Karma Ghost opera With Tommy (also live) Sacremony Liar Liar Burns to Embrace End of Innocence
there are few bands that I respect a bit more than my others favorites and Kamelot is one of them Please consider these songs; their awesomeness is undoubtable: Aether realm - the sun the moon the stars Dark Tranquillity - Terminus Eternal tears of sorrow - The river flows frozen KAmelot - Center of the universe, Farewell AND Karma Wintersun - The forest seasons (album)
Nice seeing your reaction, I was actually actually working as a tech with the band during this tour and on this gig. Great band, great reaction, greetings from Sweden.
@@TankTheTech I was the guitar-, bass-tech etc. So I had my hands on the bass but it was such a long time ago and I've worked with a lot of bands so I can't remember.
I saw them a year later on the Ghost Opera tour in Wolverhampton and if my hazy memory of 13 years ago is right they had a similar set up, and I do remember it being a bloody good show even if I wasn't a fan of Ghost Opera. The Elizabeth suite from the One Cold Winters Night show is also brilliant, as is Moonlight, March of Mephisto and Nights of Arabia.
Tommy Karevik is one of the singers on the new album of Ayreon. He also was in the first live concerts and other projects. I started listening to Kamelot last week and I quite like it. The female singer is Simone Simons of Epica. She also sings on the latest album of Ayreon and in the last live concert and on many albums.
This is one of my favorite songs from the band and it's a very cool live. I'm happy that you had your chance to react to them. The fact that you seemed kind of disappointed with how short the song is, maybe next time you could react to their song "Forever" from the same concert. This song is a bit longer and is one of their live staples. This is a killer performance. The camera direction focuses a lot more on the band, plus you get to witness the awesomeness of their former drummer, Casey Grillo. 😎
I saw Kamelot in a small club on their last North American tour. They Pack a lot a lot of lights in that little place. Can't wait to see them again, the show was in Edmonton Ab Canada and Tommy lives in Calgary Ab. Our neighbors to the south. So, I'm pretty sure they'll be coming more often. Check out Love You To Death.
Yessss!!! I looove Kamelot! I hadn't got into then until I moved to Europe though. Such talent! I wish you could check out Tommy live, different vibe but his range is AMAAAAZIIING
YES Kamelot haha. Im really looking forward to you doing more like this What a duet! also i HELD THE LINE in the trenches of the livechat. All by myself against the invading german army. Ok i also invited them in but hey no one is perfect! And i modded against tidal waves of political talk in the chat. XD And then you show up in the middle of it. EVERY DAMN TIME Tank XD we are all super happy that you made it though!
I love kamelot .. ive been listen to them for several years since i was a teen .. i subscribe to this channel after this video !! greetings from cucuta-colombia north of santander
Roy is an amazing singer, and a huge influence on me as a vocalist. If I could sing with half the emotion and feeling and nuance that he does, I'd be delighted.
This is something to react to. The most emotional song ever. The greatest guitar solo even performed. I saw this song live in 1980. All pain pain in the world, lost of people you love, lost of hope, and all the ghosts from the war screaming. The solo is 5 min long but epic.
Interestingly enough, Thomas Youngblood omits certain solo sections, and lead riffs during their live shows. Usually it was to highlight Khan, or Tommy, etc... but he's a super technical guitarist. Casey Grillo is also someone I would honestly consider in the top drummers in the world, he has even released a "Pedals to the Metal" double bass instructional video, as well as held clinics all over the place. I was bummed when he bailed from Kamelot to play exclusively with Queensryche.
You for sure need to check out the live version of Sacrimony (the same one chase just did). It's super recent with Tommy and features Alissa from Arch Enemy and Elize from Amaranthe. It's SO good!
So much Kamelot today! Yay yay yay yaaaaaaaassssss! Oeh Tank another fun fact about the album The Black Halo. If you rewind song 1 on the cd, like it's a cassette tape, you get welcomed to the theatre. If you just start the album you won't get it. ^^ They also used Fabio Lione of Rhapsody, Rhapsody of Fire... Lione/Turilli Rhapsody. But only for a tour, not for studio recordings. Also just listen to Kamelot and I'm happy.
