Bands

Opeth

The Roundhouse Tapes is a 3 disc set containing a captivating Opeth performance from the Camden Roundhouse, London, UK, on November 9th, 2006 and sees the band in scintillating form playing a selection of classics from their illustrious career.

This 3disc edition features the complete concert on both CD and DVD packaged in a CD sized slip case.

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The Roundhouse Tapes (2CD + DVD set)

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Biography

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years. Opeth has consistently incorporated progressive, folk, blues, classical and jazz influences into their usually lengthy compositions. Many songs include acoustic guitar passages and strong dynamic shifts, as well as both death growls and clean vocals. Opeth rarely made live appearances supporting their first four albums; but since conducting their first world tour after the 2001 release of Blackwater Park, they have led several major world tours.

Opeth has released ten studio albums, three live DVDs, three live albums (two in conjunction with DVDs), and two boxsets. The band released its debut album Orchid in 1995. Although their eighth studio album, Ghost Reveries, was quite popular in the United States, Opeth did not experience major American commercial success until the 2008 release of their ninth studio album, Watershed, which peaked at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200, and topped the Finnish albums chart in its first week of release.

Since the band's debut album, 'Orchid' in 1995, Opeth have gone on to become one of the most successful Scandinavian metal acts ever, & are seen as purveyors of the death/prog metal scene (with their 'Blackwater Park' album considered by many as the pinnacle of the genre), although the band have moved into more progressive rock territory of late, with the 'Heritage' album.