''Lamentations (Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 2003)'' is the first live album and video by Swedish

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band

Opeth Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. The band incorporates folk music, folk, blues, classical music, classical, and jazz elements into its usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from deat ...

, released under the

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label in 2003. It was recorded at the

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on 25 September 2003. Lamentations features Opeth playing the album ''

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'' in its entirety (with the song "Harvest" from ''

Blackwater Park ''Blackwater Park'' is the fifth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on March 12, 2001, in Europe and a day later in North America through Music for Nations and Koch Records. The album marks the first collabora ...

'' put in the running order before the last song), followed by some of the band's songs from ''

'' and ''

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''. The only song that was played from albums prior to ''Blackwater Park'' was "Demon of the Fall" (from the album ''

My Arms, Your Hearse ''My Arms, Your Hearse'' is the third studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released in August 1998. It was the band's first album to be released simultaneously in Europe, through Candlelight Records, and in the United States, thr ...

'') as an encore song, but the song was not filmed for the DVD. Licensing issues with previous record labels prevented this from happening at the time of the disc's release. The DVD also includes a documentary on the making of both ''Damnation'' and ''Deliverance'' because both albums were recorded at the same time. This was the first Opeth release with Per Wiberg, although he did not become a permanent band member until ''

Ghost Reveries ''Ghost Reveries'' is the eighth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 29 August 2005. It was their first album after signing with Roadrunner Records, and first album since ''Still Life'' (1999) to not be produc ...

''. A 2-disc CD version of the live recording was released in 2006 in a collector's edition slipcase. A 3-disc vinyl version with new cover artwork was released in July, 2016.

DVD

CD track listing

Reception

The recording is generally regarded as having exceptionally clear and beautiful sound and visual quality, although

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reviewer John Serba complained of the ubiquity of shots from what he termed the "Åkerfeldt Orifice Cam", showing close-ups of the singer's mouth and nose in excruciating detail.

Personnel

Opeth

Mikael Åkerfeldt Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt (; born 17 April 1974)Mikael Åkerfeldt
, Op ...

–

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

;

songwriting A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

(1–3, 5–14),

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

(4) * Peter Lindgren –

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

Martín Méndez Martín Méndez (born 6 April 1978) is a Uruguayan Swedish musician. He migrated to Sweden when he was 17 years old. He is the bassist of the progressive metal band Opeth and the second-longest-serving member of the band, behind frontman Mikael ...

–

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Martin Lopez Martin Walter López Cardozo (born 20 May 1978 in Stockholm) is a Swedish-Uruguayan drummer, currently a member and co-founder of progressive metal group Soen, but best known as the ex-drummer of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth and melod ...

–

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;With *

Per Wiberg Per Jonas Wiberg (born 8 June 1968) is a Swedes, Swedish musician who has been a member of the bands Spiritual Beggars (1998-) as a keyboardist, ''King Hobo'' (2007-) as a keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist, and Kamchatka (band), Kamchatka (2 ...

– keyboards and

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DVD & Album
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*Paul McLoone – production *Benje Noble – 5.1 & Dts audio post production *Louise Cassidy – production assisting *

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–

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and mixing * Fredrik Odefjärd –

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and production on ''Documentary''

Imaging

*Rigel Lastrella – DVD package design US

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* Travis Smith – photography and artwork

Show Production

*Matt West –

live sound Live sound mixing is the blending of multiple sound sources by an audio engineer using a mixing console or software. Sounds that are mixed include those from instruments and voices which are picked up by microphones (for drum kit, lead vocals an ...

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*Steve Taylor – vision engineering *Benny Trickett – vision mixing *Ben Gill –

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assisting *Joe Dyer – director *Liam Donoghue – project co-ordination

Technicians

Drum technicians

*Damon Dougherty *Mole

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*Coty Alinson

Various

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– lyrics on "Death Whispered a Lullaby"

Running

*Jane Costello *Jonathan Nicholas

Gripping

*Neil Grey

Op Cable Rigging

*Nigel Clarke *Zoran Trajkovic

Lights

*Mick Thornton – lighting design *Tellson James – lighting operation

Camera Crew

Assistants

*Mark Cowley *Tony Lewis

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*Andy Pellet *Ben Grewin *Curtis Dunn *John Clarke *Martin Mathews *Samantha Dewhurst

Management

*Guy Moore – contract management *Gavin Bot – floor management *Steve Waite – tour management

Agents

*Tim Borror *Tobbe Lorentz

References

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