As someone else mentioned, Roy is now back with his old band Conception (which is an *amazing* band in their own right). Kamelot does tour the US frequently, but Conception does not (I don't think they've ever done an actual tour here). I saw their, at time, limited run reunion show at ProgPower in 2005 and it was a religious experience. Now that they're back together full time they're one of the headliners next year. Kamelot has played the fest 4 times themselves, including in 2010 around the time Roy left the band and Michael Eriksen of Circus Maximus filled in for the show... except that Tommy was also there with his other band Seventh Wonder and stepped in to play 1 song with the band during that set. Little did we know at the time it was a preview of things to come! Michael is an amazing singer as well and there are some videos on YT of that performance. His band Circus Maximus is well worth checking out. One last aside, I actually think Tommy sounds better in Seventh Wonder than he does in Kamelot. Check out their song Alley Cat as a sample, such an incredible mix of complexity and catchiness.
I am so glad you listened to them! Really anything is good from them, honestly... I love their new dvd, but seeing this again makes me want to listen to that dvd again. Would still say Phantom Divine is a good one from the new dvd. But I love everything from them, together with Nightwish and Epica they are in my top 3!
This show was great. This is one of their slower songs for sure, for something more energetic check out When The Lights Are Down from the same show! Also to see Tommy’s performance, check out the official live video for Sacrimony!
I've seen suggestions for "March of Mephisto" and "Liar Liar", which are awesome, but I'd like to add "Phantom Divine" into this bag of Kamelot awesomeness waiting to be reacted to :)
Kamelot was my favourite band for a long time, before Devin Townsend's various projects took that mantle. I'd suggest that you check out The Great Pandemonium by Kamelot! It's probably their heaviest song and I love it.
Kamelot and Epica are related in several ways, Kamelot has an album called Epica that has a concept of a fantasy place called that way, Mark Jansen took this concept and name for his band, Simone is featured in several Kamelot songs and as you said, she is married to Oliver Palotai, the keyboardist.
Sacrimony Live with Elize Ryd (from Amaranthe) and Alissa White-Gluz (From Arch Enemy)... Tommy is singing for Kamelot ;) That is two Swedes and a Canadian (from a Swedish band) singing for an American band....... Metal is not bound by petty borders ;)
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"Don't know how I've never heard them or seen them before."
Man, I don't think a single line has more perfectly summed up what being a Kamelot fan is like.
One Cold Winter’s Night is probably one of the most well produced and mixed live albums ever. The audio engineers cannot be given enough credit for their work on it
FACT ('reusable' for Epica): Kamelot's sixth album is called... 'EPICA' (yes that's the origin of the band's name)
I think I remember thinking that when I first heard they had an album called Epica. Thanks for confirming that!
@@TankTheTech the founder of epica mark is a kamelot fan thats the reason, if i am not mistaken amarath took theyre name from Nightwish song With the same name :)
@@TankTheTech Epica was originally called Sahara Dust before they took the name Epica from Kamelot's eponymous album. Just another fun fact, haha.
@@MsStecarl Amaranthe did not take their name from the NW song Amaranth.
That's the mighty Khan. No one can match his emotion, his emphasis on phrasing and that one-of-a-kind hypnotic voice. You can no more replace Roy Khan then you can replace Peter Steele in Type O Negative... one-of-a-kind just can't be matched. When Roy left kamelot I don't even listen to them anymore. Tommy is an awesome singer but just don't have the soul or the feeling in his singing like Roy, not many can at that level... Roy Khan, one of the best frontmen ever on the planet. So thanks to Roy for coming back and Reviving conception. Conceptions new stuff is awesome as well
Everything in the One Cold Winter's Night show is amazing.
Really? So it's sort of like Kamelot's version on Nightwish Wacken 2013?
The One Cold Winters Night show is Top Tier Kamelot, and it's STILL in my heavy rotation.
@@jeffk1482 Yes! The quality of the live performance here is exceptional and the setlist is by far one of my favorites. I highly recommend it.
FACT.
Fact!
To this day, I don't think I've ever come across another singer in metal with a voice like Khan's. There's just such a distinct style, like he's somehow putting direct speaking emotion into his singing. I've never heard it replicated.
I saw this tour live in Portland. Epica opened, still one of the best shows I have seen
Elize Ryd (Amaranthe) and Alissa White-Gluz (the Agonist / Arch Enemy) used to be regular backing vocalists for Kamelot's North American tours. Elize auditioned for Nightwish before Annette joined, and Kamelot opened for Nightwish on their North American tour in 2012, which is why Elize and Alissa were there to cover for Annette in Denver when she got sick.
*Because* you like Dimmu, I would suggest "March of Mephisto" as it features Shagrath. It's a kickass song, with Roy on vocals. (It's already posted on the discord. :) )
My alltime favourite track Epic intro on it
This.
Hell yes. 🤘
If you do, I highly recommend a dual reaction with the album version instead of the video version because just like The Haunting's music video they decided to cut the song down for release as a single and removed an awesome keyboard solo from it and the live version. But that's just my opinion.
Greatest song ever and the disparity in vocals btw shagrath and roy is great
Kamelots song "Liar Liar" is a great one and features Alissa from Arch Enemy (former The Agonist). I like this a lot, hope you will too
and even more time ago she was in Kamelot with Elize Ryd
@@ArvoR Sacrimony 🤘🏻but these are probalbly the only songs I know😚
@@spongefan85 KAMELOT - Veil Of Elysium
That is a amazing song
Yes please :) - tried to sneak this in already on a other vid.
Awesome reaction.
This 'american' band was already 40% european in the days of this video, with a norwegean singer and a german keyboard player (Oliver Palotay - husband of Simone Simons btw.).
Meanwhile, after Casey Grillo left for joining Queensryche, another german, Alex Landenburg on drums, raised it to 60%.
Tommy Karevik, who replaced Roy Khan on vocal is swedish...
Tank saw Tommy on AYREONS 'The day that the world breaks down'
I recently recommended European bands to someone and lumped Kamelot in that category because my brain went in this kind of direction...
The highlight from that show is the song Abandoned. Roy’s vocals on that are incredible...tons of emotion.
The album version is a bit longer. Kamelot is one of my favorite bands of all time. This entire concert is one of my favorites ever. You need to check out more from this concert. I personally recommend Forever, When The Lights Are Down, Abandoned, Center Of The Universe, & Elizabeth.
Not to take away from the other performances from One Cold Winter's Night but Elizabeth, Forever AND Karma from this gig are so much better than the respective album versions it's not even fair. It's actually insane how well put together this DVD is considering it's from like 2005 or 2006, in addition to the obvious fact that they were amazing live at the time (still are, but you know).
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This whole concert is epic!
Elizabeth is the best song they've ever done IMO, and the performance from this show is fantastic.
@@Cbyneorne True. This was their peak.
I love this performance to bits. Roy and Simone just sound incredible together!
If you want to check out some more Kamelot, the track "Liar Liar" with their current singer (Tommy Karevik, who you heard in the Ayreon epic) and Alissa from Arch Enemy is an absolutely crushing slab of prog-power-metal.
The lighting designer for this show, Ed 'Taz' Gardner, is a friend of mine whom I met when he was working the sound for a Symphony X show in Portland. He's a super nice guy and has worked with MANY artists...mostly in the rock/hard rock genre but has even done a tour with Cher and Cyndi Lauper. You may have met him during your times on the road. Thanks for the reaction to this song and highly recommend "Elizabeth" and/or "Forever" from this same show or "March Of Mephisto" from Sweden Rock 2006.
still killing it TANK keep up the good work
loving it
Roy is currently making music again with his old band Conception, it's definitely worth a listen if you love him and his voice. They released the album State of Deception this year, and there is a song with Elize Ryd on it for those who'd enjoy their voices together, like me.
Man, by the blues is soooooo damn sick.
He sure has a good voice
@@Dosenpruegel It is, so is the rest of the album :D
Try the song " Roll the Fire" with Roy and Conception.
There is an older version from 1993 and also a second edition from 2019 after the band has come together again. I love his voice and as others have said, March of Mephisto with Shaggat from Dimmu Borgir in the intro is a great Kamelot song and defenitly one of my Kamelot favorites.
Elizabeth from this concert, your hat will most definitely be coming off!
Thank you for reacting to Kamelot - there is plenty more! Oliver Palotai on keyboards is Simone Simons' husband! Metal is Family! Thomas Youngblood on guitar - his wife Mari (or Mary in places) also sings. Their daughter, Annelise, also sings - features in a couple of songs, "Soul Society" and "Sacrimony", and in the childs' choir in the live DVD " Live From the 013"!
Kamelot Monday today, and it's a great thing. If you want a longer song, try the live version of "Elizabeth". It's a masterpiece! It would be cool to see your and Chase's reaction to this. If you could do it on the same day, making another Kamelot Monday, you will make a lot of people happy:)
yes Elizabeth is a great song
its a song about vanity, sanety it`s about growing old this is Elizabeth ;)
Yes! If you want a Kamelot masterpiece then check out “Elizabeth” from the same concert! One of my absolute favorites!
Elizabeth live is so good. Good showcase of Roy's amazing pipes.
Shout out to Bismarck in the background! I'd recognize that riff anywhere.
Center of the Universe
Kamelots March of Mephisto, with Shagrath from Dimmu Borgir should be your next reaction video
Yessssssss
TankTheTech duuude when i saw Kamelot back in like 2012, in Oslo, they played this song but the vocalist of Blackguard did the guest spot instead of shagrath. I was hyped and disappointed at the same time.
Paul did an amazing job though, he gained a new fan that night
@@Marius_ae thought tommy had started as singer in 2012 i thought it was in 2012, i was also at a kamelot konsert 24.11.2012 in oslo. but i cant remember march of memphisto. promoted silverthorn album.
MsStecarl Yeah it was for the silverthorn album, they did play a lot of older songs too though, including March of mephisto with Paul Ablaze.
MsStecarl www.setlist.fm/setlist/kamelot/2012/sentrum-scene-oslo-norway-3bdad0f4.html check out the setlist here! March of Mephisto was the last Encore
The Black Halo is great album! Memento Mori! Great Tank! This performance is in the heart of Black Metal! It's a light in the dark!! LOL! Simone is everywhere! Roy's great! March of Mephisto with Shagrath from Dimmu Borgir next!
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!! My favorite performance of one of my favorite songs ever!!!
I haven’t seen it yet but I’m so excited omg!!! Finally watching Kamelot!!
Edit: yaaaay we got a headbang! Definitely look up Forever live!! So gooooood!
To echo what's already been suggested, you need to react to ELIZABETH from this same concert. It's guaranteed to blow your mind!
I LOVE Roy's voice! Such an amazing talent
Thanks for finally getting to Kamelot they are a very impressive band, to me one of the best. I think they will impress you and others who are not familiar with them. I think "liar liar" would be a good one !
Yay, a Kamelot reaction!! I currently _live_ for seeing Kamelot reactions.
I stand by my opinion that the performance of Elizabeth from this same concert is *peak* Kamelot, so you should give that a go.
I don't know offhand if anything from their recent DVD/Bluray release "I Am The Empire - Live from the 013" is up on RUclips, but pretty much anything from that would be good to see what they're currently like with Tommy!
This song always leave me wanting a little bit more too.
Aren't they great together? Their voices compliment each other's so well!
Great reaction! 🌷
Proud to have attended a very special show these guys put in my hometown Elverum, which also is Roy's hometown.
roughly a population of 20k people.
They set it up at big spot near a beautiful museum, put up a stage and i can be certain half the town attended and enjoyed metal this special night.
Peak of the night was when Roy brought he's grandpa up on stage for a duet.
Kamelot - March of Mephisto. As some others have already suggested. Shagrath is an amazing counter-point to Roy's voice.
This song was one of the singles from the album The Black Halo, IMO their best album. Simone was guest singing and were also in the video. Youngblood has a thing for writing duets with amazing female singers, and they even manage to bring them on tour. That’s also the reason Nightwish didn’t have to cancel their concert in Denver during the Imaginaerum tour, when Anette was rushed to hospital one hour before showtime.
This is a great DVD
Simone Simons did the Haunting with Kamelot on their album and Roy Khan did Trois vierges on the album of Epica.
First Kamelot wouldn't do it, it was the wish of Epica (who named their band to a Kamelot album) but in the end Roy Kahn gave in.
March of Mephisto, Forever, centre of the universe and Nights of Arabia are Kamelot tracks wich are great
LOL loved the windmilling with Simone there Tank!
Tank, you have got the windmill headbang down my friend. Kamelot has much more to offer. Check out more.
Never had the chance to witness Roy, but always loved how his voice on record and in live are the same. True master!
Fun fact: in 2012 Kamelot was touring as a support for Nightwish. Kamelot was with guest-vocalists Elize Ryd (Amaranthe) and Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy). At one gig Nightwish found that their vocalist Anette was unable to perform so girls (Elize Ryd and Alissa White-Gluz) were on stage as her makeshift replacement (they had one hour to prepare). After that Floor was quickly invited and she took over on next gig. There is on RUclips a documentary about that tour, change etc. Worth watching, and might be extra interesting for you as a roadie.
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Yeah, Anette got sick and they threw her under the bus for Floor. Nightwish is a dangerous band do be if you're a woman...
@@erlikquadros5873 Not really, but when you start thinking that you are the real star instead of the band, that can happened at NW and I really understand these band decisions.
Fan fact: This album and the previous one (Epica) is a retelling of Goethe's Faust. I'd highly recommend a listen from start to finish for each album. A Feast for the Vain is a personal favourite.
As for reaction suggestions, I'd put Edge of Paradise (live, One Cold Winter's Night) on the list, but not before Centre of the Universe and the other usuals that no doubt others will recommend :)
The back to back listen session to Epica and The Black Halo still gives me goosebumps.
Also a Kamelot fun fact, if you have the cd of The Black Halo and you rewind it (like you would a cassette) it actually gives you some sounds and a welcome speech to a theatre.
Fucking awesome reaction my man. Kamelot. TankTheTech, fucking wonderfully awesome combination!!
Awesome reaction, Tank! If you want more Kamelot, please react to March of Mephisto! I really think you'll like it!
Kamelot with Roy was Kamelot what I felt in love with ❤
Glad you liked Roy and Simone, they sound amazing together.
One of my favourites from Kamelot is Karma, check the live version from this same show (Y)
Aaa❤️The good old days... happy to have Conseption now
I was there and it was such a great show. As many have pointed out, Elisabeth from the same show is something you might wanna have a look at . 😊
I really love every single thing I have heard from this band ! Keep rockin’ it out! 🤘🏻❤️
I loooove this song! Both of their voices are amazing together ❤
Kamelot- Elizabeth live cold winters night and Abandoned from the same show
I'm partial to the songs Sacrimony with Alissa White-Gluz and Elize Ryd, and Phantom Divine with Lauren Hart.
Especially important to Nightwish fans is Sacrimony, as that's why Alissa and Elize were touring with Kamelot as guest vocalists in 2012 - when Kamelot was the support act for Nightwish on the American leg of their Imaginaerum world tour.....
Took my daughters to the second date after Anette was unavailable, to see Nightwish, Became instant Kamelot fans; "March of Mephisto" blew me away. went and bought every album they had made the next day
Aaaaaah! Finally Kamelot
Kamelot, particularly from the Roy days, will always be special to me. So many important memories from around that time that my brain associates directly with their music.
Kamelot's one of my favorite bands in any of its forms. This particular song always gives me chills. Liar Liar is probably my favorite of them (for now).
Kamelot has a number of good live recordings with guest vocalists:
Sacrimony (ft. Elize Ryd and Alissa White-Gluz)
Phantom Divine (ft. Lauren Hart)
Under Grey Skies (ft. Charlotte Wessels)
March of Mephisto (ft. Snowy Shaw) [Shagrath did the studio recording, Snowy did live shows with Kamelot. Alissa has also done Shagrath's part with Tommy, but most of the recordings I've seen with her have poor sound quality]
The best song for pure Roy vocals is Elizabeth (I, II, III) from the Oslo concert.
i love kamelot when the lights are down
KAMELOT ft. Alissa White-Gluz and Elize Ryd - Sacrimony if you don´t know this you have to watch the live video. With the three on stage its just awesome
Agree completely
Totaly agree👍
Uff, I've been listening to this for the past weeks
Chase JUST did a video on that, heh.
To quote Tank, the live show is “Epic”
Huge Kamelot fan for 16 years now. Have seen them live 12 times now and they seem to amaze me every single concert.
If you want more with Roy as the singer check out these songs. All live:
Elizabeth (part 1, 2 and 3l
Karma
Ghost opera
With Tommy (also live)
Sacremony
Liar Liar
Burns to Embrace
End of Innocence
there are few bands that I respect a bit more than my others favorites and Kamelot is one of them
Please consider these songs; their awesomeness is undoubtable:
Aether realm - the sun the moon the stars
Dark Tranquillity - Terminus
Eternal tears of sorrow - The river flows frozen
KAmelot - Center of the universe, Farewell AND Karma
Wintersun - The forest seasons (album)
Darn, Roy and Simone sound so good together, i could listen to that for hours. Also that song is very radio friendly, it could be a hit single.
You should check out that whole show. It's amazing.
Nice seeing your reaction, I was actually actually working as a tech with the band during this tour and on this gig.
Great band, great reaction, greetings from Sweden.
That’s awesome, man! Seems like it would be a great gig to be on. Please tell me, was I right about the bass? It was driving me insane. Hahaha
@@TankTheTech I was the guitar-, bass-tech etc. So I had my hands on the bass but it was such a long time ago and I've worked with a lot of bands so I can't remember.
Dude, I hear ya. Hahahaha. I can only remember pretty much what gear I have on my current tour, and not a lot of past tours.
I saw them a year later on the Ghost Opera tour in Wolverhampton and if my hazy memory of 13 years ago is right they had a similar set up, and I do remember it being a bloody good show even if I wasn't a fan of Ghost Opera. The Elizabeth suite from the One Cold Winters Night show is also brilliant, as is Moonlight, March of Mephisto and Nights of Arabia.
Roy is a master of singing, check out his band Conception!!!
Tommy Karevik is one of the singers on the new album of Ayreon. He also was in the first live concerts and other projects.
I started listening to Kamelot last week and I quite like it. The female singer is Simone Simons of Epica. She also sings on the latest album of Ayreon and in the last live concert and on many albums.
Oh man, Kamelot is just one of those bands with a long history and a solid backlog of just high quality stuff.
This is one of my favorite songs from the band and it's a very cool live. I'm happy that you had your chance to react to them. The fact that you seemed kind of disappointed with how short the song is, maybe next time you could react to their song "Forever" from the same concert. This song is a bit longer and is one of their live staples. This is a killer performance. The camera direction focuses a lot more on the band, plus you get to witness the awesomeness of their former drummer, Casey Grillo. 😎
I've been at their concert in 2008, it was pretty good! A few of the girls I was there with made it their goal to touch Khan :D it was fun :)
This brings back memories
Kamelot is a all around great band
Finally someone reacts to KAMELOT!!!!
I saw Kamelot in a small club on their last North American tour. They Pack a lot a lot of lights in that little place. Can't wait to see them again, the show was in Edmonton Ab Canada and Tommy lives in Calgary Ab. Our neighbors to the south. So, I'm pretty sure they'll be coming more often. Check out Love You To Death.
Yessss!!! I looove Kamelot! I hadn't got into then until I moved to Europe though. Such talent! I wish you could check out Tommy live, different vibe but his range is AMAAAAZIIING
YES Kamelot haha. Im really looking forward to you doing more like this
What a duet! also i HELD THE LINE in the trenches of the livechat. All by myself against the invading german army. Ok i also invited them in but hey no one is perfect!
And i modded against tidal waves of political talk in the chat. XD And then you show up in the middle of it. EVERY DAMN TIME Tank XD we are all super happy that you made it though!
Hey Tank your are the Best, nice Reation! Amazing
This entire show is incredible. Please react to ALL of it, you will not be disappointed.
Ohhhhh yesss! Been waiting on some Kamelot!
I love kamelot .. ive been listen to them for several years since i was a teen .. i subscribe to this channel after this video !! greetings from cucuta-colombia north of santander
Finally Kamelot. Can't wait. :)
Looks like Chase did a Kamelot reaction today as well. Oh darn I guess I will have to listen to more.
Totally unplanned, too. Haha
Roy is an amazing singer, and a huge influence on me as a vocalist. If I could sing with half the emotion and feeling and nuance that he does, I'd be delighted.
This is something to react to. The most emotional song ever. The greatest guitar solo even performed. I saw this song live in 1980. All pain pain in the world, lost of people you love, lost of hope, and all the ghosts from the war screaming. The solo is 5 min long but epic.
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Interestingly enough, Thomas Youngblood omits certain solo sections, and lead riffs during their live shows. Usually it was to highlight Khan, or Tommy, etc... but he's a super technical guitarist. Casey Grillo is also someone I would honestly consider in the top drummers in the world, he has even released a "Pedals to the Metal" double bass instructional video, as well as held clinics all over the place. I was bummed when he bailed from Kamelot to play exclusively with Queensryche.
You for sure need to check out the live version of Sacrimony (the same one chase just did). It's super recent with Tommy and features Alissa from Arch Enemy and Elize from Amaranthe. It's SO good!
So much Kamelot today! Yay yay yay yaaaaaaaassssss!
Oeh Tank another fun fact about the album The Black Halo. If you rewind song 1 on the cd, like it's a cassette tape, you get welcomed to the theatre. If you just start the album you won't get it. ^^
They also used Fabio Lione of Rhapsody, Rhapsody of Fire... Lione/Turilli Rhapsody. But only for a tour, not for studio recordings.
Also just listen to Kamelot and I'm happy.
As someone else mentioned, Roy is now back with his old band Conception (which is an *amazing* band in their own right). Kamelot does tour the US frequently, but Conception does not (I don't think they've ever done an actual tour here). I saw their, at time, limited run reunion show at ProgPower in 2005 and it was a religious experience. Now that they're back together full time they're one of the headliners next year. Kamelot has played the fest 4 times themselves, including in 2010 around the time Roy left the band and Michael Eriksen of Circus Maximus filled in for the show... except that Tommy was also there with his other band Seventh Wonder and stepped in to play 1 song with the band during that set. Little did we know at the time it was a preview of things to come! Michael is an amazing singer as well and there are some videos on YT of that performance. His band Circus Maximus is well worth checking out. One last aside, I actually think Tommy sounds better in Seventh Wonder than he does in Kamelot. Check out their song Alley Cat as a sample, such an incredible mix of complexity and catchiness.
Kamelot -Elizabeth 1,2.3 banger song live version from the same concert , I think . you will not regret it.
I am so glad you listened to them! Really anything is good from them, honestly... I love their new dvd, but seeing this again makes me want to listen to that dvd again.
Would still say Phantom Divine is a good one from the new dvd. But I love everything from them, together with Nightwish and Epica they are in my top 3!
Some of my favorites Kamelot tracks are "Phantom Divine" "Mindfall Remedy" and "Under Grey Skies" (All featuring Tommy, rather than Roy, though.)
Under grey skies! Let's get some Delain reactions!
This show was great. This is one of their slower songs for sure, for something more energetic check out When The Lights Are Down from the same show! Also to see Tommy’s performance, check out the official live video for Sacrimony!
"man thats 2006" still looks good..... you know.., that made me feel really really old......
Since you brought it up, perhaps some more Ayreon in the future? A live song for sure
The first time I heard them, it was in 2012 when they were touring with Nightwish. Made a total fan of me that night. Incredible live show.
I've seen suggestions for "March of Mephisto" and "Liar Liar", which are awesome, but I'd like to add "Phantom Divine" into this bag of Kamelot awesomeness waiting to be reacted to :)
A lot more would be you doing the whole one cold winter's night ;) it really plays like one excellent song.
Kamelot was my favourite band for a long time, before Devin Townsend's various projects took that mantle. I'd suggest that you check out The Great Pandemonium by Kamelot! It's probably their heaviest song and I love it.
Kamelot and Epica are related in several ways, Kamelot has an album called Epica that has a concept of a fantasy place called that way, Mark Jansen took this concept and name for his band, Simone is featured in several Kamelot songs and as you said, she is married to Oliver Palotai, the keyboardist.
Sacrimony Live with Elize Ryd (from Amaranthe) and Alissa White-Gluz (From Arch Enemy)... Tommy is singing for Kamelot ;)
That is two Swedes and a Canadian (from a Swedish band) singing for an American band....... Metal is not bound by petty borders ;)
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